Bromination of 3-acyl-2-aminoindoles

Unlike 3-acylindoles, 3-acyl-2-aminoindoles display high selectivity on being electrophilically attacked in the benzene ring, and are substituted at the 6-position. At the same time, an unco-subsitution of the acyl group takes place (to the greatest extent — the formyl group). Direct bromination of 3-acyl- and 3-cyano-2-aminoindoles provides the 6-bromo- and 6,4-dibromo-2-aminoindoles and their derivatives.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 486–490, April, 1990.     

Formation of oligonucleotide-PNA-chimeras by template-directed ligation

DNA sequences have previously been reported to act as templates for the synthesis of PNA, and vice versa. A continuous evolutionary transition from an informational replicating system based on one polymer to a system based on the other would be facilitated if it were possible to form chimeras, that is molecules that contain monomers of both types. Here we show that ligation to form chimeras proceeds efficiently both on PNA and on DNA templates. The efficiency of ligation is primarily determined by the number of backbone bonds at the ligation site and the relative orientation of template and substrate strands. The most efficient reactions result in the formation of chimeras with ligation junctions resembling the structures of the backbones of PNA and DNA and with antiparallel alignment of both components of the chimera with the template, that is, ligations involving formation of 3'-phosphoramidate and 5'-ester bonds. However, double helices involving PNA are stable both with antiparallel and parallel orientation of the two strands. Ligation on PNA but not on DNA templates is, therefore, sometimes possible on templates with reversed orientation. The relevance of these findings to discussions of possible transitions between genetic systems is discussed.     

X-ray studies of supported copper-aluminium catalysts

Structural peculiarities of the formation of copper-aluminium catalysts at copper concentrations <10 wt% and calcination temperatures of 573–1173 K have been studied.

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The crystal structure of CuVo3(II), a high-pressure ilmenite phase

The crystal structure of a second high-pressure copper vanadate phase, CuVO₃(II), has been determined and refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures using automatic diffractometer data to a residual R = 0.042 (R_w = 0.051). The space group is rhombohedral, $\text{R}\text{3}$, with hexagonal unit cell a = 4.966(2) and c = 14.084(5) Å [a_R = 5.501(2) Å and α = 53.66(3)°]. The structure is the fully ordered ilmenite-type and, on the basis of published magnetic data and the interatomic distances, the valence distribution Cu⁺V⁵⁺O₃ is proposed. This represents a unique example of Cu⁺ in an octahedral environment.     

Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung von Eiweißen mit Polysacchariden im Wassermedium

Zusammenfassung Die komplexe Koazervation im SystemG-A-H₂O kann als zweistufiger Prozeß aufgefaßt werden. Das erste Stadium ist die Bildung des elektrisch neutralen Komplexes zwischen G und A unter Einfluß der elektrostatischen Anziehungskräfte. Die Stöchiometrie der gewonnenen Verbindung wird durch die Äquivalenz der Makroionen bestimmt.Nur elektrisch neutrale Komplexe können die neue Phase, d. h. das komplexe Koazervat bilden. Deshalb muß die Zusammensetzung der koazervaten Phase von p_H abhängen und bei Veränderung des Verhältnisses der Polymere im Gemisch unveränderlich bleiben.Bei einem Verhältnis der Polymere, kleiner als das stöchiometrische, ist die Bildung geladener Komplexe möglich.Den Prozeß der komplexen Koazervation kann man mittels der Methode der Trübungsmessung bei C_s<6·10^{–3 g}/100 g untersuchen. Hierbei ist die optische Dichte proportional der Menge des komplexen Koazervats oder des elektrisch neutralen Komplexes im System.     

Interaction of 1, 3-dioxa-2-silacyclanes and their oligomers with alklymagnesium and arylmagnesium halides

Conclusions Cyclic alkoxysilanes — 1,3-dioxa-2-silacyclanes — and their oligomers are decomposed by organomagnesium compounds with the formation of the corresponding silanols (disiloxanes) and tetraalkylsilanols.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1283–1285, July, 1966.     

Photoionization of the Ar2 dimer

The relative photoionization cross section for Ar₂ was measured in the wavelength region 820–860 Å. The spectrum shows detailed autoionization structure throughout this region with no contribution from direct ionization. The appearance potential of Ar⁺₂ corresponds to 856.5 ± 1.5 Å.     

A viscometric study of poly(methyl methacrylate) in 2-alkoxyethanols

θ-Conditions, the temperature coefficient of unperturbed dimensions of the macromolecules and the thermodynamic interaction parameters ψ and κ were determined for solutions of poly(methyl methacrylate) in 2-alkoxyethanols (methoxy, ethoxy and butoxy). The results for this series of solvents fit the data reported for other solvents and dln $\text{r}{}_0{}^2\text{/}\text{d}\text{T = 2.6 × 10}{}^{\mathrm{?3}}\text{K}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}$. The dependence of parameters ψ and κ exhibited deviations from the theoretical dependence, mainly near the limiting value ψ = 0.5.     

Skeletal reactions of perfluoromethylethyl- and perfluorodiethylbenzocyclobutenes with 1,1- and 1,2-alkyl groups in SbF5

Taking perfluoro-1,1-dialkylbenzocyclobutenes as examples, it has been shown to be possible to enlarge the four-membered ring in polyfluorobenzocyclobutenes to five-membered in the presence of SbF₅, by cleavage of the four-membered ring followed by cyclization of the resulting polyfluorostyrene to the polyfluoroindane, which then undergoes further reactions. Perfluoro-1-methyl-1-ethylbenzocyclobutene isomerizes at 50°C in the presence of SbF₅ to perfluoro-,-o -trimethylstyrene, which is reversibly converted at 130°C into perfluoro-1,2-dimethylindane. Perfluoro-l,l-diethylbenzocyclobutene isomerizes at 130°C in the presence of SbF₅ to give perfluoro- -ethyl-,o -dimethylstyrene, which at 170°C gives perfluoro-2-methyl-3-ethylindene- and perfluoro-2-methyl-3-ethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindene. The last two compounds, together with perfluoro-o-dipropylbenzene, are obtained from per fluoro-1,2-diethylbenzocyclobutene-with SbF₅ at 170°C. From perfluoro-1-methyl-2-ethylbenzocyclobutene with SbF₅ at 95°C there is obtained perfluoro-1-ethylindane, while at 130°C, in addition to the latter compound, there are obtained perfluorinated 1,1-dimethylindane, 1,2-dimethylindane, ,,o-trimethylstyrene, 2,3-dimethylindene, and 2,3-dimethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindene.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1114–1120, May, 1990.