A NEW ONE-STEP REDUCTIVE N-ALKYLATION OF AMINO ACIDS AND THEIR ESTERS

The reductive alkylation of amine with carbonyl compounds usingsodium hydrogen telluride has been investigated in recent years.Application of this method to the synthesis of N-alkyl derivativesof biologically important amino acids and their esters is described.     

Extractive substances of the bark of Picea ajanensis

A study of the chemical composition of a petroleum ether extract of the bark of Yeddo spruce growing in Khabarovsk Territory has shown that the neutral fraction of the extract contained waxes, glycerides, diterpenoids — epimanool, cis- and trans-abienols, and phyllocladenol, and triterpenoids — the epimeric 3α-and 3β-methoxy-21-hydroxy-Δ¹⁴-serratenes and a ketone which has been ascribed the structure of 21-keto-3β-methoxy-Δ¹⁴-serratene.     

Intensities of IR bands of CH stretching vibrations and atomic charges in saturated three-membered rings

The intensities of the absorption bands of the CH stretching vibrations in the IR spectra of solutions of cyclopropane, aziridine, oxirane, and thiirane in CCl₄ were measured. Quantum-mechanical calculations of these intensities were performed.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsikhlicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1612–1619, December, 1989.     

Soft agonist receptor interactions: Theoretical and experimental simulation of the active site of the receptor of sweet molecules

The structure-activity relationship of sweet molecules is chosen as an example to illustrate a mechanistic approach of soft agonist-receptor interactions. It is shown that an essentially geometric model of the receptor site can explain the activity of most sweet molecules, both rigid and flexible. The relevant conformations of flexible molecules in solution are extracted from a combination of NMR data and of energy calculations. A possible experimental simulation of the receptor environment in solution is illustrated by the complex of a dipeptide sweetener with a crown-ether.     

Amperometric titration of boron with fructose

Aqueous solutions of boratei can be titrated amperometrically with standard fi uctose solutions This procedure may be used to determine the boron content of various types of samples after conversion of the boron to the borate form The methode is based upon the observation that the polarographic wave of fructose. in a o I M LiCl, 001 N'LiOH solution is deprcssed by the presence of borate ions Under the prescribed conditions the methode is sensitive to a few hundredths of a milligram of boron The few comnonly occurring intcrferenes can be conveniently removed prior to the titration     

UV-blocking property of dumbbell-shaped ZnO crystallites on cotton fabrics

A facile process to prepare uniform dumbbell-shaped ZnO crystallites was presented. The evidence in this Article discovered a unique morphological effect on the UV-blocking property. The as-prepared ZnO crystallites were characterized by XRD, HRTEM, FESEM, UV-blocking, and Raman scattering spectra. Our tentative investigation created a breakthrough to both the ultrahigh "Ultraviolet protection factor" (UPF) and the overall-range of complete UV-radiation blocking. Therefore, the as-prepared structural material demonstrated a significant advance in protective functional treatment and provided a potential commercialization.     

Formation of thin carbon films containing metal nanoparticles by thermolysis of a polymer precursor

A new procedure was developed for preparing carbon films with magnetic metal nanoparticles by thermolysis of a polymer precursor. The conditions for preparing carbon films with required surface concentration of the metal nanoparticles and hence with dielectric or metallic properties were determined.     

The thermal reaction of HNCO at moderate temperatures

The thermal reaction of HNCO has been studied in a static cell at temperatures between 873 and 1220 K and a constant pressure of 800 torr under highly diluted conditions. The reaction was measurable above 1000 K by FTIR spectrometry. The products detected include CO, CO₂, HCN, NH₃, and the unreacted HNCO. In this moderate temperature regime, the rates of product formation and HNCO decay cannot be accounted for by a previously established high-temperature mechanism, assuming HNCO → NH + CO (1) as the initiation process. Instead, a new bimolecular reaction, 2HNCO → CO₂ + HNCNH (2), has been invoked to interpret the disappearance of HNCO as well as the formation of various products, most importantly CO₂. The concentration profiles of all measured species can be quantitatively modeled, throughout the temperature range analyzed, by varying k₂ using a modified mechanism. The kinetically modeled values of k₂ can be effectively represented by This result agrees closely with that computed with the conventional transition-state theory using the TST parameters predicted by the BAC-MP4 method: The bimolecular reaction takes place via a stable 4-membered ring intermediate which is isoelectronic with diketene; viz.      

Effect of molar mass ratio of monomers on the mass distribution of chain lengths and compositions in copolymers: Extension of the stockmayer theory

In statistical copolymers, there exists a distribution according to molar mass as well as according to chemical composition. Stockmayer derived distribution functions, describing the relative weight of a particular molar mass and composition interval, assuming equal molar masses of the monomer units. In this article we present an extension of the distribution functions, suited for those cases where the aforementioned assumption is not valid. The final mathematical results is a product of the original Stockmayer distribution function and a correction function, due to the unequality of molar masses. It appears the correction function is dependent on the average composition, the composition deviation, and the ratio of molar masses of the monomers. Furthermore, a three-dimensional representation of distributions has been developed to get insight in the shape of the distributions.     

Synthesis and stereochemical studies of 6-substituted 1H,3H,6H,7aH-3,3-dimethylimidazo-[1,5-c]thiazol-5-one-7-thiones

The reaction of (4S)-5,5-dimethyl-4-thiazolidine-carboxylic acid 1 with alkyl and aryl isothiocyanates 2 gave bicyclic thiohydantoins 3 . The (2R,4S)- and (2S,4S)-mixtures of 2-substituted 5,5-dimethyl-4-thiazolidine-carboxylic acids 4 and 8 containing two centers of chirality in the analogous reaction afforded thiohydantoins 7 and 10 , respectively, with (1R)-configuration. In some cases we managed to isolate the thioureido acid intermediates 6 and 9 or their triethylamine salts which afforded the corresponding bicycles 7 and 10 under thermal cyclization or acidification. The stereochemistry has been elucidated by high resolution ram studies, optical rotation measurements and X-ray crystallography.