N-Trifluoroacetyl arenesulfenamides, effective precursors for synthesis of unsymmetrical disulfides and sulfenamides

N-Trifluoroacetyl arenesulfenamides (3) were effective precursors for the synthesis of unsymmetrical disulfides (4) and sulfenamides (5). Reactions of 3 with a variety of aromatic thiols at room temperature were generally complete within 5 min and gave unsymmetrical diaryl disulfides in high yields. Aralkyl disulfides were isolated in high yields from the reaction of 3 with aliphatic thiols. The nucleophilic substitution reactions of 3 with amines proceeded smoothly and provided N-substituted sulfenamides in good to excellent yields.     

The effect of tensor correlations on isovector operators

Very simple relations between renormalization factors and corrections to the GT-type-decay operator, isovector magnetic moment and coulomb energy differences between mirror nuclei due to tensor correlations are obtained.     

Alignment behaviour of the discotic nematic phase of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa(4-n-octyloxybenzoyloxy)triphenylene on polyimide and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide coated substrates

The orientational behaviour of the nematic discotic phase of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa(4-n-octyloxybenzoyloxy)triphenylene (C8OBT) on substrates coated with a polyimide or cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) was investigated by polarizing optical microscopy. The averaged order parameters and directions of the triphenylene core and the carbonyl groups of C8OBT were evaluated by an infrared dichroic method. The discotic nematic (N_D) phase of C8OBT exhibits a homeotropic alignment on a polyimide film, a typical nematic schlieren texture on a glass substrate, and a tilted or planar homogeneous alignment on a CTAB-coated substrate. The order parameter of the triphenylene core is higher on a polyimide film (S = 0.6) than on a CTAB-coated substrate (S = 0.2), whereas that of the carbonyl groups remains roughly constant at 0.2 to 0.3 independent of the substrate for the N_D phase.     

Synthesis of 1-Trimethylsilyladamantane

The title compound was obtained from 1,3-dichloro-adamantane and some silylating reagents with Na-HMPA.