Ring-chain tautomerism of substituted hydrazones

1-Hydrazino-2-propanol reacts with aliphatic carbonyl compounds to form the corresponding (2-hydroxypropyl)hydrazones. 1-(N-Alkylhydrazino)-2-propanols, on the other hand, give tautomeric mixtures of alkyl-substituted perhydro-1,3,4-oxadiazines and N-alkyl-N-(2-hydroxypropyl)hydrazones. As compared with derivatives of 2-(N-alkylhydrazino)ethanols, the position of the equilibrium in the investigated cases is shifted to favor the cyclic forms.See [1] for communication I.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 301–308, March, 1971.     

Gaussian expansions of orbital products for the evaluation of two-electron integrals

A method is described for evaluating multicenter integrals over contracted gaussian-type orbitals by the use of gaussian expansion of orbital products. The expansions are determined by the method of non-linear least squares with constraints. There is no restriction upon the symmetry of the orbital product and the method is applicable to all products arising from s, p and d-type orbitals. Results are given to indicate the accuracy of the method.     

Copolymerization characteristics of S-vinyl-O-tert-butylthiocarbonate

Poly-S-vinyl-O-tert-butylthiocarbonate is an excellent precursor to poly(vinyl mercaptan) because the tert-butyloxycarbonyl blocking group can be removed by either acid hydrolysis or thermolysis under conditions which minimize the oxidation of the liberated mercaptan to disulfide. Dilatometric studies of the homopolymerization of S-vinyl-O-tert-butylthiocarbonate demonstrated that the polymerization rate was directly proportional to the concentration of free-radical initiator; no thermal initiation was observed. The molecular weight of the homopolymers and copolymers ranged from 30,000 to 50,000 (GPC). Copolymerization of S-vinyl-O-tert-butylthiocarbonate (M₂) with styrene, (r₁ = 3.0, r₂ = 0.2), methyl methacrylate (r₁ = 1.40, r₂ = 0.17) and vinyl acetate (r₁ = 0.04, r₂ = 11.0) indicated that a sulfur atom adjacent to the vinyl group increases the resonance stability (Q₂ = 0.5) and the electron density (e₂ = ?1.4) of the double bond and the corresponding radical. Water-soluble copolymers could be prépared by incorporating either N-vinylpyrrolidone (r₁ = 0.12, r₂ = 3.94) or N-isopropylacrylamide (r₁ = 1.17, r₂ = 0.3) with M₂. The water solubility of the copolymers decreased markedly when the tert-butyloxycarbonyl group was removed. Copolymers of M₂ with N-vinyl-O-tert-butylcarbamate (r₁ = 0.13, r₂ = 5.10) were utilized to prepare crosslinked poly(vinyl amine–vinyl mercaptan); the crosslinking resulted from urea linkages formed during thermolysis of the copolymer.     

The interaction of 2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4-butoxyphenoxyl and diphenylnitrogen radicals with molecules containing N-H and O-H bonds

It has been shown by the EPR method that the thermal decomposition of bis-(1, 3, 5-tri-tert-butyl-cyclohexadien-2, 5-one)-peroxide (I) into 2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4-butoxyphenoxyl radicals (II) in xylene solution at 80–100 C follows first order kinetics. The transfer of hydrogen from the molecule of diphenylamine (DPA) and 2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (ionol) to the radicals of (II) formed by the decomposition of (I) has been established and investigated.The diphenylnitrogen (DPN) radicals formed by the thermal dissociation of tetraphenylhydrazine (TPH) in organic solvents at 100 C split a hydrogen atom from the hydroxyl group of sterically hindered phenols, leading to the formation of the corresponding phenoxyl radicals.     

Determination of betamethasone and triamcinolone acetonide by GC-NCI-MS in excreta of treated animals and development of a fast oxidation procedure for derivatisation of corticosteroids.

The use of corticosteroids in combination with other hormonal substances has long been known to result in increased mass gain with bovines. Practice has demonstrated, however, that even the single use of a glucocorticoid may result in growth promoting effects. In addition to the popular dexamethasone, more recently other corticosteroids have also been misused for fattening purposes. The first part of this study deals with the detection of two of them, namely betamethasone and triamcinolone acetonide. Betamethasone was administered orally to a cow at a dose of 50 mg d-1 for 5 d, then later the same cow was injected intramuscularly with a dose of 50 mg of betamethasone dipropionate. Excretion in urine and faeces was followed with both HPLC-enzyme immunoassay and a previously described method based on negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry (NCI-MS) after oxidation. For the triamcinolone acetonide study a cow was treated with 50 mg d-1 of the drug during a 7 d period. Excretion in faeces was followed with GC-NCI-MS. As triamcinolone acetonide is resistant to the previously described oxidation procedure, however, a hydrolysis step had to be introduced prior to oxidation. In addition to this specific modification necessary for triamcinolone acetonide, in a subsequent part of this study the original oxidation procedure with pyridinium chlorochromate was re-investigated especially to shorten the procedure. With the introduction of potassium dichromate the reaction time could be decreased from 3 h to 10 min.     

N,N′ di n-hexyladipamide,a model for nylon 6,6

During research on model molecular compounds for synthetic polyamides, the crystal structure of N,N′ di n-hexyladipamide (NNDHA) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined to a final R value of 0.054. The molecule has an all-trans planar conformation. The packing consists of layers of molecules linked by hydrogen bonds in c direction. Molecular structure and packing resemble closely those reported for polyhexamethylenadipamide (nylon 6,6).     

Recent applications of quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in pharmaceutical research

Increasing use is being made of N.M.R. spectroscopy as a quantitative analytical tool. Recent developments (1970-mid-1975) in methods and reagents are discussed with special regard to the role of Fourier-transform spectrometers, lanthanide-shift reagents and the choice of standard materials. Applications to quantitative analytical problems in pharmaceutical research are listed together with an indication of the advantages of the N.M.R. method over official analytical procedures.     

Proton magnetic shielding and susceptibility effects in single crystals of ferrocene

The proton NMR in single crystals of ferrocene has been studied by multiple pulse techniques at room temperature. In crystals of natural shape with plane faces the angular dependence of the resonance frequency due to the anisotropy of the shielding and due to the bulk susceptibility was found to be of about equal size, making analysis of the data practically impossible. By using a single crystal sphere the shape dependent part of the susceptibility contribution could be eliminated. In addition, the resolution obtained by the multiple pulse technique is considerably higher for spheres than for non-spherical crystals. As the ferrocene molecules rotate rapidly about their fivefold axes at room temperature, the shielding tensor σ must be axially symmetric. Having this in mind, the data could be analyzed to yield both the shielding tensor with Δσ = σ₆ - σ_⊥ = ?6.5 ± 0.1 ppm, σ_iso = ?4.2 ± 0.5 ppm from a spherical sample of TMS and the anisotropy of the susceptibility Δ _x = 30 × 10^?6 cgs units.     

Ab initio scf and CI study of the ground and excited states of the HN2 radical

Non-empirical SCF and CI calculations are reported for the HN₂, free radical in various low-lying electronic states. The nature of the angular and N-N and N-H stretching potential curves of each of these species is investigated, including a study of the dissociative behavior of such states. The ground state is found to be only very slightly bound with respect to NH stretch, in contrast to what is observed for isoelectronic HCO, The vertical electronic spectrum of HN₂, appears to be marked by a single long wavelength transition (1.95 eV) from the bent (124°) ‘A’ ground state to the linear ²Π excited species, but at least four other intra-valence and an additional n → 3s Rydberg species are indicated in the 5.5–8.0 eV absorbing region.