Steady-state and nanosecond spectroscopic studies of triplet sensitized reaction of K-region arene oxides

Photorearrangement reactions of K-region arene oxides, 9,10-epoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene (1a), 3-acetyl-9,10-epoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene (1b), and 3,4-epoxy-3,4-dihydropyrene (1c) in dichloroethane (DCE) solution were investigated by steady irradiation and nanosecond transient spectroscopy. Photorearrangements producing substituted oxepins, 2 occur via the singlet excited state of these compounds, while the phenolic products, 9-hydroxyphenanthrene (3a), 3-acetyl-9-hydroxyphenanthrene (3b), and 4-hydroxypyrene (3c) are formed via the triplet state. Phenol 3 formation from the triplet 1 sensitized by the triplet 3 (i.e. product sensitization) is proposed for the photorearrangement reactions of 1a and 1c, and this process is the only way phenol (3a) is formed because of the negligible intersystem crossing probability of 1a. No product sensitization occurs in the photorearrangement reaction of 1b.     

Enantioseparation of selected chiral sulfoxides using polysaccharide-type chiral stationary phases and polar organic, polar aqueous-organic and normal-phase eluents

HPLC enantioseparation of selected chiral sulfoxides was studied using cellulose and amylose phenylcarbamate derivatives as chiral stationary phases (CSPs). The contributions of various functional groups of a chiral analyte as well as the polysaccharide derivatives in the analyte retention and chiral recognition were evaluated. A very high enantioseparation factor exceeding 110 was observed in the enantioseparation of 2-(benzylsulfinyl)benzamide (BSBA) on cellulose tris(3,5-dichlorophenylcarbamate) (CDCPC) CSP by using 2-propanol as a mobile phase. The enantiomer elution order was opposite on cellulose and amylose phenylcarbamates. For the polysaccharide-type CSPs, pure alcohols such as methanol, ethanol and 2-propanol represent a valuable alternative to more common alcohol-hydrocarbon and reversed-phase eluents.     

Study on δ‐form complex in syndiotactic polystyrene–organic molecules systems. IV. Formation of complexes with a mixture of solvents and structural changes during the sorption of solvents by syndiotactic polystyrene mesophase membranes

The syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) δ form was crystallized from mixtures with different compositions of p‐chlorotoluene–chlorobenzene (p‐CT–CB) and p‐chlorotoluene–1,1,2‐trichloroethane (p‐CT–TCE). The presence of the δ form and TTGG helical conformation was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared and wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction (WAXD) analyses. In sPS/p‐CT–CB and sPS/p‐CT–TCE δ‐form membranes, the relative absorbance (RA) of the p‐chlorotoluene (p‐CT) solvent peak was very high even at very low concentrations of p‐CT in comparison with the RA of higher concentrations of chlorobenzene (CB) or 1,1,2‐trichloroethane (TCE) in the mixtures. However, the RAs of both CB and TCE solvent peaks decreased with decreasing concentrations of CB and TCE in the mixtures. A negligible decrease in the RA of the TTGG helical content was observed with a decreasing concentration of CB or TCE. The WAXD results showed that the 2θ peak positions of the [010] and [ 10] planes of the sPS/p‐CT–CB and sPS/p‐CT–TCE δ‐form membranes appeared in the same position and were almost equal to those of the sPS–p‐CT δ‐form membrane. The mesophases of the sPS–p‐CT [p‐CT (A‐M)] and sPS–TCE [TCE (A‐M)] membranes were used for the sorption studies with different concentrations of various solvents. The sorption amount of aromatic solvents by both p‐CT (A‐M) and TCE (A‐M) mesophase membranes was higher than that of aliphatic solvents, regardless of the size, shape, and nature of the molecular cavity. The 2θ peak of the [010] plane of the sPS membranes slowly approached the original δ‐form value when the sPS mesophase membranes were immersed in various solvents of different concentrations for 48 h. The shifting of the 2θ peak of the [010] plane to the original δ form depended on the nature and concentration of the immersion solvents. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 43: 2380–2387, 2005     

NMR study on the tautomeric equilibria between the hydrazone imine and diazenyl enamine forms in side chained quinoxalines: Solvent effects and temperature dependence

The reaction of 7-chloro-4-ethoxycarbonylmethylene-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline 6 with 4-ethoxycarbonyl-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-5-diazonium chloride or 4-cyano-1,3-dimethyl-1H-pyrazole-5-diazonium chloride gave 7-chloro-4-[α-(4-ethoxycarbonyl-1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-ylhydrazono)-ethoxycarbonylmethyl]-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline 8a or 7-chloro-4-[α-(4-cyano-1,3-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-5-ylhydrazono)ethoxycarbonylmethyl]-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline 8b , respectively, while the reaction of 7-chloro-4-ethoxycarbonylmethylene-4,5-dihydrotetrazolo[1,5-a]quinoxaline 7 with 4-ethoxycarbonyl-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-5-diazonium chloride or 4-cyano-1,3-dimethyl-1H-pyrazole-5-diazomum chloride provided 7-chloro-4-[α-(4-ethoxycarbonyl-1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-ylhydrazono)ethoxycarbonylmethyl]tetrazolo[1,5-a]quinoxaline 9a or 7-chloro-4-[α-(4-cyano-1,3-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-5-ylhydrazono)ethoxycarbonylmethyl]tetrazolo[1,5-a]quinoxaline 9b , respectively. Compounds 8a,b and 9a,b showed the tautomeric equilibria between the hydrazone imine C and diazenyl enamine D forms in dimethyl sulfoxide and/or trifluoroacetic acid, and the effects of solvent and temperature on the tautomer ratios of C to D were studied by the nmr measurements in a series of mixed trifluoroacetic acid/dimethyl sulfoxide media (compounds 8a,b and 9a,b ) and at various temperatures (compounds 8a,b ).     

Intramolecular catalysis and cyclization in the reaction of α,ω-diaminooligomethylenes with bifunctional sulphonyl chloride. Effect of chain length on polycondensation reaction

As an elementary reaction of polycondensation reactions, rates of the reaction of 1,5-naphthalenedisulphonyl dichloride, a bifunctional fluorescent reagent, with excess α,ω-diaminooligomethylenes were measured by fluorometry in dilute solution. The rate constant, corresponding to that for the reaction of the first step of the polycondensation between the disulphonyl dichloride and the diamines, depended remarkably on the chain length of the diamines. By using 5-dimethylamino-1-naphthalenesulphonyl chloride, a monofunctional fluorescent reagent, and α-aminooligomethylenes, rates of model reactions between the monoamines and the monosulphonyl chloride, the diamines and the monosulphonyl chloride, as well as the monoamines and the disulphonyl dichloride were measured by fluorometry. The remarkable chain length dependence is explained by intramolecular catalysis by the primary amino group.     

Isolation and structure determination of a new marine toxin,neosurugatoxin, from the Japanese Ivory Shell, Babylonia japonica.

A new toxin, named neosurugatoxin, was isolated from the toxic Japanese Ivory Shell and its structure was determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis.     

Dinuclear zinc(II) double-helicates of homochirally substituted bis(dipyrromethene)s

[structure: see text] A series of bis(dipyrromethene)s substituted with aromatic amide and aliphatic ester homochiral auxiliaries have been prepared and complexed with zinc(II) ions to form double-helical dinuclear complexes. CD analysis of the crude complexes revealed that the helicates formed in a diastereoselective manner. The helicates have been resolved into their constituent M and P helices by HPLC, indicating that the helical sense of the complexes is stable to racemization.     

Effect of polymer as cosolvent on chemical reactions in solution—I. Effects of polystyrene and polyoxyethylene on the reaction of dansyl chloride with butylamine in organic solvents

The rates of reactions of 5-dimethylamino-1-naphthalenesulphonyl chloride (dansyl chloride) with butylamine in organic solvents have been measured in the presence of polymer such as polyoxyethylene (POE) or polystyrene (PS) as cosolvent and compared with those in the presence of cosolvents of low molecular weight analogues, viz. diethyloxyethane (DEE) and toluene (Tol.). Acceleration by cosolvent POE, compared with DEE, increases with increasing volume fraction of cosolvent and the effect depends on the degree of polymerization of the polymer cosolvent. Similarly, addition of cosolvent PS to ethyl acetate or chloroform results in increase in the reaction rate as compared with cosolvent Tol. The effect by PS also showed dependence on the degree of polymerization. The effect of polymer cosolvent on chemical reactions between two low molecular weight species is explained in terms of the thermodynamics of polymer solutions.     

Effects of hydrogen bonding on metal ion-promoted intramolecular electron transfer and photoinduced electron transfer in a ferrocene-quinone dyad with a rigid amide spacer

A ferrocene-quinone dyad (Fc-Q) with a rigid amide spacer and Fc-(Me)Q dyad, in which the amide proton acting as a hydrogen-bonding acceptor is replaced by the methyl group, are employed to examine the effects of hydrogen bonding on both the thermal and the photoinduced electron-transfer reactions. The hydrogen bonding of the semiquinone radical anion with the amide proton in Fc-Q(.-) produced by the electron-transfer reduction of Fc-Q is indicated by the significant positive shift of the one-electron reduction potential of Fc-Q. The hyperfine coupling constants of Fc-Q(.-) also indicate the existence of hydrogen bonding, agreeing with those predicted by the density functional calculation. The hydrogen-bonding dynamics in the photoinduced electron transfer from the ferrocene (Fc) to the quinone moiety (Q) in Fc-Q have been successfully detected in the femtosecond laser flash photolysis experiments. Thermal intramolecular electron transfer from Fc to Q in Fc-Q and Fc-(Me)Q also occurs efficiently in the presence of metal ions in acetonitrile at 298 K. The hydrogen bond formed between the semiquinone radical anion and the amide proton in Fc-Q results in remarkable acceleration of the rate of metal ion-promoted electron transfer as compared to the rate of Fc-(Me)Q in which hydrogen bonding is prohibited. The metal ion-promoted electron-transfer rates are well correlated with the binding energies of superoxide ion-metal ion complexes, which are derived from the g(zz) values of the ESR spectra.