Synthesis of tetrazolopiperazine building blocks by a novel multi-component reaction

A novel Ugi-five-centre-four-component reaction (U-5C-4CR) of aldehydes, primary amines, trimethylsilylazide and 2-isocyanoethyltosylate yielding tetrazolopiperazine building blocks is described.     

Kryoskopische Reinheitsbestimmung kleiner Substanzmengen nach der Methode der konstantgesteuerten aufgepr?gten W?rmerate

Zusammenfassung Zur Reinheitsbestimmung schmelzbarer, vorwiegend organischer Proben wurde eine kryoskopische Apparatur nachSmit gebaut. Sie arbeitet oberhalb 99 Mol-% im Halbmikrobereich, wobei der Absolutwert der Reinheit auf ±0,05 Mol-% genau meßbar ist. Die Probe, die ständig unter strömendem Stickstoff gehalten wird, umgibt als dünne Schicht ein Platin-Widerstandsthermometer, das sich in der Mitte eines elektrisch geheizten Aluminiumzylinders befindet. Konstanz der Wärmezufuhr wird gesichert durch Regelung der Temperaturdifferenz gegen ein gleichartiges zweites Thermometer, das dicht am geheizten Zylindermantel eingesteckt ist. Die Thermometer brauchen nicht geeicht zu werden. Die Regelung wird durch eine Doppel-Wheatstonebrücke vermittelt, deren einer Ausgang auf den Schreiber und deren anderer auf die Heizung wirkt. Die graphische Auswertung ist aus dem Zweiphasen-Diagramm fest-flüssig abgeleitet. Als Bezugsstandard ist eine zweite Probe zu messen, die man durch Verunreinigung der ursprünglichen Substanz um einen bekannten Betrag erhält.

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Summary A cryoscopic apparatus for the purity assay of fusible, mostly organic samples was built afterSmit. It works in the half-micro scale above 99 mole%, where the absolute value of the purity will lie within ±0.05 mole%. The sample, which is always kept under streaming nitrogen, surrounds as a thin layer a platinum resistance thermometer that stands in the center of an electrically heated aluminium cylinder. A constant supply of heat is ensured by controlling the temperature difference against a second thermometer of the same kind, which is inserted near the heated periphery of the cylinder. It is not necessary to calibrate the thermometers. Control is mediated by a double Wheatstone bridge, the one output of which acts on the recording device, the other on the heater. The graphical evaluation of the records derives from the two-phase diagram solid-liquid. As a referential instance, a second sample has to be measured, which is obtained from the specimen through artificial contamination by a known amount.

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Unter Mitarbeit von F.Weigand und R.Baumgart.

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Herrn Dr.Ebinger, AEG-Meßgerätefabrik Berlin-Reinickendorf und Herrn Dipl.-Ing. Lutz, AEG-Büro Mannheim, habe ich für ihre große Bereitwilligkeit zu danken, mit der sie auf die Wünsche zur Bauart der Brücke eingingen. — Für Anregungen danke ich Herrn Dr.Kienitz.     

Untersuchungen zur Physisorption und Chemisorption von Wasser auf Zinkoxid-Oberflächen

The investigation of different zinc oxide samples by means of thermogravimetry and infrared spectroscopy has shown that the surface of the samples is covered by an approximately monoatomic layer of hydroxide groups. Furthermore, varying amounts of carbonate groups are found which are due to the presence of zinc hydroxide carbonate II [Zn₅(OH)₆(CO₃)₂]. Below relative water vapour pressures of p/p₀ = 0.2 (25°C), two hydrogen bridges connect one physisorbed water molecule with two chemisorbed surface hydroxide groups. In addition, about the same amount of water is physically adsorbed between vapour pressures of p/p₀ 0.2 and 0.8. At still higher relative humidity, a multimolecular layer is built up which reaches a thickness of about 200 water molecules at p/p₀ = 1.0. All samples show in the v-OH region of the IR. spectrum a broad absorption with four bands, A, B, C, and D. The position of the bands and the change of their intensities when rising the temperature of the samples up to 600°C indicate that both bands of longer wave lengths, C and D, arise from physically adsorbed water molecules, while the bands A and B are due to hydroxide groups located on the crystallographic faces (0001) and (0001 ), respectively.     

Nanotubes fabricated from Ni-naphthalocyanine by a template method

Novel naphthalocyanine (Nc) nanotubes with special wall structures were fabricated by a template method using Nc molecules as building blocks. Thermal stabilization of the ordered columnar structures of the tetrakis(tert-butyl)naphthalocyanine (Ni-BNc) molecules, induced from the pi-pi interactions in the nanoscale channels of an alumina template, resulted in Nc nanotubes with walls consisting of well-ordered Nc molecular disks. Further thermal treatment of Ni-BNc at 600 degrees C produced carbonized Nc nanotubes containing ordered columnar, graphitic wall structures with the graphene disks arranged perpendicular to the tube axis. These nanotubes may be useful for extending the application of Nc molecules for nanodevice fabrication.     

Melanin offers protection against induction of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and 6-4 photoproducts by UVB in cultured human melanocytes

The goal of this investigation was to correlate the melanin content in human pigmentary cells with the generation of UVB-induced photoproducts and to examine the relationship between the melanin content and the removal of the photoproducts. Cultured melanocytes from light-skinned individuals synthesized less melanin and produced more cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and 6-4 photoproducts upon UVB exposure than did melanocytes from black skin. Tyrosine-stimulated melanogenesis provided protection against DNA damage in both cell types. In another set of pigmented cell lines a ratio between eumelanin and pheomelanin was determined. The assessment of association between DNA damage induction and the quantity and quality of melanin revealed that eumelanin concentration correlated better with DNA protection than pheomelanin. Skin type-I and skin type-VI melanocytes, congenital nevus (CN)-derived cells and skin type-II melanocytes from a multiple-melanoma patient were grown in media with low or high L-tyrosine concentration. The cells were irradiated with 200 J/m2 UVB, and the levels of the photoproducts were determined immediately and after 6 and 24 h. Once again the induction of the photoproducts was mitigated by increased melanogenesis, and it was inversely correlated with the skin type. No significant differences were found for the removal of photoproducts in the cultures of skin types I and VI and CN cells. No indications of a delay in the removal of photoproducts in the melanocytes from the multiple-melanoma patient were found either.     

Thermal reduction and reoxidation of spinel-type Cu1−xZnxAl2O4

The thermochemical reactivity of the spinel-type quaternary metal oxide Cu_1–xZn_xAl₂O₄ has been investigated for different Cu:Zn ratios. In oxygen or inert gas atmospheres no considerable reduction is observed. In molecular hydrogen metal selective reduction of the Cu is found at relatively high temperature. The solid reduction product is made up of sintered, poorly dispersed metallic copper on a Zn-Al-O metal oxide support, a potential catalyst for the methanol synthesis. Owing to the measured high reduction temperature leading to the mentioned sintering of the metallic copper, the activity of this system cannot be high.Financial support by the Swiss National Science Foundation under project Nr. 2027933.89 is gratefully acknowledged.     

Facile synthesis and characterization of monocrystalline cubic ZrO2 nanoparticles

Crystalline ZrO₂ nanoparticles were prepared from zirconium isopropoxide by slow hydrolysis and subsequent hydrothermal treatment of solutions containing various amounts of sodium hydroxide at 180 °C. Whereas moderately basic solutions lead to the formation of nanoparticles of monoclinic ZrO₂ with plate-like morphology, and nanoparticles of the cubic ZrO₂ high-temperature polymorph with diameters of approx. 5 nm were obtained from strongly basic solutions. The morphology, structure and properties of as-synthesized nanoparticles were characterized using HRTEM, XRD, Raman spectroscopy, UV–vis, PL spectroscopy and BET measurements. The formation of both, the monoclinic and the cubic polymorph, was confirmed by electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The crystallinity and morphology of the resulting ZrO₂ nanoparticles can be adjusted by the choice of the reaction conditions. The cubic ZrO₂ nanoparticles have a high surface area (300 m²/g) and exhibit a strong photoluminescence in the UV region.     

Electronic structure calculations of small Al n (n=2–8) clusters

The electronic states of small Al _n (n=2–8) clusters have been calculated with a relativistic ab-initio MO-LCAO Dirac-Fock-Slater method using numerical atomic DFS wave-functions. The excitation energies were obtained from a ground state calculation of neutral clusters, and in addition from negative clusters charged by half an electron in order to account for part of the relaxation. These energies are compared with experimental photo-electron spectra.     

Upper limit for thermal direct photon production in heavy-ion collisions at 60 and 200A·GeV

The production of direct photons has been investigated in reactions ofp and¹⁶O projectiles at 60 and 200A·GeV with C and Au nuclei. Photon and ⁰ spectra have been measured in the pseudorapidity range 1.52.1 for the transverse momentum region 0.4 GeV/cp _T 2.8 GeV/c employing the lead-glass spectrometer SAPHIR. An upper limit of 15% at the 90% confidence level for the direct photon signal relative to the neutral pion production is obtained from the comparison of measured photon spectra with Monte Carlo simulations of the hadronic background based on the reconstructed yield of ⁰ and mesons. Consequences for a possible phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma are discussed.