Electron depleted bis(methylene)cyclobutenes: sulfinyl and sulfonyl substitution

Double [2,3] sigmatropic rearrangements of bis(propargyl sulfenates) to bis(allenic sulfoxides) and of bis(propargyl sulfinates) to bis(allenic sulfones) are shown to be a convenient and effective method for the preparation of conjugated diallene systems bearing two electron withdrawing trihalomethyl sulfoxide or sulfone substituents either on C-1 and C-6, or on C-3 and C-4. Such substituents are further shown to facilitate cyclization to bis(methylene)cyclobutenes, and to stabilize the latter. The electron withdrawing group substitution on the exocyclic methylene extremities proved more effective than similar substitution on the endocyclic double bond.     

Dithiane additions to vinyl epoxides: steric control over the SN2 and SN2' manifolds

High chemoselectivity can be achieved in the addition of lithium dithiane anions to vinyl epoxides exploiting the steric nature of the dithiane substituent. Unencumbered dithiane anions afford SN2 adducts, whereas sterically encumbered anions lead primarily to SN2' adducts. Furthermore, the SN2' addition occurs syn to the vinyl epoxide.     

Simultaneous Determination of Olanzapine and Fluoxetine by HPLC

A rapid, specific reversed phase HPLC method has been developed for simultaneous determination of olanzapine and fluoxetine in their formulations. Chromatographic separation of these two pharmaceuticals was carried out on an Inertsil C₁₈ reversed phase column (150 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) with a 40:30:30 (v/v/v) mixture of 9.5 mM sodium dihydrogen phosphate (pH adjusted to 6.8 ± 0.1 with triethylamine), acetonitrile and methanol as mobile phase. The flow rate 1.2 mL min⁻¹ and the analytes are monitored at 225 nm. Paroxetine was used as internal standard. The assay results were linear from 25 to 75 μg mL⁻¹ for olanzapine (r ² ≥ 0.995) and 100–300 μg mL⁻¹ for fluoxetine (r ² ≥ 0.995), showed intra- and inter-day precision less than 1.0%, and accuracy of 97.7–99.1% and 97.9–99.0%. LOQ was 0.005 and 0.001 μg mL⁻¹ for olanzapine and fluoxetine, respectively. Separation was complete in less than 10 min. Validation of the method showed it to be robust, precise, accurate and linear over the range of analysis.     

Ab Initio Study and Its Comparison with X-ray Crystal Structure of 4-[1-(4-Chloro-phenylamino)-ethyl] 5-methyl-2-<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-tolyl-2,4-dihydro-pyrazol-3-one

The ab initio calculation of the title compound was carried out at HF as well as DFT level of theory. The full geometry optimization of the ligand was carried out using 6-31G(d) basis set. The results obtained were correlated with the single crystal X-ray data, also reported in this paper, shows close resemblance between these two. The influence of electron correlation effects also was studied by carrying out geometry optimization at the MP2 level. The attempts were also made to ascertain the most stable tautomer of the said compound.     

Facile and Sensitive Spectrophotometric Determination of Propoxur in Formulations and Environmental Samples

A facile, rapid, and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of propoxur in insecticidal formulations, fortified water, vegetables, agricultural wastewater, and agricultural soil samples has been elaborated. The proposed method is based on the hydrolysis of propoxur under basic conditions, followed by instantaneous azo coupling of the resulting 2‐isopropoxyphenol with the anilines 2a – c . This yielded the orange‐red chromophore 3a (λ_max=at 470 nm), the pale‐red coupling product 3b (490 nm), or the red derivative 3c (478 nm), which are stable for 46 h, 38 h, and 24 h, respectively, and could be readily analyzed spectrophotometrically.     

Silicon tetrafluoride : Preparation and reduction with lithium aluminium hydride

Pure silicon tetrafluoride can be prepared in 66% yield from silicon tetrachloride by refluxing with lead fluoride in acetonitrile. The gas can be reduced to pure silane by lithium aluminum hydride in diethyl ether.     

Synthesis, fluorescence and photoisomerization studies of azobenzene-functionalized poly(alkyl aryl ether) dendrimers

A series of azobenzene-functionalized poly(alkyl aryl ether) dendrimers have been synthesized and their photochemical and photophysical properties in solution and as thin films have been investigated. Although the photochemical behavior of the azodendrimers in solution indicated that the azobenzene units behave independently, very similar to the constituent monomer azobenzene unit, the properties of thin solid films of the dendrimers were distinctly different. The azodendrimers, AzoG1, AzoG2, and AzoG3 were observed to form stable supercooled glasses, which showed long-wavelength absorption and red emission characteristics of J-aggregates of the azobenzene chromophores. Reversible photoinduced isomerization of the azodendrimers in the glassy state is described.     

Design of a capillary-microreactor for efficient Suzuki coupling reactions

A Pyrex glass capillary (0.4 mm internal diameter) microreactor was developed and used for Suzuki coupling reactions. Capillary-microreactors are more attractive than photolithographic microfluidic devices in terms of simplicity, low cost and ease of handling. Compared with the conventional synthesis procedure, our approach of using a capillary-microreactor offers a convenient and highly efficient means to optimize reaction conditions and the performance of catalysts. The procedure exhibits good precision, reproducibility and high reaction yield for a range of reactants investigated.     

THE PHOTOSENSITIZERS BENZOPHENOXAZINE and THIAZINES: COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF PHOTOPHYSICAL and PHOTOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES

Eight differently substituted title dye compounds have been investigated regarding intersystem crossing, triplet state, fluorescence and singlet excited state pKa properties. In general, non-halogenated oxazines and thiazines as well as a mono bromooxazine show very low triplet quantum yields, phi tau (less than 0.03) and relatively long triplet lifetimes (approximately 40 microseconds) in acidic methanol. The phi tau data correlate well with known singlet oxygen yields. In basic methanol no triplet transient is observed but a significant yield of a ground state transient protonated (base dye) form is produced with a short lifetime, approximately 400 ns. Fluorescence can be seen simultaneously from both the excited base and the protonated base dye forms in basic methanol. For iodinated oxazine or thiazines, the triplet yield increases and can be as high as 0.5 (diiodo case) in acidic methanol. The triplet lifetimes are further shortened to approximately 10 microseconds compared to the non-iodinated derivatives above. The triplet yields of the iodo compounds are higher or equal to known singlet oxygen yields. In basic methanol triplet yields up to 0.2 can be seen, the triplet lifetime are shortened still further to 1 microsecond but no observable protonated form is produced (in distinction to the non-iodinated cases). Consideration is given to the correlation of triplet and singlet oxygen yields, ground and excited pKa properties, spin-orbit coupling and internal conversion properties, solvent effects, and phototherapeutic activity of these dyes.     

Temperature Dependent Dielectric Relaxation in Solvent Mixtures at Microwave Frequencies

By the use of time domain reflectometry method, dielectric measurements were carried out on dimethylformamide‐2‐nitrotoluene solvent mixtures in the frequency range 10 MHz‐20 GHz, at various temperatures from 15 °C to 45 °C. These solvent mixtures as well as pure solvents display a Debye type dispersion. Their frequency dependent dielectric properties can be summarized by the three parameters in the Debye equation: a static permittivity, permittivity at high frequency and a dielectric relaxation time constant. The free energy of activation for dipolar relaxation process and the Kirkwood correlation factor were determined using these fitting parameters for these solvent mixtures at various concentrations and temperatures. By using these dielectric parameters, the excess permittivity and excess inverse relaxation time is obtained. The excess permittivity is found to be positive for all concentrations and temperatures whereas the excess inverse relaxation time is negative.