Gitoxigenin glycosides

Summary Three cardiac glycosides have been synthesized from gitoxigenin and D-glucose: gitoxigenin 3-O--D-glucopyranoside, gitoxigenin 16 -O- -D-glucopyranoside, and gitoxigenin 3, 16-di-O- -D-glucoside. The first glycoside, obtained with a yield of 49% on the weight of the initial aglycone, possesses a fairly high biological activity (0.25 mg/kg), while the other two, formed in a yield of about 0.3%, do not possess the action on the heart that is specific for the cardenolides.Khar'kov Chemical and Pharmaceutical Scientific-Research Institute. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 45–49, January, 1971.     

Preparation and chain extension of C100dicarboxylic acid

The selective degradation of polyethylene crystals with fuming nitric acid has been used to prepare a C₁₀₀ chain with terminal functional groups. After treating this product with concentrated sulphuric acid, it is shown by average molecular weight, titration and infra-red spectroscopy measurements that each molecule contains two carboxylic acid groups. This C₁₀₀ dicarboxylic acid is chain extended with several low molecular weight difunctional coupling agents. Block copolymers of this acid and poly(propylene glycol) have been prepared.     

Elektrische Leitfähigkeiten geschmolzener Salzmischungen aus Strontiumchlorid und Alkalimetallchloriden

Electrical Conductivity of Molten Strontium Chloride-Alkali Chloride Salt Mixtures The temperature and concentration dependence of the specific electrical conductivity is measured for binary fused mixtures SrCl₂–MeCl (Me = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs). Minima of the conductivity are found at the concentration x · 0.5 in the systems SrCl₂–(KCl, RbCl, CsCl).     

Bemerkungen zur chemischen Bestimmung von zweiwertigem Eisen und dreiwertigem Mangan in manganhaltigen Ferriten

Zusammenfassung Die Methode von Bonsels u. Linnemann [1] zur Bestimmung von Fe^II und Mn^III lieferte bei der Überprüfung falsche Ergebnisse. Die Ursache liegt darin, daß sich der Blindwert des Azides in Gegenwart von Mn^2ü-Ionen erheblich erhöht und in der Siedehitze eine Reaktion zwischen Mn^III und Cr^III abläuft. Da eine Auflösung selbst fein pulverisierter Ferrite in dem mitgeteilten Lösungsgemisch nur in der Siedehitze erfolgt, ist eine Bestimmung von Fe^II und Mn^III in Ferriten nach dieser Methode nicht möglich.

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Summary The method for the determination of Fe^II and Mn^III in manganese ferrites by Bonsels and Linnemann [1] was examined. It was found that the consumption of NaN₃, used for the reduction of Mn^III and effecting in a second (not wanted) reaction the reduction of Cr₂O₇ ^2–, is essentially increased by the presence of Mn^II and causes an error in the determination of Fe^II. The second error is the reaction between Mn^III and Cr^III at boiling temperature. On account of the necessity to dissolve the ferrites with the acid mixture at boiling temperature the determination of Mn^III and Fe^II is not possible.

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Herrn Dr. P. Kleinert vom Institut für Magnetische Werkstoffe danken wir an dieser Stelle für wertvolle Diskussionsbeiträge und das bei der Durchführung der Arbeit gezeigte Interesse.     

Analyse de la fraction monophénolique des condensats de fumée de cigarettes par association de méthodes chromatographiques

Résumé Les monophénols sont isolés des condensats de fumées de cigarette par chromatographie sur couche mince de Kieselgel G avec un mélange (31) de cyclohexane et d'acétate d'éthyle extraits du support, puis séparé et dosés par chromatographie en phase gazeuse sur colonne capillaire. Le rendement de l;opération est de 80±2% pour le triméthyl 3,4,5 phénol, de 65% pour le triméthyl 2,3,5 phénol. Les teneurs obtenues sont de 8g de phénol, 3g de (para + méta) crésol et 0,5 g de diméthyl 2,6 phénol par mg de condensat. De nombreux autres alkylphénols ont été identifiés.

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Analysis of the monophenolic fraction of tobacco smoke condensates by a combination of chromatographic methods

Summary Monophenols are separated from tobacco smoke condensates by thin-layer chromatography on Kieselgel G using a 31 mixture of cyclohexane and ethylacetate. The monophenolic fraction is recovered from the support and analyzed by GC on a capillary column. The yield is 80±2% for 3,4,5 trimethylphenol and 65% for 2,3,5 trimethylphenol. The concentration determined for phenol, (para+meta) cresol and 2,6 dimethylphenol are 8,3 and 0.5 g per mg of condensate respectively. Numerous other alkyl phenols have been identified.

     

Addition of mercaptans to acetylenic γ-hydroxy ketones

Conclusions Both the nucleophilic and the free radical addition of n-butyl mercaptan to acetylenic-hydroxy ketones (1,1-disubstituted derivatives of 2-pentyn-1-ol-4-one) lead to the formation of the corresponding 1,1-disubstituted derivatives of 2-butylthio-2-penten-1-ol-4-one in 41–65% yield.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1669–1670, July, 1973.     

Ionotropic reactions of β-sultones

The reaction mechanism of-sultones are discussed; a scheme for the reactivity is proposed. Polyfluoro--sultones can undergo anionotropic reactions of the type Hydrogeneous-sultones under prototropic reactions:     

EPR study of melanin-protein interaction: photoinduced free radicals and progressive microwave power saturation.

The photo-induction of free radicals in synthetic L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) melanin in the presence of bovine serum albumin (BSA) was studied by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. By monitoring the signal intensities and progressive microwave power saturation it was shown that L-DOPA melanin in solution behaves as a single macromolecule, interacting with BSA and molecular oxygen. In the absence of oxygen, the EPR signal of L-DOPA melanin was homogeneously broadened; the magnetic interaction with oxygen induced inhomogeneous broadening. In aqueous solution, the presence of BSA decreased the accessibility of oxygen to paramagnetic centres in the melanin. On UV-visible illumination, the presence of BSA modified the rates of formation and decay of photoinduced free radicals, resulting in a net enhancement of the EPR signal compared with that observed in pure L-DOPA melanin.     

Characteristics of the glucose isomerase from Streptomyces atratus

The molecular mass (Mr) of highly purified glucose isomerase fromStreptomyces atratus has been determined. The native glucose isomerase, which has affinity for xylose, consists of an oligomeric protein containing 1552 amino acid residues and formed of four subunits. The enzyme is stable in the range of temperatures from 40 to 80°C and at pH values of from 6.0 to 11.0.     

Basische Metalle. LXIV. Lewis-basische Bis(trimethylphosphan)cobalt-Komplexe mit Indenyl und Trifluormethylcyclopentadienyl als Liganden

Basic Metals. LXIV. Lewis-basic Bis(trimethylphosphine)cobalt Complexes with Indenyl and Trifluormethylcyclopentadienyl as Ligands The half-sandwich type compounds C₉H₇Co(PMe₃)₂ ( 1 ) and (C₅H₄CF₃)Co(PMe₃)₂ ( 6 ) are prepared from CoCl(PMe₃)₃ and C₉H₇Li or TlC₅H₄CF₃, respectively. They behave like metal bases and react with HBF₄, CH₃I (or CF₃SO₃CH₃), I₂, and CH₃COCl by oxidative addition to give the cationic complexes [C₉H₇CoX(PMe₃)₂]⁺ and [(C₅H₄CF₃)CoX(PMe₃)₂]⁺ (X ? H, CH₃, I, COCH₃) which are isolated as the PF₆ salts ( 2–5 and 7–10 ). The ¹HNMR and the IR spectra of the compounds 1–10 are discussed, also in comparison to those of the corresponding cyclopentadienylcobalt complexes.