Carboxamide-pyridine N-oxide heterosynthon for crystal engineering and pharmaceutical cocrystals

The novel carboxamide-pyridine N-oxide synthon, sustained via N-H...O- hydrogen bonding and C-H...O interaction, is shown to assemble isonicotinamide N-oxide in a triple helix architecture and the same heterosynthon is exploited to synthesize cocrystals of barbiturate drugs with 4,4'-bipyridine N,N'-dioxide.     

Click chemistry in materials synthesis. 1. Adhesive polymers from copper‐catalyzed azide‐alkyne cycloaddition

The copper(I)‐catalyzed cycloaddition reaction between azides and alkynes has been employed to make metal‐adhesive materials. Copper and brass surfaces supply the necessary catalytic Cu ions, and thus the polymerization process occurs selectively on these metals in the absence of added catalysts. Alternatively, copper compounds can be added to monomer mixtures and then introduced to reducing metal surfaces such as zinc to initiate polymerization. The resulting materials were found to possess comparable or superior adhesive strength to standard commercial glues, and structure‐activity correlations have identified several important properties of the monomers. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 42: 4392–4403, 2004     

Studies on Improving the Immobilized Bead Reusability and Alkaline Protease Production by Isolated Immobilized <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacillus circulans</Emphasis> (MTCC 6811) Using Overall Evaluation Criteria

This study uses an overall evaluation criterion for improving the immobilized bead reusability and extracellular enzyme production by immobilized cells by assigning relative weightage to bead reusability, enzyme production, and cell leakage. Initially, alkaline protease production by alginate-immobilized Bacillus circulans (MTCC 6811) was analyzed using L18 orthogonal array (OA). The resultant optimized parameters were further fine-tuned with L9 OA experimentation. At L18-OA analysis, inoculum level and CaCl(2) had least influence at individual level. At the interactive level, incubation time revealed maximum and minimum interaction with sodium alginate and glucose concentration, respectively. L9 experimentation indicated that glucose concentration contributed the major influence on protease production followed by matrix material and incubation time at the individual level, and at the interactive level, matrix concentration played a vital role by interacting with incubation time, inoculum, and CaCl(2) concentration. All selected input parameters showed significance either at individual level or interactive in both OAs. Scanning electron microscopy analysis showed bacterial morphology variation with variation of matrix concentration. Overall, glucose concentration depicted a major influence at the individual level for the enzyme production. Significant improvement, approximately 147%, in enzyme yield was observed. Economic enzyme production by immobilized B. circulans is regulated by interactive influence of fermentation parameters, which influence the immobilized bead stability, reusability, and enzyme yield.     

Facile addition of alkynes to aza-aromatic systems: a new protocol for the preparation of 2-alkynyl-1,2-dihydroquinolines

1-Alkynes undergo smooth addition to activated quinolines, isoquinolines and pyridines in the presence of copper iodide/ⁱPr₂NEt under extremely mild conditions to afford 2-alkynyl-1,2-dihydroquinolines in excellent yields with high selectivity. This method is also useful for functionalization of monocyclic pyridines.     

A new stability indicating reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography method for the determination of enantiomeric purity of a DPP‐4 inhibitor drug linagliptin

A simple, sensitive, and stability indicating isocratic reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography method has been developed, optimized and validated for the separation and quantification of S‐enantiomer in linagliptin (R‐enantiomer) drug substance. Enantiomeric separation was achieved on a Cellulose tris(4‐chloro‐3‐methylphenylcarbamate) stationary phase. Mobile phase consists of aqueous diammonium hydrogen phosphate buffer and acetonitrile in the ratio of 35:65 v/v. Isocratic elution was performed at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min, the column oven temperature was set at 40°C and detection was at 226 nm. The resolution between R and S enantiomers is found to be more than 4.0. The impact of mobile phase composition, pH of buffer and temperature on the resolution has been studied. The detector response is found to be linear over the concentration range of 0.17–1.7 μg/mL. LOD and LOQ levels of S‐enantiomer are found to be 0.057 and 0.172 μg/mL respectively. The recovery of S‐enantiomer is 99.8% w/w. The proposed method is validated for specificity, precision, linearity, accuracy and robustness.     

Structural studies and Raman spectroscopy of forbidden zone boundary phonons in Ni‐doped ZnO ceramics

We present X‐ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy studies of Ni‐doped ZnO (Zn_1−xNi_xO, x = 0.0, 0.03, 0.06, and 0.10) ceramics prepared by solid‐state reaction technique. The presence of the secondary phase along with the wurtzite phase is observed in Ni‐doped ZnO samples. The E₂(low) optical phonon mode is seen to be shifted to a lower wavenumber with Ni incorporation in ZnO and is explained on the basis of force‐constant variation of ZnO bond with Ni incorporation. A zone boundary phonon is observed in Ni‐doped samples at ∼130 cm⁻¹ which is normally forbidden in the first‐order Raman scattering of ZnO. Antiferromagnetic ordering between Ni atoms via spin‐orbit mechanism at low temperatures (100 K) is held responsible for the observed zone boundary phonon. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Growth of 4-(dimethylamino) benzaldehyde doped triglycine sulphate single crystals and its characterization

Single crystals of triglycine sulphate (TGS) doped with 1 mol% of 4-(dimethylamino) benzaldehyde (DB) have been grown from aqueous solution at ambient temperature by slow evaporation technique. The effect of dopant on the crystal growth and dielectric, pyroelectric and mechanical properties of TGS crystal have been investigated. X-ray powder diffraction pattern for pure and doped TGS was collected to determine the lattice parameters. FTIR spectra were employed to confirm the presence of 4-(dimethylamino) benzaldehyde in TGS crystal, qualitatively. The dielectric permittivity has been studied as a function of temperature by cooling the sample at a rate of 1 °C/min. An increase in the Curie temperature T_c=51 °C (for pure TGS, T_c=48.5 °C) and decrease in maximum permittivity has been observed for doped TGS when compared to pure TGS crystal. Pyroelectric studies on doped TGS were carried out to determine pyroelectric coefficient. The Vickers's hardness of the doped TGS crystals along (0 1 0) face is higher than that of pure TGS crystal for the same face. Domain patterns on b-cut plates were observed using scanning electron microscope. The low dielectric constant, higher pyroelectric coefficient and higher value of hardness suggest that doped TGS crystals could be a potential material for IR detectors.     

Application of N,3-diaryl-3-oxo-propanethioamide in synthesis: an efficient and mild domino approach to highly substituted fused chromenones

A convenient and rapid synthesis of hitherto unknown 3-aroyl-4-aryl-2-phenylamino-4H-benzo[g]chromene-5,10-diones in high yield from β-aroyl-thioacetanilide, aromatic aldehyde, and 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone via InCl₃ catalyzed one-pot three-component tandem Knoevenagel condensation–Michael addition–intramolecular cyclization–elimination reaction sequence is disclosed for the first time. This domino protocol has been used to obtain highly substituted pyrano[3,2-c]chromen-5(4H)-ones and 7,7-dimethyl-7,8-dihydro-4H-chromen-5(6H)-ones from N,3-diaryl-3-oxo-propanethioamide, aromatic aldehyde, and 4-hydroxycoumarine or dimedone under mild reaction conditions. A plausible reaction mechanism is proposed. The 4H-pyrano[3,2-c]chromen-5-one and 7,7-dimethyl-7,8-dihydro-4H-chromen-5(6H)-one derivatives possessing 3-(2-chlorobenzoyl)-2-phenylamino-substituents further cyclized under basic conditions to yield penta-cyclic 7,13-diaryl-5,14-dioxa-13-aza-benzo[a]naphthacen-6,8(7H,13H)-dione and tetra-cyclic 6,12-diaryl-3,3-dimethyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromeno[2,3-b]quinolin-1,11(6H,12H)-dione, respectively.     

Rh(II) acetate catalyzed cyclopropanation of styrenes with enaldiazo esters: diastereoselective synthesis of enal-cyclopropanes

An efficient Rh(II) acetate catalyzed highly diastereoselective cyclopropanation of styrenes with enaldiazo esters has been developed (up to >95:5 dr and 62–82% yield). The reaction is proposed to involve diacceptor electrophilic rhodium enalcarbenoids and constitutes the first direct synthesis of enal-cyclopropanes with an all carbon γ-quaternary stereocenter.