Ruthenium-catalyzed functionalization of aryl carbon-oxygen bonds in aromatic ethers with organoboron compounds

The ruthenium-catalyzed reaction of aryl ethers having a carbonyl group at the ortho position to the ether group with organoboronates (R-B(OCH2CMe2CH2O), R = aryl, alkenyl, and alkyl) resulted in site-selective C-C bond formation. Among the transition metal complexes screened, the RuH2(CO)(PPh3)3 complex showed the highest activity. Several aromatic ketones having methoxy or phenoxy groups at the ortho position can also be used in this coupling reaction. A variety of arylboronates containing electron-donating (NMe2, OMe, methyl, and vinyl) and -withdrawing (F and CF3) groups reacted with methoxy ketones to give the corresponding coupling products in high yields.     

Ruthenium‐catalyzed carbonylative cycloaddition reactions involving carbonyl and imino groups as assembling units

This paper describes carbonylative cycloaddition reactions catalyzed by Ru₃(CO)₁₂. Ru₃(CO)₁₂ was found to catalyze an intramolecular Pauson–Khand‐type reaction. Carbonylative cycloaddition reactions involving a carbonyl group in aldehydes, ketones, and esters as a two‐atom assembling unit were also achieved in the presence of Ru₃(CO)₁₂ as the catalyst. The reaction of 5‐hexyn‐1‐al and 6‐heptyn‐1‐al derivatives with CO in the presence of Ru₃(CO)₁₂ resulted in cyclocarbonylation from which bicyclic α, β‐unsaturated lactones were obtained. Intermolecular [2 + 2 + 1] carbonylative cycloaddition of alkenes, ketones, and CO was also catalyzed by Ru₃(CO)₁₂ as the catalyst to give saturated γ‐lactone derivatives. Simple ketones were not applicable, but ketones having a C?O or C?N group at the α‐position served as a good substrate. These reactions could be extended to carbonylative cycloaddition of the corresponding imines leading to γ‐butyrolactam derivatives. The [4 + 1] carbonylative addition of α,β‐unsaturated imines leading to unsaturated γ‐lactams was achieved with Ru₃(CO)₁₂. © 2008 The Japan Chemical Journal Forum and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Chem Rec 8: 201–212; 2008: Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ) DOI 10.1002/tcr.20149     

Large-Scale Production of Phospholipase D from Streptomyces racemochromogenes and Its Application to Soybean Lecithin Modification

Phospholipase D (PLD) catalyzes transphosphatidylation, causing inter-conversion of the polar head group of phospholipids and phospholipid hydrolysis. Previously, we cloned PLD103, a PLD with high transphosphatidylation activity, from Streptomyces racemochromogenes strain 10-3. Here, we report the construction of an expression system for the PLD103 gene using Streptomyces lividans as the host bacterium to achieve large-scale production. The phosphatidylcholine (PC) hydrolysis activity of S. lividans transformed with the expression plasmid containing the PLD103 gene was approximately 90-fold higher than that of the original strain. The recombinant PLD103 (rPLD103) found in the supernatant of the transformant culture medium was close to homogeneous. The rPLD103 was indistinguishable from the native enzyme in molecular mass and enzymatic properties. Additionally, rPLD103 had high transphosphatidylation activity on PC as a substrate in a simple aqueous one-phase reaction system and was able to modify the phospholipid content of soybean lecithin. Consequently, the expression system produces a stable supply of PLD, which can then be used in the production of phosphatidyl derivatives from lecithin.     

Palladium-catalyzed direct ortho-alkynylation of aromatic carboxylic acid derivatives

The palladium-catalyzed direct alkynylation of C-H bonds in aromatic carboxylic acid derivatives is described. The use of 8-aminoquinoline as a directing group facilitates the alkynylation of an electronically diverse range of C(sp(2))-H bonds.     

Analytical solutions of peristatic and peridynamic problems for a 1D infinite rod

Peridynamics is a nonlocal theory of continuum mechanics, which was developed by Silling (2000). Since then peridynamics has been applied to a variety of solid mechanics problems ranging from fracture, damage, failure to wave propagation, buckling, and detonation physics. Since the governing equation of peridynamics is an integro-differential equation, most of the treatment in the literature is often numerical. However, the analytical treatment is very important for the development of the peridynamic theory, which is continually developing at the present time. In this paper, peristatic and peridynamic problems for a 1D infinite rod are analytically investigated. We have developed a method to obtain a valid analytical solution starting from a formal analytical solution, which may be divergent. The primary contribution of the present paper is a systematic analytical treatment of peristatic and peridynamic problems for a 1D infinite rod. Additionally, dispersion curves and group velocities for the materials with three different micromoduli are also studied. It is found from the study that some peridynamic materials can have negative group velocities in certain regions of wavenumber. This indicates that peridynamics can be used for modeling certain types of dispersive media with anomalous dispersion such as the one discussed by Mobley (2007).     

Pyrimidine-directed metal-free C–H borylation of 2-pyrimidylanilines: a useful process for tetra-coordinated triarylborane synthesis

Convenient, easily handled, laboratory friendly, robust approaches to afford synthetically important organoboron compounds are currently of great interest to researchers. Among the various available strategies, a metal-free approach would be overwhelmingly accepted, since the target boron compounds can be prepared in a metal-free state. We herein present a detailed study of the metal-free directed ortho-C–H borylation of 2-pyrimidylaniline derivatives. The approach allowed us to synthesize various boronates, which are synthetically important compounds and various four-coordinated triarylborane derivatives, which could be useful in materials science as well as Lewis-acid catalysts. This metal-free directed C–H borylation reaction proceeds smoothly without any interference by external impurities, such as inorganic salts, reactive functionalities, heterocycles and even transition metal precursors, which further enhance its importance.

We present the metal-free ortho-C–H borylation of 2-pyrimidylanilines to afford synthetically important boronic esters and tetra-coordinated triarylboranes, which could be useful in materials science as well as Lewis-acid catalysts.     

Large deviation for stochastic line integrals as L p -currents

The large deviation principle for stochastic line integrals along Brownian paths on a compact Riemannian manifold is studied. We regard them as a random map on a Sobolev space of 1-forms. We show that the differentiability order of the Sobolev space can be chosen to be almost independent of the dimension of the underlying space by assigning higher integrability on 1-forms. The large deviation is formulated for the joint distribution of stochastic line integrals and the empirical distribution of a Brownian path. As the result, the rate function is given explicitly.