Synthesis of aza-, oxa-, and thiabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane heterocycles from a common synthetic intermediate

[reaction: see text] An efficient and stereospecific approach to the synthesis of structurally constrained aza-, oxa-, and thiabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane heterocycles has been achieved through application of the intramolecular cyclopropanation reaction of diazoacetates. The various constrained heterocycles (X = N, O, or S) are conveniently prepared from a common diol intermediate accessible from readily available cinnamyl alcohols. Application of the methodology to the synthesis of conformationally constrained oxazolidinone antibacterials is also discussed.     

35Cl NQR study of CCl3 reorientations in the carbonyl-containing derivatives of 3,3,3-trichloropropene

Temperature dependences of³⁵Cl NQR frequencies and spin-lattice relaxation times were measured for the CCl₃ groups of compounds CCl₃CH=CHR and CCl₃CH=CR₂ with R=COCH₃ and COOCH₃. The activation energies of CCl₃ reorientations reflect the significant contribution of intermolecular steric interactions to the value of the potential barrier hindering these reorientations. In the CCl₃CH=CHCOCH₃ crystal, the reorientations of the CCl₃ group are hindered more than those of the molecule as a whole. Perm State University. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 54–60, March–April, 1994. Translated by L. Smolina     

Apparent two-dimensional behavior of TiO2 nanotubes revealed by light absorption and luminescence

Optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) properties of colloidal TiO(2) nanotubes, produced by the alkali hydrothermal method, were studied at room temperature in the range 300-700 nm. Nanotubes having an internal diameter in the range 2.5-5 nm have very similar optical properties, in contrast to the expected behavior for quasi-1-D systems. This is explained by the complete thermal smearing of all 1-D effects, due to the large effective mass of charge carriers in TiO(2), resulting in an apparent 2-D behavior of TiO(2) nanotubes.     

Pyrroloindoles. 6. New synthesis of 1H, 5H-pyrrolo[2,3-f]indole and 3H,6H-pyrrolo[3,2-e]indole

Ethyl pyruvate 1-acetyl-5-indolinylhydrazone was obtained by diazotization of 1-acetyl-5-aminoindoline with subsequent reduction of the diazonium salt and condensation of the hydrazine with ethyl pyruvate. A mixture of hydrogenated derivatives of linear and angular pyrroloindoles is formed as a result of cyclization of the hydrazone in polyphosphoric acid esters. Subsequent hydrolysis, decarboxylation, and dehydrogenation lead to 1H,5H-pyrrolo[2,3-f]indole and 3H,6H-pyrrolo-[3,2-e]indole.See [1] for Communication 5.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 504–507, April, 1982.     

Reaction of β-aminopropionohydroxamic acid with aldehydes and ketones

β-Aminopropionohydroxamic acid reacts with aliphatic aldehydes or ketones to give 2-substituted 1-hydroxytetrahydropyrimidin-6-ones, while its reaction with aromatic carbonyl compounds leads to either the same products or Schiff's bases, which can exist in tautomeric equilibrium in solution. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 691–694, April, 1998.     

Deep neural network analysis of nanoparticle ordering to identify defects in layered carbon materials

Smoothness/defectiveness of the carbon material surface is a key issue for many applications, spanning from electronics to reinforced materials, adsorbents and catalysis. Several surface defects cannot be observed with conventional analytic techniques, thus requiring the development of a new imaging approach. Here, we evaluate a convenient method for mapping such “hidden” defects on the surface of carbon materials using 1–5 nm metal nanoparticles as markers. A direct relationship between the presence of defects and the ordering of nanoparticles was studied experimentally and modeled using quantum chemistry calculations and Monte Carlo simulations. An automated pipeline for analyzing microscopic images is described: the degree of smoothness of experimental images was determined by a classification neural network, and then the images were searched for specific types of defects using a segmentation neural network. An informative set of features was generated from both networks: high-dimensional embeddings of image patches and statics of defect distribution.

Defectiveness of carbon material surface is a key issue for many applications. Pd-nanoparticle SEM imaging was used to highlight “hidden” defects and analyzed by neural networks to solve order/disorder classification and defect segmentation tasks.     

Structural characteristics of chlorine-substituted diazadienes in the solid state from35NQR data

The quadrupole resonance spectra and the quadrupole spin-lattice relaxation times of the³⁵Cl nuclei are correlated with the molecular structures of the two chlorine-containing diazadienes CCl₃CCl=NCCl=NC₆H₅ and CCl₃CCl=NCCl=NCCl₂CCl₃. The monotropic polymorphism found in the case of the second crystal is discussed.Perm State University. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 84–87, March–April, 1993.