Novel Hybrid Benzoazacrown Ligand as a Chelator for Copper and Lead Cations: What Difference Does Pyridine Make

A synthetic procedure for the synthesis of azacrown ethers with a combination of pendant arms has been developed and the synthesized ligand, characterized by various techniques, was studied. The prepared benzoazacrown ether with hybrid pendant arms and its complexes with copper and lead cations were studied in terms of biomedical applications. Similarly to a fully acetate analog, the new one binds both cations with close stability constants, despite the decrease in both constants. The calculated geometry of the complexes correlate with the data from X-ray absorption and NMR spectroscopy. Coordination of both cations differs due to the difference between the ionic radii. However, these chelation modes provide effective shielding of cations in both cases, that was shown by the stability of their complexes in the biologically relevant media towards transchelation and transmetallation.     

Unsymmetrical dyes derived from 7,8‐dihydrobenzo[c,d]furo[2,3‐f]indole

On the basis of the 7,8‐dihydrobenzo[c,d]furo[2,3‐f]indole nucleus, a number of unsymmetrical carbocyanines as well as styryl dyes have been synthesized and their absorption spectra have been measured. Starting from the deviations of long‐wavelength maxima, the value of electron‐donor ability D has been estimated for the heterocycle under study and a number of dye end groups have been ranked by their electron‐donor properties. Experimental inferences are supported by the quantum chemically calculated bond length alternations and energy levels for the dyes concerned. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Crystallographic Features of the α-Phase Structure in Hafnium and Hafnium–Titanium Alloys

Technical Physics - The structure of a hafnium crystal undergoing β → α (bcc → hcp) polymorphic transformation upon gradual cooling and the structure of Hf55Ti45 and Hf30Ti70...     

Tetranuclear Bismuth Complex Bi4(O)2(O2CC6H2F3-3,4,5,)8 · 2η6-C6H5Me: Synthesis and Structure

Tetranuclear organobismuth complex Bi₄(O)₂(O₂CC₆H₂F₃-3,4,5)₈ · 2⁶-₆₅Me with four bismuth atoms joined via the bridging carboxylate ligands and oxygen atoms was studied using X-ray diffraction analysis. The coordination sphere of either of the two terminal bismuth atoms contains the chelate carboxylate ligand and the toluene molecule. For the bridging tricoordinated oxygen atoms, the Bi–O distances are 2.083(2), 2.119(2), and 2.276(2) Å. The average distance between the bismuth atom and the center of toluene molecule is equal to 3.131 Å.     

Substituted 1-(isoxazol-3-yl)methyl-1H-1,2,3-triazoles: Synthesis,palladium(II) complexes,and high-turnover catalysis in aqueous media

New substituted 3-((1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)methyl)-5-arylisoxazoles (aryl?=?Ph, p-Tol) and 2-(5-phenylisoxazol-3-yl)-5-(2-(1-((5-(p-tolyl)isoxazol-3-yl)methyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)ethyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole were synthesized by means of click-chemistry procedures. The obtained compounds were used as ligands in preparation of palladium(II) complexes, and the latter proved to be high-turnover-number catalysts for CC cross-coupling reactions under Green Chemistry conditions. One of the ligands was structurally characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, and the structure of complexes was determined by ¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁵N NMR spectroscopy and quantum-chemical modeling.     

Synthesis and structure of bis(tetraphenylantimony) malonate

Russian Chemical Bulletin - Bis(tetraphenylantimony) malonate was synthesized by the reaction of tetraphenylantimony bromide with silver malonate (the molar ratio was 2:1) in toluene. According to...     

Sojourn time asymptotics in a parking lot network

For a two-class two-node bandwidth sharing network called parking lot network we investigate the tail behavior of the queue length and sojourn time under light-tailed assumptions. These results extend previous results in the literature obtained for a single-node network. Explicit conditions are given that indicate whether congestion at the second node influences the large deviations behavior or not. To overcome the complexities that arise when moving away from the single node case, we rely on recent results on overloaded bandwidth sharing networks obtained by Borst et al. (2009), and a comparison with the modified proportional fairness discipline, as introduced by Massoulié (Ann Appl Probab 17: 809–839, 2007). Specifically, our results include upper bounds for the distribution of the number of flows in the network, finiteness of the moment generating function of the workload, and large-deviations asymptotics for the sojourn time assuming flow size distributions having a bounded hazard rate.     

Controlled synthesis of oligomeric poly(acrylic acid) and its behavior in aqueous solutions

The controlled synthesis of oligomeric poly(acrylic acid) via the pseudoliving radical reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization of acrylic acid in bulk is developed. It is shown that, at high concentrations of reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer agents, the polymerization of acrylic acid in bulk occurs via the pseudoliving mechanism, as evidenced by a linear increase in the numberaverage molecular mass of oligomers with conversion and a narrow molecular-mass distribution of the reaction products. The surfactant properties and behavior of the oligomers in aqueous solutions are studied.     

Bismuth compounds [Ph3BuP]+I?, [Ph3BuP] 2+ [Bi2I8 · 2Me2C=O]2?, and [Ph3BuP] 2+ [Bi2I8 · 2Me2S=O]2?: Syntheses and crystal structures

The complexes [Ph₃BuP]₂⁺[Bi₂I₈ · 2Me₂C=O]²⁻ (II) and [Ph₃BuP]₂⁺[Bi₂I₈ · 2Me₂S=O]²⁻ (III) are synthesized by the reactions of triphenyl(n-butyl)phosphonium iodide (I) with bismuth iodide in acetone and dimethyl sulfoxide. In the cations of complexes I–III, the P atoms have a distorted tetrahedral coordination (CPC angles 106.3(2)°–112.0(3)°). The butyl group in cation I is disordered over two positions. In the binuclear centrosymmetric anions of structures II and III, the octahedrally coordinated bismuth atoms are linked in pairs by two bridging (br) iodine atoms (Bi-I_br 3.1508(7) and 3.2824(8) ? in compound II, 3.1961(3) and 3.3108(3) ? in complex III), which are coplanar to four terminal (t) iodine atoms (Bi-I_t 2.9260(7) and 2.9953(6) ? in complex II, 2.9206(3) and 2.9786(3) ? in complex III). The two remaining positions at the bismuth atom are occupied by the iodine atom (Bi-I_t 2.8531(7) ? in complex II, 2.8984(3) ? in complex III) and O atom of the organic molecule (Bi-O 2.747(6) ? in complex II, 2.507(3) ? in complex III). Original Russian Text ? V.V. Sharutin, I.V. Egorova, N.N. Klepikov, E.A. Boyarkina, O.K. Sharutina, 2009, published in Koordinatsionnaya Khimiya, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 188–192.