New method of reducing lactones and esters of aldonic acids to sugars

Summary A simple, general method of reducing esters and lactones of aldonic acids to sugars by the action of sodium amalgam, according to which the process is conducted in the presence of a strong cation exchange resin to maintain optimum pH, has been proposed.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya No. 11, pp. 2095–2096, November, 1964     

Mass-spectrometric study of permethyl compounds of group IVB elements

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Synthesis and three-dimensional structures of geometrical isomers of some 4-substitute d 1,2,5-trimethyl-4-acetoxy- and 1,2,5-trimethyl-4-benzoxypiperidines

Stereoisomers of the corresponding 4-substituted 1,2,5-trimethyl-4-acetoxy- and 1,2,5-trimethyl-4-benzoxypiperidines were obtained by acylation of the geometrical isomers of 1,2, 5-trimethyl-4-piperidol and its 4-ethynyl, 4-ethyl, and 4-phenyl-substituted derivatives. The preferred conformations of the investigated esters were elucidated by means of the PMR and IR spectra.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No.1, pp. 50–55, January, 1973.     

Reaction of halogen-contaiming Schiff bases with unsaturated ethers

Summary In the presence of BF₃ etherate, vinyl ethyl ether and 2-methyl-4,5-dihydrofuran react with halogen-containing Schiff bases to give the corresponding quinoline derivatives.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 365–367, February, 1965