Superacid cyclization of 13E,17E- and 13E,17Z-bicyclogeranylfarnesols and their acetates — An effective structurally selective stereospecific route to scalarane sesterterpenoids

Institute of Chemistry, Moldavian SSR Academy of Sciences, Kishinev. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 759–760, September–October, 1988.     

Pheromones of coleoptera. Communication 6. Synthesis of R,Z-14-methyl-8-hexadecenal (cis-trogodermal)

Conclusions The simple synthesis of optically active R,Z-14-methyl-8-hexadecenal (cis-trogodermal), the principal components of the aggregation pheromone ofTrogoderma granarium, was accomplished. The synthesis was based on the use of R-1-bromo-4-methylhexane and Z-4-chloro-2-buten-1-ol as the sources of the chiral and olefin fragments.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 906–910, April, 1987.     

The light 1P-shell nuclei

The binding energies and other characteristics of the light 1P-shell nuclei (N, Z8) are calculated. We use the method denoted as modified oscillator shell model (MOSM), proposed by one of the authors (Nguyen tien Nguyen: Czech. J. Phys. B31 (1981) 16). We succeed in choosing the parameter set of the Skyrme-type force, which gives satisfactory and interesting results.On leave fromFaculty of Physics, Hanoi University, Vietnam.The authors would like to thank I. Wilhelm for the useful discussion.     

Aristoserratin,ein neues Indolalkaloid aus Aristotelia serrata W.R.B. OLIVER und A. peduncularis (LABILL.) HOOK. F. 178. Mitteilung über organische Naturstoffe

Aristoserratine, a New Indole Alkaloid from Aristotelia serrata W.R.B. OLIVER and from A. peduncularis (LABILL .) HOOK . F. The new indole alkaloid aristoserratine (2) has been isolated from Aristotelia. Its structure and absolute configuration were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data.     

Synthesis of 20-deoxoluteone

20-Deoxoluteone has been synthesized from sclareol. Sclareol was brominated with phosphorus tribromide to form a mixture of primary allyl bromides, from which, by the malonic synthesis, a mixture of bicyclogeranylgeranylacetic acids was obtained which was cyclized with fluorosulfonic acid to form a mixture of two diastereomeric -lactones. The predominating lactone was converted by successive reduction with lithium tetrahydroaluminate, oxidation with oxalyl chloride in dimethyl sulfoxide, reaction with methylmagnesium iodide, and oxidation by the chromium trioxide/pyridine complex into 20-deoxyluteone.Institute of Chemistry, Moldavian SSR Academy of Science, Kishinev. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 346–353, May–June, 1990.     

Emploi des thiocarbohydrazones en analyse organique fonctionelle

Résumé Le thiocarbohydrazide est un réactif d'accès facile précipitant quantitativement les aldéhydes et quelques cétones. Les points de fusion sont nets. Les précipités formés se prêtent à la gravimétrie. Nous avons étudié avec la thermobalance leur domaine de stabilité et fourni la température à ne pas dépasser pour le séchage à poids constant.

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Summary Thiocarbohydrazide is a readily available reagent which quantitatively precipitates aldehydes and some ketones. The melting points are sharp. The resulting precipitates are suitable for gravimetry. Their regions of stability have been investigated with the thermobalance and the temperatures which should not be exceeded in drying to a constant weight have been found.

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Zusammenfassung Thiocarbohydrazid ist ein leicht zugängliches Reagens zur quantitativen Fällung der Aldehyde und mancher Ketone. Die Schmelzpunkte der Niederschläge sind scharf. Diese eignen sich zur gravimetrischen Auswertung. Ihre Stabilität wurde mit Hilfe der Thermowaage untersucht und die Höchsttemperaturen für ihre Trocknung bis zur Gewichtskonstanz bestimmt.

     

Dye sensitized solar cells prepared by flames stabilized on a rotating surface

A previously developed flame synthesis method was applied to the preparation of mesoporous titania films for application in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The method combines the synthesis of narrowly sized, ultrafine metal oxide particles with controllable chemical and phase purity and the deposition of these particles into a uniform, porous thin film in a single step. The current work used a series of ethylene–oxygen–argon flames to produce DSSC anode films of wide ranging properties. The performance of the solar cells prepared with these anode films was studied at the fundamental level with respect to variations of the titania crystal phase purity and content resulting from changes primarily from flame stoichiometry changes. Based on the basic relationship established among flame synthesis condition-material property-cell performance, a highly efficient DSSC was designed, which shows photocurrent densities better than some of the best performing cells reported to date. Additional studies have focused on a demonstration of the suitability of the flame process in engineering TiO₂ films structurally and chemically with the potential of further improved DSSC efficiency.