Ineffective OH Pinning of the Flipping Dynamics of a Spherical Guest within a Tight‐Fitting Tube

A supramolecular/synthetic method has been devised to affix a sterically hindered substituent onto a fullerene guest encapsulated in a tubular host. A two‐wheeled complex of (C₅₉N)‐(C₅₉N) with a tubular host was oxidatively bisected to afford a C₅₉N⁺ cation captured in the tube. The C₅₉N⁺ cation in the tube was then trapped by ethanol or water, which led to an oxy substituent pinned on the guest. The guest motions within the tube were modulated by the pinned substituent, and up‐and‐down flipping motions were halted by an ethoxy substituent. A hydroxy substituent, however, was ineffective in halting the flipping motions, despite the tight‐fitting relationship between the tubular host and the spherical guest. Theoretical calculations of the dynamics revealed that the flipping motions were assisted by OH‐π hydrogen bonds between the guest and the carbon‐rich wall and that sliding motions of the OH group were also facilitated by deformations of the tube.     

Synthetic Approach Toward Antibiotic Tunicamycins - VII Synthesis of Tunicamine and Tunicaminyl Uracil Derivative

A higher carbon carbohydrate moiety of antibiotic tunica-mycins named tunicamine has been synthesized in a protected form. The key reaction step of the synthesis is a potassium fluoride catalyzed Henry reaction of a 5-nitroribose derivative and a dial do-galactosamine derivative. The tunicamine derivative has been converted to a tunicaminyl uracil derivative by condenation with bis(trimethylsilyl) uracil.     

Synthetic Studies on Sialoglycoconjugates. 4: Synthesis of 5-Acetamido-3,5-Dideoxy-d-Galacto-2-Octulosonic Acid Derivatives and Analogs

Abstract

5-Acetamido-3.5-dideoxy-D-galacto-2-octulosonic acid derivatives and the α-2-thioanalog (14) were synthesized. Methyl [2-(trimethylsilyl)ethyl 5-acetamido-3,5-dideoxy-α-D-galacto-2-octulopyranosid]onate (8), prepared from methyl [2-(trimethylsilyl)ethyl 5-acetamido-3,5-dideoxy-D-glycero-α-D-galacto-2-nonulopyranosid]onate (1) via 8,9-O-isopropylidenation, O-acetylation, O-deisopropylidenation, metaperiodate oxidation, and sodium borohydride reduction, was converted, by selective bromination, into the 8-bromo derivatives (9). Compound 12, derived from 8 via O-acetylation and boron trifluoride etherate treatment, was converted to the 2-chloro derivative (13), which underwent displacement with potassium thioacetate, to yield methyl 5-acetamido-4,7,8-tri-O-acetyl-2-S-acetyl-2-thio-α-D-galacto-2-octulopyranosonate (14).     

Studies on the Thioglycosides of N-Acetylneuraminic Acid. 6: Synthesis of Ganglioside GM4 Analogs1

Abstract

Two kinds of ganglioside GM₄ thioanalogs having different fatty acyl groups at the ceramide moiety, (2S, 3R, 4E)-1-O-[3-S-(5-acetamido-3,5-di-deoxy-D-glycero-α-D-galacto-2-nonulopyranosylonic acid)-3-thio-β-D-galacto-pyranosyl]-2-octadecanamido (or -tetracosanamido)-4-octadecene-1,3-diol (12, 13), have been synthesized. Condensation of the trichloroacetimidate 7, derived from 1,2,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-3-S-(methyl 5-acetamido-4,7,8,9-tetra-O-acetyl-3,5-dideoxy-D-glycero-α-D-galacto-2-nonulopyranosylonate)-3-thio-β-D-galactopyranose (6) by selective 1-O-deacetylation and subsequent trichloroacetimidation, with (2S, 3R, 4E)-2-azido-3-O-benzoyl-4-octadecene-1,3-diol (4), gave the coupling product (8), which was converted into the title compounds via selective reduction of the azide group, condensation with fatty acids, and removal of the protecting groups.     

Inelastic scattering of cosmic ray muons on iron nuclei and the virtual photon shadowing

Hadronic cascade showers originating from inelastic interactions of cosmic ray muons with iron nuclei have been observed in a calorimeter located between two magnetic spectrometers. The separation of those events from the electromagnetic showers has been successfully done in the ranges of the transferred energy v ≳ 50 GeV and its ratio to muon energy v/E ≳ 0,1, by utilizing the difference of their longitudinal cascade developments. The comparison of the obtained μ-Fe cross section with available μ-, e- and σ-proton data as well as μ-, e- and σ-nucleus data indicates that;

• 1 At v ˜ 100 GeV, the virtual photon cross section on iron nucleus is almost the same as the real photon one, at least Q² ≳ 0.1 GeV²/c², and is about 70% of the cross section on proton times the atomic mass number of iron, i.e. the shadowing effect is clearly seen.
• 2 Up to TeV region, this virtual photon cross section on iron does not increase significantly. contrary to the tendency of the real photon cross section on proton around 100 GeV. This suggests most likely that the shadowing still increases with energy at such high energies.