Linear and Cyclic Hybrids of Alternating Thiophene–Amino Acid Units: Synthesis and Effects of Chirality on Conformation and Molecular Packing

The dipeptide isostere 5‐aminothiophene carboxylic acid has been combined with L ‐phenylalanine moieties to provide linear and cyclic hybrid oligopeptides. A suitable protecting group strategy and appropriate coupling methods have been developed to guarantee a high degree of enantiopurity of the resulting amides. Cyclic tetraamides have been efficiently obtained by macrocyclization of the linear derivatives. In the case of racemized cyclization precursors, two diastereomeric macrocycles (S,S/R,R and meso) have been isolated. Their crystal structures show clear effects of the stereogenic centers on the ring conformations and molecular packing.     

3,4-Thienylene-ethynylene Oligomers

Several well-defined 3,4-thienylene-ethynylene oligomers with different chain lengths have been synthesized and characterized. X-Ray crystallographic analyses proved their unique, totally helical conformations.     

Crystallization Behavior of the System Poly(L-lactic Acid) and Pentaerythrityl Tetrabromide

Differential scanning calorimetry has been used to study the thermal crystallization of poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) and pentaerythrityl tetrabromide mixtures at different compositions. The melting temperature-composition phase diagram of the system reveals that PLLA forms a simple eutectic with pentaerythrityl tetrabromide, with a eutectic composition of 46% (w/w) of PLLA and a eutectic temperature of 422 K. Investigation of the microstructures obtained after removal of the diluent from the eutectic using scanning electron microscopy shows that the simultaneous crystallization of PLLA and the diluent proceeded in such a way that the diluent rods are the leading phases.     

利用正己烷制备负载型碳化钼催化剂及其加氢脱硫活性

 利用具有较长碳链的正己烷作为原料对氧化钼进行程序升温碳化制备碳化钼. X射线衍射、X射线光电子能谱表征和BET比表面积测定以及噻吩的加氢脱硫活性评价结果表明,正己烷作为碳化原料在600 ℃左右可对担载的氧化钼进行碳化,正己烷的使用不仅可以降低碳化所需的温度,还能在碳化过程中起到一定的改善碳化钼分散度的作用.     

Effect of the Structure of Nonuniform Conducting Polymer Films on Their Electrochemical Impedance Response

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is used to characterize thin p-doped polypyrrole (PPy) films in propylene carbonate (PC) solutions and poly(trifluorophenyl)thiophene (PTFPT), in solutions based on sulfolane (SF). It appears that the latter film is much less swelled compared to the former one. One consequence of this difference is that the PTFPT film shows a much higher bulk resistance compared to that for the PPy film. Another important consequence is that the swelling of the PTFPT film is essentially physically non-homogeneous. Two parallel, uncoupled paths, with different chemical diffusion coefficients, model the experimental results adequately. In order to quantify the impedance spectra for both polymer films, we use a model proposed by Rubinstein et al. explaining the difference in the diffusion coefficients of Ru(bpy)^3+/2+ ₃ within a thin Nafion film. The model can also predict the impedance spectra for composite powdery electrodes containing different particle sizes, such as composite cathodes and graphite anodes used in lithium batteries.     

Structure and photochromism of 2-(<Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-acyl-<Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-arylaminomethylene)benzo[<Emphasis Type="Italic">b</Emphasis>]thiophen-3(2<Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis>)-ones

It was shown by electron absorption spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis that steric strains in photochromic 2-(N-acyl-N-arylaminomethylene) benzo[b]thiophen-3(2H)-one molecules ortho-substituted in the N-phenyl ring increase the quantum yield of the N→O photoinduced rearrangement in accord with an increase in the steric constant of the ortho-substituent.__________Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2151–2155, October, 2004.     

Surface Modification of Porous Silica with Bi-thiophene Tripodal Ligand and Aplication to Adsorption of Toxic Metal Cations

The immobilization of a thiophene-based tripodal ligand, with a donor sulfur, on the surface of an epoxide group containing a silica gel phase for the synthesis of a newly functionalized material based on porous silica-bound bi-thiophene tripodal ligand (SGBT) is described. The modified silica surface was characterized by ¹³C NMR of a solid sample, elemental analysis, and infrared spectra. This new material was also studied and evaluated by determination of the surface area using the BET equation, the adsorption and desorption capability using the isotherm of nitrogen and BJH pore sizes, respectively. The target material exhibits good thermal stability as determined by thermogravimetry curves. The synthesized material was utilized in column and batch methods for adsorption of Hg²⁺, Cd²⁺, Pb²⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺, K⁺, Na⁺, and Li⁺, and the material exhibits an affinity only towards toxic heavy metals.     

TiO2-Al2O3载体的制备及Ni2P/TiO2-Al2O3催化剂上的同时加氢脱硫和加氢脱氮反应

 以溶胶-凝胶法制备的 TiO2-Al2O3 复合氧化物为载体, 采用浸渍法制备了 Ni2P/TiO2-Al2O3 催化剂, 并用 X 射线衍射、N2 吸附脱附、红外和 X 射线光电子能谱等技术对催化剂进行了表征, 考察了载体中 TiO2 含量、焙烧温度及其制备方法对 Ni2P/TiO2-Al2O3 催化剂上同时进行噻吩加氢脱硫和吡啶加氢脱氮反应的影响. 结果表明, 以 Ni/P 摩尔比为 1/2 的前驱体制备的催化剂表面仅出现 Ni2P 物相; 当载体中 TiO2 的含量为 80%, 焙烧温度为 550 oC 时, Ni2P/TiO2-Al2O3 催化剂上加氢脱硫和加氢脱氮的活性最高. 在 360 oC, 3.0 MPa, 氢/油体积比 500, 液时体积空速 2.0 h?1 的条件下, 噻吩和吡啶转化率分别为 61.3%和 64.4%.