New potential dendritic cores: Selective chemistry of dipentaerythritol

2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Al-Mughaid ◽  
T Bruce Grindley ◽  
Katherine N Robertson ◽  
T Stanley Cameron

Methods were developed to convert dipentaerythritol efficiently into di-O-benzylidene, di-O-cyclohexylidene, di-O-1-ethylpropylidene, and di-O-methylene diacetals. The known di-O-benzylidene acetal, considered to be a single isomer, was shown to be close to a statistical mixture of the cis,cis-, cis,trans-, and trans,trans-isomers. Structures were established by a combination of NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Reaction of the di-O-benzylidene acetals with benzyl chloride and potassium hydroxide surprisingly gave good to excellent yields of the monobenzyl ethers. An explanation for this observation was advanced. The dibenzyl derivatives of the di-O-benzylidene acetals were formed by reaction of their dianions with benzyl bromide in DMF. Selective reduction of the di-O-benzylidene acetals with triethylsilane and boron trifluoride etherate gave 2',6'-di-O-benzyldipentaerythritol. A crown ether was formed in modest yield (12%) by reaction of the dianion of the di-O-methylene acetal with α,α'-dibromo-m-xylene in DMF. Key words: dipentaerythritol, pentaerythritol, acetals, dendrimer, selective benzylation, crown ether.

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Kollenz ◽  
Ralf Smounig ◽  
Ferdinand Belaj ◽  
David Kvaskoff ◽  
Curt Wentrup

The structures of two derivatives of the bisdioxine diisocyanate 1, the bisurea 4 and the biscarbamate 5, are established by X-ray crystallography and DFT calculations. These compounds possess endo,endo structures, in the case of the bisurea 4 with two nearly parallel pendant chains. The X-ray structures are reproduced very well by DFT calculations. Similar endo,endo conformations are calculated for the bisamide crown ether derivatives 7, where two proximate and nearly parallel crown ether units endow the molecules with a claw-like molecular cleft or tweezer structure as evidenced by an enhanced ability to extract some alkali, alkaline earth and rare earth metal ions.


1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
PK Grant ◽  
GP Lynch ◽  
J Simpson ◽  
G Wong

The preparation of four epoxides (1)-(4) derived from manool [labda-8(17),14-dien-13-ol] and manoyl oxide (8,13-epoxylabdane) via diosphenols is reported. Lewis acid promoted intramolecular rearrangements of these were investigated. Reaction of epoxide (1) with boron trifluoride etherate resulted in the isolation of a novel dimer (44), the structure being elucidated by X-ray crystallography. However, epoxides (2)-(4) yielded monomeric rearrangement products.


1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.H. De Oliveira ◽  
G.E.A. Medeiros ◽  
C. Peppe ◽  
Martyn A. Brown ◽  
Dennis G. Tuck

The electrochemical oxidation of a sacrificial metal anode (M = Zn, Cd, Cu) in an acetonitrile solution of 2-hydroxy-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphthoquinone, lapachol, C15H14O3 (=HL) gives ML2. The results are in keeping with earlier work on direct electrochemical synthesis in related systems. Adducts with 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) and N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethanediamine (tmen) have also been prepared. The structure of the 2,2′-bipyridine adduct of Cu(lapacholate)2 has been established by X-ray crystallography. The parameters are triclinic, space group [Formula: see text], a = 12.748(59) Å, b = 13.859(49) Å, c = 11.770(59) Å, α = 108.30(4)°, β = 108.08(3)°, γ = 68.94(3)°, Z = 2, R = 0.059 for 2256 unique reflections. The copper atom is in a distorted CuN2O2O2′ environment. The mechanism of the formation of this Cu(lapacholate)2 is discussed. Keywords: electrochemical synthesis, lapachol, X-ray crystallography, copper(II) complex.


2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (10) ◽  
pp. 1294-1300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Vaughan ◽  
Shasta Lee Moser ◽  
Reid Tingley ◽  
M Brad Peori ◽  
Valerio Bertolasi

Reaction of a series of diazonium salts with a mixture of formaldehyde and 1,2-diamino-2-methylpropane affords the 3-({5,5-dimethyl-3-[2-aryl-1-diazenyl]-1-imidazolidinyl}methyl)-4,4-dimethyl-1-[2-aryl-1-diazenyl]imidazolidines (1a–1f) in excellent yield. The products have been characterized by IR and NMR spectroscopic analysis, elemental analysis, and X-ray crystallography. The X-ray crystal structure of the p-methoxycarbonyl derivative (1c) establishes without question the connectivity of these novel molecules, which can be described as linear bicyclic oligomers with two imidazolidinyl groups linked together by a one-carbon spacer. This is indeed a rare molecular building block. The molecular structure is corroborated by 1H and 13C NMR data, which correlates with the previously published data of compounds of types 5 and 6 derived from 1,3-propanediamine. The triazene moieties in the crystal of 1c display significant π conjugation, which gives the N—N bond a significant degree of double-bond character. This in turn causes restricted rotation around the N—N bond, which leads to considerable broadening of signals in both the 1H and 13C NMR spectra. The molecular ion of the p-cyanophenyl derivative (1b) was observed using electrospray mass spectrometry (ES + Na). The mechanism of formation of molecules of type 1 is proposed to involve diazonium ion trapping of the previously unreported bisimidazolidinyl methane (13).Key words: triazene, bistriazene, imidazolidine, synthesis, X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy.


Author(s):  
Marie-Rose Van Calsteren ◽  
Ricardo Reyes-Chilpa ◽  
Chistopher K Jankowski ◽  
Fleur Gagnon ◽  
Simón Hernández-Ortega ◽  
...  

The tropical tree Calophyllum brasiliense (Clusiaceae) grows in the rain forests from Brazil to Mexico. Its leaves, as well as those of other Calophyllum species, are rich sources of chromanone acids, such as apetalic acid, isoapetalic acid, and their derivatives. Apetalic acid has shown significant antimycobacterial activity. The biological activity of apetalic acid has been related to the configuration of three asymmetric centers and the stereochemistry of the molecule; however, the C-19 configuration in the acidic side chain has not been fully resolved. For this reason, the unequivocal determination of the absolute configuration by means of X-ray crystallography in a sample of unique homogeneous apetalic acid stereoisomer was the most important point to start this study. We prepared some chiral amides using the carboxyl group. We determined the C-19 stereochemistry of apetalic acid, and its specific chiral derivatives, using NMR, X-ray diffraction methods, and molecular mechanics. Finally, we observed that steric hindrance in the side chain of apetalic acid leads to restriction of rotation around the pivotal link C-10 and C-19 establishing chiral centers at C2(R), C3(S), and C19(R). We were able to separate derivatives of these two high-rotatory-barrier conformers of apetalic acid by forming diastereoisomeric amides with phenylglycine methyl ester having a chiral center at C-2’. Our results allowed the conclusion of the existence of atropisomerism in the apetalic acid molecule.


2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan D. Goddard-Borger ◽  
Brian W. Skelton ◽  
Robert V. Stick ◽  
Allan H. White

The use of 1H NMR spectroscopy, in tandem with X-ray crystallography, has cast light on the conformation of the 1,6-disulfide-bridged derivatives of d-gluco-, d-manno-, d-allo-, d-galacto-, and d-talo-pyranose. A similar investigation was performed on the thiosulfinate derived from the d-gluco disulfide. Single-crystal X-ray structure determinations are reported for (1S,5S,6S,7S,8R)-6,7,8-tribenzoyloxy-9-oxa-2,3-dithiabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane, (1S,5S,6S,7R,8R)-6,7,8-tribenzoyloxy-9-oxa-2,3-dithiabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane, and (1S,2S,5S,6S,7S,8R)-6,7,8-triacetoxy-9-oxa-2,3-dithiabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane 2-oxide.


CrystEngComm ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1539-1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fellowes ◽  
Jonathan M. White

A number of derivatives of benzisoselenazolinones, including the drug ebselen, have been synthesized, and their interactions with various nitrogen bases characterized through X-ray crystallography.


2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (12) ◽  
pp. 1866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Harris ◽  
Jonathan M. White

Eight ester and ether derivatives of propargyl alcohol with varying electron demand were structurally characterised using low temperature X-ray crystallography, these were combined with seven derivatives obtained from the Cambridge Structural Database. Variable oxygen probe analysis of these derivatives provided evidence that the ethynyl substituent is a relatively weak π-electron donor, and is a slightly less effective donor than the C–C bond of an ethyl substituent.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 2179-2188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yury A Sayapin ◽  
Inna O Tupaeva ◽  
Alexandra A Kolodina ◽  
Eugeny A Gusakov ◽  
Vitaly N Komissarov ◽  
...  

A series of derivatives of 2-hetaryl-1,3-tropolone (β-tropolone) was prepared by the acid-catalyzed reaction of 2-methylbenzoxazoles, 2-methylbenzothiazoles and 2,3,3-trimethylindoline with 3,4,5,6-tetrachloro-1,2-benzoquinone. The molecular structures of the three representative compounds were determined by X-ray crystallography. In crystal and (as shown by the DFT PBE0/6-311+G** calculations) in solution, 2-hetaryl-4,5,6,7-tetrachloro- and 2-hetaryl-5,6,7-trichloro-1,3-tropolones exist in the NH-tautomeric form with a strong resonance-assisted intramolecular N–H···O hydrogen bond. The mechanism of the formation of 1,3-tropolones in the reaction of methylene-active five-membered heterocycles with o-chloranil in acetic acid solution has been studied using density functional theory (DFT) methods. The reaction of 2-(2-benzoxa(thia)zolyl)-5,6,7-trichloro(4,5,6,7-tetrachloro)-1,3-tropolones with alcohols leads to the contraction of the seven-membered tropone ring with the formation of 2-(2-benzoxa(thia)zolyl)-6-alkoxycarbonylphenols. The molecular structure of 2-(2-ethoxycarbonyl-6-hydroxy-3,4,5-trichlorophenyl)benzoxazole has been determined by X-ray diffraction. 2-(2-Benzoxa(thia)zolyl)-6-alkoxycarbonylphenols display intense green fluorescence with anomalous Stokes shifts caused by the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) effects.


1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 1310-1324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei V. Ivanov ◽  
Svetlana M. Ivanova ◽  
Susie M. Miller ◽  
Oren P. Anderson ◽  
Nikolai T. Kuznetsov ◽  
...  

The treatment of salts of the B10H102- anion with the commercially available N-fluoro reagent 1-chloromethyl-4-fluoro-1,4-diazoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane bis(tetrafluoroborate) (F-TEDA) resulted in the formation of fluorinated derivatives of this ten-vertex borane dianion. The effects of changing the solvent, temperature, and reagent stoichiometry were studied. The derivatives 1-B10H9F2-, 2-B10H9F2-, 1,2-B10H8F22-, 1,6-B10H8F22-, 1,10-B10H8F22-, and 1,2,10-B10H7F32- were examined by a combination of 11B and 19F NMR spectroscopy and by IR spectroscopy. The salt [Ph4P]2[1,10-B10H8F2] . 3 CH2Cl2 was structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography: C51H48B10Cl6F2P2, monoclinic, C2/c, a = 13.8134(9), b = 19.141(1), c = 21.136(1) Å, β = 91.546(1)°, Z = 4, T = -100 °C, R = 0.077.


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