Aromatic Substituents (aromatic + substituent)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Enantioselective Synthesis of Non-Natural Aromatic ,-Amino Acids

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 2 2004
Andreas Krebs
Abstract We present two complementary methods for the stereoselective synthesis of non-natural ,-amino acids with aromatic or heteroaromatic side chains. One approach is based on the chemical transformation of methionine, whereas the other applies the stereoselective Myers alkylation of glycine. The resulting product types differ in the linker length between glycine and the aromatic substituent. Since methionine and pseudoephedrine are available in both absolute configurations, R - or S -configured enantiopure amino acids with either C2 or C3 linkers can be obtained on gram scales. In each case the key step of the synthesis is hydroboration of the unsaturated building blocks 9 and 17, followed by palladium-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling with aryl halides. Attention must in certain cases be paid to the stereochemical integrity when basic Suzuki conditions are applied. Our initial difficulties are reported as well as the final "racemization-proof" procedures. The protecting groups chosen for the ,-amino acids should be compatible with solid-phase peptide synthesis. This was confirmed by the successful synthesis of a series of tripeptides. [source]


Discrimination of enantiomers of ,-amino acids by chiral derivatizing reagents from trans -1,2-diaminocyclohexane,

CHIRALITY, Issue 3-4 2008
Magdalena Kaik
Abstract New chiral derivatizing reagents (CDAs) derived from trans -1,2-diaminocyclohexane, having an electron-deficient aromatic substituent (either an aromatic imide or 3,5-dinitrobenzamide) and rigid structure (either an amide or a urea linker), are reported. Significant shift differences of diastereotopic protons in the 1H NMR signals are observed for enantiomers of suitably protected ,-amino acids, linked to CDA by a covalent bond. A simple, general model rationalizing the observed enantiomer discrimination and based on semiempirical conformational search is presented. Chirality, 2008. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Generation and Reactions of Overcrowded Diaryldilithiostannane and Diaryldipotassiostannane

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 21 2005
Tomoyuki Tajima
Abstract Exhaustive reduction of an overcrowded dibromostannane bearing two bulky aromatic substituents, Tbt(Dip)SnBr2 {Tbt = 2,4,6-tris[bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl]phenyl; Dip = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl}, with an excess amount of lithium naphthalenide in THF at ,78 °C gave the corresponding dilithiostannane, Tbt(Dip)SnLi2, the generation of which was confirmed by trapping experiments with some electrophiles together with 119Sn and 7Li NMR spectroscopy. The diaryldilithiostannane was found to be stable in solution under an inert gas below ,25 °C. The potassium analogue, Tbt(Dip)SnK2, was also generated by the reduction of the dibromostannane in THF at ,78 °C by the use of KC8 as a reductant. The reactions of dilithiostannane and dipotassiostannane obtained with o -dibromobenzene did not give a stannacyclopropabenzene derivative but an unexpected cyclization product, a stannacyclobutabenzene derivative, in contrast to thereactions of the corresponding dilithiosilane and dilithiogermane, Tbt(Dip)ELi2 (E = Si, Ge), with o -dibromobenzene leading to the formation of the corresponding metallacyclopropabenzenes as stable crystalline compounds. A preliminary result of the synthesis of a tin,tellurium double-bond compound from the dilithiostannane is also presented. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2005) [source]


Addition, elimination, exchange, and epimerization in nitro sulfones

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2007
Charles A. Kingsbury
Abstract Three reactions were studied in the diastereomers of 1-(benzenesulfonyl)-2-nitro-1-phenylpropane (1A and 1B) and briefly in related compounds: elimination of the benzenesulfonyl group, epimerization of one diastereomer to the other, and deuterium/hydrogen exchange at the methine group next to nitro in starting material. The two diastereomers showed quite different reactivity. The high melting diasteromer showed rapid elimination and some exchange. The low melting diastereomer (at approximately a half-life) showed extensive epimerization, and elimination to the alkene, but little exchange. There is little effect of aromatic substituents on reaction course. The situation is complicated by re-addition of benzenesulfinate to the alkene. The addition reaction was similar to elimination in agreement with the Principle of Microscopic Reversibility expectations. An electron transfer mechanism for addition is calculated to be comparatively favorable. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Bisubstrate Inhibitors of the Enzyme Catechol O -Methyltransferase (COMT): Efficient Inhibition Despite the Lack of a Nitro Group

CHEMBIOCHEM, Issue 9 2004
Ralph Paulini
A new generation of bisubstrate inhibitors for the S -adenosylmethionine- and magnesium ion-dependent enzyme catechol O -methyltransferase (COMT), feature binding affinities (IC50 values) in the double-digit nanomolar range despite the lack of a nitro group on the catechol moiety. Inhibitor potency does not directly correlate with the pKa value of the catechol HO groups and is strongly enhanced by hydrophobic aromatic substituents attached in a biaryl-type fashion to position 5 of the catechol ring. [source]


Three-Component Entanglements Consisting of Three Crescent-Shaped Bidentate Ligands Coordinated to an Octahedral Metal Centre

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 31 2007
Fabien Durola
Abstract 3,3,-Biisoquinoline ligands (biiq) L, bearing aromatic substituents on their 8 and 8, positions, have been used to generate interwoven systems consisting of three crescent-shaped ligands disposed around an octahedral metal centre. Mono-ligand complexes of the type [ReL(CO)3py]+ (py: pyridine) have also been prepared, leading to sterically non-hindering complexes in spite of the endotopic nature of the chelate used. The three-component entanglements have been prepared by using either FeII or RuII as gathering metal centre. The synthetic procedure is simple and efficient, affording fully characterised complexes as their PF6 or SbCl6 salts. X-ray crystallography clearly shows that the crescent-shaped ligands do not repel each other in the tris-chelate complexes. In an analogous way, the ReI complexes show open structures with no steric repulsion between the L ligand and the ancillary CO or py groups. The FeL3 or RuL3 compounds are very unusual in the sense that, contrary to all the other tris-bidentate chelate complexes made till now, the three organic components are tangled up, in a situation which will be very favourable to the formation of new non trivial topologies of the catenane type. [source]