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Glycerol conversion to high-value chemicals: The implication of unnatural α-amino acid syntheses using natural resources
Park, Yun Ji,Yang, Jung Woon
supporting information, p. 2615 - 2620 (2019/06/03)
Glycerol derivatives are an important class of compounds, which have great applications as basic structural building blocks in organic synthesis. O-Benzylglycerol was oxidised to produce a high-value compound in high yield using a NaOtBu-O2 system. Furthermore, the synthetic utility of the resulting product was demonstrated by its transformation into unnatural α-amino acids, thus showing the valorisation of glycerol biomass.
Binding of tetramethylammonium to polyether side-chained aromatic hosts. Evaluation of the binding contribution from ether oxygen donors
Bartoli, Sandra,De Nicola, Gina,Roelens, Stefano
, p. 8149 - 8156 (2007/10/03)
A set of macrocyclic and open-chain aromatic ligands endowed with polyether side chains has been prepared to assess the contribution of ether oxygen donors to the binding of tetramethylammonium (TMA), a cation believed incapable of interacting with oxygen donors. The open-chain hosts consisted of an aromatic binding site and side chains possessing a variable number of ether oxygen donors; the macrocyclic ligands were based on the structure of a previously investigated host, the dimeric cyclophane 1,4-xylylene-1,4-phenylene diacetate (DXPDA), implemented with polyether-type side chains in the backbone. Association to tetramethylammonium picrate (TMAP) was measured in CDCl 3 at T = 296 K by 1H NMR titrations. Results confirm that the main contribution to the binding of TMA comes from the cation - π interaction established with the aromatic binding sites, but they unequivocally show that polyether chains participate with cooperative contributions, although of markedly smaller entity. Water is also bound, but the two guests interact with aromatic rings and oxygen donors in an essentially noncompetitive way. An improved procedure for the preparation of cyclophanic tetraester derivatives has been developed that conveniently recycles the oligomeric ester byproducts formed in the one-pot cyclization reaction. An alternative entry to benzylic diketones has also been provided that makes use of a low-order cyanocuprate reagent to prepare in fair yields a class of compounds otherwise uneasily accessible.