63650-08-8Relevant articles and documents
Campestarenes: New building blocks with 5-fold symmetry
Nam, Seong,Ware, David C.,Brothers, Penelope J.
, p. 6460 - 6469 (2018/10/02)
Campestarene is a planar, shape-persistent macrocycle with 5-fold symmetry. A range of derivatives bearing peripheral functional groups suitable for generating supramolecular interactions has been designed and synthesised for potential applications in creating 2D quasicrystal molecular assemblies. The new campestarene derivatives bear ester, carboxylic acid, methoxy, bromo, 4-pyridyl, 4-cyanophenyl and 4-phenyl carboxylic acid groups, including further derivatives of the latter two bearing alkyl chains on the phenyl groups to improve solubility. The campestarene derivatives were prepared by reductive condensation of phenol precursors bearing nitro and formyl groups using Na2S2O4. The target functional groups were installed either by pre-cyclisation derivatisation or by synthesis of methoxy-substituted campestarene and subsequent derivatisation. The cyclisation reaction is tolerant of the functional groups introduced. The ten new campestarene derivatives were characterised by NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF MS, although the poor solubility of some examples precluded their detailed characterisation.
Microbial deracemization of α-substituted carboxylic acids: Substrate specificity and mechanistic investigation
Kato, Dai-Ichiro,Mitsuda, Satoshi,Ohta, Hiromichi
, p. 7234 - 7242 (2007/10/03)
A new enzymatic method for the preparation of optically active α-substituted carboxylic acids is reported. This technique is called deracemization reaction, which provides us with a route to obtain the enantiomerically pure compounds, theoretically in 100% yield starting from the racemic mixture. This means that the synthesis of a racemate is almost equal to the synthesis of the optically active compound, and this concept is entirely different from the commonly accepted one in the asymmetric synthesis. Using the growing cell system of Nocardia diaphanozonaria JCM3208, racemates of 2-aryl- and 2-aryloxypropanoic acid are deracemized smoothly and (R)-form-enriched products are recovered in high chemical yield (>50%). In addition, using optically active starting compounds and deuterated derivatives as well as inhibitors, we have disclosed the fact that a new type of enzyme takes part in this biotransformation, and that the reaction proceeds probably via the same mechanism as that in rat liver.
Process for producing 2-(4-hydroxyphenoxy) propionate derivatives
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, (2008/06/13)
A process for producing a 2-(4-hydroxyphenoxy) propionate derivative represented by the formula: STR1 where Alk is a C1 -C5 alkyl group, which comprises reacting a phenoxy propionate derivative represented by the formula: STR2 where Alk is as defined above, with a peroxide to obtain a formate derivative represented by the formula: STR3 where Alk is as defined above, and hydrolyzing the formate of the formula III.
