Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry. III. Solvation of Stable Carbonium and Ammonium Ions in Water. The Temperature Coefficient of the HR Acidity Scale

Studies of the Synthesis of Fused Isoxazoline/Isoquinolinones and Evaluation of the Antifungal Activity of Isoxazole-like Benzamide and Isoquinolinone Hybrids

Isoxazole derivatives (isoxazoles, isoxazolines, and isoxazolidines) are present in the structure of several natural products and/or pharmaceutically interesting compounds. In this work, a synthetic study for the preparation of fused isoxazoline/isoquinolinone hybrids is presented. The initial approach involving the sequential 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides to indenone (to obtain the isoxazoline ring) and a Beckmann rearrangement (to construct the isoquinolinone lactam system) was complicated by the formation of fragmentation products during the latter. Therefore, the desired hybrids were successfully reached by applying DDQ-mediated oxidation of the respective isoxazolidines. Based on the results, key observations were made regarding the mechanism of the Beckmann reaction. Moreover, selected isoxazole benzamides and fused isoxazoline/isoxazolidine isoquinolinones were in vitro evaluated against a series of fungi strains (including a 2D checkerboard assay with ketoconazole), revealing that some of these compounds exhibit promising antifungal activity.

Study on the mechanism of biochar affecting the effectiveness of phosphate solubilizing bacteria

Low phosphorus utilization and phosphorus fertilizer pollution are serious issues primarily affecting soil health. To investigate the effects of biochar on the growth, phosphorus solubilization, and metabolites of phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria (PSB), rice husk biochar (RH) and rice straw biochar (RS) were incubated with Bacillus megatherium (BM1) and Bacillus mucilaginosus (BM2), respectively. The highest phosphorus solubilization was observed in BM2 following the addition of RS. The dissolved amount of phosphorus was 244.99 mg/L, which was 43.86% higher than that of the control group. Hence, biochar can improve the phosphorus solubilization capacity of PSB by affecting the organic acid and polysaccharide contents, and phosphatase activity secreted by the PSB, as the porous structure and surface characteristics of biochar ensured the adsorption of PSB. This study can help improve the functional activity of PSB and provide basis for improving the utilization of soil phosphorus, which in turn, aid in the development of biochar-based microbial fertilizers.

Why Are Vinyl Cations Sluggish Electrophiles?

The kinetics of the reactions of the vinyl cations 2 [Ph₂C═C⁺-(4-MeO-C₆H₄)] and 3 [Me₂C═C⁺-(4-MeO-C₆H₄)] (generated by laser flash photolysis) with diverse nucleophiles (e.g., pyrroles, halide ions, and solvents containing variable amounts of water or alcohol) have been determined photometrically. It was found that the reactivity order of the nucleophiles toward these vinyl cations is the same as that toward diarylcarbenium ions (benzhydrylium ions). However, the reaction rates of vinyl cations are affected only half as much by variation of the nucleophiles as those of the benzhydrylium ions. For that reason, the relative reactivities of vinyl cations and benzhydrylium ions depend strongly on the nature of the nucleophiles. It is shown that vinyl cations 2 and 3 react, respectively, 227 and 14 times more slowly with trifluoroethanol than the parent benzhydrylium ion (Ph)₂CH⁺, even though in solvolysis reactions (80% aqueous ethanol at 25 °C) the vinyl bromides leading to 2 and 3 ionize much more slowly (half-lives 1.15 yrs and 33 days) than (Ph)₂CH-Br (half-life 23 s). The origin of this counterintuitive phenomenon was investigated by high-level MO calculations. We report that vinyl cations are not exceptionally high energy intermediates, and that high intrinsic barriers for the sp² ⇌ sp rehybridizations account for the general phenomenon that vinyl cations are formed slowly by solvolytic cleavage of vinyl derivatives, and are also consumed slowly by reactions with nucleophiles.

Synthesis, stability, and spectroscopic and electronic properties of three benzocyclohepta[alpha]azulenylium ions

Novel pi-systems, three benzocyclohepta[alpha]azulenylium ions, 7a-c, are synthesized, and their stability and properties have been characterized in terms of the position of the benzo-annulation and compared with those of the parent cyclohepta[alpha]azulenylium ion 4. Benzocyclohepta[6,7-alpha]azulenylium ion (7a) (p K R+ = 7.3, E red = -0.567 V vs Ag/Ag+) and benzocyclohepta[6,5-alpha]azulenylium ion (7b) (p K R+ = 5.1, E red = -0.482 V vs Ag/Ag+), which are annulated with benzene on the position having a high bond order of 4, are not appreciably destabilized compared with cyclohepta[alpha]azulenylium ion (4) (p K R+ = 7.3, E red = -0.458 V vs Ag/Ag+). On the other hand, benzocyclohepta[7,6-alpha]azulenylium ion (7c) (p K R+ = 1.6, Ered = -0.197 V vs Ag/Ag+) is considerably destabilized, probably due to enhanced contribution of the quinoid structure of the benzene ring, which is annulated on the position having a low bond order of the cyclohepta[alpha]azulenylium ion moiety. Furthermore, the cations 7a and 7b are more stable than 12,13-dihydrobenzocyclohepta[7,6-alpha]azulenylium ion (25) (p K R+ = 4.8, E red = -0.513 V vs Ag/Ag+), which is a dihydrogenated compound of 7a, while 7c is less stable than 25. These features are reflected in the considerable red shift of the longest absorption maximum of the electronic spectrum of 7c, as compared with those of 4, 7a, and 7b, and in the chemical shifts of the protons and their coupling constants of the (1)H NMR spectra. Furthermore, the (1)H NMR spectra and electronic spectra of 5H-benzocyclohepta[6,7-alpha]azulen-5-one (8a) and 7H-benzocyclohepta[6,5-alpha]azulen-7-one (8b) in acidic media have also been studied to clarify the spectral characteristics similar to those of 7a and 7b.

A comparative study of Zn(II) and Co(II) binding to glycyl-L-tyrosine, a pseudosubstrate for carboxypeptidase A

A comprehensive investigation of the interaction of Zn(II) and Co(II) with the dipeptide glycyl-L-tyrosine has been carried out. The carboxyl, amino, and tyrosyl pKa values, as well as the distribution of solution complexes, have been determined by analytical potentiometry. The amide pKa value was determined by relating the proton magnetic resonance (PMR) titration behavior of the tyrosyl alpha-hydrogen resonance to an H2-acidity function for concentrated solutions of aqueous base. Both metals behave in a qualitatively similar manner, yielding equivalent species as a function of pH. Both metals formed bis-peptide complexes, involving amino and peptide carbonyl coordination near pH = 8, with Zn(II) demonstrating a substantially higher affinity for the ligand. No evidence could be found for direct, metal-promoted phenolic dissociation, although the tyrosyl pKa value was sensitive to metal binding at other loci on the dipeptide molecule. At high pH, both systems ionized two additional protons. In the Co(II) system, these correspond to amide protons. However, it is not entirely clear whether the protons in the Zn(II) system originate from the peptide linkage or metal-bound water molecules.

Alkylation by secondary alcohols. I. The reaction of xanthydrol with someN1-monosubstituted sulfanilamides and related compounds

Sulfanilamides were found to undergo alkylation with xanthydrol, yielding either mono- or di-xanthenyl derivatives. The site of substitution, common to all sulfanilamides having a free p-amino group, was shown to be the N4-position in the sulfanilamide molecule. Three additional unique reactive sites were observed. Sulfanilamides carrying a thiazole, thiadiazole, or pyridazine substituent in the N1-position were also alkylated on the annular nitrogen atom of the heterocyclic ring, the reaction having occurred from the imido tautomeric form. Sulfisoxazole (IK), on the other hand, reacted from the amido form to give the N1,N4-dixanthenyl derivative. Sulfadimethoxine (Ih) was substituted at carbon, as well as at nitrogen, to yield N4-xanthenyl-N1-(2,6-dimethoxy-5-(9-xanthenyl)-4-pyrimidyl)sulfanilamide.Sulfanilamides possessing pKavalues of about 5.5 were found to be sufficiently acidic to catalyze their own reaction with xanthydrol, and no external catalyst was necessary. The exceptional ease of formation of the xanthylium ion was postulated to be associated with the resulting stability of this carbonium ion by virtue of its acquired aromatic character.

LINEAR FREE ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS CONCERNING EQUILIBRIA IN MODERATELY CONCENTRATED MINERAL ACIDS: A SIMPLE METHOD FOR ESTIMATING pK's OF WEAK BASES

Linear relationships exist between the logarithms of equilibrium quotients, [SH+]/[S][H+], of diverse bases as they vary with acid concentration in moderately concentrated mineral acids. For purposes of formulating these linear free energy relationships in standard form, the equilibrium quotient for protonation of a hypothetical aromatic primary amine of pKa zero has been chosen as horizontal coordinate; this is given by (−H0 − log [H+]). Log ([SH+]/[S]) + H0 is plotted against (H0 + log [H+]). The slope, [Formula: see text] of the linear plot is a parameter which characterizes the response of the equilibrium quotient to changing acid concentration. The intercept represents the thermodynamic pKa of the base. This constitutes a general method for estimating the pKa of any base which undergoes protonation in moderately concentrated mineral acid, with reference to the single acidity function, H0. For bases of diverse type, pK's estimated by this method are in good agreement with those estimated by the acidity function method. Use of the new correlation procedure as a check on the validity of several acidity functions and its application to equilibria not involving proton gain or loss are also discussed.