Probing the binding dynamics to sodium cholate aggregates using naphthalene derivatives as guests

The binding dynamics with bile salt aggregates for a series of naphthalene derivatives of different polarities was studied using fluorescence and laser flash photolysis. Fluorescence was employed to determine the nature of the binding site for each guest and the accessibility of the bound guest to quenchers. Laser flash photolysis was employed to study the mobility of the triplet states of the naphthalenes between the sodium cholate aggregates and the aqueous phase. Primary aggregates, which provide an environment protected from quenchers in the aqueous phase, bind 1- and 2-ethylnaphthalene as guests. The complexation dynamics with this type of aggregate is slow. 1- and 2-Naphthyl-1-ethanol, and 1- and 2-acetonaphthone bind to the secondary aggregates, which provide moderate protection from quenching and faster binding dynamics. The addition of salts lowered the cholate concentration at which primary aggregates were formed, but did not influence the formation of secondary aggregates.

Sequential dehydrochloride coupling of trichlorophosphine with 2,6-di-isopropylaniline: aminophosphine precursors to phosphetidines

Various stoichiometric combinations of PCl3 with DippNH2 (Dipp = 2,6-di-isopropylphenyl) have been examined using 31P NMR spectroscopy. The dehydrochloride coupling reaction is mediated by the moderate steric bulk of the Dipp substituent. Isolation procedures and characterization data are reported for the aminodichlorophosphine (1), the aminotetrachlorodiphosphine (4), and the dichlorophosphetidine (7). The observations offer new appreciation of dehydrochloride coupling products of halophosphines with primary amines.Key words: phosphorus, nitrogen, phosphazanes, phosphetidines, iminophosphine.

Effect of cyclodextrin complexation on the photochemistry of the lignin model α-guaiacoxyacetoveratrone

The photodecomposition of α-guaiacoxyacetoveratrone (GAV) in homogeneous solvents and in aqueous cyclodextrin solutions was studied by following the fluorescence emission of the photoproducts formed. The same qualitative behavior as previously observed for the photodegradation quantum yield measurements was reproduced in the fluorescence studies in dry or wet methanol and acetonitrile. The yield for GAV photodegradation in water is smaller than in the organic solvents. Complexation of GAV to β- and γ-cyclodextrins leads to an increase in the photodecomposition yield, especially during the early part of the photodecomposition kinetics. The transients formed in the photolysis of GAV in water are similar to those observed in acetonitrile, and the lifetime of triplet GAV in water is 130 ns. In addition, solvated electrons were formed when GAV was photolyzed in water. Complexation of GAV to cyclodextrins leads to an increase in the triplet yield compared to the radical yield and a moderate shortening of the triplet lifetime.Key words: α-guaiacoxyacetoveratrone, cyclodextrin, excited singlet states, excited triplet states, radicals.