1246739-14-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Size-Driven Inversion of Selectivity in Esterification Reactions: Secondary Beat Primary Alcohols
Mayr, Stefanie,Marin-Luna, Marta,Zipse, Hendrik
, p. 3456 - 3489 (2021/03/01)
Relative rates for the Lewis base-mediated acylation of secondary and primary alcohols carrying large aromatic side chains with anhydrides differing in size and electronic structure have been measured. While primary alcohols react faster than secondary ones in transformations with monosubstituted benzoic anhydride derivatives, relative reactivities are inverted in reactions with sterically biased 1-naphthyl anhydrides. Further analysis of reaction rates shows that increasing substrate size leads to an actual acceleration of the acylation process, the effect being larger for secondary as compared to primary alcohols. Computational results indicate that acylation rates are guided by noncovalent interactions (NCIs) between the catalyst ring system and the DED substituents in the alcohol and anhydride reactants. Thereby stronger NCIs are formed for secondary alcohols than for primary alcohols.
Design and chemical synthesis of root gravitropism inhibitors: Bridged analogues of ku-76 have more potent activity
Fujii, Yoshiharu,Iwata, Takayuki,Kano, Arihiro,Kodama, Kozue,Makigawa, Saki,Matsumoto, Kenji,Morita, Miyo Terao,Shindo, Mitsuru,Sugiyama, Hiromi,Wasano, Naoya
, (2020/09/09)
Previously, we found (2Z,4E)-5-phenylpenta-2,4-dienoic acid (ku-76) to be a selective inhibitor of root gravitropic bending of lettuce radicles at 5 μM, with no concomitant growth inhibition, and revealed the structure–activity relationship in this inhibitory activity. The conformation of ku-76 is flexible owing to the open-chain structure of pentan-2,4-dienoic acid with freely rotating single bonds, and the (2Z)-alkene moiety may be isomerized by external factors. To develop more potent inhibitors and obtain insight into the target biomolecules, various analogues of ku-76, fixed through conformation and/or configuration, were synthesized and evaluated. Stereochemical fixation was effective in improving the potency of gravitropic bending inhibition. Finally, we found highly potent conformational and/or configurational analogues (ku-257, ku-294 and ku-308), that did not inhibit root growth. The inhibition of root curvature by these analogues was comparable to that of naptalam.
Palladium-catalyzed intermolecular decarboxylative coupling of 2-phenylbenzoic acids with alkynes via C-H and C-C bond activation
Wang, Congyang,Rakshit, Souvik,Glorius, Frank
supporting information; experimental part, p. 14006 - 14008 (2010/12/24)
A novel protocol for palladium-catalyzed intermolecular formal [4 + 2] annulation of 2-phenylbenzoic acids with alkynes is described. Acridine is shown to be essential for the high reaction efficiency. Phenanthrene derivatives are formed in moderate to good yields without coupling (pseudo)halides or organometallic species.
