Aromatic cores

The aromatic core or framework of many aromatic compounds is relatively resistant to alkylperoxy radicals and inert under the usual autoxidation conditions (2). Consequentiy, even somewhat exotic aromatic acids are resistant to further oxidation this makes it possible to consider alkylaromatic LPO as a selective means of producing fine chemicals (206). Such products may include multifimctional aromatic acids, acids with fused rings, acids with rings linked by carbon—carbon bonds, or through ether, carbonyl, or other linkages (279—287). The products may even be phenoUc if the phenoUc hydroxyl is first esterified (288,289). 

Discotic Phases. Molecules which are disk-shaped rather than elongated also form thermotropic Hquid crystal phases. Usually these molecules have aromatic cores and six lateral substituents, although the predominance of six lateral substituents is solely historical molecules with four lateral substituents also can form Hquid crystal phases. Although the flatness of these molecules creates a steric effect promoting alignment of the normal to the disks, the fact that disordered side chains are also necessary for the formation of these phases (as is often the case for Hquid crystallinity in elongated molecules) should not be ignored. 

A surpnsing feature of the reactions of hexafluoroacetone, trifluoropyruvates, and their acyl imines is the C-hydroxyalkylation or C-amidoalkylaOon of activated aromatic hydrocarbons or heterocycles even in the presence of unprotected ammo or hydroxyl functions directly attached to the aromatic core Normally, aromatic amines first react reversibly to give N-alkylated products that rearrange thermally to yield C-alkylated products. With aromatic heterocycles, the reaction usually takes place at the site of the maximum n electron density [55] (equaUon 5). 

The versatility of poly(phenylcne) chemistry can also be seen in that it constitutes a platform for the design of other conjugated polymers with aromatic building blocks. Thus, one can proceed from 1,4- to 1,3-, and 1,2-phenylene compounds, and the benzene block can also be replaced by other aromatic cores such as naphthalene or anthracene, helerocyclcs such as thiophene or pyridine as well as by their substituted or bridged derivatives. Conceptually, poly(pheny ene)s can also be regarded as the parent structure of a series of related polymers which arc obtained not by linking the phenylene units directly, but by incorporation of other conjugated, e.g. olefinic or acetylenic, moieties. 

Heme-dependent haloperoxidases generate HOX as reactive species from H2O2 and X, which represents an X+ equivalent capable of undergoing electrophilic addition at electron-rich centers [270,271]. Aprototype biocatalyst of this group is the chloroperoxidase from Caldariomyces Jumago [272]. In many natural systems, such enzymes are responsible for the halogenation of electron-rich aromatic cores. 

A common feature of many mesogenic molecules is the presence of polar substituents and aromatic cores [3]. The electrostatic interactions between such groups can be incorporated into a molecular potential with the addition of dipolar and quadrupolar terms, respectively. Rather than represent these permanent electrostatic interactions by using a model in which a charge distribution is scattered over the surface of the molecule, it is very common to use one (or more) point multipoles [2,29]. Thus for an electrostatic Gay-Berne model, the pair potential is given by the sum... 

Fig. 15. Tilt angles of the different molecular fragments as a function of temperature for polyphilic compound FsHnOCB aromatic core (circles), alkyl chain (crosses) and perfluoroalkyl chain (diamonds) (Ostrovskii et al. [45])...

For example, direct fluorinations with elemental fluorine are kept imder control in this way, at very low conversion and by entrapping the molecules in a molecular-sieve reactor. As with some other aromatic substitutions they can proceed by either radical or electrophilic paths, if not even more mechanisms. The products are dif ferent then this may involve position isomerism, arising from different substitution patterns, when the aromatic core already has a primary substituent further, there may be changed selectivity for imdefined addition and polymeric side products (Figure 1.31). It is justified to term this and other similar reactions new , as the reaction follows new elemental paths and creates new products or at least new... 

OS 32] ]R 16a] ]P 23]Toluene nitration rates determined in the capillary-flow reactor were generally higher than benzene nitration rates [31, 97]. This is not surprising, as it stems from the higher reactivity of toluene towards electrophilic substitution owing to its more electron-rich aromatic core. For instance, at a reaction temperature of 60 °C, rates of 6 and 2 min were found for toluene and benzene nitration, respectively. However, care has to be taken when quantitatively comparing these results, since experimental details and tube diameters vary to a certain extent or are not even listed completely. 

Under the same conditions, tricyclo[5.3.1.0]undecanes are accessible from 5-sub-stituted 2-cyclohexen-l-one as 2-370 with a shorter tether by one CH2-group. Recently, another Michael/Michael/aldol transformation was employed by Paulsen and coworkers to obtain access to the central aromatic core of compounds as 2-376 (Scheme 2.89) [206]. It is of value that such products are thought to act as cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitors, and the application of these drugs should prevent reduction of the HDL-cholesterol level and therefore reduce the risk of coronary heart diseases [207]. 

The highly reactive DTT 15a undergoes double electrophilic substitution with 1,2-ethanedisulfenyl chloride in the presence of AICI3 or FeCl3 in dichloromethane to give compound 114, a very interesting donor that combines the DTT 15a aromatic core with extensive sulfur substituents for the first time (Scheme 6) <2001SM(120)1061>. 

The effect of conversion on the structure of an asphaltene molecule has been reported to depend on the operating conditions and on the presence or not of a catalyst. The effect of thermal processing reaction of a vacuum residue resulted in the selective cracking of the aliphatic or naphthenic side chains of the molecule, leaving the highly condensed aromatic core structure almost intact (see Fig. 16) [116]. 

The covalent nature of the asphaltene molecules and the complex nature of the corresponding environment results in agglomeration. Based on the formulated structural models, asphaltenes are seen as an aromatic core which aggregates in concentrated solutions, > 1 %, comprising high-MW covalent molecules, which are surrounded by varying numbers of smaller ones held together by various intermolecular bonds [408], Such molecules are considered to be overlapped/stacked over each other in oil mainly due to... 

The aliphatic components of SOM, derived from various sources, tend to persist in soil (Almendros et al. 1998 Lichtfouse et al. 1998a Lichtfouse et al. 1998b Mosle et al. 1999 Poirier et al. 2000). The principal source of aliphatic materials in soil is plant cuticular materials, especially cutin, an insoluble polyester of cross-linked hydroxy-fatty acids and hydroxy epoxy-fatty acids (Kolattukudy 2001). Some plant cuticles also contain an acid and base hydrolysis-resistant biopolymer, comprised of aliphatic chains attached to aromatic cores known as cutan (Tegelaar et al. 1989 McKinney et al. 1996 Chefetz 2003 Sachleben et al. 2004). 

The conductance of the OPE nitro-16 (X = N02) was monitored by the STM-BJ method, as the nitro group was reduced to NO and NH2, and then protonated to NH3. The resulting data gave an inverse linear Hammett plot with the meta-cr substituent parameter, indicating that substituent electron release into the aromatic core increases conductance [63]. 

As can be expected, the high-temperature processing runs the risk of enhancing side and consecutive reactions. Decarboxylation of the main product was found and increases with temperature (see Fig. 7). This is illustrated at the example of the synthesis of 2,4,6-trihydroxy benzoic acid from phloroglucinol, as this molecule is even more sensitive to thermal destruction due to the enhanced electron richness of the aromatic core by presence of a third hydroxyl group (Hessel et al. 2007). 

Polar, water-soluble analogs of these molecules (23 and 24) have also been studied and have been shown to form helical columns in a variety of polar solvents such as methanol, butanol, acetonitrile, and water, by virtue of solvophobic interactions between the large aromatic cores.82,83 A stepwise association process is observed when alcohol solutions of 24 are cooled. The... 

Helical columns of bifunctional ureidotriazines have also been created in water.40 In this solvent the aromatic cores of compound 39 stack and create a hydrophobic environment that favors the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds. The chiral side chains can express their chirality within the columnar polymer because of the helicity generated by the backbone. In contrast, for monofunctional 68 water interferes with the hydrogen bonding and 68 does not stack to form a column. As a consequence the chiral side chain does not express its chirality in the aromatic system. For 39, the bifunctional nature allows for a high local concentration of stacking units. A comparison might be made here to the individual DNA bases that also do not dimerize and stack in water, unless they are connected to a polymer backbone. 

The peripheral selenodiazole rings of porphyrazine (169) can be opened upon treatment with H2S with the proposed formation of the octaaminoporphyrazine (184), which was not isolated and instead converted into the tetrakis(pyrazino)porphyrazine (185) (Scheme 34) (171). Other heterocycles have been fused on the periphery of porphyrazines, such as l,3-dithiol-2-thione in order to extend the aromatic core (172). Macrocyclization of 4,5-dicyano-l,3-dithiole-2-thione (186) under Linstead conditions in the presence of magnesium butoxide produced the symmetrically substituted tetrakis(l,3-dithiol-2-thiono)porphyrazine (187) (Scheme 35). Due to the low solubility of porphyrazine 181, a consequence of the planar aromatic molecular structure, a full characterization of this compound could not be accomplished. 

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