Carbodiimides structure

The most practical methods for the preparation of carbodiimides are summarized in Scheme 1. The carbodiimide structure may be viewed as a dehydrated urea. 

The authors assumed that the molecules had a cyanamid structure. The correct carbodiimide structure was elucidated later. Solid carbodiimide modified phosphates are... 

The recent trend to abolish chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) blowing agents in rigid foam manufacture has prompted a new look on PMDI derived foams containing partial carbodiimide structure. Since carbon dioxide, generated in carbodiimide formation, can be used... 

Use in preparation of active esters for modification of amino groups (with carbodiimide) structural basis for reagents for amino group modification. 

As a fundamental class of compounds in the fields of synthetic solid-state (and also molecular) chemistry, cyanamides and carbodiimides have gained increasing attention within the past decade. Because of their 2-fold anionic charge, both cyanamide and carbodiimide structural units allow the realization of nitrogen-based pseudo-oxide chemistry since NCN is able to replace in a wide variety of novel materials. A number of alkali metal, alkaline-earth metal, main-group metal,divalent transition-metal, trivalent rare-earth metal,and also triva-lent transition-metal cyanamides/carbodiimides were obtained following different synthetic routes. The only carbodiimide containing divalent lanthanide ions was reported by DiSalvo et al., who found that EuNCN is isostructural to the already known a-SrNCN. ... 

Infrared Spectroscopy. Infrared spectra were recorded at room temperature using a Fourier transform Avatar 360 ESP spectrometer (Nicolet) in the range 4000—400 cm. To do so, the samples were dispersed in strictly anhydrous KBr and pressed into pellets (0 1.3 cm). The spectra were corrected for the presence of KBr. The obtained spectra showed the nonsym-metric stretch (Pas) 1988 cm and the deformation vibrations at 676 and 663 cm thereby corroborating the symmetric carbodiimide structural motif with two C=N double bonds between carbon and nitrogen. ... 

Carbodiimides, 81 Carbodiimidization, 226-227 Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy. See 13C NMR spectroscopy Carbon-carbon structure, 4 Carbonyl-containing polyester polyols,... 

The synthesis, structures, and reactivity of neutral and cationic mono- and bis(guanidinato)zirconium(rV) complexes have been studied in detail. Either salt-metathesis using preformed lithium guanidinates or carbodiimide insertion of zirconium amides can be employed. Typical examples for these two main synthetic routes are illustrated in Schemes 73 and 74. Various cr-alkyl complexes and cationic species derived from these precursors have been prepared and structurally characterized. 

Treatment of UCI4 with the lithium complex obtained from dicyclohexylcar-bodiimide followed by crystallization from pyridine afforded a dinuclear uranium(rV) oxalamidinate complex in the form of dark green crystals in 94% yield (Scheme 191). The same compound could also be obtained by first reducing UCI4 to LiUCli (or UQs+LiCl) followed by reductive dimerization of di(cyclo-hexyl)carbodiimide as shown in Scheme 191. The molecular structure of this first oxalamidinato complex of an actinide element is depicted in Figure 31. ° ... 

Reaction of Ph2PLi with Pr N = C = NPr in THF proceeds via insertion of the carbodiimide into the Li-P bond, affording the lithium phosphaguanidinate salt Li[Ph2PC(NPr )2] in 72% yield. The preparation and reactivity of this new ligand are summarized in Scheme 217. An X-ray crystal structure analysis of the product obtained after removal of the solvent from the reaction mixture revealed the presence of a mono-solvated, centrosymmetric dimer in the solid state (Figure... 

Out of three phases reported for Ca3N2 [12], to date only the cubic (a) nitride phase is confirmed, crystallizing in the anti-bixbyite type structure. In addition, the carbodiimide nitride Ca4(CN2)N2 [13] may hold for another unconfirmed calcium nitride phase, and Can(CN2)2N6 stands for the ill-defined CauNg [14]. Here we note again that carbon impurities may produce significant difficulties in reactions. 

We investigated the efficiency of NSC expansion on surfaces with EGF-His immobilized in the correct orientation. NSCs were obtained from neurosphere cultures prepared from fetal rat striatum harvested on embryonic day 16. NSCs were cultured for 5 days on EGF-His-immobilized substrates prepared with mixed SAMs of different COOH-thiol contents. Cells adhered and formed network structures at a density that increased with the COOH-thiol content of the surface. As a control, cells were seeded onto surfaces without immobilized EGF-His. This resulted in poor cell adhesion during the entire culture period. In addition, when EGF-His adsorbed to SAMs with 100% COOH-thiol or SAMs with NTA-derivatized COOH that lacked Ni2+ chelation, we observed poor initial cell adhesion, and the cells formed aggregates within 5 days. Interestingly, the substrate used to covalently immobilize EGF-His with the standard carbodiimide chemistry was not a suitable surface for cell adhesion and proliferation. The control experimental results contrasted markedly with results from EGF-His-chelated surfaces. 

Metz, D.H., and Brown, G.L. (1969) The investigation of nucleic acid secondary structure by means of chemical modification with a carbodiimide reagent. I. The reaction between N-cyclohexyl-N -b-(4-methylmorpholinium)ethyl carbodiimide and model nucleotides. Biochemistry 8, 2312-2328. 

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