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Crystallization-based resolution of 1,4-benzodioxane-2-carboxylic acid enantiomers via diastereomeric 1-phenylethylamides
No full textUnlike the diastereomeric 1-phenylethylammonium salts, the diastereomeric N-1-phenylethylamides of (S)- and (R)-1,4-benzodioxane-2-carboxylic acid show significant differences in fusibility and solubility so as to be efficiently resolved by precipitation of the less soluble diastereomer (>98% de), while chromatographic purification of the unprecipitated fraction affords the more soluble one (>99% de). Overall, 95% of the former and 80% of the latter are recovered. The hydrolysis of the two resolved amides provides the two acid enantiomers and the resolving amine in quantitative yield and with unchanged stereoisomeric purity
One-step preparation of enantiopure L- or D-amino acid benzyl esters avoiding the use of banned solvents
Get PDFThe enantiomers of amino acid benzyl esters are very important synthetic intermediates. Many of them are currently prepared by treatment with benzyl alcohol and p-toluenesulfonic acid in refluxing benzene or carbon tetrachloride, to azeotropically remove water, and then precipitated as tosylate salt by adding diethyl ether. Here, we report a very efficient preparation of eight l- or d-amino acid benzyl esters (Ala, Phe, Tyr, Phg, Val, Leu, Lys, Ser), in which these highly hazardous solvents are dismissed using cyclohexane as a water azeotroping solvent and ethyl acetate to precipitate the tosylate salt. With some work-up modifications and lower yield, the procedure can be applied also to methionine. Chiral HPLC analysis shows that all the benzyl esters, including the highly racemizable ones such as those of phenylglycine, tyrosine and methionine, are formed enantiomerically pure under these new reaction conditions thus validating the solvents replacement. Contrariwise, toluene cannot be used in place of benzene or carbon tetrachloride because leading to partially or totally racemized amino acid benzyl esters depending on the polar effect of the amino acid α-side chain as expressed by Taft’s substituent constant (σ*)
Preparation and unequivocal identification of the regioisomers of nitrocatechol monobenzyl ether
Get PDFThe four positional isomers of nitrocatechol monobenzyl ether were prepared as intermediates to nitrobenzodioxanes directly from 2-benzyloxyphenol or, through two-four steps, from catechol. These preparations addressed the issue of the certain identification of the nitration products prescinding from chemical correlation to the synthetic precursors because the positional isomers are very similar for some properties and analytical data available from the literature are largely incomplete and not conclusive. The here provided NMR, DSC, and acidity data unequivocally distinguish each nitrocatechol monobenzyl ether from its regioisomers
Phase Diagrams to Evaluate the Opportunity for Enantiomeric Enrichment of Some Nonracemic Mixtures of Amino Acid Benzyl Esters by Crystallization as p-Toluenesulfonate Salts
No full textA number of amino acids undergo moderate-to-high racemization when converted to benzyl ester under inadequate conditions. As they are usually recovered and purified at the end of the esterification by precipitating/crystallizing the p-toluenesulfonate salt, it is of most importance to be aware that such isolation procedures can improve but also lessen the enatiomeric excess of the product. To predict the chance of enantioenrichment by crystallization, it is necessary to define whether the enantiomers of these ester salts form conglomerates or racemic compounds in the solid state and, in case of racemic compounds, to know the enantiomeric composition of the eutectics and to verify that it is similar to the eutectic composition obtained from ternary solubility curves. We constructed the binary melting point phase diagrams of a number of amino acid benzyl ester p-toluenesulfonates showing that most of them form racemic compounds. Of these, we studied those of Ala, Phe, Leu, and Glu, in particular, demonstrating that when prepared in l form with moderate racemization the first three cannot be enantioenriched by crystallization because their l fraction is much higher at the ternary solubility eutectic than at the binary eutectic, whereas the last one can be isolated enantiopure by crystallization because its l fractions at both the ternary solubility and binary eutectics are accordingly low
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Novel 5-substituted 3-hydroxyphenyl and 3-nitrophenyl ethers of S-prolinol as α4β2-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ligands
No full textA series of 3-nitrophenyl and 3-hydroxyphenyl ethers of (S)-N-methylprolinol bearing bulky and lipophilic substituents at phenyl C5 were tested for affinity at α4β2 and α3β4 nAChRs. The two phenyl ethers 5-substituted with 6-hydroxy-1-hexynyl showed high α4β2 affinity and significantly increased α4β2/α3β4 selectivity compared to the respective unsubstituted parent compounds. Within the two series of novel phenyl ethers, we observed parallel shifts in affinity and, furthermore, the increase in α4β2/α3β4 selectivity resulting from the hydroxyalkynyl substitution parallels that reported for the same modification at the 3-pyridyl ether of (S)-N-methylprolinol (A-84543), a well-known potent α4β2 agonist. On the basis of these results, our nitrophenyl and hydroxyphenyl prolinol ethers can be considered bioisosteres of the pyridyl ether A-84543 and lead compounds candidable to analogous optimization processes
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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