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Mendeleev Communications

CONTENTS

VOLUME 17 NUMBER 1 2007 MENCEX (1) 1–56 (2007)

1 Structural and optical properties of titania photonic crystal films prepared by a sol–gel method

Alexander S. Sinitskii, Vera V. Abramova, Yuri D. Tretyakov

1 µm

4 Optical study of photonic crystal films made of polystyrene microspheres

Alexander S. Sinitskii, Pavel E. Khokhlov, Vera V. Abramova, Tatyana V. Laptinskaya, Yuri D. Tretyakov

7 Kinetic models of the prebiological evolution of macromolecules. Thermocycle as the motive force of the process

Sergei D.Varfolomeev

Autocatalyticexplosion

1

21

10 Synthesis of two lipopentasaccharides related to the nodulation factors of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobium sp. NGR 234

Sergey L. Sedinkin, Alexander I. Zinin, Nelli N. Malysheva, Alexander S. Shashkov, Vladimir I. Torgov, Vladimir N. Shibaev

X = OH, β-OMe

O

O OMe

OAcOH

Me

O

NHAcX

OH

O

NHAc

OHO

OH

O

NH

OHO

O

HOHO

2

14 Synthesis of a cycloimide bacteriochlorin p conjugate with the closo-dodecaborate anion

Mikhail A. Grin, Andrey A. Semioshkin, Rustam A. Titeev, Evgeniya A. Nizhnik, Julia N. Grebenyuk, Andrey F. Mironov, Vladimir I. Bregadze

NH N

N HN

O

N OO

HN

Me HH

Et

HMe

H

CO2Me

O

O

O

2–

2Bu4N+

ii

16 Nanostructured Ba6Mn24O48 whiskers

Ekaterina A. Pomerantseva, Marina G. Kozlova, Kirill V. Didenko, Alexander G. Veresov, Eugene A. Goodilin, Yuri D. Tretyakov

1 µm

18 Mass-spectrometric study of the solid-phase reaction of Na4XeO6·8H2O with U(SO4)2·4H2O

Larisa N. Khazimullina, Evgenii G. Galkin, Alexander V. Mamykin, Ivan G. Tananaev, Valerii P. Kazakov, Boris F. Myasoedov

100

80

60

40

20

0 2 4 6 8 10t/min

Inte

nsity

(ar

bitr

ary

units

)

20 Asymmetric hydrogenation of the C=O bond with the recycling of an organometal catalyst deposited on a solid organic polyelectrolyte

Eugenia V. Starodubtseva, Olga V. Turova, Maxim G. Vinogradov, Vladimir A. Ferapontov, Ilya V. Razmanov, Sergei G. Zlotin, Alexander S. Kucherenko

COOMe

O

H2 /RuII–BINAP–HCl

O O*

98–99% ee

N

H2C CH2

X

X = Cl, BF4, PF6

n

22 Polyether-functionalised uridine as an ion receptor

Jan Milecki, Grzegorz Schroeder

OOH

HO OH

N

N

O

O

O

O

OH...

M+

OOH

HO OH

N

N

O

O

M+

O

O

OH

...

OOH

HO OH

N

N

O

O

M+

H O

O

O

...

25 The first application of the Friedländer reaction for the synthesis of [1,8]naphthyridine derivatives containing phosphorus

Georgy V. Bodrin, Pavel S. Lemport, Sergey V. Matveev, Pavel V. Petrovskii, Edward E. Nifant’ev

PPh2XRO N N

PPh2

RXN

CHO

NH2

+Catalyst

Solvent

27 Semi-synthesis of deoxyartemisinin

Asish K. Bhattacharya, Ashish K. Pathak, Ram P. Sharma

O

O

H

OO

O

O

O

H

O

O

Al–NiCl2·6H2O/THFor Ni2B/MeOH

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29 Hydrogen bonding- and stacking-induced stereospecific [2 + 2]-photocycloaddition within a pseudodimeric complex of two styryl dyes

Artem I. Vedernikov, Sergey K. Sazonov, Pavel S. Loginov, Natalia A. Lobova, Mikhail V. Alfimov, Sergei P. Gromov

NEtO O

O

O

O

O

N

MeO

MeO

NH

HH

N

N

MeO

MeO

Et

OO

O

O

O

O

HN

H

H

hv

32 Enhanced photo and thermal oxidative stability of the charge-transfer complexes of a conjugated polymer

Sergei A. Arnautov, Elena M. Nechvolodova, Sergei M. Lomakin, Alexander N. Shchegolikhin

MEHPPV-51MEHPPV

Mas

s lo

ss (

wt%

)

T/°C

60

50

40

30

20

10

050 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150

34 Synthesis and optical properties of linear and branched bithienylsilanes

Elena A. Shumilkina, Oleg V. Borshchev, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Nikolay M. Surin, Alexandra P. Pleshkova, Aziz M. Muzafarov

SS

Me4 – xSix

x = 1–4

37 Porphyrin dimers and their interaction with DNA

Kai Wang, Shi-tao Fu, Lei Wu, Zao-ying Li

R

R

N C

OHN

R

R

R

NC

OHN

I–

I–

R

40 Unexpected formation of 4-methyl-1-vinyl- -carboline in the reaction of 3-acetylindole oxime with acetylene

Boris A. Trofimov, Elena Yu. Schmidt, Albina I. Mikhaleva, Nadezhda V. Zorina, Igor A. Ushakov, Andrey V. Afonin, Alexander M. Vasil’tsov

δδ

N

Me

NOH

H

N

HC CH

KOH/DMSO, 120 °C,

20–25 atm, 1 h

NMe

40%

N

6%

N

+

43 Microwave-induced protection and deprotection of 4-oxo-(4H)-1-benzopyran-3-carbaldehydes catalysed by Envirocat EPZ10R

Santosh S. Shindalkar, Balaji R. Madje, Murlidhar S. Shingare

O

R1

R2

R3

O

O

O

R1

R2

R3

O

OAc

OAc

EPZ10, Ac2OMW, 300 W

EPZ10 MW, 800 W

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45 Vapour-phase extraction for the isolation of organic compounds from aqueous solutions

Victor N. Bekhterev, Elena A. Kabina

6420

–2–4–6–8

–10

ln K

eq

acid

7

LE (n-C5H11OH)

VPE (EtOH)

GE (N2)

C2C3 C4

C5

C6

C2

C3

C3

C4C5

C5

C6

y = 1.2383x – 2.6283R2 = 0.9999

y = 0.7202x – 2.2959R2 = 0.9576

y = 0.3004x – 8.0034R2 = 0.9771

48 Coupling of 1,2-bis(alkoxyamino)cyclohexanes with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds: first synthesis of 1,4-dialkoxy-2,3-dihydro-1,4-diazepinium salts

Evgenii A. Mostovich, Dmitrii G. Mazhukin, Yurii V. Gatilov, Tatyana V. Rybalova

NHOR

NHOR

OH

R1R3

O

R2

N

N

RO

RO

R1

R2

R3

XOH

HH

O

R2

N

N

OR

OR

CHPh

2EtOH, HX

(X = Cl, ClO4)room temperature24–96 h, 63–93%

EtOH, room temperature

24–96 h, 42–61%

51 Synthesis of substituted 2-hydroxyaryl aldehydes by the microwave-induced Reimer–Tiemann reaction

Yeshwant B. Vibhute, Subhash M. Lonkar, Mudassar A. Sayyed, Mohammad A. Baseer

R

OHR1

R2

+ CHCl3NaOH, [H2O:EtOH]

MWI

R

OHR1

R2 CHO

52 Stereoselective synthesis of N-unsubstituted pyrazolidines from 3-nitro-2-trichloromethyl-2H-chromenes and hydrazine hydrate

Vladislav Yu. Korotaev, Igor B. Kutyashev, Vyacheslav Ya. Sosnovskikh, Mikhail I. Kodess

R

O

NO2

CCl3

OH HN NH

NO2

CCl3

R

N2H4

R = H, MeO, Br

AUTHOR INDEXAbramova, Vera V., 1, 4Afonin, Andrey V., 40Alfimov, Mikhail V., 29Arnautov, Sergei A., 32Baseer, Mohammad A., 51Bekhterev, Victor N., 45Bhattacharya, Asish K., 27Bodrin, Georgy V., 25Borshchev, Oleg V., 34Bregadze, Vladimir I., 14Didenko, Kirill V., 16Ferapontov, Vladimir A., 20Fu, Shi-tao, 37Galkin, Evgenii G., 18Gatilov, Yurii V., 48Goodilin, Eugene A., 16Grebenyuk, Julia N., 14Grin, Mikhail A., 14Gromov, Sergei P., 29Kabina, Elena A., 45Kazakov, Valerii P., 18Khazimullina, Larisa N., 18Khokhlov, Pavel E., 4

Kodess, Mikhail I., 52Korotaev, Vladislav Yu., 52Kozlova, Marina G., 16Kucherenko, Alexander S., 20Kutyashev, Igor B., 52Laptinskaya, Tatyana V., 4Lemport, Pavel S., 25Li, Zao-ying, 37Lobova, Natalia A., 29Loginov, Pavel S., 29Lomakin, Sergei M., 32Lonkar, Subhash M., 51Madje, Balaji R., 43Malysheva, Nelli N., 10Mamykin, Alexander V., 18Matveev, Sergey V., 25Mazhukin, Dmitrii G., 48Mikhaleva, Albina I., 40Milecki, Jan, 22Mironov, Andrey F., 14Mostovich, Evgenii A., 48Muzafarov, Aziz M., 34Myasoedov, Boris F., 18

Nechvolodova, Elena M., 32Nifant’ev, Edward E., 25Nizhnik, Evgeniya A., 14Pathak, Ashish K., 27Petrovskii, Pavel V., 25Pleshkova, Alexandra P., 34Pomerantseva, Ekaterina A., 16Ponomarenko, Sergey A., 34Razmanov, Ilya V., 20Rybalova, Tatyana V., 48Sayyed, Mudassar A., 51Sazonov, Sergey K., 29Schmidt, Elena Yu., 40Schroeder, Grzegorz, 22Sedinkin, Sergey L., 10Semioshkin, Andrey A., 14Sharma, Ram P., 27Shashkov, Alexander S., 10Shchegolikhin, Alexander N., 32Shibaev, Vladimir N., 10Shindalkar, Santosh S., 43Shingare, Murlidhar S., 43Shumilkina, Elena A., 34

Sinitskii, Alexander S., 1, 4Sosnovskikh, Vyacheslav Ya., 52Starodubtseva, Eugenia V., 20Surin, Nikolay M., 34Tananaev, Ivan G., 18Titeev, Rustam A., 14Torgov, Vladimir I., 10Tretyakov, Yuri D., 1, 4, 16Trofimov, Boris A., 40Turova, Olga V., 20Ushakov, Igor A., 40Varfolomeev, Sergei D., 7Vasil’tsov, Alexander M., 40Vedernikov, Artem I., 29Veresov, Alexander G., 16Vibhute, Yeshwant B., 51Vinogradov, Maxim G., 20Wang, Kai, 37Wu, Lei, 37Zinin, Alexander I., 10Zlotin, Sergei G., 20Zorina, Nadezhda V., 40

54 Conference Calendar

55 Notice to Authors