TY - JOUR A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Grotjahn, Manuela A1 - Klinka, Karel D. A1 - Drexler, Hans-Joachim A1 - Holdt, Hans-Jürgen T1 - Conformational and complexational study of some maleonitrile mixed oxadithia crown ethers by NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling N2 - The macrocyclic ring interconversion of four maleonitrile mixed oxadithia crown ethers of variable ring size, mn-12-S2O2, mn-15-S2O3, mn-18-S2O4 and fn-12-S2O2, were studied by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and by molecular modelling. The barriers to ring interconversion were estimated using variable temperature NMR spectroscopy and from the calculated activation energies, together with the spin-lattice relaxation times of the CH2 carbon atoms, conclusions were drawn regarding the intramolecular flexibility of the crown ethers in both the free state as well as the complexed state incorporating either AgI, BiIII, SbIII, PdII or PtII metal cations. Furthermore, both the stoichiometry of the complexes and the coordination sites of the crown ethers to the various cations were also clearly implicated. Molecular modelling was also utilised to ascertain the preferred conformers of the four compounds and their corresponding complexes, the results of which corroborated the experimental NMR results to a high degree. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klinka, Karel D. A1 - Balentova, Eva A1 - Bernát, Juraj A1 - Imrich, Jan A1 - Vavrusova, Martina A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Pihlaja, Kalevi A1 - Koch, Andreas T1 - Tautomerism, regioisomerism, and cyclization reactions of acridinyl thiosemicarbazides N2 - The regioselectivities of methyl- and phenylhydrazine with acridin-9-yl isothiocyanate (thus yielding thiosemicarbazides with acridine substituted on the urea-type side) were examined. Methythydrazine regioselectivity was high with the alpha-nitrogen atom overwhelmingly more nucleophilic than the beta-nitrogen atom; phenylhydrazine regioselectivity was poor but varied with the solvent and only in the case of ethanol was nucleophilic predominance of the alpha-nitrogen atom pronounced. Of note, whilst both phenyl thiosemicarbazides were present in solution only as spiro forms, the methyl product was present as an equilibrium mixture of open-chain and spiro thiosemicarbazides. Reactions on the NH2 blocked analogue of methyl acridin-9-ylthiosemicarbazide (1-isopropylidene-2- methylthiosemicarbazide) were also examined. Interestingly, present in the starting material itself was a structural motif of novelty wherein a triazolethione represented the major species of an equilibrium between cyclic and open-chain forms Y1 - 2006 UR - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121521817/toc U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/jhet.5570430317 SN - 0022-152X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klinka, Karel D. A1 - Balentova, Eva A1 - Bernát, Juraj A1 - Imrich, Ján A1 - Vavrusová, Martina A1 - Pihlaja, Kalevi A1 - Koch, Andreas A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Kelling, Alexandra A1 - Schilde, Uwe T1 - Structural revision of products resulting from the reaction of methylhydrazine with acridin-9-yl isothiocyanate due to unexpected acridinyl migration And further reactions N2 - The reaction of methyl acridin-9-ylthiosemicarbazide under basic conditions with methyl bromoacetate resulted in a 1,3-thiazolin-4-one structure as provided by X-ray crystallography. The structure forced a re-evaluation of the reactant methyl acridin-9-ylthiosemicarbazide, originally thought to be 2-methyl 4-acridin-9-ylthiosemicarbazide based on synthetic expectations, but which when examined by X-ray crystallography was found to be in fact the isomeric 2- methyl 1-acridin-9-ylthiosemicarbazide resulting from rearrangement via a spiro form which it is in equilibrium with in solution. The product resulting from reaction with methyl iodide was also studied and the previously reported semicarbazide produced by reaction with MNO was re-examined. In both cases, the 1,2 isomer rather than the 2,4 isomer was found to be present based on the sign of the 3JCH3,N11 coupling. Full characterization of the compounds was rendered by 1H, 13C, and 15N solution-state NMR, and in the solid state, by both 13C and 15N NMR. Y1 - 2006 UR - http://arkat-usa.org/home.aspx?VIEW=BROWSE&MENU=ARKIVOC SN - 1551-7004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klinka, Karel D. A1 - Imrich, Jan A1 - Danihel, I. A1 - Bohm, Stanislav A1 - Kristian, Pavol A1 - Harnul'akova, S. A1 - Pihlaja, Kalevi A1 - Koch, Andreas A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich T1 - Configuration and E/Z interconversion mechanism of O(S)-allyl-S(O)-methyl-N-(acridin-9-yl)iminothiocarbonate N2 - The configuration and dynamic behavior of O-allyl-S-methyl-N-(acridin-9-yl)iminothiocarbonate (1) and its S- allyl-O-methyl regioisomer (2) were studied using quantum chemical calculations and by applying a novel graphical method to scatter maps obtained from MD simulations for evaluation of an NOE-weighted internuclear distance (r(NOE)). Energy calculations indicated that the Z configuration was predominant for each compound and, further, this was supported both by the calculated chemical shifts and the rNOE. Both N-inversion- and rotation-type transition-state structures were also calculated for the E/Z isomerization process, the results indicating that the preferred interconversion mechanism for 1 is N-inversion, but contrastingly, interconversion via rotation is equally as probable as N-inversion for 2. This supports the notion that one or the other or both pathways can be active and each system needs to be assessed on a case- by-case basis. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Y1 - 2005 SN - 0749-1581 ER -