New examples of template catalysis based processes: glycerol-like units as efficient promoters for dehydrative nucleophilic substitutions of ferrocenylmethanol

The direct high-yield synthesis without solvent and catalyst, under mild conditions, of eleven novel mono substituted ferrocenylmethyl ethers and amine derivs. from ferrocenemethanol and vicinal oxygenated alcs. and amines is here reported. The peculiar ability of these classes of non acidic compds. to favor the dehydrative nucleophilic substitution is attributed to the presence of vicinal oxygen atoms to the reactive group able to build a hydrogen bonding network with the reactant. The role of carbon dioxide and hexafluoroisopropanol was investigated to support the hypothesis that a template catalysis effect is occurring. The in vitro anti-fungal activity of some of these derivs. was tested on two plant fungi, Botrytis cinerea and Penicillium species, with moderate activity

Process for the synthesis of 2-(2,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-1,3-propanediol and its substitued derivatives

The present invention relates to a process for the synthesis of molecules that have a pyrrole ring bonded to a diol. In particular, the invention relates to the synthesis of molecules that have the pyrrole ring and a diol derived from serinol by means of a process that does not demand the use of solvents or chemical catalysts. The process consists of a first reaction phase that takes place without any solvents and/or organic diluents, giving rise to an intermediate compound, and a second phase in which the intermediate compound is converted into the required compound by heating the reaction mixture to a temperature ranging from 100° to 200°C for an interval in the range of 1 to 500 minutes, or by adding a carbon allotrope or its derivatives

A Novel Enhancement of Nano Structure by Organic Acid Dopants in Emulsion Polymerization of Poly(o-toluidine)

A simple, more facile and green approach for the synthesis of poly(o-toluidine) (POT) has been described, by using oxidative emulsion polymn. in a heterogeneous phase by using ammonium persulfate as an oxidant and org. acids as dopant, acids used such as tartaric, oxalic and citric. The effect or influence of these dopants on cond., morphol. of the nano structure of POT and phys. properties are well studied and found that it depends on the nature and type of the functional org. acid dopants. By using this synthetic approach we have obtained POT nanostructures of uniform granular morphol., with av. 40-100 nm particle size doped with oxalic or citric acid, whereas in tartaric acid doped POT fibrilar morphol. with 40-60 nm size nano fibers was ascertained. These compds. were characterized by UV-Visible, FT-IR, SEM, and XRD. Elec. cond. studies of these materials were also carried out and found increase in cond. with citric acid and oxalic acid doped POT as compared to the tartaric acid. XRD studies showed partial cryst. nature of tartaric acid doped POT polymer as compared to others. By using this emulsion process, POT nanostructure formed with 60-100 nm diam. size having high yield, cond., and improved soly. in org. solvents in the emeraldine salt phase of polymer (confirmed by the presence of characteristic peaks at 420 nm and ~800-850 nm). The influences of reaction conditions, e.g. monomer, acid concn. on the physico-chem. properties were also investigated