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The He I photoelectron (PE) spectra of octavalene (5) as weil as its hydrogenated products 6-8 have been investigated. The assignment given is based on an empirical comparison of 5-8 with related compounds, a ZDO model, and semiempirical and ab initio calculations. Within the ZDO model the interaction between the buta.diene moiety and the bicyclobutane fragment of 5 is described by a resonance integral of -2.3 eV. The orbitalsequence of 5 is found tobe 2a\(_2\) (\(\pi\)-\(\sigma\)), 9a\(_1\) (\(\sigma\)), 3b1 (\(\pi\) - \(\sigma\)), 1a\(_2\) (\(\sigma\) + \(\pi\)), 2b\(_1\) (\(\sigma\) + \(\pi\)).
Fulminic acid, HCNO, was first synthesized in the year 1800 and has since then been used numerous times to develop new chemical theories and concepts. Nowadays, research on HCNO is mainly motivated due to its detection in interstellar space in the year 2009. In this thesis, we investigated the interaction of fulminic acid with VUV- and soft X-ray radiation, i.e., radiation that is also present in the interstellar medium. In our study using VUV radiation, we were able to record the photoelectron spectrum of HCNO with high resolution and we were able to simulate the Renner-Teller distorted ground state of the cation using simulation of wavepacket dynamics. We also elucidated the mechanism of the dissociative photoionisation up to 15.3 eV binding energy. Using soft X-ray radiation enables us to ionise or excite the 1s electrons of HCNO. The created state can decay via an Auger-Meitner process, which produces an Auger electron. We measured the kinetic energy of these auger electron and were able to analyse the observed signals using quantum chemical calculations. We also investigated how the ion fragments after the Auger-Meitner process. We observed a site-selectivity, where the initial ionisation/excitation site influenced the product distribution. We were able to explain this observation with a simple thermodynamic argument. This thesis provides a comprehensive description of the interaction of HCNO with ionising radiation. The obtained data may be valuable for the description of the behaviour of HCNO in interstellar space.
Background: Melatonin (MLT) has many health implications, therefore it is of valuable importance to develop specific analytical methods for determination of MLT in the presence of its main contaminant, N-{2-[1-({3-[2-(acetylamino)ethyl]-5-methoxy-1H-indol-2-yl}methyl)-5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl]ethyl}acetamide (10). For development of these analytical methods, compound 10 had to be prepared in an adequate amount. Results: Compound 10 was synthesized in six steps starting from 5-methoxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (1). Analytical performance of the proposed spectrofluorimetric methods was statistically validated with respect to linearity, accuracy, precision and specificity. The proposed methods were successfully applied for the assay of MLT in laboratory prepared mixtures containing up to 60 % of compound 10 and in commercial MLT tablets with recoveries not less than 99.00 %. No interference was observed from common pharmaceutical additives and the results were favorably compared with those obtained by a reference method. Conclusions: This work describes simple, sensitive, and reliable second derivative spectrofluorimetric method in addition to two multivariate calibration methods, principal component regression (PCR) and partial least square (PLS), for the determination of MLT in the presence of compound 10.
Reaktionen von 1,3-Butadien und einigen seiner Methylderivate mit 1a und 1- Methyl-1,2-cyclohexadien 1b sowie den Übergang der [2 + 2]-Cycloaddukte 2 und 3 in das bisher unbekannte 1,2,3,5,8,8a-HexahydronaphthaJin 4a und einige seiner Methylderivate
The cycloadducts 6 and 7 of tricyc1o[4.1.0.0 2 ,7)hepta- 3,4-diene (~) with styrene and 1,3-butadiene rearrange to unusual products on thermolysis, namely the cycloheptatriene derivatives ~ and 10. 1-0xa-3,4-cyclohexadiene (20) is generated smoothly from 6,6-dichloro-3-oxabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane (22) and n-butyllithium. 1-0xa-2,3-cyclohexadiene (11) is formed from 6-exo-bromo-6-endo-fluoro-2-oxabicyclo[ 3.1.0]hexane (30) and methyllithium. In the presence of activated olefins, this reaction provides an efficient route to 28 and 33 - 38, the trapping products of 21. Interestingly, [2+2]-cycloadditions do not take place at the same double bond of 21 as [4+2]-cycloadditions. The reactions of 1,3-cyclopentadiene and indene with bromofluorocarbene afford 6-exo-bromo-6-endo-fluorobicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene (50) and its benzo derivative ~, respectively. On treatment of these compounds with methyl lithium in the presence of styrene, the interception products 53 and 47 of 1,2,4-cyc10- hexatriene (44) and its benzo derivative 43, respectively, are formed in good yields.
A practicable two-step procedure for the preparation of a series of lactone-type bridged biaryls 7 as favorable substrates for subsequent atropisomer-selective ring-opening reactions is described. Due to the efficiency of the coupling step, which tolerates even a telt·butyl group next to the biaryl axis and avoids problems of regioselectivity, a variety of differently substituted representatives is prepared. These cover a broad range of steric hindrance and thus molecular distortion. The structures are investigated mainly by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, showing the lactones 7 to be helically distorted, depending on the size of the residues R.