C(72)-Macrocyclic systems functionalized with nitroaryl and arylamino groups were synthesized from the bisdioxine diacid dichloride 1,3,5,7-tetra-tert-butyl-2,6,9-trioxabicyclo[3.3.1]nona-3,7-diene-4,8-dicarbonyl dichloride (3).

The crystal structure of the title compound, C(17)H(24)N(2)O(5), was determined in the course of our studies on the preparation of two families of pseudopeptides, viz. hydrazino- and N-amino- peptides. The most significant inter-action in the crystal structure is a bifurcated inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(10)H(15)NOS, contains two independent mol-ecules with similar conformations. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked in a head-to-tail fashion by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into chains running along the b axis. The absolute configuration was assigned on the basis of known chirality of the parent compound.

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C(9)H(12)N(2)O(3), weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into chains. Further weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds together with π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.672 (4) Å] between neighbouring chains lead to a double-chain structure propagating in [100].

In the crystal of the title compound, C26H31N3O2, pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link molecules, forming inversion dimers, which enclose an R 2 (2)(20) ring motif. One N atom does not form hydrogen bonds and lies in a hydro-phobic pocket with closest inter-molecular contacts of 4.196 (2) and 4.262 (2) Å.

Aromatic ethers such as diphenyl ether (DPE) represent molecules with different docking sites for alcohols leading to competing OH-O and OH-π interactions. In a multi-spectroscopic approach in combination with quantum chemical calculations the complex of DPE with tert-butyl alcohol (t-BuOH) is investigated in the electronic ground state (S0) and the electronically excited state (S1). FTIR, micr...

A strain that efficiently degraded methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) was obtained by initial selection on the recalcitrant compound tert-butyl alcohol (TBA). This strain, a gram-positive methylotrophic bacterium identified as Mycobacterium austroafricanum IFP 2012, was also able to degrade tert-amyl methyl ether and tert-amyl alcohol. Ethyl tert-butyl ether was weakly degraded. tert-Butyl formate ...