Dendritic diarylcarbenium ions exhibited sufficient electrophilicity to react with unfunctionalized polystyrenes. The polymers obtained by the reaction of the first and the second generation dendritic diarylcarbenium ions with polystyrenes were well characterized by MALDI-TOF MS and SEC-MALLS analyses and observed by AFM.

Vinyl cations I+, of the structure R^C^CR" (I+: R' = R" = anisyl; R' = phenyl.R" = anisyl. I*: R' — methyl.R" = anisyl) were generated by flash photolysis of corresponding bromides. Lifetime measurements yielded the following: substitution of aromatic groups in 2-position by methyl groups largely improved the electrophilicity of the vinyl cations. The nucleophilicity of typical compounds (keton...

A series of aryl nitrile-based ligands were prepared to investigate the effect of their electrophilicity on the affinity against the cysteine proteases rhodesain and human cathepsin L. Density functional theory calculations provided relative reactivities of the nitriles, enabling prediction of their biological affinity and cytotoxicity and a clear structure-activity relationship.

Superelectrophilic 7-chloro-4,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan (DNBF-Cl) and 7-chloro-4,6-dinitrobenzofurazan (DNBZ-Cl) are shown to undergo facile carbon-carbon couplings with a series of weak carbon nucleophiles consisting of a number of differently substituted indoles, 1,2,5-trimethylpyrrole and azulene, in acetonitrile. Despite the fact that steric effects preclude a coplanarity of the donor and accep...

Aldehydes are electrophilic compounds to which humans are pervasively exposed. Despite a significant health risk due to exposure, the mechanisms of aldehyde toxicity are poorly understood. This ambiguity is likely due to the structural diversity of aldehyde derivatives and corresponding differences in chemical reactions and biological targets. To gain mechanistic insight, we have used parameter...

The electrophilicity of 4 different 3-nitroindole derivatives has been evaluated by Mayr's linear free energy relationship (log k (20 °C) = s N ( E + )) and reveals unexpected values for aromatic compounds, in the nitrostyrene range.

Reactions of a diboranate with organic nitriles result in B–C bond formation and variable behaviour that is rationalised as due to substituent-dependent modulation the basicity electrophilicity Mg-coordinated nitrile intermediates.

An account on the synthesis of an unsymmetrically substituted cobalt phthalocyanine, 2-(4-carboxyphenoxy)-9,16,23-tri-tert-butyl-phthalocyaninato-cobalt(II) (complex 1) and its symmetric counterpart, 2,9,16,23-tetra-tert-butylphthalocyanine (II) 2) is provided in this work. The complexes reported were applied electrooxidation hydrazine with a glassy carbon electrode serving as support for elect...

The rates of the epoxidation reactions of aldehydes, of the aziridination reactions of aldimines, and of the cyclopropanation reactions of α,β-unsaturated ketones with aryl-stabilized dimethylsulfonium ylides have been determined photometrically in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). All of these sulfur ylide-mediated cyclization reactions as well as the addition reactions of stabilized carbanions to N-...