A domino reaction has been developed for the synthesis of oxygen bridged bicyclic ethers through the coupling of 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)cyclohex-3-enols with aldehydes in the presence of 10 mol% of molecular iodine in dichloromethane at 25 °C. This method is highly diastereoselective affording the corresponding bicyclic ethers, i.e. octahydro-4a,7-epoxyisochromenes in good yields with high selectivi...

Inhaled prostanoids and phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors have been suggested for treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension. In catheterized rabbits with acute pulmonary hypertension induced by continuous infusion of the stable thromboxane analogue U46619, we asked whether sildenafil (PDE1/5/6 inhibitor), motapizone (PDE3 inhibitor) or 8-Methoxymethyl-IBMX (PDE1 inhibitor) synergize with inha...

To probe the influence of structural variation within dibenzo-16crown-5-oxyacetic acids upon the selectivity of alkali metal cation separations by solvent extraction and liquid membrane transport processes, studies have now been conducted in homogeneous solution by NMR spectroscopy and titration calorimetry and in the solid state. Condensation polymerization of such proton-ionizable lariat ethe...

Gold-catalyzed intermolecular couplings of sulfonylacetylenes with allyl ethers are reported. A cooperative polarization of alkynes both by a gold catalyst and a sulfonyl substituent resulted in an efficient intermolecular tandem carboalkoxylation. Reactions of linear allyl ethers are consistent with the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement mechanism, while those of branched allyl ethers provided [3...

Radiolabeled cholesteryl ethers are widely used as non-metabolizable tracers for lipoproteins and lipid emulsions in a variety of in vitro and in vivo experiments. Since cholesteryl ethers do not leave cells after uptake and are not hydrolyzed by mammalian cellular enzymes, these compounds can act as markers for cumulative cell uptakes of labeled particles. We have employed [3H]cholesteryl oleo...

Catalytic amount of Ce(IV) as ceric triethylammonium nitrate (CTEAN) in dichloromethane or acetone can bring about an efficient tetrahydropyranylation of different types of alcohols to afford the corrsesponding tetrahydropyranyl ethers in high yields. Deportection of tetrahydropyranyl ethers can also be achieved efficiently in the presence of this catalyst in methanol.

Chemistry Department, College of Science, University of Texas, El Paso, T X 79968, USA Z. Naturforsch. 84b, 614-620 (1979); received September 11, 1978 Relative Basicity Parameter, Conductivity of Protonated Ethers, Calculation of PKA'S for R20H+ It is shown in this paper that a consistent set of values of pKBH+ for 24 ethers, in good agreement with the few which have been obtained b y other me...

A difference was observed in the reactivity of alcohols and ethers toward free electrons. Whereas the lowest core-excited state of the negative ion-a 2(n,3s2) Feshbach resonance-of the alcohols readily dissociates by losing a hydrogen atom, ethers show no observable signal from this resonance. This difference in reactivity has a parallel in the anomalous shapes and energies of the parent states...

In this chapter, a comprehensive review over the entire reserarch on liquid crystalline crown ethers since their discovery will be given. Monomeric and polymeric molecules containing crown ethers as well as aza crown ethers, thia crown ethers and crown ethers with several different heteroatoms will be presented. Liquid crystallinity is, in most cases, caused by the substituents attached to the ...