The formation of striped phases of dialkyl disulfides on Au(111) and graphite has been monitored by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). STM imaging clearly exhibits the formation of striped phases having corrugation periodicities that are nearly consistent with the molecular length of alkanethiolate moieties formed after the S-S bond cleavage of dialkyl disulfide on a gold surface. This is the...

Recent single-molecule experiments indicated that thioethers (dialkyl sulfides) on gold surfaces act as thermallyor mechanically activated molecular rotors, although the mechanisms for these phenomena are not yet clearly understood. Here we present theoretical and experimental investigations of the rotational dynamics of these thioether molecules. Single-molecule studies utilizing low-temperatu...

We describe convenient preparations of N,N′-dialkyl-1,3-propanedialdiminium chlorides, N,N′-dialkyl-1,3-propanedialdimines, and lithium N,N′-dialkyl-1,3-propanedialdiminates in which the alkyl groups are methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, or tert-butyl. For dialdiminium salts, N2C3 backbone is always trans-s-trans configuration. Three isomers present solution except for tert-butyl compound, only two pre...

The capacities to inhibit coumarin 7-hydroxylase activity of human cytochrome P450 2A6 (CYP2A6) by organosulfur compounds were evaluated. Five dialkyl sulfides and five dialkyl disulfides, with alkyl chains from methyl to amyl, were examined. In addition to these chemicals, diallyl sulfide, diallyl disulfide, allyl methyl sulfide, allyl n-propyl sulfide, allyl phenyl sulfide, diphenyl sulfide, ...

In the title triangulo-triruthenium compound, [Ru(3)(C(6)H(12)Cl(3)O(3)P)(CO)(11)], one equatorial carbonyl ligand is substituted by a monodentate phosphite ligand, leaving one equatorial and two axial carbonyl ligands on one Ru atom. The remaining two Ru atoms each carry two equatorial and two axial terminal carbonyl ligands. In the crystal structure, the mol-ecules are linked into a one-dimen...

A novel, convenient and efficient multi-component reaction for synthesis of phosphonate derivatives from activated acetylenic compounds with 2-hydroxyacetophenone in the presence of phosphites in water lead to the formation of phosphonates in good yields.

A comparison of the (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts of some 15,16-dialkyl-15,16-dihydropyrenes with the corresponding 15,16-dialkyl-2,7,15,16-tetrahydropyrenes provides a measure of the effect of ring current on carbon-13 chemical shifts in which other effects may be expected to be negligibly small. The general conclusion is that the absolute magnitude of the ring-current effec...