The reactivity of phenol, lithium phenoxide (LiOPh), and sodium phenoxide (NaOPh) with the cyclic tetramer of bisphenol A polycarbonate (BPA-PC) has been investigated using density functional calculations. The potential energy of the system is computed using a suitable reaction coordinate and relaxing all other degrees of freedom by Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics. Both LiOPh and NaOPh cataly...

Density functional calculations with simulated annealing have been used to study the reactions of chains of bisphenol A polycarbonate (BPA-PC) with sodium phenoxide (NaOPh), diphenyl carbonate (DPC), and tetraphenylphosphonium phenoxide (PPh4OPh). These calculations extend our work on the reactions of LiOPh, NaOPh, and phenol with the cyclic tetramer of BPA-PC. We study, in particular, chain gr...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C18H17N3O2, comprises three independent mol-ecules (1, 2 and 3). In mol-ecule 1, the dihedral angles between the pyrazolone ring and the pendant phenyl and hydroxybenzene rings are 54.43 (6) and 28.72 (6)°, respectively. The corresponding data for mol-ecule 2 are 86.84 (6) and 25.69 (5)°, respectively, and for mol-ecule 3 are 47.41 (7) and 17.09 (7)°, ...

This study concerns the structural change of lignin during auto-catalyzed ethanol-water pulping of aspen by 1H-NMR. The results showed that the linkages of alkyl-aryl ether of lignin, such as the α-ether linkages (α-O-4) and the β-ether linkages (β-O-4), were broken and the alkyl part formed carbenium at the Cα and Cβ of the aliphatic branch. Meanwhile, the aryl part of ether accepted one H and...

The title compound, C10H10N4O3, was synthesized by the esterification of hy-droxy-phenyl tetra-zole. There is an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond present involving the hy-droxy group and the tetra-zole ring. The tetra-zole ring is inclined to the phenol ring by 2.85 (13)°, while the methyl acetate group is almost normal to the tetra-zole ring, making a dihedral angle of 82.61 (14)°. In the c...

Starting from bisphenolic bis-styrylbenzene DF-9 (4), β-amyloid (Aβ) binding affinity and specificity for phenolic bis-styrylbenzenes, monostyrylbenzenes, and alkyne controls were determined by fluorescence titration with β-amyloid peptide Aβ(1-40) and a fluorescence assay using APP/PS1 transgenic mouse brain sections. Bis-styrylbenzene SAR is derived largely from work on symmetrical compounds....