• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.1451-1456
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• 1999

Solvolyses of α-methoxy-α-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride in H₂O, D₂O, CH₃OD, 50% D₂O-CH₃OD, and in aqueous binary mixtures of acetone, dioxane, ethanol and methanol are investigated at 25.0℃. The Grunwald-Winstein plots of first-order rate constants for α-methoxy- α-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride with $Y_{Cl}$ show a dispersion phenomenon. Solvent nucleophilicity N has been shown to give considerable im-provement when it is added as an 1N term to the original Grunwald-Winstein for the solvolyses of α-methoxy- α-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride. The dispersions in the Grunwald-Winstein correlations in the present studies are caused by solvent nucleophilicity. The magnitude of l and m values associated with a change of solvent composition predicts the associative $S_N2$ transition state. The kinetic solvent isotope effects determined in deuterated water and methanol are consistent with the proposed mechanism of the general base catalyzed associative $S_N2$ or $S_AN$ mechanism for the of α-methoxy- α-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.402-406
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• 2001

Gas chromatographic method was investigated for the chiral separation of several $\beta$-blockeros(atenolol, betaxolol, bisoprolol, metoprolol and pindolol) using (-)-$\alpa$-methoxy-$\alpa$-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride as a chiral derivatizing agent for amino group. Prior to N-acylation, hydroxyl group was converted into O-silyl ethers by react with N-methyl-H-(taimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide. The reaction was selective and rapid and the diasteromeric derivatives were well separated by capillary gas chromatography. (R)-isomers were eluted faster than (S)-isomers when (-)-$\alpa$-methoxy-$\alpa$-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride was used as the chiral derivatizing agent. But in the opposite sequence when (+)-$\alpa$-methoxy-$\alpa$-(trifluoromethyl)phenylacetyl chloride was used. No racemization was found during the reaction.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.277-281
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• 1995

An anticoagulant, 4-hydroxy-3-[1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydro-3-[4-(4-trifluoromethylbenzyloxy)phenyll-1 -naphthyl]coumarin (Flocoumafen) was synthesized in 8 steps starting from phenylacetyl shloride and anisole. The key step in the synthesis involves the reaction of 3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1-teralol with 4-hydroxycoumarin to give 4-hydroxy-3 [1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydro-3-[4-emthoxyphenyl]-1-naphthyl]coumarin.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.642-645
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• 1998

The aminolysis reactions of phenylacetyl chlorides with anilines and N,N-dimethylanilines (DMAS) in acetonitrile at -15.0 ℃ are investigated. The magnitude of ρx (= -2.8 ∼ -2.9) and ρy (= 0.9 ∼ 1.3, after correcting for the fall-off), and the negative sign of ρxy (= -0.12) for the reactions with anilines suggest an associative SN2 mechanism. For the reactions with DMAs, the magnitude of these Hammett coefficients increases so that tighter bond making in the transition state (TS) is predicted. A nonlinear Hammett plots obtained for the DMAs with an electron acceptor substituent is interpreted to result from a more advanced degree of leaving group departure to assist closer approach of the bulky DMA in the TS. The normal secondary kinetic isotope effects $(k_H/k_D>1.0)$ involving deuterated anilines suggest partial deprotonation by hydrogen bonding to the departing chloride ion.