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Development of new pathways for syntheses of sesquiterpenoids
Topolovčan, Nikola ; Kotora, Martin (advisor) ; Dvořák, Dalimil (referee) ; Pour, Milan (referee)
This work consists of four consecutive parts, each dealing with syntheses of structurally diverse compounds. The syntheses were based on the methods within the domain of transition-metal catalyzed and/or mediated reactions with particular emaphasis on the application of organozirconium chemistry. 1. A method for synthesis of tricyclic condensed hydrocarbons possessing 5(6)-7-6(aryl) framework was developed. It is based on reaction of bicyclic zirconacyclopentenes, prepared by oxidative dimerization of enynes on a low-valent zirconocene species (Negishi's reagent), with ortho-halobenzaldehydes in the presence of various additives. The presence of two different centers of reactivity - the sp2 C-Zr and sp3 C-Zr bond - allowed sequential functionalization of each bond. Thanks to its higher nucleophilicity, the sp3 C-Zr bond reacted preferentially with the carbonyl carbon of the aldehyde yielding an oxazirconacycloheptene. The subsequent transmetallation of the remaining sp2 C-Zr bond with CuCl in the presence of other additives (catalysts) enabled an intramolecular cross-coupling reaction with the aryl halide moiety furnishing the desired tricyclic products in reasonable yields. The scope of the reaction with respect to differently functionalized reactants was assessed, as well as its mechanistic...
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Preparation and properties of building blocks of specialty polymers
Šichová, Kristýna
This Diploma Thesis presents results obtained by solution of two partial projects: a) Preparation of monomers from renewable sources using metathesis and tandem hydrogenation catalyzed with ruthenium compounds - project solved during my Erasmus stay at the Université de Rennes 1 in France; b) Preparation and properties of ,-bis(tpy)quarterthiophene oligomers carrying ionic side groups as oligomonomers for polyelectrolyte conjugated dynamers - project solved at the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Project a): Self-metathesis of 1,2-epoxyhex-5-ene (but-3-enyloxirane) and its cross-metathesis with methyl acrylate and acrylonitrile catalyzed with ruthenium compounds as well as tandem design of these metatheses and consecutive hydrogenation of their products by gaseous hydrogen have been optimized. The following influences have been studied and tuned: (i) type of the catalyst (Grubbs, Hoveyda, Zhan) and its concentration and method of dosing, (ii) concentration of reactants and additives, (iii) type of solvent, and (iv) reaction temperature. Reactions were monitored by the GC, GC and MS methods and the products were characterized by the NMR method. Methyl 6,7-epoxyheptanoate (methyl 5-oxiranylpentanoate) obtained by the tandem...
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Theoretical investigation of microporous materials for adsorption and catalysis
Položij, Miroslav ; Nachtigall, Petr (advisor) ; Bludský, Ota (referee) ; Cwiklik, Lukasz (referee)
Theoretical investigation of microporous materials for adsorption and catalysis Microporous materials are defined by a presence of pores with diameter smaller than 2 nm. They comprise a large variety of materials from amorphous materials to very well defined crystalline materials like zeolites or metal organic frameworks. Microporous materials are industrially very important group of materials used for adsorption, gas capture, molecular sieving, or heterogeneous catalysis. Zeolites are by far the most important group of microporous materials due to their use as catalysts for the petroleum cracking. One of the main limitations of the zeolite use in catalysis is their limited pore size. This obstacle can be solved by use of hierarchical zeolites with a secondary mesopore network which allows overcoming the diffusion problems. The aims of this study can be divided into two parts. In the first part, the structures of two-dimensional and hierarchical zeolites were investigated theoretically to identify the structure of new materials and to obtain reliable models to study the hierarchical zeolites. In the second part, the catalytic properties of several microporous materials were modelled to explain their experimental activity. The results of this thesis were used to identify the structure of a large...
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Synthesis of the C15-C20 tiacumicin fragment
Havlíček, Vojtěch ; Kotora, Martin (advisor) ; Veselý, Jan (referee)
In the diploma thesis, a method for preparation of the unsaturated C15-C20 tiacumicin fragment was developed. Tiacumicin is classified as a macrolidone antibiotic. Although three syntheses of tiacumicin have been recently published, this study has aimed to develop a novel pathway for its preparation utilizing catalytic reactions instead of stoichiometric ones. In the second part, an enantioselective allylation of (E)-3-jod-2-methylpropenal has been developed applying catalysis by a series of N,N'-dioxide catalysts. The asymmetric induction achieved in the allylation was up to 99% ee. This procedure allows relatively simple, straightforward and efficient preparation of wide range of natural products. Keywords tiacumicin, asymmetric synthesis, allylation, catalysis, chiral Lewis bases, organocatalysis
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Copper(I) complexes with phosphinonitrile donors
Horký, Filip ; Štěpnička, Petr (advisor) ; Kubíček, Vojtěch (referee)
Title: Copper(I) complexes with phosphinonitrile donors Author: Bc. Filip Horký Department: Department of Inorganic chemistry Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Petr Štěpnička, Ph.D. Abstract: Although coordination compounds with phosphinonitrile ligands are already well known, in the vast majority of these complexes these ligands coordinate as simple P-donors with their cyano groups acting as auxiliary substituents. This led us to synthesize and study a series of Cu(I) complexes with two isomeric phosphinonitrile donors, namely 2-(diphenylphosphino)benzonitrile (Lo ) and 2-(diphenylphosphino)benzonitrile (Lp ), with different ligand-to-metal ratios and possibly characterize further coordination modes offered by these hybrid donors. This work describes the preparation of phosphinonitrile complexes from the aforementioned ligands and simple copper(I) halides (CuX, X = Cl, Br, I), pseudohalides (X = CN) and from [Cu(MeCN)4][BF4]. The products were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy and elemental analysis, mass spectrometry, and their solid-state structures were determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. In addition, luminescent properties of the Cu(I) complexes were studied and catalytic activity of selected complexes was tested in copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition...
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Theoretical Investigation of Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions Taking Place in Microporous Materials
Položij, Miroslav
Mechanisms of three reactions catalyzed by microporous materials were investigated computationally; the reactions investigated include Friedländer and Knoevenagel reactions catalyzed by Cu3BTC2 metal organic framework (MOF) and an intramolecular cyclisation of unsaturated alcohols catalyzed by zeolite H-ZSM-5. It was found that the reaction mechanisms of all three reactions are controlled by a high concentration of active sites in materials. Reaction intermediates interact with more than one active site simultaneously. This novel concept of "multiple-site" interactions is described. The concerted effect of two catalytic sites leads to a decrease of activation barriers on reaction paths of Friedländer and Knoevenagel reactions. On the contrary, a simultaneous interaction of reactants with two active sites has a negative effect on reaction rate in case of alcohol cyclization catalyzed by H-ZSM-5; it was found that the interaction with dual sites results in the increase of activation barriers and diffusion limitations. In case of Knoevenagel reaction catalyzed by CuBTC, the adsorption of reaction precursor to the reaction site allows the creation of a dynamic defect in the MOF framework that subsequently catalyses the reaction. Both, the multiple sites effect and the dynamical defect formation effect...
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Theoretical Investigation of Properties of 3D and 2D Zeolites
Ho, Viet Thang ; Nachtigall, Petr (advisor) ; Fišer, Jiří (referee) ; Cwiklik, Lukasz (referee)
Zeolites have been widely used in many different fields including catalysis, adsorption and separation, ion exchange, or gas storage. Conventional zeolites have three- dimensional (3D) structures with microporous channel system; typical pore sizes are well below 1 nanometer, therefore, diffusion limitation plays important role in many process and bulkier reactants (or products) cannot enter (or leave) the zeolite channel system. Two-dimensional (2D) zeolites prepared in last years can lift all diffusion limitation and they thus offer a very attractive alternative to conventional 3D zeolites. 2D zeolites attracted considerable attention on the experimental side; however, understanding of 2D zeolites based on computational investigation or on a combination of experimental and computational investigation is limited. A motivation for the computational work presented here is to improve our understanding of properties of 2D zeolites based on computational investigation. The originality of the research presented herein is in the strategy: we carried out systematic investigation of properties of corresponding 2D and 3D zeolites and we focus on the identification of similarities and differences. The most important zeolite properties, i.e., presence of Brønsted and Lewis acid sites, are investigated. A number of...
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Synthesis and characterization of new polymers of substituted acetylenes
Sivkova, Radoslava Parusheva ; Vohlídal, Jiří (advisor) ; Strachota, Adam (referee) ; Sedlařík, Vladimír (referee)
New procedures for preparation of polyacetylenes with highly luminescent naphthalimide groups that might be potentially utilized in optoelectronics and sensors are developed within the framework of present doctoral thesis. The procedures provide luminescent a) linear polyacetylenes that can be processed from solutions, and b) mesoporous network polyacetylenes with high pore volume. Two paths to soluble polyacetylenes are used: (i) copolymerization of ethynyl- functionalized naphthalimide (monomer PN) and a monoethynyl aromate catalyzed with [Rh(nbd)acac], and (ii) modification of poly(disubstituted acetylene)s carrying -chloroalkyl pendants involving the exchange of chlorine atoms for azido groups and subsequent "click"- reaction of Huisgen type of azido groups with ethynyl groups of PN. The PN does not homopolymerize but copolymerizes with ethynylaromates. The highest possible molar fraction of the PN units in copolymers is of 0.5, which suggests the absence of PN dyads or longer sequences in copolymers and the alternating arrangement of PN units in the copolymers of the composition of 0.5. Surprisingly, ethynylarenes that give insoluble homopolymers gave soluble copolymers with PN. The modification procedure requires knowledge on the effect of the monomer structure symmetry and substituent...
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Studium fyzikálně-chemických vlastností povrchově modifikovaného oxidu wolframu
Polášek, Jan ; Mašek, Karel (advisor) ; Novák, Stanislav (referee) ; Plšek, Jan (referee)
This work can be divided into two parts. In the first part, we examine possibilities of preparation of monocrystalline tungsten and tungsten oxide nanoclusters by means of magnetron sputtering with gas aggregation. Clusters are prepared in the non-reactive (Ar) and reactive (Ar + O2) atmosphere and heated after the deposition or during the flight by IR radiation. Influence of oxygen in the aggre- gation process was described and possibilities of generating crystalline tungsten and tungsten oxide clusters were found. In the second part, we study reactivity of tungsten oxide layers, pure and doped with rare metals (Pt, Au), deposited on the silicon wafer and etched carbon, towards partial methanol oxidation. Influence of carbon substrate and metal doppants on reactivity was found and described, along with mofrological and chemical changes that occurs in the sample during the proces. 1
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Synthesis and Post-synthesis Modification of Novel 2-Dimensional Zeolites
Přech, Jan ; Čejka, Jiří (advisor) ; Bulánek, Roman (referee) ; Hronec, Mlan (referee)
Development of sustainable and environmentally friendly chemical processes is of vital importance nowadays. Although there is a palette of different synthetic methods for the formation of epoxides, sulphoxides and sulphones, from both economic and environmental points of view, a direct oxidation with a simple oxidant is highly appreciated. The main goals of the thesis were design and synthesis of novel titanium containing zeolitic materials with the ability to catalyse selective oxidation of sterically demanding organic compounds, particularly epoxidation of cyclic olefins and terpenes and oxidation of bulky thioethers to corresponding sulphoxides and sulphones with hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant. Two novel extra-large pore titanosilicates were prepared by means of hydrothermal synthesis (Ti-CFI, Ti-UTL), three large-pore titanosilicates (Ti-CON, Ti-AFI, Ti-IFR) were prepared using two step deboronation - liquid phase titanium impregnation procedure and two groups of lamellar materials were prepared. One group was based on modified nanosheet TS-1; the other was prepared from Ti-IPC- 1P lamellar precursor, which was prepared by means of top-down transformation of Ti-UTL. Last but not least, the Ti-UTL was transformed into new titanosilicates Ti-IPC-2 (OKO structure) and Ti-IPC-4 (PCR structure) by...
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