N-Benzoylethanolamine

Ionic liquids (ILs), due to their structural features, have unique physical and chemical properties and are environmentally friendly. Every year, the number of studies devoted to the use of ILs in medicine and pharmaceutics is growing. In nuclear medicine, the use of ILs with self-buffering capacity in the synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals is extremely important. This research is devoted to obtaining new ionic buffer agents containing N-benzylethanolammonium (BEA) cations and anions of carboxylic acids. A series of new BEA salts was synthesized and identified by NMR (1H, 13C), IR spectroscopy and elemental and thermal analysis. The crystal structures of BEA hydrogen succinate, hydrogen oxalate and oxalate were determined by x-ray diffraction. Newly synthesized compounds were tested as buffer solutions in 68Ga- and Al18F-radiolabeling reactions with a series of bifunctional chelating agents and clinically relevant peptides used for visualization of malignancies by positron emission tomography. The results obtained confirm the promise of using new buffers in the synthesis of 68Ga- and Al18F-labeled radiopharmaceuticals.

Three novel water-soluble 2D copper(II) coordination polymers-[{Cu2(μ2-dmea)2(H2O)}2(μ4-pma)]n·4nH2O (1), [{Cu2(μ2-Hedea)2}2(μ4-pma)]n·4nH2O (2), and [{Cu(bea)(Hbea)}4(μ4-pma)]n·2nH2O (3)-were generated by an aqueous medium self-assembly method from copper(II) nitrate, pyromellitic acid (H4pma), and different aminoalcohols [N,N-dimethylethanolamine (Hdmea), N-ethyldiethanolamine (H2edea), and N-benzylethanolamine (Hbea)]. Compounds 2 and 3 represent the first coordination polymers derived from H2edea and Hbea. All the products were characterized by infrared (IR), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and ultraviolet-visible light (UV-vis) spectroscopy, electrospray ionization-mass spectroscopy (ESI-MS(±)), thermogravimetric and elemental analysis, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD), which revealed that their two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic networks are composed of distinct dicopper(II) or monocopper(II) aminoalcoholate units and μ4-pyromellitate spacers. From the topological viewpoint, the underlying 2D nets of 1-3 can be classified as uninodal 4-connected layers with the sql topology. The structures of 1 and 2 are further extended by multiple intermolecular hydrogen bonds, resulting in three-dimensional (3D) hydrogen-bonded networks with rare or unique topologies. The obtained compounds also act as highly efficient precatalysts for the mild homogeneous oxidation, by aqueous H2O2 in acidic MeCN/H2O medium, of various cycloalkanes to the corresponding alcohols and ketones. Overall product yields up to 45% (based on cycloalkane) were attained and the effects of various reaction parameters were investigated, including the type of precatalyst and acid promoter, influence of water, and substrate scope. Although water usually strongly inhibits the alkane oxidations, a very pronounced promoting behavior of H2O was detected when using the precatalyst 1, resulting in a 15-fold growth of an initial reaction rate in the cyclohexane oxidation on increasing the amount of H2O from ~4 M to 17 M in the reaction mixture, followed by a 2-fold product yield growth.

Efficient and general procedures have been developed for the solution-phase preparation of substituted morpholine derivatives, and a library has been produced around generic structure 1. This library was designed with proprietary modeling software for use as a general screening library. The 30 R1 reagents were phenols, and the 275 R2 reagents were taken from five different reagent classes, giving a variety of product classes in the final library of 8250 potential products. All of the library members were generated from a common intermediate, mesylate (5), which was synthesized efficiently, in bulk, in three steps from N-benzylethanolamine (2). High-throughput chemistry using robotics was carried out to produce the 7907 library members, which were individually characterized by reversed-phase LC/MS analysis.