Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-02-15T17:02:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009 - William Pereira.pdf: 3794972 bytes, checksum: 64fbf9758bbf44329031caf3b369b79a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-15T17:02:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009 - William Pereira.pdf: 3794972 bytes, checksum: 64fbf9758bbf44329031caf3b369b79a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-22 / CAPES / The present study has two specific phases: Early, was studied the isathine irradiation with the presence of diisopropil-phosphoril-dimethylidrazone (diisopfh), in chloroform, at room temperature and 300nm. The structure of photo-product was elucidated by GC/MS, IR, NMR 1H, 13C and 31P, as well as hety-cosy, homo-cosy and other techniques. The proposal mechanism involve a bi-radical from triplet excited state of isathine that react with C=N of the diisopfh and has a ring expansion. The successive pass would be thermal and with propanone elimination, as thermal rearrangement on phosphoric derivates described in the literature. In a second phase was studied, by Laser Flash Photolysis, the kinetic effect of the six aromatic derived of phosphoril-hidrazone (H, p-Cl, p-NO2, p-CN, p-NMe2 e p-CO2H) on the triplet excited state of four aromatic ketones: Xanthone, Tioxanthone, Benzophenone and Benzyl. The observed process to quencher, in all cases, was energy transference, because the rate constants are in the order of 1010M-1s-1. In this form was possible to estimate the energy of triplet excited state of these six phosphoril-hidrazone derivates. / O presente estudo divide-se em duas etapas bem distintas: Inicialmente, estudou-se a irradia??o de isatina na presen?a de diisopropil-dimetilfosforilidrazona (diisopfh) em clorof?rmio, a temperatura ambiente e comprimento de onda de 300nm. H? forma??o de um produto majorit?rio cujo peso molecular corresponde ? soma dos reagentes, diminu?do de 58g/mol. A estrutura deste produto foi elucidada por CG/EM, IV e RMN de 1H, 13C e 31P, al?m de t?cnicas como homocosy, hetycosy e outros. Prop?e-se um mecanismo via bi-radical formado a partir do estado excitado triplete da isatina com a liga??o C=N do composto diisopfh e conseq?ente expans?o do anel isat?nico; levando ? forma??o de um prov?vel produto fotoqu?mico prim?rio resultante de cicloadi??o. Numa segunda etapa, por processo t?rmico de elimina??o de propanona, similar a processo descrito na literatura por Olah, levaria a forma??o do fotoproduto detectado (derivado fosforil-benzodiazep?nico). Numa segunda etapa, estudou-se, por Fot?lise por Pulso de laser, o efeito cin?tico da presen?a de seis derivados arom?ticos de fosforilidrazona (H, p-Cl, p-NO2, p-CN, p-N (CH3)2 e p-CO2H) sobre o estado excitado triplete de quatro cetonas arom?ticas: tioxantona, xantona, benzofenona e benzil, todos em solu??o de acetonitrila. As constantes de velocidades obtidas (da ordem de difus?o da acetonitrila 1,9x1010 M-1s-1) indicam que o processo de supress?o de estado excitado se faz por transfer?ncia de energia. Desta forma foi poss?vel estimar a energia de estado excitado triplete destes derivados arom?ticos de fosforilidrazona.

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / O estudo da biocatÃlise tem se intensificado nos Ãltimos anos devido à busca de rotas sintÃticas alternativas para a obtenÃÃo de compostos enantiomericamente puros. A utilizaÃÃo de sementes de Helianthus annuus L. ainda nÃo foi relatada na literatura em reaÃÃes de biorreduÃÃo e diante dessa perspectiva, foram investigadas na biorreduÃÃo de cetonas aromÃticas, para a obtenÃÃo de Ãlcoois enantiomericamente puros. O teor de proteÃnas das sementes foi determinado pelos mÃtodos de Lowry e Bradford e apresentaram valores correspondentes a 10,1 g/L e 8,8 g/L, respectivamente. As reaÃÃes de biorreduÃÃo foram otimizadas utilizando acetofenona (1), e nestas foram avaliados os fatores: quantidade de biocatalisador, meio tamponante (pH), co-solvente, germinaÃÃo de sementes e extrato bruto com polivilpirrolidona (PVP). Foram obtidos boas conversÃes (56,9%) em meio aquoso e, excelentes excessos enantiÃmericos (ee), (>99,0%) com o extrato bruto enzimÃtico em PVP do enantiÃmero (S). Derivados da acetofenona, uma cetona α-halogenada e duas outras cetonas aromÃticas, α-tetralona e α-indanona, foram submetidas Ãs metodologias otimizadas de conversÃo e ee, obtendo-se bons resultados, com produÃÃo do enantiÃmero S, exceto para a 3-metÃxi-acetofenona em meio aquoso, que apresentou o isÃmero R. A quantificaÃÃo dos teores de conversÃo foi realizada por intermÃdio da construÃÃo de curvas de calibraÃÃo em CromatogrÃfo LÃquido de Alta EficiÃncia (CLAE), bem como a resoluÃÃo dos Ãlcoois quirais utilizando coluna quiral OB-H. / The study of biocatalysis has intensified in recent years due to the search for alternative synthetic routes to obtain enantiomerically pure compounds. The use of seeds of Helianthus annuus L. has not been reported in the literature and bioreduction reactions at this point of view, were investigated in the bioreduction of aromatic ketones, to obtain enantiomerically pure alcohols. The protein content of the seeds was determined by Lowry and Bradford methods and gave values corresponding to 10,1g/L and 8,8g/L, respectively. The bioreduction reactions were optimized using acetophenone (1), and these factors were evaluated: the amount of biocatalyst, using buffer (pH), co-solvent, seed germination and the crude extract with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). Good conversions were obtained (56,9%) in aqueous solution and excellent enantiomeric excess (ee) (>99,0%) crude extract with the enzyme in PVP enantiomer (S). Derivatives of acetophenone, an α-halogenated ketone and two other aromatic ketones, α-tetralone and α-indanone were subjected to the methods of conversion and ee optimized to yield good results, with production of the S enantiomer, except for the 3-methoxy-acetophenone in aqueous media, which made the R isomer. Quantitation of the conversion levels were determined by the construction of calibration curves in a High Efficiency Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) and the resolution of chiral alcohols using a chiral column OB-H.

Solvent effects play diverse roles in myriads of chemical, physical and biological processes. The solvent interacts with the solute by: i) non-specific (Coulombic, van der Waals interactions) and ii) specific interactions (hydrogen bonding, etc.). These interactions are responsible for solvation of the solute and are collectively termed as “solvent polarity”. Differential solvation of ground and excited electronic states is manifested in the absorption spectrum as a change in the band position, intensity or shape, which is termed as “solvatochromism”. Intermolecular hydrogen bonding (IHB) is a kind of specific solute-solvent interaction, which plays a key role in molecular or supramolecular photochemistry, as well as in photobiology. Solvation and its influence on various physico-chemical and biological processes can be understood by i) top-down; and ii) bottom-up approaches. In the top-down approach, the macroscopic properties like dielectric constant, refractive index are used to understand the microscopic solvation. This approach fails when specific interactions like hydrogen bonding interactions come into play, and furthermore it can reproduce only the macroscopic polarization of the solvent but fails miserably at the cybotactic region of solvation. With the recent advancements in the computational field, the molecular level description of solvation has been within reach for chemical physicists and experimentalists to corroborate their experimental results and in turn to visualize processes of fundamental or technologically relevant problems. The energy levels of the nπ* and ππ* singlet and triplet excited states of aromatic ketones are close-lying and therefore their energy levels can be altered by the substituents. The solvent polarity can be used as a surrogate to tune their energy levels. In certain cases, the lowest triplet or singlet excited states can switch their electronic character with increasing solvent polarity known as “electronic state switching” and thus modulate their photochemical or photophysical properties. Therefore, aromatic ketones were used as solvatochromic probes in this work. Comprehensive analyses of the solvent effects on xanthone (XT), 9,10-phenanthrenequinone (PQ) and benzophenone (Bzp) were carried out using steady-state and nanosecond time-resolved absorption, and resonance Raman spectroscopy in conjunction with ad hoc and classical-molecular dynamics and simulations generated supermolecule-continuum solvent model quantum mechanical calculations to corroborate the experimental outcomes and in turn to visualize the solvation process at the molecular level. The present thesis is divided into eight chapters and the summary of each chapter is described below: Chapter 1 provides a brief literature review of solvation effects and their influence on various physico-chemical and biological processes. Furthermore, the importance of understanding solvation at the molecular level and key concepts are discussed, which forms the heart of this thesis. Chapter 2 discusses the experimental and computational approaches used to study the solvation processes at the molecular level. A detailed explanation of spectroscopic techniques like resonance Raman (RR) and nanosecond-time resolved resonance Raman (ns-TR3) spectroscopy and their experimental and theoretical aspects are discussed, followed by a discussion on the fundamental concepts of computational methods like ab initio calculations density functional theory (DFT), and classical molecular dynamics and simulations (c-MDS) utilized in this study. Chapter 3 focuses on microscopic understanding of solvatochromic shifts observed for 9,10-phenanthrenequinone in protic solvents using UV-Vis and RR spectroscopy in conjunction with an ad hoc explicit solvation model and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations. The hypsochromic shift and bathochromic shift of the singlet nπ* and ππ* electronic transitions in protic solvents are due to hydrogen bond weakening and strengthening in the excited state for the corresponding electronic transitions, respectively as indicated by TD-DFT calculations and Kamlet-Taft linear solvation energy relationships. The hydrogen bond strengthening in the singlet ππ* excited state is further confirmed by Raman excitation profile (REP) analysis of PQ in different solvents. Furthermore, with increasing solvent polarity the two lowest singlet excited states undergo different hydrogen bonding mechanisms, leading to a decreasing energy gap between them. Therefore, hyperchromism of the nπ* transition has been hypothesized to be due to an increasing vibronic coupling between the lowest singlet nπ* and ππ* excited states. In Chapter 4, a real time observation of the thermal equilibrium between the lowest triplet excited states of PQ in acetonitrile solvent was carried out using ns-TR3 spectroscopy and this can explain its high reactivity towards H-atom abstraction, despite the fact that the lowest triplet excited state has ππ* character. Furthermore, extending the concept of hydrogen bonding mechanisms of the lowest singlet to the triplet excited states, the different hydrogen bonding mechanisms exhibited by them can lead to alteration of the intersystem crossing mechanisms in PQ. Chapter 5 highlights the very different role of intermolecular hydrogen bonding in the reduced reactivity of the xanthone (XT) triplet towards H-atom abstraction in protic solvents. The different hydrogen bonding mechanisms exhibited by the two lowest triplet excited states in protic solvents are derived from an ad hoc explicit solvation model, TD-DFT calculations and ns-time resolved absorption (ns-TRA): they separate them further in energy and thereby the nearest T2(nπ*) triplet state to the T1(ππ*) excited state plays an insignificant role in the reactivity towards H-atom abstraction, in contrast to the PQ triplet discussed in Chapter 4. Chapter 6 discusses the structure of XT triplet states using TR3 spectroscopy in combination with TD-DFT studies. The TR3 spectrum of the XT in acetonitrile identified a vibronic coupling mode responsible for the reactivity of XT towards H-atom abstraction, despite the fact that the lowest triplet excited state (T1) has ππ* character. This vibronic active mode is absent in the TR3 spectra of XT in protic solvents (methanol and ethanol). Furthermore, the REP analysis suggests that the nanosecond triplet-triplet absorption spectrum of XT in acetonitrile involves two different species, while in methanol it involves only one species. This observation is in agreement with the previous chapter (Chapter 5) which proposes a different hydrogen bonding mechanisms for the two lowest triplet excited states and their influence on the reduced reactivity towards H-atom abstraction. Chapters 3-6 emphasize the need for a proper solvation model at the molecular level to describe the various photophysical and photochemical processes of aromatic ketones. Therefore, Chapter 7 includes discussions on the bottom-up solvation methodology applied to benzophenone (Bzp) to understand its vibrational and electronic solvatochromic behaviour at the molecular level. Raman and UV-Vis spectroscopic techniques were used in conjunction with a c-MDS-generated supermolecule continuum solvation model DFT calculation to corroborate and to visualize the experimental outcome. The carbonyl stretching frequency of Bzp in protic solvents has two bands, corresponding to free carbonyl and hydrogen bonded carbonyl. Despite the fact that the macroscopic polarity of acetonitrile and methanol solvents are similar, the free carbonyl stretching of Bzp in methanol solvent was blue-shifted by 4 cm-1 with respect to the carbonyl stretching in acetonitrile solvent. The Gutmann’s acceptor number plot for carbonyl stretching frequencies indicates that the free carbonyl group is neighboured by a hydrophobic environment. The c-MDS-generated supermolecule-continuum solvation model DFT calculations suggest that the extended hydrogen bonding network of methanol solvent is responsible for the hydrophobic solvation around the free carbonyl. Furthermore, a linear correlation was obtained for the vibrational and electronic solvatochromism of the carbonyl frequency and energy of the singlet nπ* transition, respectively, which indicates that a variation in excitation wavelength for the singlet nπ* transition can arise from different solvation states. This can have implications for ultrafast processes associated with electron transfer, charge-transfer and also the photophysical aspects of excited states.Finally, Chapter 8 contains overall conclusions of the thesis and future directions for the present research area.

Des nouveaux ligands chiraux diamine N-aromatiques, dérivés de 1,2-diaminocyclohexane et des a et ß- cétones cycliques aromatiques, ont été synthétisés par alkylation-déshydrogénation catalysée par le palladium sur charbon (Pd/C). Cette méthode, nous a permis de préparer un série des ligands chiraux de types N,N-di-aryles diamine and N-aryle diamine avec de très bons rendements isolés.Premièrement, les efficacités des ligands synthétisés ont été examinées avec succès dans la réaction de réduction par transfert d'hydrure des cétones aromatiques, catalysée avec des catalyseurs homogènes d'iridium formés in situ iridium assistés par l'acide formique et son sel de sodium. Des cétones aromatiques variés ont été réduits, suivant la méthode y développée, en des alcools correspondants avec des complètes et des hautes énantiosélectivités (ee jusqu'au 93%). Ensuite, deux ligands diamine, N,N'-dinaphtyle diaminocylohexane et N-naphtyle diaminocylohexane complexés avec le Cu (II) ont été évalués dans la réaction asymétrique de Henry entre des dérivés de benzaldéhyde et le nitrométhane conduisant aux ß-nitro-aryle-alcools avec des bonnes énantiosélectivités (ee jusqu'au 83%) et des bons rendements isolés. On a aussi transformé ces deux ligands, en sels d'imidazolinium précurseurs des carbènes, pour des ultérieures application en catalyse asymétrique. Le dérrivé mono N-aryle diamine a été transformé en ligand mono-thio. Les trois ligands ainsi préparés ont été obtenus avec des bons rendements isolés / New chiral N-arylated diamine ligands, derived from 1,2-diaminocyclohexane and a and ß-cyclic-aromatic ketone, were synthesized by dehydrogenative alkylation catalyzed by palladium on carbon (Pd/C). This method, allowed to prepare a series of chiral N,N-diarylated diamine and N-aryl diamine ligands with very good isolated yield.First of all, the applicability of the synthesized chiral diamine ligands was successfully examined in asymmetric transfer hydrogenation with homogeneous iridium catalyst associated to formic acid and its sodium salt. Various aromatic ketones were reduced to chiral alchohol with a complete conversion and high enantioselectivity (ee up to 93%). Then, two of the prepared chiral diamine, N,N’-dinaphtyl diaminocylohexane and N-naphtyl diaminocylohexane combined to copper (II), have been evaluated in asymmetric Henry reaction between benzaldehyde derivatives and nitromethane leading to ß-nitro-aryl-alcohol with good enantioselectivities (ee up to 83%) and good isolated yields.Furthermore, we transform these two ligands into imidazolinium salts precursor of carbenes, for further application in asymmetric catalysis. The mono N-arylated diamine was transformed into mono-thiourea ligand. These three new ligands were obtained with very good isolated yields