A primeira parte desta tese aborda estudos sobre a reatividade de compostos de telúrio eletrofílicos, principalmente tetracloreto de telúrio e tricloretos aromáticos de telúrio. Novos aspectos da reatividade de TeCl4 frente a alcinos e algumas acetofenonas foram observados e, a partir da elucidação estrutural dos compostos obtidos, por cristalografia, uma racionalização mecanística foi proposta para cada caso. As proposições apresentadas encontraram respaldo com a detecção de intermediários transientes por estudos de espectrometria de massas com ionização por electron-spray (ESI-MS/MS). Além de novos aspectos da química do Telúrio, os compostos preparados encontraram aplicação como potentes e seletivos inibidores de cisteíno proteases. Com esta aplicação estabelecida, foram sintetizadas ambos os enantiômeros de uma telurana e a atividade inibitória destas frente a Catepsina B mostrou dependência da estereoquímica devido a dependência estereoquímica da interação entre a enzima e o inibidor. A segunda parte deste trabalho trata do desenvolvimento da reação de abertura de anel de aziridinas por reagentes organometálicos de cobre derivados de teluretos vinílicos e arílicos que resultaram em derivados de aminas homoalílicas ou homobenzílicas. Em seguida, a reatividade de aziridinas alílicas foi estudada frente a uma série de reagentes organometálicos de lítio, magnésio, cobre e zinco que mostraram influenciar a regio- e estereosseletividades das reações de abertura. / The first part of this thesis deals with the study of the reactivity of electrophilic tellurium compounds, mainly tellurium tetrachloride and aromatic tellurium trichlorides. New aspects of the reactivity of TeCl4 towards alkynes and some acetophenones were disclosed. A mechanistic rationale for each of the processes studied was possible by the determination of the stereochemistry for each product by monocrystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The proposition of the formation of cationic intermediates in the addition reaction of TeCl4 to alkynes was corroborated by the detection and characterization of transient intermediates by ESI-MS/MS experiments. Besides the new aspects of the Tellurium chemistry found, the prepared compounds showed a high and selective activity as inhibitors of cysteine proteases. A pair of enantiomers of a tellurane showed different activities against Human Catepsin B due to a stereochemical dependence in the enzyme/inhibitor interaction. The second part of the present work deals with the development of the ring opening reaction of aziridines by organometallic reagents of copper prepared from vinylic and arylic tellurides. These reactions led to homoallylic and homobenzylic amine derivatives. Finally, the reactivity of 2-alkenyl aziridines was studied towards a series of organometallic reagents of lithium, magnesium, copper and zinc which biased the regio- and stereoselectivities of the ring opening reactions.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Synthese und Charakterisierung von chiralen prolylfunktionalisierten Farbstoffen vorgestellt. Als chromophore Schlüsselverbindungen wurden Nitroaniline aber auch größere push-pull pi-Systeme wie Schiffsche Basen, Azofarbstoffe und Merocyanine gewählt. Im Fokus dieser Arbeit stehen dabei deren solvatochrome Eigenschaften, pH-Sensitivität sowie mögliche Wechselwirkung mit Biomolekülen und verschiedenen An- und Kationen. Zusätzlich erfolgten Umsetzungen ausgewählter prolylfunktionalisierter chromophorer Bausteine zu Estern und Amiden. Der Einfluss des Prolylbausteins auf das im Festkörper ausgebildete Wasserstoffbrückenbindungsmusters wurde über Einkristallröntgenstrukturanalysen untersucht und nach der Graph Set Methode von Etter klassifiziert. Neben der Einkristallröntgenstrukturanalyse erfolgte die weitere Untersuchung der Festkörpereigenschaften mit Hilfe von UV/Vis- sowie NMR-spektroskopischen Methoden. Das solvatochrome Verhalten der prolylfunktionalisierten Verbindungen wurde mittels multipler linearer Regressionsanalyse gemäß der LSER- (linear solvation energy relationship) Beziehung nach den Ansätzen von Kamlet-Taft und Catalán beschrieben und vergleichend interpretiert.

The aim of my Thesis was to develop a general synthetic methodology for the preparation of long helicenes equipped with suitable functional groups that control their solubility or serve as anchoring groups for attachment to metallic surfaces, especially gold. The well-established transition metal catalyzed [2+2+2] cyclotrimerization of triynes was selected as the key scaffold-forming transformation in the synthesis of long helicenes because of its high regioselectivity, atom efficiency, functional group tolerance and general robustness. A modular approach was used for the preparation of the starting oligoynes, thus enabling a high level of their structural diversity. Individual resorcinol- based aromatic building blocks were interconnected by Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions, providing complex cyclization precursors encompassing up to twelve alkyne units pre-arranged for the multiple [2+2+2] cycloisomerization to produce three six- membered rings from each set of three neighboring alkyne units. Thus, a small series of long helicenes with up to 19 rings constituting the helical scaffold was synthesized. The quadruple cyclization leading to the longest oxahelicene prepared to date was performed in a high-temperature-high-pressure flow reactor at 250 řC in the presence of CpCo(CO)2. The set of...