O presente trabalho investiga alguns sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos quanto à sua basicidade relativa e quanto à sua reatividade em relação aos compostos de Grignard aromáticos. O conjunto de compostos investigados foi o seguinte: metil n-propil sulfóxido, metil metiltiometil sulfóxido, etil butil sulfóxido, etil etiltiometil sulfóxido, etil feniltiometil sulfóxido, fenil feniltiometil sulfóxido e 1,3-ditiolano-1-óxido. É apresentada, inicialmente, uma revisão bibliográfica sôbre dois itens: 1. basicidade de sulfóxidos, e 2. reações de sulfóxidos com compostos de Grignard. São apresentados os valores de constantes de associação para dois sulfóxidos β-tia-substituídos e dois não substituídos correspondentes. Estes valores foram calculados a partir de medidas dos deslocamentos químicos dos prótons do fenol em sistemas ternários sulfóxido -fenol-tetracloreto de carbono, pelo dos métodos de Carper e de Mathur. São apresentadas as reações de quatro sulfóxidos com alguns compostos de Grignard aromáticos, tais como os brometos de fenil-, p-anisil-, p-tolilmagnésio, e descritos os métodos de análise dos compostos formados. São descritas as preparações de cincos sulfóxidos e de alguns produtos autênticos. São fornecidos os resultados de algumas experiências de reações de um sulfóxido β-tia-substituído com brometo de fenilmagnésio em presença de base. É apresentada uma discussão na qual se procura interpretar tanto os resultados da literatura como os nossos. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que: a) Há diminuição de basicidade nos sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos, em comparação com os não substituidos correspondentes. b) A reação dos sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos com compostos de Grignard aromáticos fornece os mercaptais dos aldeidos aromáticos correspondentes. c) A reação dos sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos com reagentes de Grignard e impedida por bases fortes. Os rendimentos dos mercaptais são muito mais baixos do que na ausência de base. d) A fixação do organomagnesiano ocorre inicialmente no grupo sulfinila. Um mecanismo envolvendo um estado de transição cíclico é sugerido para explicar a migração preferencial do anel aromático proveniente do composto de Grignard. / This thesis investigates some β-thia-substituted sulphoxides concerning their relative basicity and reactivity toward aromatic Grignard reagents. The following compounds were investigated: methyl n-propyl sulphoxide, methyl methylthiomethyl sulphoxide, ethyl n-butyl sulphoxide, ethyl ethylthiomethyl sulphoxide, ethyl phenylthiomethyl sulphoxide, phenyl phenylthtomethyl sulphoxide and 1,3-dithiolane-l-oxide. A literature review, containing two topics, is presented: 1) basicity of sulphoxides, 2) reactions of sulphoxides with Grignard reagents. The data of the association constants for two β-thiasubstituted and two corresponding unsubstituted sulphoxides are presented. These values were calculated from the chemical shifts of the phenol protons, measured in the ternary systems sulphoxide -phenol-carbon tetrachloride, by methods of Mathur and Carper. The reactivity of four sulphoxides with some Grignard reagents, such as phenyl-, p-anisyl-, and p-tolylmagnesium bromides including the analyses of the resulting products is presented. The preparation of five sulphoxides and of some authentic products are described. Some experiments, in which the Grignard reaction is performed in basic conditions, are reported. The obtained results are discussed in the light of the literature data. It is shown that: a) There is a decrease in basicity going from the unsubstituted sulphoxides to the corresponding β-thia-substituted ones. b) The reaction of β-thia-substituted sulphoxides lead to the corresponding aromatic aldehydes mercaptals. c) The reaction of the β-thia-substituted sulphoxides is inhibited by the presence of a base. The yields of mercaptals are much lower than in the absence of base. d) The attachment of the Grignard reagent occurs, initially, at sulphinyl group. A mechanism, envolving a cyclic transition state, is suggested, in order to explain the preferential migration of the aromatic ring, which belonged originally to the Grignard reagent.

O presente trabalho investiga alguns sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos quanto à sua basicidade relativa e quanto à sua reatividade em relação aos compostos de Grignard aromáticos. O conjunto de compostos investigados foi o seguinte: metil n-propil sulfóxido, metil metiltiometil sulfóxido, etil butil sulfóxido, etil etiltiometil sulfóxido, etil feniltiometil sulfóxido, fenil feniltiometil sulfóxido e 1,3-ditiolano-1-óxido. É apresentada, inicialmente, uma revisão bibliográfica sôbre dois itens: 1. basicidade de sulfóxidos, e 2. reações de sulfóxidos com compostos de Grignard. São apresentados os valores de constantes de associação para dois sulfóxidos β-tia-substituídos e dois não substituídos correspondentes. Estes valores foram calculados a partir de medidas dos deslocamentos químicos dos prótons do fenol em sistemas ternários sulfóxido -fenol-tetracloreto de carbono, pelo dos métodos de Carper e de Mathur. São apresentadas as reações de quatro sulfóxidos com alguns compostos de Grignard aromáticos, tais como os brometos de fenil-, p-anisil-, p-tolilmagnésio, e descritos os métodos de análise dos compostos formados. São descritas as preparações de cincos sulfóxidos e de alguns produtos autênticos. São fornecidos os resultados de algumas experiências de reações de um sulfóxido β-tia-substituído com brometo de fenilmagnésio em presença de base. É apresentada uma discussão na qual se procura interpretar tanto os resultados da literatura como os nossos. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que: a) Há diminuição de basicidade nos sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos, em comparação com os não substituidos correspondentes. b) A reação dos sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos com compostos de Grignard aromáticos fornece os mercaptais dos aldeidos aromáticos correspondentes. c) A reação dos sulfóxidos β-tia-substituidos com reagentes de Grignard e impedida por bases fortes. Os rendimentos dos mercaptais são muito mais baixos do que na ausência de base. d) A fixação do organomagnesiano ocorre inicialmente no grupo sulfinila. Um mecanismo envolvendo um estado de transição cíclico é sugerido para explicar a migração preferencial do anel aromático proveniente do composto de Grignard. / This thesis investigates some β-thia-substituted sulphoxides concerning their relative basicity and reactivity toward aromatic Grignard reagents. The following compounds were investigated: methyl n-propyl sulphoxide, methyl methylthiomethyl sulphoxide, ethyl n-butyl sulphoxide, ethyl ethylthiomethyl sulphoxide, ethyl phenylthiomethyl sulphoxide, phenyl phenylthtomethyl sulphoxide and 1,3-dithiolane-l-oxide. A literature review, containing two topics, is presented: 1) basicity of sulphoxides, 2) reactions of sulphoxides with Grignard reagents. The data of the association constants for two β-thiasubstituted and two corresponding unsubstituted sulphoxides are presented. These values were calculated from the chemical shifts of the phenol protons, measured in the ternary systems sulphoxide -phenol-carbon tetrachloride, by methods of Mathur and Carper. The reactivity of four sulphoxides with some Grignard reagents, such as phenyl-, p-anisyl-, and p-tolylmagnesium bromides including the analyses of the resulting products is presented. The preparation of five sulphoxides and of some authentic products are described. Some experiments, in which the Grignard reaction is performed in basic conditions, are reported. The obtained results are discussed in the light of the literature data. It is shown that: a) There is a decrease in basicity going from the unsubstituted sulphoxides to the corresponding β-thia-substituted ones. b) The reaction of β-thia-substituted sulphoxides lead to the corresponding aromatic aldehydes mercaptals. c) The reaction of the β-thia-substituted sulphoxides is inhibited by the presence of a base. The yields of mercaptals are much lower than in the absence of base. d) The attachment of the Grignard reagent occurs, initially, at sulphinyl group. A mechanism, envolving a cyclic transition state, is suggested, in order to explain the preferential migration of the aromatic ring, which belonged originally to the Grignard reagent.

The research described in this thesis originated from an idea to develop new body protection for the sport of fencing. The ultimate goal is to develop body armour which would be flexible, wearable, washable, light and breathable, offer protection from injuries and cover the entire body of a sportsman. A new material which exhibits shear thickening behaviour has been specially developed for this purpose in the process of this investigation. The material was designed and synthesised as a soft polymeric system which is flexible, chemically stable and able to increase the value of its modulus of elasticity upon impact at a high strain rate, while remaining in its soft gel-like elastomeric state when low strain rate deformation is applied. The polymeric system that has been developed is based on interpenetrating polymeric networks (IPN) of immiscible polyurethane/urea-ester/ether and poly(boron)n(dimethylsiloxane)m (where on average m ≈ 16 n). In addition, as the polydimethylsilane (PDMS) based polymeric system strongly tends to phase separation, the siloxane polymeric network was chemically cross-linked to the polyurethane polymeric network through polyurethane chemical cross-link-bridges. In order to introduce polyurethane cross-links to a siloxane-based polymeric network, some of the attached methyl groups in the PDMS polymeric backbone were substituted by ε-pentanol groups. The resulting polymeric system combines properties of an alternating copolymer with IPN. The actual substitution of the methyl groups of PDMS into alternating ε-pentanol groups was performed by Grignard reaction of trifunctional chlorosilane monomers, magnesium and 1,5-dibromopentane. Chemical analytical techniques like FT-IR, 13C NMR and 1H NMR spectroscopy were used to reveal the chemical structure of the synthesised polymeric network. The mechanical and dynamical properties of the obtained polymeric system were analysed by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). This part of the investigation indicated that the novel polymeric system exhibited shear thickening behaviour, but only at a narrow diapason of deformations (i.e., deformations between 2 to 3 % of the length of the sample). At this limited diapason of deformation an effective increase of the modulus of elasticity from 6 MPa (at lower frequencies, i.e., up to ≤6 Hz of the applied oscillating stress) to 65 MPa (at frequencies between 12.5 to 25 Hz) was obtained. However, no increase in the modulus of elasticity was recorded at deformations below 1.5 % or above 3.5 % of length of the sample at the same frequencies (0 to 25Hz) of the applied oscillating stress.

<p>U disertaciji je ostvarena sineza amida i oksazolina žučnih kiselina, kao i njihovih alkil i alkilidenskih derivata polazeći od holne kiseline. Ipitano je pona&scaron;anje različitih okso derivata žučnih kiselina u uslovima Grignard-ove i Wittig-ove reakcije. Ispitana je biolo&scaron;ka aktivnost odabranih sintetizovanih jedinjenja</p> / <p>Synhesis of bile acid amide and oxazoline derivatives, and their alkyl and alkylidene derivatives was accomplished starting from cholic acid. Also, chemical behavior of different bile acid oxo derivatives in Grignard and Wittig reaction was investigated. Biological activity&nbsp; of selected synthesized compounds was evaluated.</p>

Cette thèse se compose en deux parties: Première Partie: La conception et la synthèse d’analogues pyrrolidiniques, utilisés comme agents anticancéreux, dérivés du FTY720. FTY720 est actuellement commercialisé comme médicament (GilenyaTM) pour le traitement de la sclérose en plaques rémittente-récurrente. Il agit comme immunosuppresseur en raison de son effet sur les récepteurs de la sphingosine-1-phosphate. A fortes doses, FTY720 présente un effet antinéoplasique. Cependant, à de telles doses, un des effets secondaires observé est la bradycardie dû à l’activation des récepteurs S1P1 et S1P3. Ceci limite son potentiel d’utilisation lors de chimiothérapie. Nos précédentes études ont montré que des analogues pyrrolidiniques dérivés du FTY720 présentaient une activité anticancéreuse mais aucune sur les récepteurs S1P1 et S1P3. Nous avons soumis l’idée qu’une étude relation structure-activité (SARs) pourrait nous conduire à la découverte de nouveaux agents anti tumoraux. Ainsi, deux séries de composés pyrrolidiniques (O-arylmethyl substitué et C-arylmethyl substitué) ont pu être envisagés et synthétisés (Chapitre 1). Ces analogues ont montré d’excellentes activités cytotoxiques contre diverses cellules cancéreuses humaines (prostate, colon, sein, pancréas et leucémie), plus particulièrement les analogues actifs qui ne peuvent pas être phosphorylés par SphK, présentent un plus grand potentiel pour le traitement du cancer sans effet secondaire comme la bradycardie. Les études mécanistiques suggèrent que ces analogues de déclencheurs de régulation négative sur les transporteurs de nutriments induisent une crise bioénergétique en affamant les cellules cancéreuses. Afin d’approfondir nos connaissances sur les récepteurs cibles, nous avons conçu et synthétisé des sondes diazirine basées sur le marquage d’affinité aux photons (méthode PAL: Photo-Affinity Labeling) (Chapitre 2). En s’appuyant sur la méthode PAL, il est possible de récolter des informations sur les récepteurs cibles à travers l’analyse LC/MS/MS de la protéine. Ces tests sont en cours et les résultats sont prometteurs. Deuxième partie: Coordination métallique et catalyse di fonctionnelle de dérivés β-hydroxy cétones tertiaires. Les réactions de Barbier et de Grignard sont des méthodes classiques pour former des liaisons carbone-carbone, et généralement utilisées pour la préparation d’alcools secondaires et tertiaires. En vue d’améliorer la réaction de Grignard avec le 1-iodobutane dans les conditions « one-pot » de Barbier, nous avons obtenu comme produit majoritaire la β-hydroxy cétone provenant de l’auto aldolisation de la 5-hexen-2-one, plutôt que le produit attendu d’addition de l’alcool (Chapitre 3). La formation inattendue de la β-hydroxy cétone a également été observée en utilisant d’autres dérivés méthyl cétone. Étonnement dans la réaction intramoléculaire d’une tricétone, connue pour former la cétone Hajos-Parrish, le produit majoritaire est rarement la β-hydroxy cétone présentant la fonction alcool en position axiale. Intrigué par ces résultats et après l’étude systématique des conditions de réaction, nous avons développé deux nouvelles méthodes à travers la synthèse sélective et catalytique de β-hydroxy cétones spécifiques par cyclisation intramoléculaire avec des rendements élevés (Chapitre 4). La réaction peut être catalysée soit par une base adaptée et du bromure de lithium comme additif en passant par un état de transition coordonné au lithium, ou bien soit à l’aide d’un catalyseur TBD di fonctionnel, via un état de transition médiée par une coordination bidenté au TBD. Les mécanismes proposés ont été corroborés par calcul DFT. Ces réactions catalytiques ont également été appliquées à d’autres substrats comme les tricétones et les dicétones. Bien que les efforts préliminaires afin d’obtenir une enantioselectivité se sont révélés sans succès, la synthèse et la recherche de nouveaux catalyseurs chiraux sont en cours. / This thesis consists of two parts: Part 1: Design and synthesis of constrained azacyclic pyrrolidine analogues of FTY720 as anticancer agents FTY720 is presently marketed as a drug (GilenyaTM) for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. It functions as an immunosuppressant due to its effect on sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptors. At higher doses, FTY720 also has antineoplastic actions. However, at such doses it induces bradycardia due to the activation of the S1P1 and S1P3 receptors. This limits its potentical to be used as a cancer therapy in humans. Our previous studies have shown that some constrained pyrrolidine analogues of FTY720 have anticancer activity but no activity toward S1P1 and S1P3 receptors. We reasoned that a study of the structure-activity relationships (SARs) could lead to the discovery of new effective antitumor agents. Thus, two series of constrained analogues (O-arylmethyl-substituted pyrrolidines and C-aryl-substituted pyrrolidines) were designed and synthesized (Chapter 1). These analogues showed excellent cytotoxic activity against various human cancer cells (prostate, colon, breast, pancreas and leukemia). Especially, several active analogues, which cannot be phosphorylated by SphK, have the potency to be further studied in the treatment of cancer without inducing bradycardia. Mechanistic studies suggest that these constrained analogues trigger down-regulation of nutrient transporters, which induce a bioenergetic crisis and the cancer cells starve to death. To further investigate their target receptors, we have designed and synthesized diazirine based photo-affinity labeling (PAL) probes (Chapter 2). Aided by the PAL technique, information regarding the target receptor could be obtained through LC/MS/MS protein analysis. These tests are in progress and the preliminary results appear promising. Part 2: Metal coordination-controlled and bifunctional catalysis toward tertiary β-ketols The Barbier and Grignard reactions are classical methods to form carbon-carbon bonds, and generally used to prepare secondary or tertiary alcohols. In an attempt to perform a Grignard reaction with n-butyl iodide under Barbier one-pot conditions, we obtained major product β-hydroxyl ketol from the self-aldol reaction of 5-hexen-2-one, rather than the expected addition alcohol product (Chapter 3). The unusual β-ketol formation was also observed using other methyl ketone substrates. Interestingly, in an intramolecular reaction of a triketone substrate, which is well known to give the Hajos-Parrish ketone, the favored product was a rarely studied β-ketol with the hydroxyl group at axial position. Intrigued by these results, after systematic reaction condition studies, we developed two new methods toward the catalytic synthesis of specific β-ketols by intramolecular cylcization in high yield and selectivity (Chapter 4). The reaction can be catalyzed either by a suitable base and lithium bromide as the additive, through a lithium pre-organized transition state or by a bifunctional catalyst TBD (triazabicyclodecene), through a TBD mediated bidentate transition state. The proposed mechanisms were corroborated by DFT computation. These catalytic reactions were also extended to other triketone and diketone substrates. Although the initial efforts to achieve enantioselectivity were not successful, they merit further study of the synthesis and investigation of new chiral catalysts.

<p>U radu je ostvarena enantiodivergentna totalna sinteza oba enantiomera goniofufurona, 7-epi-goniofufurona i krasalaktona C polazeći iz D-glukoze. Ključne faze u sintezi 7-epi-(+)-goniofufurona bile su stereoselektivna adicija fenilmagnezijum bromida na aldehidnu grupu pogodno za&scaron;tićene dialdoze, i stereospecifično formiranje furano-laktonskog prstena ciklokondenzacijom odabranog hemiacetalnog derivata sa Meldrum-ovom kiselinom. Sinteza (+)-goniofufurona i (+)-krasalaktona C zahtevala je inverziju konfiguracije na C-5<br />u zajedničkom intermedijeru, koja je efikasno ostvarena u uslovima Mitsunobu-ove reakcije, ili alternativno oksidacijom benzilne hidroksilne grupe u prohiralni keton, uz naknadnu stereoselektivnu redukcijom sa borohidridom. Sličan pristup je zatim primenjen za sintezu neprirodnih (&minus;)-enantiomera goniofufurona, 7-epi-goniofufurona i krasalaktona C, dva nova konformaciono ograničena analoga (+)- i (&minus;)-goniofufurona (oksetani 36 i ent-36), kao i odgovarajućih 7-deoksigenovanih derivata (31 i ent-31). Takodje je razvijena i prva totalna sinteza prirodnog (+)-krasalaktona B (3) i alternativna sinteza (+)-krasalaktona C (4) polazeći iz D-glukoze. Selektivni pristup molekulima 3, odnosno 4 omogućen je promenom uslova za TBDPS deprotekciju u finalnom intermedijeru 53. Osnovna karakteristika pomenutih pristupa je njihova generalnost i fleksibilnost. Na taj način je omogućena sinteza serije analoga i derivata (+)-goniofufurona, ili 7-epi-goniofufurona, uključujući i do sada nepoznate 7-epi-(+)-krasalaktone B (6) i C (7), 5,7-di-O-cinamoil derivate 8 i 9, 5,7-di-O-izopropilidenske derivate 5 i 10, kao i vi&scaron;e lipofilnih derivata (jedinjenja 26, 30, 33, 65, ent-30 i ent-33). Konačno, u drugom delu rada, ispitan je uticaj sintetizovanih stiril-laktona na rast odabranih tumorskih ćelijskih linija in vitro.</p> / <p> Enantiodivergent total syntheses of both (+)- and (&minus;)-enantiomers of goniofufurone, 7-epi-goniofufurone and crassalactone C have been accomplished starting from D-glucose. The key steps of the synthe-sis of 7-epi-(+)-goniofufurone were a stereo-selective addition of&nbsp;<br /> phenyl magnesium bromide to a protected dialdose, followed by a stereospecific furano-lactone ring formation by condensation of a partially protected lactole with Meldrum&rsquo;s acid. The synthesis of (+)-goniofufurone and (+)-crassalactone C required a configurational inversion at C-5 in the common intermediate that was efficiently achieved under the standard Mitsunobu conditions, or alternatively through a sequential oxidation of the benzylic hydroxyl group followed by a stereo-selective reduction with borohydride. A similar approach was applied to the synthesis of the unnatural enantiomers of goniofufurone, 7-epi-goniofufurone and crassalactone C, two novel, conformationally constrained analogues of both (+)- and (&minus;)-goniofufurone (oxetanes 34 and ent-34). as well as the corresponding 7-deoxygenated derivatives (31 and ent-31). We have also developed the first total synthesis of (+)-crassalactone B (2) and an alternative synthesis of (+)-crassalactone C (3) starting from D-glucose. Finally, the synthesized styryl-lactones were evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against a panel of human tumor cell lines.</p>