In the title compound, C(21)H(22)N(2)O(6)S, the phenyl ring forms a dihedral angle of 83.17 (7)° with the indole ring system. The methyl group of the ester unit is disordered over two positions with site occupancies of 0.635 (6) and 0.365 (6). In the crystal structure, weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions and inter-molecular C-H⋯O, C-H⋯N and C-H⋯π inter-actions are observed.

A homochiral triple helix was self-assembled from an axially chiral bipyridine and a linear metal-connecting point, which further assembles into a 2D network via infinite pi...pi stacking interactions and acts as a host for the inclusion of guest molecules.

Hexafluorophosphate salts of mononuclear complexes [Ru(II)Cl(L)(terpy)]+ (L = dmbpy (1); dpbpy (2), sambpy (3), and dpp (7), and binuclear complexes [Ru(II)2Cl2(dpp)(terpy)2]2+ (8) and [Ir(III)Ru(II)Cl2(dpp)(terpy)2]3+ (9) were prepared and characterized. Abbreviations of the ligands are bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, dmbpy = 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine, dpbpy = 4,4'-diphenyl-2,2'-bipyridine, dpp = 2...

By solvent free syntheses of the rare earth trichlorides LnCl(3), Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb with melts of 4,4'-bipyridine two-dimensional frameworks of the formula (2)(infinity)[Ln(2)Cl(6)(4,4'-bipy)(3)] x 2(4,4'-bipy) are obtained, with 4,4'-bipy = C(10)H(8)N(2), 4,4'-bipyridine. 4,4'-Bipyridine acts both as a linker ligand as well as a template and populates all cavities in the structures. The ...

J . R a d h a k r i s h n a n Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06268, USA Z. Naturforsch. 84b, 481-487 (1979); received August 15, 1978 Solvolysis, Methylnorbornyl Systems, Norbornan-3,6-dione, 2-exo-Methylnorbornan-6-one 3-Nortricyclyl bromide (11) was transformed in four steps to norbornan-3,6-dione (10). Methyl 4 -hydroxy-2-butynoate (19) was prepared f...

Rh(III) and Ir(III) can be complexed to bipyridine groups attached to the termini of bis(dioxaborine)-capped heptamethines; these chromophores exhibit large third-order polarisabilities at 1.55 μm, while retaining good film-forming properties and linear optical transparency in the near infrared.

6-Azathymidine, 6-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, 6-methyl-2'-deoxyuridine, and 5,6-dimethyl-2'-deoxyuridine nucleosides have been converted to phosphoramidite synthons and incorporated into oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs). ODNs containing from 1 to 5 of these modified pyrimidines were compared with known 2'-deoxyuridine, 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine, 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine, 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine, 5-bromo-2'-...