Abstract:
Enolate salts of 4-fluoro-2-hydroxymethylene-3-oxobutyrates of formula wherein R1 is C1-10 alkyl, R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or fluorine, M is an alkali or alkaline earth metal, and n is 1 or 2, are prepared from enolate salts of the corresponding 4-fluoro-3-oxobutyrates and carbon monoxide. The enolate salts of formula I can be alkylated or acylated to obtain the corresponding enol ethers and esters. The 4-fluoro-3-oxobutyrate starting material can be prepared from 1,1-difluoroethyl methyl ethers by SbF5-catalyzed fluoromethane elimination followed by halogen exchange with lithium chloride, reacting the thus obtained fluoroacetyl chloride with ketene and quenching with the appropriate alcohol R1—OH.
Abstract:
A fluorinated polyvalent carbonyl compound is produced by an economically advantageous method from inexpensive materials without requiring a complicated synthetic process step. Namely, the present invention comprises reacting a polyvalent alcohol having at least two kinds of alcohol skeletons selected among a primary alcohol, a secondary alcohol and a tertiary alcohol, with an acid halide to obtain a polyvalent ester compound, fluorinating it in a liquid phase to obtain a perfluorinated polyvalent ester compound, and cleaving the ester bonds derived from primary and secondary alcohols in the perfluoropolyvalent ester compound to obtain a fluorinated polyvalent carbonyl compound.
Abstract:
Perfluorocarbonyl compounds of the formulae IV and V ##STR1## in which R.sub.f denotes perfluoroalkyl, R'.sub.f denotes perfluoroalkylene, R denotes F, Cl, perfluoroalkyl or --OR"' (R"'=alkyl, aryl or aralkyl) and n denotes a number from 0 to 10, are prepared, starting from compounds of the formula I ##STR2## in which R.sub.f, R'.sub.f and n have the same meaning as in the formulae IV and V and R" is F, Cl or perfluoroalkyl, by electrolysis in an electrolyte consisting of fluorosulfonic acid/alkali metal fluorosulfonate and, if necessary, esterification with R"'OH, and decomposition ##STR3## in the presence of catalytic amounts of alkali metal fluorides and/or aprotic N-bases. Most of the compounds IV and V are new; the latter are, above all, valuable heat transfer fluids, lubricating oils or intermediates for the preparation of other F-organic compounds.
Abstract:
It is disclosed that citric acid or its salts are obtained by the hydrolysis of a 3-carbamoyl-3-hydroxy-4-cyanobutyric acid or salt, that a 3-carbamoyl-3-hydroxy-4-cyanobutyric acid or salt is obtained from a 3-carbamoyl-3,4-epoxybutyric acid or salt, that a 3-carbamoyl-3,4-epoxybutyric acid or salt is obtained from a 3carbamoyl-3-hydroxy-4-halobutyric acid or salt, that a 3carbamoyl-3-hydroxy-4-halobutyric acid is obtained from a 3cyano-3-hydroxy-4-halobutyric acid or salt, that a 3-cyano-3hydroxy-4-halobutyric acid or salt is obtained from a 3-oxo-4halobutyric acid or salt, that a 3-oxo-4-halobutyric acid or salt is obtained from a 3-oxo-4-halobutyryl halide, and that a 3-oxo4-halobutyryl halide is obtained from diketene. Preferred halide compounds are compounds of chlorine.
Abstract:
IN WHICH R1, R2 AND R3 EACH REPRESENT HYDROGEN OR R1 REPRESENTS HALOGEN (PREFERABLY CHLORINE OR BOMINE) AND R2 AND R3 EACH REPRESENTS HYDROGEN OR HALOGEN (PREFERABLY CHLORINE OR BROMINE) ARE OBTAINED BY CONVERTING DKETENE INTO AN ACETOACETIC ACID HALIDE OR HALOGENOACETOACETIC ACID HALIDE BY MEANS OF HYDROGEN HALIDE OR HALOGEN AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT-10 TO -40*C., AND THE ACETOACETIC ACID HALIDE OR HALOGENOACETOACETIC ACID HALIDE IS CONVERTED INTO THE CORRESPONDING ACID BY HYDROLYSIS WITH A STOICHIOMETRICALLY EQUIVALENT QUANTITY OF WATER.
R1CH2-CO-CR2R-COOH
THE HITHERTO-UNDESCRIBED CRYSTALLINE ACETOACETIC ACID AND HALOGENO-ACETOACETIC ACIDS OF THE FORMULA
Abstract:
A lithographic method includes forming a photoresist layer on a target layer, forming a photo-decomposable base (PDB) layer on the photo resist layer, performing an exposure operation using a mask, and performing a negative development treatment to form a patterned photoresist layer on the target layer. In some cases, the photo-decomposable base layer includes a self-generating top coating photo-decomposable base (TC-PDB) layer. The method can also include forming a top surface water-resistant coating in separate coating process. In some embodiments, a top surface water-resistant coating is self-generated during a photoresist coating process.
Abstract:
Provided are novel symmetrical and asymmetrical bifunctional photodecomposable bases (PDBs) with dicarboxylate anion groups that show increased imaging performance. Also provided are photoresist compositions prepared with the bifunctional dicarboxylated PDBs and lithography methods that use the photoresist compositions of the present invention.
Abstract:
Analogues of valproic acid useful in treating neuroaffective disorders including convulsions, bipolar disorder, and migraine headache are disclosed. The analogues are halide liver substituted analogues, cyclic analogues, and conjugated diene analogues of valproic acid. Pharmaceutical compositions or prodrugs containing the analogues or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed. Methods of malting the compounds and treating mammals with neuroaffective disorders are also disclosed.