Molten salt synthesis of a mixed-valent lanthanide(III/IV) oxychloride with an unprecedented Sillen X(2)(4) structure: Ce1.3Nd0.7O3Cl.

A new cerium neodymium oxychloride, Ce1.3Nd0.7O3Cl, has been synthesized by precipitation in a LiCl–CaCl2 molten salt by humid argon sparging.

Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Properties of N-Alkylglucosyl(meth)acrylamides: New Reactive Sugar Surfactants.

New reactive-surfactants, N-alkylglucosylacrylamides and N-alkylglucosylmethacrylamides, are easily prepared in two steps from glucose without protection. The complete structural analysis of these compounds by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy shows the existence of a rotational isomerism that is strongly dependent on the steric hindrance of the carbonyl substituent: whatever the alkyl chain length, both endo and exo rotamers are observed for N-alkylglucosylacrylamides 1 while the endo rotamer is the sole species observed in the case of N-alkylglucosylmethacrylamides 2. For acrylamido derivatives 1, the exo-endo equilibrium is solvent-dependent: the endo isomer is favored in polar nonaqueous solvents (endo-exo isomeric ratio R = 70/30) while the equilibrium is shifted toward the exo rotamer in protic acidic medium (R = 50/50 in water and 80/20 in acidic medium).