Tropolone - tropolone

Japanese: トロポロン - とろぽろん(英語表記)tropolone
Tropolone - tropolone

It is one of the representative seven-membered ring aromatic compounds. It was discovered in Taiwanese cypress by Nozoe Tetsuo around 1935, named hinokitiol, and its structure was determined in 1940, but the results were not communicated overseas due to the turmoil of World War II. Meanwhile, British researcher John Dewar (1909-1968) was conducting similar research, and named it tropolone in 1945. In 1950, Nozoe Tetsuo, Dering from the United States, and Cook from the United Kingdom independently succeeded in synthesizing it.

Colorless columnar crystals. It is synthesized by hydrolysis of 2-aminotropone obtained by the reaction of tropone with hydrazine. Other synthesis methods include bromination and dehydrobromination of cycloheptane-1,2-dione, and hydrolysis of an adduct of cyclopentadiene and dichloroketene. It is an amphoteric substance that gives alkali salts and salts with strong acids. It forms chelate salts with various metals. It easily undergoes aromatic substitution reactions specific to phenols, such as bromination, nitration, and azo coupling. Natural products such as colchicine, purpurogallin, stipitatic acid, and hinokitiols contain the tropolone structure. Stipitatic acid exhibits unique antibacterial properties, and colchicine has the effect of suppressing cell division in plants, so it is used to produce seedless watermelons.

[Mukai Toshio]

[References] | Hinokitiol [Supplementary Materials] | Tropolone (Data Note)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

代表的な7員環系芳香族化合物の一つ。1935年ころ野副鉄男(のぞえてつお)がタイワンヒノキから発見しヒノキチオールと名づけ、1940年には構造決定もしたが、第二次世界大戦の混乱期のため、その成果が海外に伝えられなかった。その間、同種の研究を進めていたイギリスのデュワーJohn Dewar(1909―1968)が、1945年にトロポロンと命名した。1950年野副鉄男、アメリカのデーリングおよびイギリスのクックが独自に合成に成功した。

 無色の柱状結晶。トロポンとヒドラジンとの反応により得られる2-アミノトロポンを加水分解して合成する。ほかにシクロヘプタン-1,2-ジオンの臭素化、脱臭化水素化や、シクロペンタジエンとジクロロケテンの付加体の加水分解による合成法がある。アルカリ塩を与えるとともに、強酸により塩を与える両性物質である。各種金属とキレート塩をつくる。臭素化、ニトロ化、アゾカップリングなどフェノール類に特有な芳香族置換反応を容易に受ける。天然物として存在するコルヒチン、プルプロガリン、スチピタチン酸、ヒノキチオール類にはトロポロン構造が含まれる。スチピタチン酸は特異な抗菌性を示し、またコルヒチンは植物の細胞分裂を抑える作用をもつので、種なしスイカの生産に利用される。

[向井利夫]

[参照項目] | ヒノキチオール[補完資料] | トロポロン(データノート)

出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

<<:  Dolomite

>>:  Corella japonica

Recommend

The Far Eastern Championship Games

A competition held 10 times between 1913 and 1934...

Badger soup - badger soup

…They are sometimes called mujina and confused wi...

Cellulose acetate

…Cellulose acetate is also called cellulose aceta...

Kapalika sect - Kapalikaha

…A powerful sect in Hinduism that worships the go...

Still, C.

...Abstract Expressionism, which emerged in New Y...

Schistocerca paranensis (English spelling) Schistocercaparanensis

…[Hasegawa Jin]. … *Some of the terminology that ...

Station place

...While the station building was an architectura...

Bottle - Bin (English spelling) bottle

A container made primarily to hold liquids. Chemi...

ERIA - Electrical Research Institute

Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asi...

Noble gas (English spelling)

...This is because the electron configuration of ...

Angolare - Angolare

…The oldest inhabitants, the descendants of Afric...

Events - Events

〘Noun〙 Buddhist term. ① The title of a job that ha...

forearm

...The hand is from the wrist down. [Arm] Because...

Transesterification

This is a reaction in which an ester is reacted w...

Interview - intabyu (English spelling) interview

An interview. It is a direct contact and negotiat...