Synthesis and structure determination of heterocycles of special pharmaceutical interest.
NMR, mass spectrometric, and computational investigations.


List of publications - 2002.
Structural Chemistry Group
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry, University of Turku




Zelenin, K. N.; Potapov, A. A.; Lagoda, I. V.; Alekseev, V. V.; Sinkkonen, J.; Pihlaja, K.
First case of ring-chain tautomerism of N-unsubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinazolines.
Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds (New York, NY, United States)(Translation of Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii)  (2002),  38(9),  1148-1149.

Sinkkonen, Jari; Ovcharenko, Vladimir; Zelenin, Kirill N.; Bezhan, Irina P.; Chakchir, Boris A.; Al-Assar, Fatema; Pihlaja, Kalevi.
Stereoisomerism and ring-chain tautomerism in 1-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[1,2-a]pyridazine-5,8-diones and 1-hydroxy- and 1-amino-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[1,2-b]phthalazine-5,10-diones.
European Journal of Organic Chemistry  (2002),   (20),  3447-3454.

Fodor, Lajos; Bernath, Gabor; Sinkkonen, Jari; Pihlaja, Kalevi.
Synthesis and structural characterization of 4H-1,3-benzothiazine derivatives.
Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry  (2002),  39(5),  927-931.

Zelenin, Kirill N.; Lagoda, Igor V.; Alekseyev, Valeriy V.; Sinkkonen, Jari; Shaikhutdinov, Roustem A.; Pihlaja, Kalevi.
Recyclizations of 2-aminobenzylimines and thioaroylhydrazones of N-substituted N-hydroxy-3-oxobutanamides.
Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry  (2002),  39(4),  805-810.

Sinkkonen, Jari; Ovcharenko, Vladimir; Zelenin, Kirill N.; Bezhan, Irina P.; Chakchir, Boris A.; Al-Assar, Fatema; Pihlaja, Kalevi.
1H and 13C NMR study of 1-hydrazino-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[1,2-a]pyridazine-5,8-diones and -1H-pyrazolo[1,2-b]phthalazine-5,10-diones and their ring-chain tautomerism.
European Journal of Organic Chemistry  (2002),   (13),  2046-2053.

Zelenin, K. N.; Alekseyev, V. V.; Pihlaja, K.; Ovcharenko, V. V.
Molecular design of tautomeric interconversions of heterocycles.
Russian Chemical Bulletin (Translation of Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya) (2002),  51(2),  205-221.

Klika, Karel D.; Janovec, Ladislav; Imrich, Jan; Suchar, Gejza; Kristian, Pavol; Sillanpää, Reijo; Pihlaja, Kalevi.
Regioselective synthesis of 2-imino-1,3-thiazolidin-4-ones by treatment of N-(anthracen-9-yl)-N'-ethylthiourea with bromoacetic acid derivatives.
European Journal of Organic Chemistry  (2002),   (7),  1248-1255.

Pihlaja, Kalevi; Klika, Karel D.; Sinkkonen, Jari; Ovcharenko, Vladimir V.; Maloshitskaya, Olga; Sillanpää, Reijo; Czombos, Jozsef.
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Cis- and Trans-Fused 4a,5,6,7,8,8a-Hexahydro-2H,4H-1,3-benzodithiines and Their 2-Methyl and 2,2-Dimethyl Derivatives.
Journal of Organic Chemistry  (2002),  67(6),  1910-1917.

Pihlaja, Kalevi; Ovcharenko, Vladimir; Kolehmainen, Erkki; Laihia, Katri; Fabian, Walter M. F.; Dehne, Heinz; Perjessy, Alexander; Kleist, Marion; Teller, Joachim; Sustekova, Zora.
A correlative IR, MS, 1H, 13C and 15N NMR and theoretical study of 4-arylthiazol-2(3H)-ones.
Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2  (2002),   (2),  329-336.

Starke, I.; Sarodnick, G.; Ovcharenko, V. V.; Pihlaja, K.; Kleinpeter, E.
Evidence for an aryl migration during the electron impact induced fragmentation of substituted aryloxymethylquinoxalines.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry  (2002),  16(3),  169-175.

Tähtinen, Petri; Sinkkonen, Jari; Klika, Karel D.; Nieminen, Ville; Stajer, Geza; Szakonyi, Zsolt; Fulop, Ferenc; Pihlaja, Kalevi.
1H, 13C, and 15N NMR stereochemical study of cis-fused 7a(8a)-methyl and 6-phenyl octa(hexa)hydrocyclopenta[d][1,3]oxazines and [3,1]benzoxazines.
Chirality  (2002),  14(2/3),  187-198.