Molecules, Volume 10, Issue 1

Synthesis of bisfunctionalized unsymmetrical 2,2’-bipyridines 8 or their sulfonyl derivatives 12a,b are described. They were prepared via the Diels-Alder reaction of 1-methyl-4-pyrrolidin-1-yl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (6) with 3,3’-bis(methyl- sulf...

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The year 2005 that has just started marks a very special anniversary for Molecules, its publishers, and Editorial Board, for with this issue we start publication of our 10th volume.[...]

Macromolecular and polymer science have evolved significantly over the past few years, with remarkable advances in many areas such as polymeric drugs, self-assembly systems, implant materials, drug delivery systems and controlled drug release.[...]

Scleroglucan is a natural polysaccharide, produced by fungi of the genus Sclerotium, that has been extensively studied for various commercial applications (secondary oil recovery, ceramic glazes, food, paints, etc.) and also shows several interesting...

Nucleic acid delivery has many applications in basic science, biotechnology, agriculture, and medicine. One of the main applications is DNA or RNA delivery for gene therapy purposes. Gene therapy, an approach for treatment or prevention of diseases a...

Oral administration remains the most convenient way of delivering drugs. Recent advances in biotechnology have produced highly potent new molecules such as peptides, proteins and nucleic acids. Due to their sensitivity to chemical and enzymatic hydro...

Enzymes are powerful tools in organic synthesis that are able to catalyse a wide variety of selective chemical transformations under mild and environmentally friendly conditions. Enzymes such as the lipases have also found applications in the synthes...

An efficient method of preparing biodegradable and biocompatible multiblock copolymers from lactic acid and polyethylene glycol is proposed.

The aim of this study was to synthesize novel biodegradable charged polymers to be used in DNA complexation for genetic delivery in different diseases. A new copolymer of PLA and complexed Schiff bases was synthesized in a several steps. This copolym...

In this work, polymer-drugs conjugates used as drug delivery systems (DDS) are revised attending to their chemical conjugation. Namely, the classification of this type of DDS is based on the conjugation sites of the reactive groups (i.e., via end gro...

Bioadhesive nanoparticles have been proposed as carriers for the oral delivery of poorly available drugs and facilitate the use of this route. This work summarises some experiments describing the bioadhesive potential of Gantrez nanoparticles fluores...

Drug delivery has become increasingly important mainly due to the awareness of the difficulties associated with a variety of old and new drugs. Of the many polymeric drug delivery systems, biodegradable polymers have been used widely as drug delivery...

Due to recent advances in disease proteomics, many disease-related proteins have been found. It is expected that there will be therapeutically useful proteins among them. However, it is clinically difficult to use most proteins as effective and safe...

Iodine was discovered in 1811 by French chemist Bernard Courtois and it was named by J. L. Gay Lussac in 1813.[...]

Stereoselective synthesis of 5-7 membered cyclic ethers was achieved by deiodonative ring-enlargement of cyclic ethers having an iodoalkyl substituent. The reaction took place readily under mild conditions using hypervalent iodine compounds and an ac...

An easy and safe, though only moderately effective method is presented forpreparing (diacetoxyiodo)arenes, ArI(OAc)2, from iodoarenes, ArI, using thecommercially available and easily handled urea-hydrogen peroxide adduct (UHP) as theoxidant. The reac...

Thermal decomposition of 1-tert-butylperoxy-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one in cyclic ethers and acetals at 50 °C generates α-oxy carbon-centered radicals, which undergo an addition reaction with vinyl sulfones and unsaturated esters.

Treatment of 2-methylphenols with chloro(diphenyl)-λ³-iodane led to theirregioselective dearomatizing 2-phenylation into cyclohexa-2,4-dienone derivatives via aproposed ligand coupling reaction. In the same vein of investigation, treatment of2-methyl...

The conversion of α-benzocycloalkenones to homologous β-benzocyclo-alkenones containing six, seven and eight-membered rings is reported. This wasaccomplished via a Wittig olefination-oxidative rearrangement sequence using[hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]-benze...

The phenyliodonium ylide of 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone reacts with aminoesters, ureas, aminoalcohols and aminophenols in refluxing dichloromethane to afford good yields of indanedione 2-carboxamido compounds, that in solution exist in an enol-amide...

The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling carbonyl insertion reaction between 3,7-bis(N,N-dimethylamino)-10H-dibenz[b,e]iodinium iodide (1) and alcohols or amines 2 is described. Some new amides and esters 3 containing an active iodo functional group ha...

A reactivity difference based on the position of substituents on cyclohexa-1,3- diene was observed for the title reaction. The effect of water as solvent was more distinct for 1-methyl-4-isopropylcyclohexa-1,3-diene than for 2-methyl-5-isopropylcyclo...

A method for the preparation of methyl 4-O-methyl-α-D-glucopyranuronate andits single crystal X-ray structure determination are reported. The molecule adopts an almostideal ⁴C₁ (^OC₃) conformation.

Hexadepsipeptide 2, the precursor of Hirsutellide A (1), was synthesized in an overall yield of 45% from N-Boc-Me-Gly via three coupling reactions using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC), O-(7-azabenzotriazol-1-yl)-N,N,N’,N’-tetramethyl- uronium hexaflu...

Inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction of functionalized 5,5’-bi-1,2,4- triazines with bicyclo[2.2.1]hepta-2,5-diene in boiling p-cymene leads to a range of 6,6’- disubstituted-2,2’-bipyridines in good yield.

Some new substituted dihydrothieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[2,3-c]quinolin-6-ones 9- 12 and tetrahydrodithieno[2,3-b: 2',3'-d]thieno[2'',3''-c:2'',3''-c’]diquinolin-6,14-dione (17) were prepared from the corresponding new anilides 5-8 and from the correspond...

A series of highly functionalized quinones was prepared by an original reaction of 2,3-bis(chloromethyl)-1,4-dimethoxyanthraquinone (6) with various nitronate anions under electron transfer reaction conditions.

Syntheses of three non-brominated analogs of amathamide A (1), a natural alkaloid isolated from the Tasmanian marine bryozoan Amathia wilsoni, are described. Antimicrobial activity against Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, P...

Schiff-Base complexes of bis-5-phenylazosalicylaldehyde ethylenediimine and bis-5-phenylazosalicylaldehyde-O-phenylenediimine ligands with Co(II) (I and II) have been synthesized and characterized by their IR spectra and elemental analyses. These com...

Asymmetric synthesis of double bond isomers ( )-2 (∆¹⁵’,¹⁶’) and ( )-3 (∆¹⁴’,¹⁵’) ofthe structure (1) (∆¹⁶’,¹⁷’) proposed for pyrinodemin A, a cytotoxic bis-pyridine alkaloidwith a unique cis-cyclopent[c]isoxazolidine moiety from a marine sponge, has...