Molecules, Volume 10, Issue 8

Kalpattu Kuppuswamy Balsubramanian (popularly and affectionately addressed as KKB) was born on September 5^th 1939, at Mylapore, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India, in a family gifted with tradition in the noble profession of teaching.[...]

The protected 2-formyl-L-arabinal 2 reacted with thiourea and cyanamide in the presence of sodium hydride to afford via ring transformations the 5-[1R,2S-1,2- bis(benzyloxy)-3-hydroxypropyl]-1,2-dihydropyrimidines 3 and 4, respectively. Similarly, tr...

Triisobutylaluminium-promoted rearrangement of unsaturated glycosides containing electron-donating aglycons, such as C-aryl glycosides, provides direct access to highly functionalised cyclohexane derivatives.

Epoxidation and cis-hydroxylation of C-phenyl-∆^2,3-glycopyranosides have beencarried out with a view to developing C-aryl glycoside synthesis. Epoxidation of (2,3- and (6-O-tert-butyldimethylsilyl-2,3-dideoxy-D-erythro-hex-2-enopyranosyl)benzenedideo...

Application of the Ferrier rearrangement led to a novel carbohydrate based synthetic route to 4-aminohexenoic acid viz. (R) and (S)-vigabatrin. The potential of D- glucose or D-galactose as the chiral starting materials for the synthesis of (R) and (...

Bi(OTf)₃ and SiO₂-Bi(OTf)₃ are found to effectively catalyze the Ferrierrearrangement of tri-O-acetyl glycals with different alcohols providing an effective routeto 2,3-unsaturated O-glycosides with good anomeric selectivity and good to excellentyiel...

The intramolecular aminomercuration of γ-alkenylamines 1a, 1b and 4 was shown to afford the 5-endo-trig cyclized product exclusively in good yield. The utility of pyrrolidine derivatives thus obtained from D-glucose derived γ-alkenylamines 1a and 1b...

Cyclophellitol and its C3-epimer have been synthesized from5-enoglucopyranoside and 5-enomannopyranoside, respectively. The carbocyclic skeletonwas constructed through a Ferrier-II reaction meditated by PdCl₂.

A new iso-amyl benzothiazolyl sulfoxide (ABSO) was synthesized and used inthe extraction of Pd(II) from hydrochloric acid media. Pd(II) was extracted quantitativelyfrom 0.1 M HCl with ABSO in benzene (0.5 M). Ammonia solution (2.0 M) could beused as...

The present study examined the influence of synthetic N-(1,3-benzothiazol-2-yl)-N-(4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl) amine (2-Amdz) on levels of vitamins A, E and C and malondialdehyde (MDA) in rats. A total of 30 rats, divided into two groups, were used...

The syntheses in good yields of some new difunctionalized 1,8-naphthyridines 4, 6, 8 and 9 and a novel triethylene glycol ether-linked dinaphthyridine, 10a, along with the mononaphthyridine-linked ether alcohol 10b are described. An improved and mild...

This review presents a survey of the condensations of 3-formylchromone with various active methylene and methyl compounds, e.g. malonic or barbituric acid derivatives, five-membered heterocycles, etc. The utilisation of the condensation products for...

The synthesis of 3-alkyl(aryl)-4-(3-ethoxy-4-hydroxybenzylidenamino)-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-ones 3 from the reactions of 3-alkyl(aryl)-4-amino-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-ones 2 with 3-ethoxy-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde is described.The acetylat...

A new diacetyl triterpene lactone, drosericarpone (2), was isolated from the hexane extract of the herb Cleome droserifolia, together with buchariol (1, a sesquiterpene oxide, isolated for the first time from Cleome species) and stigmasterol glucosid...

In this paper we elected to nitrate p-xylene because this compound has onlyone mononitro- and trinitro- isomer. Trinitro-p-xylene was used as a starting material forthe synthesis of other compounds in subsequent work. The mononitration of p-xylene ca...

4'-(2,6,6-Trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-yl)-3'-buten-2'-ketoxime-N-O-alkyl ethershave been synthesized starting from α-ionone, separated into their E and Z isomers andcharacterized on the basis of ¹H-NMR and mass spectra.

Some new (naphthalen-1-yl-selenyl)acetic acids derivatives 7a-d have been synthesized by two different methods, using naphthylselenols or naphthylselenocyanates. The structures of the products were investigated by spectroscopic methods.

Incubation of sclareol with Rhizopus stolonifer affords in high yield a mixture of triols with 18-hydroxy-sclareol as the main component.

Studies aimed at a comparison of chemical, biomimetic (Gif system GoAgg^III)and enzymatic (CHMO) transformations of natural ( )-10β,14-dihydroxy-allo-aromadendrane have led to preparation of an eight-member sesquiterpene lactone.

6-Methylpurine-β-D-riboside (β-D-MPR) has been synthesized by coupling6-methylpurine and 1-O-acetyl-2,3,5-tri-O-benzoyl-D-ribose using conditions that producethe β-D-anomer exclusively. The in vitro antitumor effects of β-D-MPR and 6-methyl-purine-α-...