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Molecules, Volume 14, Issue 8

2009 August - 33 articles

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Articles (33)

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,299 Views
12 Pages

20 August 2009

The chemical composition of the essential oil of Portuguese myrtle was determined at different developmental stages of the plant: pre-flowering, flowering, unripe and ripe berries. The oil was extracted separately by Clevenger distillation from leave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,532 Views
9 Pages

20 August 2009

The glycosylation of α- and δ-tocopherols using Klebsiella pneumoniae and cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) was investigated. K. pneumoniae converted α- and δ-tocopherols into the corresponding β-glucosides in 10 and 8% yield, respectively. CG...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
16,435 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2009

A variety of heteroaromatic compounds, such as substituted pyridines, pyrazoles, indoles, 2-substituted imidazoles, 2-substituted imidazoles, 2-arylbenzazoles and pyrimidin-2(1H)-ones are synthesized by oxidative aromatization using the activated car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,360 Views
11 Pages

Coupling Reactions of α-Bromocarboxylate with Non-Aromatic N-Heterocycles

  • Katerina Brychtova,
  • Barbora Slaba,
  • Lukas Placek,
  • Josef Jampilek,
  • Ivan Raich and
  • Jozef Csollei

13 August 2009

The conditions for the C-N bond forming reaction (C-N coupling reaction) between α-bromocarboxylate and nitrogen-containing non-aromatic heterocyclic rings under heterogeneous copper(I) oxide catalysis are investigated in this paper. All the generate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
17,147 Views
7 Pages

13 August 2009

The reaction of indole with chalcones, to give Michael-type adducts, was found to occur with good efficiency (up to 98% yield) and moderate enantioselectivity (up to 52% e.e.) in the presence of a chiral BINOL-based phosphoric acid. Furthermore, the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
253 Citations
29,949 Views
36 Pages

13 August 2009

Malaria is still the most destructive and dangerous parasitic infection in many tropical and subtropical countries. The burden of this disease is getting worse, mainly due to the increasing resistance of Plasmodium falciparum against the widely avail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
15,831 Views
18 Pages

Synthesis and Theoretical Study of Molecularly Imprinted Nanospheres for Recognition of Tocopherols

  • Theeraphon Piacham,
  • Chanin Nantasenamat,
  • Thummaruk Suksrichavalit,
  • Charoenchai Puttipanyalears,
  • Tippawan Pissawong,
  • Supanee Maneewas,
  • Chartchalerm Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya and
  • Virapong Prachayasittikul

12 August 2009

Molecular imprinting is a technology that facilitates the production of artificial receptors toward compounds of interest. The molecularly imprinted polymers act as artificial antibodies, artificial receptors, or artificial enzymes with the added ben...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
18,229 Views
15 Pages

Structural Characterization of Calcium Alginate Matrices by Means of Mechanical and Release Tests

  • Mario Grassi,
  • Chiara Sandolo,
  • Danilo Perin,
  • Tommasina Coviello,
  • Romano Lapasin and
  • Gabriele Grassi

12 August 2009

In this paper we have concentrated on the characterization of calcium alginate hydrogels loaded with a model drug (myoglobin) by means of a mechanical approach; in addition, release tests of myoglobin from alginate hydrogels were performed. At a fixe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
13,386 Views
9 Pages

11 August 2009

Phthalimide reacted with phenacyl bromide under microwave irradiation to yield phenacyl isoindolidene-1,3-dione (3b), while 3a reacted with phenylhydrazine to yield the phenylhydrazone 4 that was readily converted into indoylphthalimide 8. Similarly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,947 Views
9 Pages

10 August 2009

Microwave assisted CpCo(CO)2 catalyzed cross-cyclotrimerizations of 1,7,9,15-hexadecatetrayne with two different nitriles to give unsymmetrically substituted bis(tetrahydroisoquinolines) was studied. The reaction proceeded with a range of alkyl and a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
13,260 Views
8 Pages

10 August 2009

The determination of γ-nonalactone as one of the important odor-active compounds in freshly cooked non-scented rice is reported. It was evaluated by gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) analysis and identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
14,139 Views
12 Pages

10 August 2009

The oxo-diperoxo molybdenum(VI) complex MoO(O2)2•2QOH (QOH = 8-quinilinol) was prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and UV-Vis spectra. The ionic liquids (ILs) [bmim][BF4], [hydemim][BF4], and [bmim][PF6] were characterized by 1H-NMR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
19,228 Views
12 Pages

Antioxidant Activity of Some Plant Extracts Towards Xanthine Oxidase, Lipoxygenase and Tyrosinase

  • Chin-Hui Chen,
  • Hsiu-Chen Chan,
  • Yi-Tsu Chu,
  • Hsin-Yi Ho,
  • Pi-Yu Chen,
  • Tzong-Huei Lee and
  • Ching-Kuo Lee

10 August 2009

Natural products have the potential to be developed into new drugs for the treatment of various diseases. The aim of the present study was to screen the antioxidant activities of some common edible fruits, garden plants and medicinal plants indigenou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
21,331 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2009

Soyasaponins are a group of complex and structural diverse oleanane triterpenoids found in soy (Glycine max) and other legumes. They are primarily classified into two main groups − group A and B − based on the attachment of sugar moieties at position...

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
21,858 Views
9 Pages

6 August 2009

The essential oils from the rhizomes of Cyperus rotundus L. collected from two different locations (Empangeni-A and KwaDlangezwa-B; both in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province of South Africa) were obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by capillary GC a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
16,836 Views
20 Pages

4 August 2009

Haem is believed to be the target of some of the historically most important antimalarial drugs, most notably chloroquine. This target is almost ideal as haem is host-derived and the process targeted, haemozoin formation, is a physico-chemical proces...

  • Review
  • Open Access
588 Citations
26,775 Views
21 Pages

Ionic Liquids as Advanced Lubricant Fluids

  • María-Dolores Bermúdez,
  • Ana-Eva Jiménez,
  • José Sanes and
  • Francisco-José Carrión

4 August 2009

Ionic liquids (ILs) are finding technological applications as chemical reaction media and engineering fluids. Some emerging fields are those of lubrication, surface engineering and nanotechnology. ILs are thermally stable, non-flammable highly polar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,686 Views
6 Pages

A New Sesquiterpene from the Fruits of Daucus carota L.

  • Hong-Wei Fu,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Tao Yi and
  • Jing-Kui Tian

3 August 2009

Phytochemical investigation of the fruits of Daucus carota L. resulted in the isolation of a new sesquiterpene named as daucucarotol (1). Its structure was elucidated on the basis of 1D and 2D NMR experiments, coupled with MS studies. To our knowledg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
13,552 Views
14 Pages

Efficient Microwave Assisted Syntheses of 2,5-Diketopiperazines in Aqueous Media

  • Lemuel Pérez-Picaso,
  • Jaime Escalante,
  • Horacio F. Olivo and
  • María Yolanda Rios

31 July 2009

Aqueous in situ one-pot N-Boc-deprotection-cyclization of -Boc-dipeptidyl-tert-butyl and methyl esters under microwave irradiation afforded 2,5-diketopiperazines (DKPs) in excellent yields. This protocol is rapid, safe, environmentally friendly, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,050 Views
7 Pages

(+)-N-(2-Hydroxypropyl)lindcarpine: A New Cytotoxic Aporphine Isolated from Actinodaphne pruinosa Nees

  • Tiah Rachmatiah,
  • Mat Ropi Mukhtar,
  • Mohd Azlan Nafiah,
  • Muhammad Hanafi,
  • Soleh Kosela,
  • Hiroshi Morita,
  • Marc Litaudon,
  • Khalijah Awang,
  • Hanita Omar and
  • A. Hamid A. Hadi

31 July 2009

Onenewalkaloid; (+)-N-(2-hydroxypropyl)lindcarpine (1),together with four known aporphine alkaloids, (+)-boldine (2) (+)-norboldine (3), (+)-lindcarpine (4) and (+)-methyllindcarpine (5) were isolated from the stem bark of Actinodaphne pruinosa Nees...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,601 Views
12 Pages

30 July 2009

Reactions of(4S,5R)-1-(3,4-Dimethyl-2-oxo-5-phenylimidazolidine)carbonyl-isocyanate (4) with appropriate Baylis-Hillman adducts 5 gave the corresponding acyl carbamates 6,7 as equimolar diastereomeric mixtures. These mixtures were treated with DABCO,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
17,357 Views
23 Pages

29 July 2009

Oligonucleotides (ONs) are synthetic fragments of nucleic acid designed to modulate the expression of target proteins. DNA-based ONs (antisense, antigene, aptamer or decoy) and more recently a new class of RNA-based ONs, the small interfering RNAs (s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
14,672 Views
21 Pages

Synthesis and Olfactory Evaluation of Bulky Moiety-Modified Analogues to the Sandalwood Odorant Polysantol®

  • Laura Chapado,
  • Pablo J. Linares-Palomino,
  • Concepción Badía,
  • Sofía Salido,
  • Manuel Nogueras,
  • Adolfo Sánchez and
  • Joaquín Altarejos

28 July 2009

Five new bulky moiety-modified analogues of the sandalwood odorant Polysantol® have been synthesized by aldol condensation of appropriate aldehydes with butanone, deconjugative α-methylation of the resulting α,β-unsaturated ketones, and reduction of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
14,447 Views
12 Pages

27 July 2009

Volatile organic compounds of Amorpha fruticosa honey samples were isolated by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) and ultrasonic solvent extraction (USE), followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analyses (GC, GC-MS), in orde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
15,544 Views
6 Pages

Coumarins from Angelica Lucida L. - Antibacterial Activities

  • Jaroslaw Widelski,
  • Milena Popova,
  • Konstantia Graikou,
  • Kazimierz Glowniak and
  • Ioanna Chinou

27 July 2009

The first phytochemical investigation of the fruits of Angelica lucida has led to the isolation and characterization of five known coumarins (imperatorin, isoimperatorin, heraclenol, oxypeucedanin hydrate and heraclenin). All isolated compounds were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
151 Citations
19,960 Views
12 Pages

27 July 2009

Essential oils obtained from inflorescences of three Origanum vulgare L.ssp. hirtum (Link) Ietswaart samples, growing wild in different locations in Campania (Southern Italy), were analysed. Three chemotypes were found: the first, with a prevalence o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
15,130 Views
11 Pages

27 July 2009

The perovskite-type oxide catalyst LaFe1-xCuxO3 (x=0, 0.1, 0.2) was prepared by the sol–gel method, and tested as a catalyst in the wet aerobic oxidation (WAO) of lignin into aromatic aldehydes. The lignin conversion and the yield of each aromatic al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,388 Views
10 Pages

New Synthesis and Antiparasitic Activity of Model 5-Aryl-1-methyl-4-nitroimidazoles

  • Haythem A. Saadeh,
  • Ibrahim M. Mosleh and
  • Mustafa M. El-Abadelah

27 July 2009

A number of 5-aryl-1-methyl-4-nitroimidazoles 5a-f have been synthesized in good yields by the Suzuki coupling reaction between 5-chloro-1-methyl-4-nitroimidazole (3) and arylboronic acids 4a-f, aided by dichlorobis-(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,779 Views
12 Pages

Synthesis of N-Substituted 5-Iodouracils as Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents

  • Supaluk Prachayasittikul,
  • Nirun Sornsongkhram,
  • Ratchanok Pingaew,
  • Apilak Worachartcheewan,
  • Somsak Ruchirawat and
  • Virapong Prachayasittikul

27 July 2009

This study reports the synthesis of some substituted 5-iodouracils and their bioactivities. Alkylation of 5-iodouracils gave predominately N1-substituted-(R)-5-iodouracil compounds 7a-d (R = n-C4H9, s-C4H9, CH2C6H11, CH2C6H5) together with N1,N3-disu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,371 Views
15 Pages

Physical Carboxymethylscleroglucan/Calcium Ion Hydrogels as Modified Drug Delivery Systems in Topical Formulations

  • Federica Corrente,
  • Pietro Matricardi,
  • Patrizia Paolicelli,
  • Beatrice Tita,
  • Federica Vitali and
  • Maria Antonietta Casadei

24 July 2009

A carboxymethyl derivative of scleroglucan (Scl-CM) with a 65±5% carboxylic group degree of derivatization (DD) was recently synthesized and characterized. Aqueous solutions of the polymer underwent to a sharp transition toward a gel like behaviour i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
14,444 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Different Polymer Types on the Overall Release Mechanism in Hydrophilic Matrix Tablets

  • Anna Körner,
  • Lennart Piculell,
  • Frida Iselau,
  • Bengt Wittgren and
  • Anette Larsson

24 July 2009

The effect of three different types of polymer chain structures on the polymer release from hydrophilic matrix tablets was investigated by comparing a synthetic semi-crystalline linear polymer (PEO), a branched amorphous polysaccharide (dextran) and...

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