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Molecules, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2002 - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,632 Views
8 Pages

28 February 2002

Substituted homoallylic alcohols have been synthesised both by [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement of unsymmetrical bis-allylic ethers and reaction of alkenyl chloromethyl oxiranes with Mg/THF. These substrates were then oxidized using four different oxidants...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,562 Views
7 Pages

Photooxygenation of Nimonol, a Tetranortriterpenoid from Azadirachta indica. A. Juss.

  • Geetha Gopalakrishnan,
  • N. D. Pradeep Singh and
  • V. Kasinath

28 February 2002

Nimonol (1), a tetranortriterpenoid isolated from the leaves of Azadirachta indica A. Juss (Meliaceae), upon photolysis undergoes both Diels-Alder and ene reactions with singlet oxygen at different sites leading to 14,15,20,21-diepoxy-23-nimonolacton...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,311 Views
5 Pages

28 February 2002

A new, universal and diastereospecific method has been developed for the synthesis of 5,6-dihydropyridin-2(1H)-ones, 1,5,6,8,8a-hexahydroisoquinolin-3(2H)-ones and 4a,5,6,7,8,8ahexahydroquinolin-2(1H)-ones (4) based on the intramolecular Wittig cycli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,332 Views
6 Pages

An Improved Three Step Synthesis of (-)-3β-Hydroxycarvone from (-)-Carvone

  • Reginaldo B. Dos Santos,
  • Timothy J. Brocksom,
  • Paulo R. Zanotto and
  • Ursula Brocksom

28 February 2002

(-)-Carvone (3) has been efficiently transformed into (-)-3β-hydroxycarvone (1), which is expected to be a useful synthon or chiral template in the synthesis of natural molecules. This short and efficient synthesis of compound 1 involves regioselecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,561 Views
5 Pages

28 February 2002

Condensations of anhydrides and quinaldine derivatives are accelerated by microwave irradiation under solvent free conditions in the presence of silica gel as catalyst.

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,375 Views
5 Pages

28 February 2002

Two potentially heptadentate (N4O3) tripodal Schiff-base ligands: tris(3-(salicylideneimino)propyl)amine (H3L1) and tris(3-(4’-hydroxysalicylideneimino)-propyl)amine (H3L2) have been prepared and characterized by various spectroscopic methods (IR, FA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,377 Views
10 Pages

28 February 2002

Thieno[2,3-d]-1,2,3-thiadiazoles (1) react with carbon disulfide in a "Matryoshkatype" double compartment autoclave [1] to yield thieno[2,3-d]-1,3-dithiol-2-thiones (2). With BH3/Me2S the cyclic trithiocarbonate (2d) is cleaved and the product charac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
13,551 Views
34 Pages

Synthesis and Reactions of Acenaphthenequinones-Part-2. The Reactions of Acenaphthenequinones

  • El Sayed H. El Ashry,
  • Hamida Abdel Hamid,
  • Ahmed A. Kassem and
  • Mahmoud Shoukry

28 February 2002

The reactions of acenaphthenequinone and its derivatives with different nucleophiles, organic and inorganic reagents are reviewed. This survey also covers their oxidation and reduction reactions, in addition to many known reactions such as Friedel Cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,474 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2002

The thermal decomposition of imidoyl azides (ArO-C=N-Z)-N3, (Ar = p-NO2-C6H4-, p-Br-C6H4-, p-Cl-C6H4-, p-C6H5-, p-CH3-C6H4-, 2,4-dimethyl-C6H3-, 2,4,6-trimethyl-C6H2-, p-CH3O-C6H4- and Z = p-CH3-C6H4-SO2-, 2,4,6-trimethyl-C6H2-SO2-,CN) in the solid p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,725 Views
6 Pages

Synthesis of Substituted Phenyl N-(2-hydroxybenzyl)-N-Methylcarbamates

  • Oldřich Hrabík,
  • Petr Šimůnek,
  • Jaromír Mindl and
  • Jaromír Kaválek

28 February 2002

Thirteen previously unreported substituted phenyl N-(2-hydroxybenzyl)-Nmethylcarbamates were prepared by the reaction of substituted 2-hydroxybenzyl-Nmethylamines with phenyl chlorocarbonates. They were identified by their 1H- and 13C-NMR spectra.

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