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Molecules, Volume 7, Issue 2

2002 February - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,779 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
11 Citations
9,664 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
8,436 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
10,519 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
8,709 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
44 Citations
11,552 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
8,514 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
14,060 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
8,578 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
6,883 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.

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,362 Views
33 Pages

28 February 2002

A strategy for a new type of platform for chemoinformatics software development and its first implementation are presented. The basic task of such a platform is to apply sequences of computational methods to high numbers of molecules. The implementat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
12,055 Views
7 Pages

An Acylated Kaempferol Glycoside from Flowers of Foeniculum vulgare and F. Dulce

  • Fathy M. Soliman,
  • Afaf H. Shehata,
  • Amal E. Khaleel and
  • Shahera M. Ezzat

28 February 2002

An acylated kaempferol glycoside, namely kaempferol-3-O-α-L-(2”,3”-di-E-pcoumaroyl)-rhamnoside (1) was isolated from the flowers of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and F. dulce DC. It is thus isolated for the first time from family Apiaceae. In addition, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,180 Views
12 Pages

28 February 2002

Different types of novel 1,2-disubstituted 1,2-dihydro isoquinolines were synthesized by addition reactions of organolithium, alcoholates and borohydride reagents with various isoquinolinium salts. The leaving group character of the isoquinoline moie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,679 Views
6 Pages

28 February 2002

Manganese (III) meso-tetrakis(p-sulfonatophenyl)-β-octabromoporphyrin supported on Amberlite IRA-400 [Mn(Br8TPPS)-Ad-400] is a robust and efficient catalyst for epoxidation of alkenes and hydroxylation of alkanes with sodium periodate at room tempera...

  • Review
  • Open Access
142 Citations
17,619 Views
31 Pages

Chemistry of the Genus Plectranthus

  • M. Abdel-Mogib,
  • H. A. Albar and
  • S. M. Batterjee

28 February 2002

This review presents the phytochemical constituents of the genus Plectranthus reported up to 1999. Only a tetrameric derivative of caffeic acid was isolated from P. japonicus, but a group of long-chain alkylphenols, of possible taxonomic significance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,696 Views
13 Pages

28 February 2002

We review in this article some of our work which has been published over the last fifteen years in the area of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of substituted benzyl azides with acetylenic compounds to form the corresponding 1,2-3-triazoles. Sever...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,199 Views
5 Pages

21 February 2002

It has been shown that N-(3-oxoalkyl)chloroacetamides (1) can be converted into cis-3,4-epoxypiridin-2-ones (2) upon treatment with t-BuOK in a t-BuOH-C6H6 solution due to a resulting intramolecular Darzens reaction. It has been found that under kine...

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