Procedures are described for the hydrolysis of neutral lipid fractions containing long-chain esters and alk-1-enyl ethers of short-chain diols, and for the identification and quantitation of the constituent diols as long-chain cyclic acetals using gas-liquid chromatography in combination with mass spectrometry.

Lipids were extracted from excised uropygial glands of domestic chickens and the wax diesters were isolated by preparative thin-layer chromatography (TLC). The diesters were hydrolyzed and the liberated diols were resolved by boric acid TLC into two fractions. These were investigated by proton magnetic resonance at 360 MHz of the free diols and of their acetonide derivatives. The results showed...

A method to synthesize 2-phenylselenenyl-1,3-anti-diols and 2-phenyl- selenenyl-1,3-anti-azidoalcohols via hydroxy- or azido-selenenylation of trans-allylic alcohols is reported. Moreover, the first example of hydroxyl-selenenylation of an allylic azide is presented. Yields ranging from moderate to good and diastereomeric ratios up to 95:5 are achieved.

The rodlike M13 viruses with chemically decorated phenylboronic acid moieties form pH responsive chiral nematic liquid crystal (LC) phases. Binding with biologically important diols results in LC phases with microstructures that closely correlate with the molecular structure of the diols and can be conveniently discerned by visual cues.

A silver-catalyzed cascade conversion of modular alkyne-1,n-diols and carbon dioxide has been developed allowing for the selective formation keto-functionalized cyclic carbonates. The protocol is characterized by its operational simplicity, excellent scope carbonate-based heterocycles, mild reaction conditions. In situ IR studies, control experiments, detailed computational analysis these manif...

Reaction of readily available 2-formyl -1-methyl-5-nitroimidazole (1) with 4-substituted-2-hydrazinothiazoles (2) afforded 2-formyl-l-methyl-5- nitroimidazole 4-substituted -2- thiazolylhydrazones (3). Reaction of thiochromitn-4-one (4) with thiosemicarbazide gave thiochroman-4- one thiosemicarbazone (5). Reaction of compound 5 with clc- haloaldehyde or ketones y ielded thiochroman--#-one ...

A transition-metal-free cis-dihydroxylation of saturated hydrocarbons under ambient reaction conditions has been developed. The described approach allows a direct and selective synthesis of vicinal diols. The new reaction thereby proceeds via radical iodination and a sequence of oxidation steps. A broad scope of one-pot dual C(sp3)-H bond functionalization for the selective synthesis of vicinal...