A new simple and efficient method for the synthesis of 2-phenylnaphthalenes from electron-rich 1-styryl-2-methoxybenzenes has been described. The reaction proceeds via TFA catalyzed C-C bond cleavage followed by intermolecular [4+2]-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of an in situ formed styrenyl trifluoroacetate intermediate. The quantum chemical calculations identified the transition state for the cyc...

A promising strategy to break through the selectivity-conversion limit of direct methane conversion achieve high yields is protection methanol via esterification a more stable methyl ester. We present an aerobic methane-to-methyl-ester approach that utilizes highly dispersed, cobalt-containing solid catalyst, along with significantly favorable reaction conditions compared existing homogeneously...

The ion-exchange behavior of an organomineral material with imidazolium (1-methyl-3-(prop-2-yn-1-yl)-1H-imidazol-3-ium bromide)-modified silica gel was studied for the extraction Ag(I) from nitric acid media. multicomponent systems containing Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Pb(II), and Mn(II) in 100- 1000-fold molar excesses respect to shown occur high selectivity. Based on data X-ray diffract...

In the title compound, C(5)H(9)N(2) (+)·0.5C(2)O(4) (2-)·C(2)H(2)O(4)·H(2)O, the anions, cations and water mol-eculars are linked by N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds which define a tightly bound three-dimensional structure. The title compound is a layered structure as viewed along the a or c axis; one layer contains water and oxalic acid mol-ecules, the other the imidazolium cation. The C atoms o...

A new fluorogenic peptide substrate for plasmin, 7-(N-succinoylalanylphenylalanyl-lysylamido)-4-methylcoumarin trifluoroacetate salt, was prepared that can be used in a simple and direct assay. The results obtained by the assay method are linear over a wide range of enzyme concentrations and sensitive enough to detect as little as 10(-5) CTA units of plasmin. By making use of the inhibitor Tras...

A set of pyrazole-bridged bis(imidazolium) compounds [H3L]X2 – [H3L]X2 (L1 = 3,5-bis[1-(tert-butyl)imidazolium-1-ylmethyl]-1H-pyrazole; L2 = 3,5-bis[1-(tert-butyl)imidazolium-1-ylmethyl]-4-phenyl-1H-pyrazole; L3 = 3,5-bis[1-(1-adamantyl)imidazolium-1-ylmethyl]-1Hpyrazole; L4 = 3,5-bis[1-(1-adamantyl)imidazolium-1-ylmethyl]-4-phenyl-1H-pyrazole; X = Cl−, BF4− or PF6−) has been prepared, and thre...

Electron transfer (ET) states of 1-methyl-3-(N-(1,8-naphthalimidyl)ethyl)imidazolium iodide are responsible for its photophysics. Investigation of an ET state based on constrained density functional theory (CDFT) revealed that nonradiative decay from the ET excited state is mediated by the interaction of the iodine atom with the 1,8-naphthalimide or the imidazolium group.

Five novel homoleptic heterobimetallic bismuth(II)-rhodium(II) carboxylate complexes--BiRh(TPA)4 (1), BiRh(but)4 (2), BiRh(piv)4 (3), BiRh(esp)2 (4), and BiRh(OAc)4 (5)--were synthesized in good yields by equatorial ligand substitution starting from BiRh(TFA)4 (TPA = triphenylacetate, but = butyrate, piv = pivalate, esp = α,α,α',α'-tetramethyl-1,3-benzenedipropionate, OAc = acetate, and TFA = t...

The large number of reagents that have been developed for the synthesis of trifluoromethylated compounds is a testament to the importance of the CF3 group as well as the associated synthetic challenge. Current state-of-the-art reagents for appending the CF3 functionality directly are highly effective; however, their use on preparative scale has minimal precedent because they require multistep s...