To assess the effect of androgens on tyrosinase activity in B16/C3 melanoma cell cultures, proliferating cultures were treated with testosterone (50 nM) or one of several other androgenic analogues and metabolites. None of these compounds influenced basal enzyme activity. Imidazole (10 mM), however, is a potent inducer of tyrosinase in this cell line. Testosterone blocked induction of tyrosinas...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, {[Co(3)Yb(2)(C(5)H(2)N(2)O(4))(6)(H(2)O)(4)]·2H(2)O}(n), contains one Yb(III) ion, two Co(II) ions (one situated on an inversion centre), three imidazole-4,5-dicarboxyl-ate ligands, two coordinated water mol-ecules and one uncoordinated water mol-ecule. The Yb(III) ion is seven-coordinated, in a monocapped trigonal prismatic coordination geometry, by s...

We present a high yield synthesis of 1-ethyl-3-methyl-imidazole-2-chalcogenones from readily available imidazolium-2-carboxylate zwitterions NHC−CO2 and elemental chalcogens. In sharp contrast to previous syntheses for corresponding thiones selones imidazolium salts bases our reactions proceed fast with full instead low conversion selectivity, decarboxylation is the driving force. Furthermore, ...

8-Hydroxy-6-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine was formed selectively in high yields from N-(beta-methallyl)imidazole by a tandem hydroformylation-cyclization sequence, representing a novel one-pot catalytic synthesis of bicyclic imidazole derivatives.

In the present study, we provided synthesis of a series R-(+)- and S-(-)-limonene-based thiosemicarbazones containing different pentacyclic heterocyclic nucleus moiety focused in search novel antitumor antileishmanial agents. assay, derivative imidazole S-(-)-limonene 8 was most active compound, especially for U-251, UACC-62 K562 human tumor cell lines with GI50 ranging from 1.0 to <0.25 µg....

A highly sensitive spectroscopic method using dichlorofluorescin (LDCF) was employed to study the rate of electron-transfer reaction in presence of dsDNA, ssDNA and some metal ions and imidazole derivative (N-trans cinnamoyl imidazole).Our results show that both kinds of DNA possess an enzyme-like catalytic activity in oxidative conversion of non fluorescent LDCF to fluorescent DCF. A biphasic ...

Computational chemistry has shown that backbone-alkylated imidazoles ought to be efficient ligands for transition metal catalysts with improved carbene-to-metal donation. In this work, such alkylated imidazoles were synthesized and complexed with silver(I) by means of an eight/nine-step synthetic pathway we devised to access a new class of biologically active silver complexes. The synthesis inv...

the 2-mono and 2,6-disubstituted methyl-1,4-dihydropyridines were synthesized by reaction of morpholine, thiophenol, 8-hydroxyquinoline, 2-naphthol and 2-mercopto-1-methyl imidazole with the 2-mono bromo and 2,6-dibromo-1,4-dihidropyridines.

A novel approach to the preparation of imidazole-substituted cyclic iodonium salts has been developed via oxidative cyclization 1-phenyl-5-iodoimidazole using a cheap and available Oxone/H2SO4 system. The structure new polycyclic heteroarenes confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffractometry, revealing characteristic features for salts. newly produced imidazole-flanked compounds were found readi...

a new series of alkylthio imidazole analogues of captopril, an ace inhibitor used in the treatment of hypertension, was designed and synthesized in order to obtain agents more active than captopril with less side effects. all the compounds thus prepared were purified and characterized by ir, nmr and mass analytical instruments.