Abstract Asymmetric Pd‐catalyzed Tsuji‐Trost‐type allylation is an important catalytic reaction toward chiral natural and unnatural product syntheses. We successfully modified a desalt‐type using allyl ester or halide to dehydrative one allylic alcohol via the establishment of two redox‐mediated donor acceptor bifunctional catalyst systems. These systems were cationic CpRu‐Cl‐Napy‐PyCOOH CpRu‐N...

Proboscis extension conditioning of honeybee workers was used to study the processing of odorants when bees were conditioned to binary mixtures. Responses to a set of pure floral odors and pheromones after conditioning have already been described. When bees are conditioned to certain mixtures of odorants, the response to both components is equal to that when they are tested alone. However, mixt...

Mycelial and yeast-phase culture filtrates prepared from three strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis exhibited equal reactivity in sensitized guinea pigs. Ethyl alcohol-precipitated fractions obtained from the culture filtrates also showed no difference in reactivity between mycelial and yeast phase when tested in sensitized guinea pigs. Chemical analyses of the ethyl alcohol-precipitated fr...

A new flavooxidase is described from a Bjerkandera arthroconidial anamorph. Its physicochemical characteristics, a monomeric enzyme containing non-covalently bound flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and several catalytic properties, such as oxidation of aromatic and polyunsaturated aliphatic primary alcohols, are similar to those of Pleurotus eryngii aryl-alcohol oxidase (AAO). However, it also...

Several Sphingomonas spp. utilize polyethylene glycols (PEGs) as a sole carbon and energy source, oxidative PEG degradation being initiated by a dye-linked dehydrogenase (PEG-DH) that oxidizes the terminal alcohol groups of the polymer chain. Purification and characterization of PEG-DH from Sphingomonas terrae revealed that the enzyme is membrane bound. The gene encoding this enzyme (pegA) was ...

there is a great interest in developing rapid analytical methods and provide appropriate parametersfor quantitative analysis of compounds derived from refractory pollutants. such methods are important forroutine quality control analysis of an effluent before being discharged into the environment. therefore, a rapid methodology for identification and quantification of some aliphatic acids is pro...

This review is dedicated to the state-of-the art routes used for synthesis of CO2-based (a)cyclic carbonates and polycarbonates from alcohol substrates, with an emphasis on their respective main advantages limitations. The first section reviews organic such as dialkyl or cyclic carbonation alcohols. Many different synthetic strategies have been reported (dehydrative condensation, alkylation rou...

One pot synthesis of 1-arylpyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-4-ones by the reaction of 5-amino-N-substituted-1H-pyrazole-4-carbonitrile with different lower aliphatic acids in the presence of POCl(3) has been developed. The structures of all the title compounds have been confirmed by IR, (1)H-NMR, (13)CNMR, and elemental analyses. Moreover, the structures of one of these compounds, 2c, was confirmed by ...

Progress on biodegradable aromatic/aliphatic copolyesters based on aliphatic and aromatic diacids, diols and ester monomers was reviewed. The aromatic/aliphatic copolyesters combined excellent mechanical properties with biodegradability. Physical properties and biodegradability of copolyesters varied with chain length of the aliphatic polyester segment and atacticity of copolyesters. The proces...