The asymmetric unit of the title hydrazone compound, C(15)H(10)BrClN(2)O(4), contains two independent mol-ecules. The dihedral angles between the benzene rings are 38.7 (3)° in one mol-ecule and 24.3 (3)° in the other. Both mol-ecules exist in trans conformations with respect to the C=N double bonds of the central methyl-idene units. Intra-molecular O-H⋯N contacts are observed in both mol-ecule...

1,3-benzodioxle-4-carboxylic acid] was designed as a novel class of chiral fluorometric agents.1 The chiral agent and the analogues have been conveniently applied to enantiomer analyses of various bio-molecules using HPLC and circular dichroism.2 We recently extended the molecular design of (S)TBMB carboxylic acid to chiral nitrobenzoic acids possessing the asymmetric 1,3-benzodioxole.3 The chi...

We report on the activities of a broad spectrum antimicrobial compound,nitropropenyl benzodioxole (NPBD) which are of relevance to its potential as an anti-infective drug. These investigations support the proposal that a major mechanism of NPBD is action as a tyrosine mimetic, competitively inhibiting bacterial and fungal protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTP). NPBD did not affect major anti-bacte...

New benzodioxole-based thiosemicarbazone derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their cytotoxic effects on A549 human lung adenocarcinoma, C6 rat glioma and NIH/3T3 mouse embryonic fibroblast cells. In order to examine the correlation between anticancer activity and cholinesterases, the compounds were evaluated for their inhibitory effects on AChE and BuChE. The most effective anticance...

Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that can cause disease in the developing fetus and in immunocompromised humans. Infections can last for the life of the individual, and to date there are no drugs that eliminate the chronic cyst stages that are characteristic of this parasite. In an effort to identify new chemical scaffolds that could form the basis for new therapeutics, w...

in this paper we introduce the concept of dirac structures on (hermitian) modules and vectorbundles and deduce some of their properties. among other things we prove that there is a one to onecorrespondence between the set of all dirac structures on a (hermitian) module and the group of allautomorphisms of the module. this correspondence enables us to represent dirac structures on (hermitian)mod...