The continuous human medulloblastoma cell line TE-671 was grown as s.c. and intracranial xenografts in athymic nude mice. Tumor-bearing animals were treated with chemotherapeutic agents at the 10% lethal dose; s.c. xenografts were sensitive to melphalan, 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(2,6-dioxo-1-piperidyl)-1-nitrosourea, and 5-azacytidine. No consistent response could be demonstrated to 9-beta-D-arabino...

Under aprotic conditions, the reaction of 4-amino-1,2-naphthoquinone with excess S2Cl2 generates 4,5-dioxo-naphtho[1,2-d][1,2,3]dithiazol-2-ium chloride in a typical Herz condensation. By contrast, prior literature reports an imine (NH) product, 4,5-dioxo-1H-naphtho[1,2-d][1,2,3]dithiazole, for the same reaction performed in acetic acid. Herein, the cation product is isolated with four differen...

Molineria latifolia (Singkut rhizome) is an endemic plant in tropical and humid climates, so it widely distributed several Asian countries. This study determines the antioxidant activity of rhizome ethanol extract isolated compounds. The a strong category with IC50 26.033 ppm. results isolation are known to contain 2,6-dimethoxy-benzoic acid 4-hexyl-2,5-dihydro-2,5-dioxo-3-furanacetic

A new 2:1 co-crystal of piroxicam and gentisic acid [systematic name: 4-hy-droxy-1,1-dioxo-N-(pyridin-2-yl)-2H-1λ6,2-benzo-thia-zine-3-carboxamide-2-(4-oxido-1,1-dioxo-2H-1λ6,2-benzo-thia-zine-3-amido)-pyridin-1-ium-2,5-di-hydroxy-benzoic acid, 2C15H13N3O4S·C7H6O4] has been synthesized using a microfluidic platform and initially identified using Raman spectroscopy. In the co-crystal, one piroxi...

A novel enzyme inhibitor of RNA-directed DNA-polymerases of avian myeloblastosis and murine leukemia virus was isolated from fermentations of an tasmanian Podoscypha species. Its structure was elucidated by spectroscopic methods and oxidative degradation as (E)-4,5-dioxo-2-hexadecenoic acid (1). The enzyme inhibitor, which was named podoscyphic acid, did not inhibit DNA and RNA synthesis in per...

A trinucleating framework was assmbled by templation of a heptadentate ligand around yttrium and lanthanides. The generated complexes orient three sets of two or three N-donors each for binding additional metal centers. Addition of three equivalents of copper(I) leads to the formation of tricopper(I) species. Reactions with dioxygen at low temperatures generate species whose spectroscopic featu...

Treatment of 5,8-dihydroxy-1-tetralone (9) with either 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) in refluxing benzene or silver (I) oxide in refluxing 1,4-dioxane afforded juglone (5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone) (1) in good yield. With manganese dioxide in dioxane the tetralone gave a mixture of juglone and naphthazarin (5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone) (3), the proportion of naphthazarin...

The crystal structures of two zinc(II) 5,15-dioxo-porphyrins (porphodimethenes) have been determined to investigate the coordination chemistry of porphyrins with interrupted conjuga­ tion system. Both compounds have a five-coordinated zinc center with pyridine as axial ligand and show overall structural parameters very similar to porphyrins. The oxidized meso-posi­ tions are, however, easily id...