Treatment of substituted benzyl alcohols with tosyl chloride resulted in the formation of the corresponding chlorides, not the usual tosylates. A series of experiments demonstrated that it was possible to predict whether chlorination or tosylation would occur for substituted benzyl alcohols and pyridine methanols. Treatment of electron withdrawing group-substituted benzyl alcohols with tosyl ch...

The aqueous solution behavior of some rare-earth chlorides has been investigated at 25° C. in the concentration range between 0.02 molal and saturation. Density measurements on solutions of lanthanum, neodymium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium, erbium, and ytterbium chlorides were carried out by a pycnometric method with an estimated accuracy of 1 x 10-5 gm.per ml. From the density data the ap...

In sensitization experiments with a fair number (17) of compounds all similar in chemical constitution, namely C1 and NO2 substitution products of benzene, a definite correlation has been found (1, 2) between the capacity to sensitize guinea pigs under given conditions and the ease with which the substituents are replaceable. For example, the labile 2,4-dinitrochloro-benzene proved to be a powe...

bacteria use a chemical language to communicate with each other which enables them to synchronize gene expression as a result of cell density. this special language which is called quorum sensing (qs) is based on producing and sensing the small signals and eventually leads them to perceive when a minimum population unit is reached. on the contrary, quorum sensing blockade (quorum quenching) has...

background: n-acyl homoserine lactone (ahl) is found to be the main component of quorum sensing (qs) in gram-negative bacteria and plays an important role in biofilm formation. little information is available regarding the role of ahl in biofilm formation in escherichia coli (e. coli). the purpose of this investigation was to biochemically detect and characterize ahl activity in biofilm-forming...

Some N¬-acyl-N'-aryl thiourea derivatives 4(a-f) have been prepared by the reaction of acyl halides ammonium thiocyanate and aryl amines. The structures of synthesized compounds have been characterized by IR, 1HNMR spectral studies. The synthesized compounds 5(a-f) have been screened for antibacterial activity. The effect of the structure of the investigated compounds on the antibacterial activ...

plant fatty acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesterase (fat) is a major enzyme regulating the amount and composition of fatty acids in lipids. in this study, one type of cdna, corresponding to the fatty acyl-acyl carrier protein (acyl-acp) thioesterase (fat) enzyme, was isolated from the seed of brassica napus cv. ningyou12. blast results revealed that the cdna identified highly with the fatb class...

Although the past 15 years have witnessed the development of sterically bulky and electron-rich alkylphosphine ligands for palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings with aryl chlorides, examples of palladium catalysts based on either triarylphosphine or bidentate phosphine ligands for efficient room temperature cross-coupling reactions with unactivated aryl chlorides are rare. Herein we report a pall...