Alkenes are linear hydrocarbons with one or more double bonds. Despite their potential as biofuels and precursors for specialty chemicals, the underlying biochemistry and genetics of alkene biosynthesis in plants remain elusive. Here, we report on a screen of natural accessions of poplar (Populus trichocarpa), revealing that the leaf cuticular waxes are predominantly composed of alkanes and alk...

Abstract Metal-catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition is a powerful tool that allows rapid construction of functionalized 6-membered carbo- and heterocycles in single step through an atom-economical process with high functional group tolerance. The reaction usually regio- chemoselective although selectivity issues can still be challenging for intermolecular reactions involving the cross-[2+2+2] two or...

In the context of new scaffolds obtained by photochemical reactions, Paternò-Büchi reactions between heteroaromatic, trifluoromethylphenyl ketone and electron rich alkenes to give oxetanes are described. A comprehensive study has then been carried out on reaction aromatic ketones with fluorinated alkenes. Depending substitution pattern at oxetane ring, a metathesis is described as minor side pr...

Alkenes and their related analogs are ideal starting materials for organic synthesis, the selective difunctionalization of alkenes, which allows simultaneous introduction two neighboring bonds, has gained considerable attention in recent years. In particular, photoredox-catalyzed alkenes also been accomplished, regarded as an increasingly powerful tool synthesis miscellaneous interesting molecu...

A colorimetric indicator displacement assay (IDA) amenable to high-throughput experimentation was developed determine the percentage of cis and trans alkenes. Using 96-well plates two steps are performed: a reaction plate for dihydroxylation alkenes followed by an IDA screening consisting boronic acid. The generates either erythro or threo vicinal diols from alkenes, depending upon their syn- a...

It was previously reported that the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 1-alkenylboron compounds with various vinylic or aryl halides in the presence of base provides the corresponding coupling products in high yields, stereoand regioselectively. The recent progress of such reactions, including the reaction of sterically hindered arylboronic acids with sterically hindered haloarenes,...

Key words methylation - alkenes terpenoids methyltransferases

In this work, a polyimide (PI) containing triazole units was synthesized using 3,5-diamino-1,2,4-triazole and pyromellitic dianhydride in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone. This polymer was used as the support of manganese (III) tetrakis(4-methoxylphenyl)porphyrin acetate to attain a heterogeneous catalyst; namely Mn(T4-OMePP)OAc@PI. The synthesized PI and Mn(T4-OMePP)OAc@PI were characterized by di...

Abstract This study aims to analyze the sensitivity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) ambient concentrations fine particles (PM 2.5 ) in representative industrial city Ulsan, Korea. For calculation coefficients between VOCs and PM (SVOCs-PM ), data were obtained from an air quality monitoring station, their corresponding 6-h average (alkanes, alkenes, aromatics, total VOCs) measured at Yeong...

The addition of bis(pinacolato)diboron [(Me4C2O2)B-B(O2C2Me4)] to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds giving β-boryl carbonyl compounds and the addition to terminal alkynes yielding either 2-boryl-1-alkenes or 1-boryl-1-alkenes were carried out in DMF at room temperature in the presence of CuCl and AcOK. The transmetalation between diboron and [Cu(Cl)OAc]K generating a borylcopper species was pr...