A highly efficient copper-catalyzed system using commercially available racemic 1,1′-binaphthyl-2,2′-diol (rac-BINOL) as the ligand was eveloped for amination of aryl halides and heteroaryl halides with alkyl amines and N H heterocycles. Good to high yields were obtained for aryl romides and heteroaryl chlorides. The commercially available rac-BINOL ligand with excellent stability and high effi...

Antimitotic natural products that bind to cellular microtubules can be used as anticancer agents, and we are studying the cellular mechanisms of these compounds.1 The fungal metabolite phomopsin A is a key structure in these studies, and we are currently pursuing its synthesis.2 Our retrosynthetic analysis of phomopsin A targeted the chiral tertiary alkyl-aryl ether as a key disconnection withi...

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A detailed and comparative mechanistic study of the photoelectrochemical dehalogenation of the four p-halonitrobenzenes, X-C,H,-NO, (X = F, CI, Br, or I) in acetonitrile solution is reported. In the case of p-iodonitrobenzene, iodide loss is accomplished by electrochemical reduction alone. The formation of Iis shown to take place via an ECE process with the ultimate generation of the radical an...

We have synthesized copper-incorporated KIT-5 mesoporous materials which were characterized thoroughly by powder XRD, N2-sorption, UV-Vis, HR-SEM & EDS and HR-TEM techniques. The low angle PXRD with theta values of 0.609, 0.660, 0.704 0.746 confirmed the mesoporosity materials. In addition, showed type-IV isotherms are spherical in morphology fringes pores supporting formation catalytic activit...

Synthesis of 4-(N,N- dimethylamino)-3-aryl-3-butene-2-one, ethyl-5-aryl-4-oxo-4H-pyran-2-carboxylate, ethyl-5-aryl-4-pyridones-2-carboxylate and 5-aryl-3-cyano-5-methyl-2-pyridones (aryl=3-thienyl, 2-furyl) are described.

Halohydrin dehalogenase (HheC) from Agrobacterium radiobacter AD1 catalyzes the dehalogenation of vicinal haloalcohols by an intramolecular substitution reaction, resulting in the formation of the corresponding epoxide, a halide ion, and a proton. Halide release is rate-limiting during the catalytic cycle of the conversion of (R)-p-nitro-2-bromo-1-phenylethanol by the enzyme. The recent elucida...

Estradiol 17 beta prevented the fall in the microbicidal activity of the myeloperoxidase-H2O2-halide system induced by high H2O2 concentrations. In contrast, when the H2O2 (and halide) concentrations were low the myeloperoxidase-H2O2-halide antimicrobial system was inhibited by estradiol. These properties of estradiol 17 beta were shared by estradiol 17 alpha, estrone, estriol, ethinyl estradio...