Highly concise syntheses of (+)-macrosphelides A and B were accomplished in this study. The key feature of our synthetic route involved the direct three-carbon homologation of the readily available Weinreb amide 6 by the addition of a trans-vinylogous ester anion equivalent and facile construction of the 16-membered macrolide skeleton of macrosphelides via an intramolecular nitrile oxide-olefin...

Treatment of various aliphatic and aromatic aldoximes with the hypervalent iodine(iii) reagents (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB) or Koser's reagent [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzene (HTIB) gave, respectively, N-acetoxy or N-hydroxy amides in good yields rather than the expected nitrile oxide dimerised product oxadiazole-N-oxides reported to be formed with other oxidising and hypervalent iodine reagent...

A three-component coupling reaction of ortho-phthalaldehyde, 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene 10-oxide, and various primary amines readily afforded novel phosphorus-substituted stable isoindoles in good to excellent yields. The importance the reversible ring-opening 10-oxide by methanolysis became apparent.

This work presents an examination of the selective functionalization norbornadiene through nitrile oxide 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition/ring-opening metathesis (ROM)/cross-metathesis (CM) protocols. Functionalization commercially available provided novel bicyclic scaffolds with multiple stereogenic centers. The synthesis involved cycloadditions, subsequent ROM formed cycloalkene-fused isoxazoline an...

Michael addition of pyrimidine and purine nucleobases to substituted as well as unsubstituted α,β-unsaturated esters efficiently proceeds in the presence of catalytic amount of zinc oxide in ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (ZnO/[bmim]Br) under microwave irradiation to afford carboacyclic nucleosides, as biologically important compounds, in good to excellent yields and in short ...

Rhodococcus sp. strain M8 is a nitrile-degrading bacterium isolated from acrylonitrile-contaminated sites. This strain produces the enzymes for sequential nitrile degradation, cobalt-type nitrile hydratase, and amidase in large amounts. Its draft genome sequence, announced here, has an estimated size of 6.3 Mbp.

Alcaligenes sp. MTCC 10674 has a bienzymatic system for the hydrolysis of nitriles. The nitrile hydratase and amidase have been purified simultaneously to homogeneity using a combination of (NH)4SO4 precipitation, ion exchange chromatography and gel permeation chromatography. Nitrile hydratase and amidase have molecular weight of 47 and 114 kDa, respectively and exist as heterodimer. Optimum te...

Host-guest complexes of tris(NN-CH2)-substituted 1,4,7-triazacyclononane and tetrakis(NN-CH2)-substituted 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane afforded the folded structures of the hosts where the NN radical oxygen atoms were coordinated to the guest metal ion, leading to enhanced antiferromagnetic couplings in the solid state and an ESR line broadening in the solution phase (NN = 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl...