A biocatalytic transformation has the potential to perform organic reactions that are quite challenging achieve with synthetic chemistry. They also catalyze these a chemo and enantio selective manner. The discovery development of new chemoenzymatic methods for synthesis chiral structures is essential production wide range bioactive compounds. In this study, two important pharmaceutical precurso...

This work aims to study the recovery of copper from ammoniacal aqueous solutions using hydrophobic propylene membrane contactors. The hydroxyoxime LIX 84-I and the β-diketone LIX 54 (both from Cognis) were used as extractants. The results obtained showed that practically all the copper content was removed from the ammoniacal feed solutions. The recovery of copper reached nearly 100% in several ...

thesis of cephalotaxine (1), the major alkaloid of the Cephalotaxus species, because of its unique structural features and antileukemic activity of its ester derivatives, harringtonine (2) and homoharringtonine (3). So far, eight total syntheses of (6)-1 including ours have been reported and the synthesis of (2)-1 has recently been achieved by Mori’s and Nagasaka’s groups. As a part of our own ...

In this issue of Journal of Experimental Botany (pages 2715–2730) Schneider et al. report the identity of three genes from barley described in the 1970s as important for the synthesis of β-diketone cuticular waxes, thereby revealing a novel polyketide synthase pathway responsible for their production. It is a perfect example of how modern sequencing technologies can resolve age-old questions on...