We hypothesize that iodine allergy is an immune response to iodinated self proteins produced in vivo from various iodine-containing chemicals. Since an antigenic determinant ofexperimental iodine allergy is diiodotyrosine (DIT), we designed low molecular weight DIT derivatives having provocative antigenicity without sensitizing immunogenicity, Tetraiododityrosine and hexaiodotrityrosine provoke...

In the title compound, C(21)H(15)FOS, the 4-fluoro-phenyl ring is rotated out of the benzofuran plane, making a dihedral angle of 24.3 (1)°. The dihedral angle between the phenyl ring and the benzofuran plane is 28.3 (1)°. The crystal structure may be stabilized by two very weak aromatic π-π inter-actions between the furan and the benzene rings of neighbouring benzofuran systems; the centroid-c...

We found that elemental iodine and bromine are converted to trihalide nucleophiles (triiodine and tribromide anion, respectively) in the presence of catalytic amounts of meso-tetraphenylporphyrins (H2TPP). Therefore a highly regioselective method for the synthesis of beta-haloalcohols through direct ring opening of epoxides with elemental iodine and bromine in the presence of H2TPPs as new cata...

Aromatic substituents migrate in a novel oxidative cyclization mediated by iodine(III) reagents. 4-Arylbut-3-enoic acids are cyclized and rearranged to 4-arylfuran-2(5H)-ones by hypervalent iodine compounds in good to excellent yields under mild reaction conditions. Other ring sizes are also accessible. The mechanism of the reaction is described in detail, and calculations highlight the cationi...

The current work reports an organocatalytic strategy for the asymmetric catalysis of chiral benzofuran-2(3H)-ones bearing 3-position all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. Accordingly, highly enantioselective Michael addition reactions of 3-substituted benzofuran-2(3H)-ones to nitroolefins have been developed by utilizing a bifunctional tertiary-amine thiourea catalyst. The reactions accommodate ...

In the title compound, C(15)H(10)BrFO(2)S, the O atom and the methyl group of the methyl-sulfinyl substituent lie on opposite sides of the plane through the benzofuran fragment. The 4-bromo-phenyl ring is rotated out of the benzofuran plane [dihedral angle = 38.98 (8)°], while the structure is stabilized by an inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond and a Br⋯O halogen bond [3.036 (2) Å] and has an ...

Thirteen naturally occurring 1H-cyclopenta[b]benzofuran lignans of the rocaglamide type as well as one naturally occurring aglain congener all of them isolated from three Aglaia species (Aglaia duperreana, A. oligophylla and A. spectabilis) collected in Vietnam were studied for their antiproliferative effects using the human monocytic leukemia cell lines MONO-MAC-1 and MONO-MAC-6. Only rocaglam...