UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Chalcones are ubiquitous natural compounds with a wide variety of reported biological activities, including antitumoral, antiviral and antimicrobial effects. Furthermore, chalcones are being studied for its potential use in organic electroluminescent devices; therefore the description of their spectroscopic properties is important to elucidate the structure of these mol...

isoxazole (2a-l) and cyanopyridine (3a-l) derivatives have been prepared by condensing chalcones (1a-l) with hydroxylamine hydrochloride and malononitrile respectively. while compounds 1a-l have been synthesized by the reaction of p-(3’-chloro-2’-benzo(b)thiophenoylamino)-acetophenone with different aldehydes. all the compounds were screened for their antitubercular and antimicrobial activities...

Chalcones are open analogues of flavonoids and give bright red to purple colours with different reagents which can be used to distinguish them from other flavonoids such as flavanones, flavones, aurones etc. Studies show that the bathochromic shift arises due to the formation of carbonium ion at the carbonyl group (>C = O) of the chromogen (ArCOCH = CHAr) as an intermediate which produces deepe...

A simple and efficient protocol is developed for the synthesis of 2-substituted-4,6-diarylpyrimidines from one-pot three-component reaction of 4'-hydroxy-3',5'-dinitro substituted chalcones, S-benzylthiouronium chloride (SBT), and heterocyclic secondary amines (morpholine/pyrrolidine/piperidine) in the presence of 15 mol% of ZnO as a heterogeneous catalyst. The present methodology offers severa...

objective(s): chalcones and their rigid analogues represent an important class of small molecules having anticancer activities. therefore, in this study the synthesis and cytotoxic activity of new 3-benzylidenchroman-4-ones were described as rigid chalcone analogues.   materials and methods: the reaction of resorcinol with 3-chloropropionic acid in the presence of cf3so3h was afforded correspon...

Although aldol condensation is one of the most important organic reactions, capable of forming new C-C bonds, its mechanism has never been fully established. We now conclude that the rate-limiting step in the base-catalyzed aldol condensation of benzaldehydes with acetophenones, to produce chalcones, is the final loss of hydroxide and formation of the C═C bond. This conclusion is based on a stu...