Pyridine-4-carboxylic acid hydrazide, commercially known as isoniazid (INH), is an antitubercular drug and is now widely used together with rifampicin and streptomycin for the chemotherapy of tuberculosis. Ritodrine hydrochloride (RTH), chemically, 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-[2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylamino]propanol is a potent tocolytic drug and is a selective β2-adrenoceptor agonist and is used to c...

Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) has long attracted intense research interest and is used in many biotechnological fields, including diagnostics, biosensors and biocatalysis. Enhancement of HRP catalytic activity and/or stability would further increase its usefulness. Based on prior art, we substituted solvent-exposed lysine and glutamic acid residues near the proximal helix G (Lys 232, 241; Glu 23...

INTRODUCTION Naphthoquinone derivatives are under investigation as potential therapeutic agents. The antibacterial and antifungal activity of lawsone and of some novel naphthoquinone derivatives was assessed in vitro. METHODS The antimicrobial activity was determined using diffusion disk and the broth microdilution methods against seven bacteria and three Candida species, according to recomme...

A variety of organocatalysts were screened for the catalysis of the naphthoquinone monoketal Diels-Alder reaction. In this study we found that Schreiner's thiourea catalyst 10 and Jacobson's thiourea catalyst 12 facilitate the cycloaddition of the sterically hindered naphthoquinone monoketal dienophile 3 with diene 4. The use of thiourea catalysis allowed for the first time the highly selective...

Barleria alluaudii and Diospyros maritima were both investigated as part of an ongoing search for synergistic TRAIL (tumor necrosis factor-α-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) sensitizers. As a result of this study, two naphthoquinone epoxides, 2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydrolapachol (1) and 2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydro-8-hydroxylapachol (2), both not previously isolated from natural sources, and the known 2-me...

a most effective and less energy demanding method of producing fatty esters, diol esters, by esterifying fatty acids, with neopentyl and ethylenglycol alcohols in the presence of an acidic ion exchange resin catalyst(polyestyrendivinylbenzensulfated) was investigated at elevated temperature. in this process an azeotroping agent, toluene, was used to facilitate continuous removal of water by dis...