Over the last ten years, the nematic phases of liquid crystals formed from bent-core structures have provoked considerable research because of their remarkable properties. This Minireview summarises some recent measurements of the physical properties of these systems, as well as describing some new data. We concentrate on oxadiazole-based materials as exemplars of this class of nematogens, but ...

Photogenerated azaxylylenes undergo intramolecular cycloadditions to 1,3,4-oxadiazole pendants, which are accompanied by concomitant release of dinitrogen, yielding functionalized ketopiperazinoquinolinols containing an oxirane moiety fused to the quinolinole moiety while spiro-connected to diketopiperazine. These primary photoproducts are reactive versatile intermediates which can be further d...

Some new heterocyclic compounds containing isoxazole, pyrazole and oxadiazole ring systems were prepared from various chalcones. The synthesized compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis and spectral methods. These compounds were screened for their antimicrobial activities.

BACKGROUND Substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles are of considerable pharmaceutical interest. 2,5-Substituted diphenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles are associated with diverse biological activities by the virtue of -N = C-O- grouping. In the view of wide range of biological properties associated with 1,3,4-oxadiazole, we have synthesized substituted derivatives of 1,3,4-oxadiazole (XIII-XXII), a versatile hydroph...

As a part of our ongoing research in the exploration of novel antimicrobial agents, we report herein novel synthesis of hybrid molecules 4-methyl-7-(2-oxo-2-(5-(substitutedthio)-1,3,4oxadiazol-2-yl)ethoxy)-2H-chromen-2-ones and 4-substitutedbenzylidene-3-methyl-1-(2-((4methyl-2-oxo-2H-chromen-7-yl)oxy)acetyl)-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-ones by combining coumarin ring with 1,3,4-oxadiazole and pyrazole sc...

In the crystal, C(20)H(15)N(7)O(6)S, the dihedral angle between the oxadiazole and triazine rings is 86.94 (7)°. The oxadiazole ring makes a dihedral angle of 52.96 (8)° with the phenyl ring, while the triazine ring makes a dihedral angle of 82.08 (7)° with the benzene ring. In the structure, mol-ecules are linked by a pair of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming an inversion dimer. The dimers are fur...