A mild and efficient method for the N-arylation of zwitterionic amino acids, amino acid esters and peptides is described. The procedure provides the first room temperature synthesis of N-arylated amino acids and peptides using CuI as a catalyst, diketone as a ligand, and aryl iodides as coupling partners. The method is equally applicable for using relatively inexpensive aryl bromides as couplin...

In Paper II of this series (1) we described the isolation from adrenal extracts of four crystalline, nitrogen-free compounds, which were found to be physiologically inactive when tested on the adrenalectomized dog. Three of these compounds, besides others not encountered by us, have meanwhile been obtained independently by Reichstein (2) ;I the fourth is apparently identical with the substance ...

Four lipophilic 1,10-phenanthroline di(thio)amide, diester or diketone derivatives were studied as ligands for Am(III)/Eu(III) separation from acidic media. The synthesis of these compounds is reported together with the extraction tests in different solvents (kerosene, octanol and o-nitrophenyl hexyl ether), HNO3 concentrations and ratios between the ligand and the synergistic agent (Br-Cosan)....

Lanthanide complexes with two push-pull diketone derivatives as sensitizers have been developed as synthons for near-infrared emitting materials. The ligand substituents consist of a carbazole moiety with hole-transport properties and an aromatic or heteroaromatic unit. According to quantitative NMR analysis and complementary HPLC experiments, the diketones are predominantly in their enolic for...

The cuticle of terrestrial plants functions as a protective barrier against many biotic and abiotic stresses. In wheat and other Triticeae, β-diketone waxes are major components of the epicuticular layer leading to the bluish-white glaucous trait in reproductive-age plants. Glaucousness in durum wheat is controlled by a metabolic gene cluster at the WAX1 (W1) locus and a dominant suppressor INH...

A physico-chemical research of bis-(dipivaloylmethanato)barium(II) (Ba(thd)2) has been carricd out from the point of its use in CVD processes as a precursor (thermal stability, immunity to external effects and etc.). The optimal conditions for synthesis, purification and storage have been found. It has bee11 shown. that the sublimated product presents a mixture of several modifications with the...

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 ...