The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the major site of calcium storage and protein folding. It has a unique oxidizing-folding environment due to the predominant disulfide bond formation during the process of protein folding. Alterations in the oxidative environment of the ER and also intra-ER Ca2+ cause the production of ER stress-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS). Protein disulfide isomerases...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(8)H(9)N(3)O(2)S, contains three independent mol-ecules which are stacked approximately over each other. In the crystal structure, centrosymmetric pairs of mol-ecules are formed through inter-molecular hydr-oxy-hydr-oxy O-H⋯O and hydr-oxy-sulfur O-H⋯S hydrogen bonds which are, in turn, linked into a two-dimensional network by N-H⋯O(hydr-oxy) hydrogen ...

Midinfrared spectra of HCl dimers have been obtained in helium nanodroplets. The interchange-tunneling (IT) splitting in the vibrationally excited state of the bonded H-Cl stretching band (nu(2)) in (H(35)Cl-H(37)Cl) dimers was measured to be 2.7+/-0.2 cm(-1), as compared to 3.7 cm(-1) in free dimer. From the splitting, the strength of the IT coupling in liquid helium of 0.85+/-0.15 cm(-1) was ...

This review article presents a survey of the utility of a new synthetic strategy for 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives based on reactions of nitrilimines with various functionalized sulfur dipolarophiles which proceed via tandem in situ 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and β-elimination of simple molecule from the initially formed cycloadduct. The biological activities of some of the compounds prepared by...