The crucial role played by compounds bearing amide functions, not only in biological processes but also several fields of chemistry, life polymers and material sciences, has brought about many significant discoveries innovative approaches for their chemical synthesis. Indeed, a plethora strategies been developed to reach such moieties. Amides within chiral molecules are often associated with ac...

nano silica-h2so4 is an efficient and mild catalysis system for the regeneration of aldehyde from aldoximes. ketoximes are converted to amides by beckmann rearrangement in the presence of nano silica-h2so4. the reactions are carried out in solvent-free conditions under microwave irradiation (600 w) within 50-120 sec in good yields.

Highly efficient method for the preparation of N-tert-butyl amides by reaction of nitriles with tertbutylacetateis described using boron trifluoride etherate in solvent free condition. Selective amidation ofbenzonitrile in the presence of acetonitrile was also achieved.

Barriers to rotation about the C-N bond in the cis and trans isomers of N-methylformamide have been determined by n.m.r. spectroscopy. Representative values are 20.7 and 22.0 kcal/mole. Arrhenius parameters have also been determined. These results are compared with C-N barriers for N,N-dimethylformamide and unsubstituted formamide. The data suggest that C-N rotational barriers for N-methyl amid...

Mass spectrometry has provided a powerful method for monitoring hydrogen exchange of protein backbone amides with deuterium from solvent. In comparison to popular NMR approaches, mass spectrometry has the advantages of higher sensitivity, wider coverage of sequence, and the ability to analyze larger proteins. Proteolytic fragmentation of proteins following the exchange reaction provides moderat...

Transdermal transport is now becoming one of the most convenient and safe pathways for drug delivery. In some cases it is necessary to use skin penetration enhancers in order to allow for the transdermal transport of drugs that are otherwise insufficiently skin-permeable. A series of oleanolic acid amides as potential transdermal penetration enhancers was formed by multistep synthesis and the s...

The stereoselective synthesis of cathepsin inhibitors from indoline type epoxyamides is described. The use of this type of epoxyamides permitted the preparation of E-64 and CA-074 related compounds depending on the order in which the key steps, the oxidation of indoline amides to indole amides and oxidative acetal cleavage were undertaken. By taking advantage of the facile substitution of the i...

Suspensions of graphene, prepared from graphite foil by sonochemical exfoliation, have been treated with new nonpolar pyrenebutyric amides. The assemblies, in suspension and after deposition on solid supports, were characterized by NMR, absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy and by transmission electron microscopy, where the well-defined shape and size of an appended [60]fulleropyrrolidine u...