We report the first one-pot reductive homocoupling reaction of secondary amides and cross-coupling reaction of secondary amides with ketones to give secondary vicinal diamines and amino alcohols. This method relies on the direct generation of α-amino carbon radicals from secondary amides by activation with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride, partial reduction with triethylsilane and samarium di...

Cellulose/KI is a very active, selective, stable, and recyclable catalyst for the cycloaddition reactions of CO(2) and epoxides due to the excellent synergetic effect of cellulose and KI. It is found that the hydroxyl groups on the vicinal carbons of cellulose play a key role for the very high efficiency of the catalyst.

Vicinal bis(trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride)s, a novel kind of fluorinated building block, were obtained from o-phenylenediamines in the presence of TFA, triethylamine, triphenylphosphine and tetrachloromethane. Based on these blocks, a new synthesis involving [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions for trifluoromethylated benzo-fused eight-membered rings was disclosed.

The distinct optical signatures of aligned single and double Au atom chain structures, grown on vicinal Si(111) substrates, have been identified using reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS). Deposition of 0.04 monolayers (ML) of amorphous Si (a-Si) at room temperature perturbs the anisotropic optical response of the double chain structure. By one third of a monolayer, no significant optical ...

Oxidative chlorination with HCl/H2O2 in 1,1,1-trifluoroethanol was used to transform aryl iodides into aryliodine(III) dihalides. In this instance 1,1,1-trifluoroethanol is not only the reaction medium, but is also an activator of hydrogen peroxide for the oxidation of hydrochloric acid to molecular chlorine. Aryliodine(III) dichlorides were formed in 72-91% isolated yields in the reaction of a...

Although major difficulties are experienced for hydrogen- storage materials to meet performance requirements for mobile applications, alternative fuel cell feedstocks such as ammonia can be stored in the solid state safely at high capacity. We herein describe the NiX2 -NH3 (X=Cl, Br, I) systems and demonstrate their exceptional suitability for NH3 storage (up to 43 wt % NH3 with desorption that...

Recently, arsenic trioxide (As2O3) was reported to induce clinical remission in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia. Modulation of protein phosphorylation by binding to the vicinal thiols has been suggested as a possible mechanism. We found that phenylarsine oxide, a strong vicinal thiol-binding agent, neither induced nuclear fragmentation or DNA laddering nor increased caspase activity ...

Inhibitors with vicinal 4-fluorophenyl/4-pyridine rings on a five- or six-membered heterocyclic ring are known to inhibit the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which is a potential target for rheumatoid arthritis and several different types of cancer. Several substituted azastilbene-based compounds with vicinal 4-fluorophenyl/4-pyridine rings were designed using computational docking...

The five-parameter grain boundary distributions of grain boundary engineered nickel and copper specimens have been analyzed in detail. The relative areas of {111} planes in the entire population did not increase as a result of grain boundary engineering (GBE) and, in the R3-excluded population, decreased after GBE. This decrease occurred because the majority of the newly generated R3 grain boun...