An inferred ancient episode of heating and deformation on Tethys has been attributed to its passage through a 3:2 resonance with Dione (Chen, E.M.A., Nimmo, F. [2008]. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, 19203). The satellites encounter, and are trapped into, the e-Dione resonance before reaching the e-Tethys resonance, limiting the degree to which Tethys is tidally heated. However, for an initial Dione ec...

Two new dioxopyrrolines (1-aryl-4-methoxycarbonyl-1H-pyrrole-2,3-dione 6 and the 5-methoxycarbonyl isomer 8) behaved as good dienophiles to some kind of 1,3-dienes examined. In most cases, the products were explained by the reaction where the largest lobe of HOMO of dienes reacted to the larger LUMO of dienophiles in an expected cis-endo manner. However, in the reactions of 8 with alkylbutadien...

dione); 1 1flOH-P (1 1/?-hydroxyprogesterone; 1 1 /?-hydroxypregn-4ene-3,20-dione); 1 I-0x0-P (1 1-oxoprogesterone; pregn-4-ene-3,11,20trione); 21-d-F (2 I-deoxycortisol; 11/?,17a-dihydroxypregn-4-ene-3,20dione); 2 1 -d-E (2 1-deoxycortisone; 17a-hydroxypregn-4-ene-3,11,20trione); 1 1-deoxycortisol (Reichstein’s substance S ; cortexolone; 1 7 ~ 2 l-dihydroxypregn-4-ene-3,20-dione); DHS (dihydro...

3-Ketosteroid-∆1-dehydrogenase (KstD), a key enzyme in microbial steroid catabolism, catalyzes the trans-axial elimination of the C1 and C2 hydrogen atoms of the A-ring from the polycyclic ring structure of 3-ketosteroids, and it was usually used to transform androst-4-ene-3,17-dione (AD) to produce androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione. Here, the KstD from Gordonia neofelifaecis was expressed efficien...

A new class of quinoline derivatives containing pyrazoline-5-one and pyrazole moiety (3a-j and 4a-j) have been synthesized by condensation of various oxobutyrates/pentane-2,4-dione derivatives with 8-quinolinoxyacetic acid hydrazide. Elemental analysis, IR, H NMR and mass spectral data support the structures of the newly synthesized compounds. The synthesized compounds have been evaluated for t...

The structures of two diastereoisomers of norbormide [systematic name: 5-[hydroxy(phenyl)(2-pyridyl)methyl]-8-[phenyl(2-pyridyl)methylene]-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7-methano-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione], viz. the unsolvated molecule, C(33)H(25)N(3)O(3), and the ethyl acetate hemisolvate, C(33)H(25)N(3)O(3).0.5C(4)H(8)O(2), have been determined unambiguously. They differ in the relative stereochemi...

Phthalimide reacted with phenacyl bromide under microwave irradiation to yield phenacyl isoindolidene-1,3-dione (3b), while 3a reacted with phenylhydrazine to yield the phenylhydrazone 4 that was readily converted into indoylphthalimide 8. Similarly N-benzotriazolylacetone (6a) reacted with phenyl hydrazine to yield the phenylhydrazone 7a that was converted into indoylbenzotriazole 9. Treatment...

The lipophilicity of a series of Schiff base ligands and their complexes with nickel(II) and copper(II) has been determined by reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography using binary dioxane-water mobile phase. Chelate ligands were prepared by condensation of diamine and the corresponding beta-diketone. Copper(II) and nickel(II) complexes with chelate ligands containing ethane-1,2-diamine or prop...

Five new diketopiperazine derivatives, (3Z,6E)-1-N-methyl-3-benzylidene-6-(2S-methyl-3-hydroxypropylidene)piperazine-2,5-dione (1), (3Z,6E)-1-N-methyl-3-benzylidene-6-(2R-methyl-3-hydroxypropylidene)piperazine-2,5-dione (2), (3Z,6Z)-3- (4-hydroxybenzylidene)-6-isobutylidenepiperazine-2,5-dione (3), (3Z,6Z)-3-((1H-imidazol-5-yl)-methylene)-6-isobutylidenepiperazine-2,5-dione (4), and (3Z,6S)-3-b...

A new abeo-abietane diterpenoid, 12-methoxy-6,11,14,16-tetrahydroxy-17(15→16)-abeo-5,8,11,13-abietatetraen-3,7-dione (8), was isolated from the hydroalcoholic extract of the herb of Clerodendrum kiangsiense along with seven known diterpenoids (1-7). Their structures were identified on the basis of spectroscopic analyses including two-dimensional NMR and comparison with literature data. All of t...