Acetophenones are phenolic compounds involved in the resistance of white spruce (Picea glauca) against spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferiana), a major forest pest in North America. The acetophenones pungenol and piceol commonly accumulate in spruce foliage in the form of the corresponding glycosides, pungenin and picein. These glycosides appear to be inactive against the insect but can be c...

The photodissociation channels of acetophenone (C H )–CO–(CH ), can be controlled by the use of tailored 6 5 3 strong-field laser pulses together with a feedback loop incorporating an adaptive algorithm. This optimal control strategy is used to selectively cleave either the OC–CH or OC–C H bonds, monitored by detecting either mass 105 3 6 5 or 77, respectively. Varying the pulse chirp and durat...

Anhydrous sodium acetate will serve as the catalyst with maleic, chloro-maleic, and methylglutaconic anhydrides, giving yields of 0.54, 0.22, and 1.02 moles CO2 per mole of anhydride. The products of all these reactions are black and brown-black, are soluble in acetone, acetophenone, dioxane, and aqueous alkali and are insoluble in benzene, toluene, ether, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride, a...

The development of resistance to current antifungal therapeutics drives the search for effective new agents. The fact that some acetophenone-derived Mannich bases had shown antifungal activities in our previous studies led us to design and synthesize acetophenone-derived bis Mannich bases, B1-B5, bis(beta-aroylethyl)methylamine hydrochlorides, to evaluate their antifungal activity. These bis Ma...

A PVC membrane Fe(III) ion selective electrode has been constructed using a new macrocyclic asmembrane carrier.The electrode exhibits a good potentiometric response for Fe(III) over a wideconcentration range 1.0×10-4 to 1.0×10-1M with a slope 19.4±0.5 mV/decade a and a working pHrange of 6.5-9.0. It has a fast response time ≤30s.The best performance was observed with themembrance having the 30....

The synthesis of conformationally-restricted 1,3-dioxanes with a phenyl moiety fixed in an axial orientation at the acetalic center is described. Starting with diethyl 3-hydroxyglutarate (15), benzaldehyde acetal 12a and acetophenone ketal 12b bearing a protected 1,3,5-trihydroxypentyl side chain in the o-position were prepared. The first acid-catalyzed intramolecular transacetalization gave a ...

Xanthones are a class of heterocyclic compounds characterized by a dibenzo-γ-pyrone nucleus. Analysis of their mode of action in cells, namely uncovering alterations in gene expression, is important because these compounds have potential therapeutic applications. Thus, we studied the transcriptional response of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa to a group of synthetic (thio)xanthone deri...