Substituted acetanilides reacted with aromatic acids in the presence of [{RuCl2(p-cymene)}2], AgSbF6 and (NH4)2S2O8 in ClCH2CH2Cl at 100 °C for 24 h yielding ortho-benzoxylated acetanilides in good to excellent yields in a highly regioselective manner via C-H bond activation.

The occurrence of caecal nematode, Subulura brumpti has become more common in quails being maintained in commercial farms in Tamil Nadu, India. Two trials were carried out to study the biology and pathology of S. brumpti in quails. In the first trial, eight grower quails were divided into two groups (T1 and T2) comprising of four birds each. The birds belonged to the group T1 was infected with ...

Von Liebig noted in his most famous book that agriculture’s principal objective is the production of digestible N (1). This task was particularly challenging in all traditional (pre-industrial) agricultures. They had 3 ways in which to provide N for crops: i) recycling of organic wastes (mainly crop residues and animal and human wastes); ii) crop rotations including N-fixing leguminous species;...

Study objectives: Breath-to-breath variability is not purely random but is, instead, characterized by correlations on shortand long-term scales. Shortterm correlations might reflect intact metabolic-control mechanisms. To investigate whether the higher variability of breathing during rapid eye movement (REM) compared to non-REM (NREM) sleep is of random or nonrandom nature—reflecting an altered...

CXC chemokine receptor CXCR3 and/or its main three ligands CXCL9, CXCL10, andCXCL11 are highly upregulated in a variety of diseases. As such, considerable efforts have beenmade to develop small-molecule receptor CXCR3 antagonists, yielding distinct chemical classes of antagonists blocking binding and/or function of CXCR3 chemokines. Although it is suggested that these compounds bind in an allos...

[Ru(p-cymene)Cl2]2-catalyzed 1,4-addition reactions between arylboronic acids and butyl acrylate and acrylamide in the presence of phenols were investigated, good to excellent yields were obtained. The addition of phenols remarkably promoted the protonolysis and inhibited the β-H elimination of the 1,4-addition intermediates, and also efficiently suppressed the protonolysis of arylboronic acids.

Recyclable ( -p-cymene)-ruthenium(II) 2-naphthylazo-p-methylphenolate catalyst of formulation [RuCl( -pcymene)(L)] (where L = mono anionic 2-naphthylazo-p-methylphenolate ligand) is shown to be an efficient catalyst for transfer hydrogenation of a wide range of alkyl and aryl ketones in the presence of 2-propanol and KOH.

The waterdistilled essential oil from dried aerial parts of one of the Algerian thymes, Thymus fontanesii Boiss. & Reut. grown in Setif province, Algeria, was analyzed by GC/MS. Fifteen components were characterized representing 99.4% of the total components detected. The major components of the oil were thymol (67.8%), gamma-terpinene (15.9%) and p-cymene (13.0%).