Benzoate competes with n-amino acids for n-amino acid oxidase and thus inhibits the activity of the oxidase (l-3). Monosubstituted benzoates, depending upon the substituent, have higher and lower affinities for the oxidase than has benzoate (2). Kojic acid, a Y-pyrone, likewise competitively inhibits the oxidase (4). The present report describes the inhibition of n-amino acid oxidase by certain...

Different superhydrophilic polypyrrole nanostructures can be electrosynthezised in the presence of anions of weak acid (monohydrogenophosphate) and non-acidic anions (perchlorate) without the need for templates. Actually the type of nanostructures formed depends both on the concentration of anions at the electrode and on the interfacial pH. Depending on the anion composition of the pyrrole aque...

Selective iodination at the alpha-pyrrole positions of dipyrrolyldiketone BF(2) complexes is a key procedure to afford mono- and bisiodinated derivatives as the starting materials of the coupling reactions for various utility molecules and covalently linked oligomer systems. Iodination can also be applied to the phenylene-bridging receptor dimer to obtain the derivatives selectively iodinated a...

The title mol-ecule, C(24)H(20)N(2)O(4)S(2), has crystallographic inversion symmetry with a triple-bond distance of 1.206 (2) Å. The alkyne is not quite linear, with a C-C C angle of 175.78 (16)°. The planar pyrrole rings are parallel but offset from coplanarity by 0.318 (1) Å. The conformation of the sulfonyl group with respect to the pyrrole ring is such that an O atom is nearly eclipsed with...

The title achiral compound, C(13)H(18)N(2)O, crystallized in the chiral monoclinic space group P2(1). The pyrrole rings are inclined to one another by 62.30 (11)°, and the propanol chain is in an extended conformation. In the crystal, the two pyrrole NH groups are involved in inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, leading to the formation of a helical arrangement propagating along the b axis. An...

The title compound, C(11)H(14)N(2), crystallized with two independent mol-ecules (A and B) in the asymmetric unit. The two mol-ecules differ only slightly, with the pyrrole rings being inclined to one another at a dihedral angle of 87.67 (8)° in mol-ecule A and 88.09 (7)° in mol-ecule B. In the crystal, there are no classical hydrogen bonds, but the two pyrrole NH groups of one mol-ecule are in...

In the title compound, C(16)H(18)N(2)O(2), the mol-ecule adopts an E conformation about the C=N double bond. The dihedral angle between the pyrrole and phenyl rings is 41.55 (8)°. In the crystal structure, pairs of inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers. In the dimer, the two pyrrole rings are almost coplanar and the two phenyl rings are parallel to...

A series of new push-pull compounds were synthesised by reaction of 5-aryl- furan-2-carboxaldehydes and furo[b]pyrrole type aldehydes with benzothiazolium salts. These new condensation products represent highly conjugated systems that have potential biological activity. The reaction of furo[b]pyrrole type aldehydes with benzothiazolium salts give potential precursors of cyanine dyes.

Wrede and Rothhaas (1934) proposed a tripyrrylmethene structure for the red pigment extracted from Serratia marcescens. This structure was supported by Hubbard and Rimington (1950) because of the similarity in spectral properties between extracted pigment and a synthetic tripyrrylmethene compound. Recent investigations (Williams et al., 1956) have demonstrated that pigment identical in spectral...