The methodology to prepare 3-substituted 1,5-dibromopentanes I and their immediate precursors, which include 3-substituted 1,5-pentanediols VII or 4-substituted tetrahydropyrans VIII, is surveyed. Such dibromides I are important intermediates in the preparation of liquid crystalline derivatives containing 6-membered heterocyclic rings. Four dibromides 1a-1d containing simple alkyl and more comp...

In the title compound, C20H18O7, the dioxolane ring adopts an envelope conformation with the dimethyl-substituted C atom as the flap, and its mean plane makes a dihedral angle of 73.25 (2)° with the pyran ring mean plane. The furan ring makes dihedral angles of 67.43 (12) and 6.20 (11)° with the mean plane of the dioxolane and pyran rings, respectively. The O atom attached to the pyran ring dev...

Isoflavone, Biochanin A, Dihydrobiochanin A, Phenylacetic acids, Fusarium javanicum After a lag-phase of 1 h a mycelial suspension of Fusarium javanicum completely degraded 5,7-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyisoflavone (biochanin A) to a series of transiently accumulating catabolites. The compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic techniques and are arranged in the first known degradative pathway for an i...

In the title compound, C20H14N2O2, the hy-droxy-benzene ring is almost perpendicular to the mean plane of the naphthalene ring system, making a dihedral angle of 85.56 (4)°. The 4H-pyran ring fused with the naphthalene ring system has a flattened boat conformation. In the crystal, O-H⋯N and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into a supra-molecular layer in the bc plane; N-H⋯π inter-action...

In this paper, 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-t-butyl-6(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)-4H-pyran (DCJTB) has been used in interface modification of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) with combined effects of retarding charge recombination and Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET). DCJTB interface modification significantly improved photovoltaic performance of DSCs. I-V curves shows the conversion...