Decarbonizing the transportation sector is critical to achieving global climate change mitigation. Although biofuels will play an important role in conventional gasoline and diesel applications, bioderived solutions are particularly important in jet fuels and lubricants, for which no other viable renewable alternatives exist. Producing compounds for jet fuel and lubricant base oil applications ...

EtaA is a newly identified FAD-containing monooxygenase that is responsible for activation of several thioamide prodrugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It was found that purified EtaA displays a remarkably low activity with the antitubercular prodrug ethionamide. Hinted by the presence of a Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase sequence motif in the EtaA sequence, we have been able to identify a large ...

In this work, the volatile fraction of unsmoked and smoked Herreño cheese, a type of soft cheese from the Canary Islands, has been characterized for the first time. In order to evaluate if the position in the smokehouse could influence the volatile profile of the smoked variety, cheeses smoked at two different heights were studied. The volatile components were extracted by Solid Phase Microextr...

In traditional African communities, repellent volatiles from certain plants generated by direct burning or by thermal expulsion have played an important role in protecting households against vectors of malaria and other diseases. Previous research on volatile constituents of plants has shown that some are good sources of potent mosquito repellents. In this bioprospecting initiative, the essenti...

synthesized from dipeptidyl chloromethyl ketones or methyl ketones. According to this novel procedure, various functional groups could be introduced into positions 3 and 6 of 1,2-dihydropyrazin-2-one by using appropriate amino acids (Chart 2). It had been assumed that the formation of the 1,2-dihydropyrazin-2-one ring from dipeptidyl chloromethyl ketones proceeded according to the mechanism sho...

In a wind tunnel trifluoromethyl ketones (TFMKs) have been found to disrupt the orientation flight of male moths to pheromone sources (virgin females or synthetic pheromone). This is demonstrated by comparison of the flight parameters of the Egyptian armyworm Spodoptera littoralis and the Mediterranean corn borer Sesamia nonagrioides, which had been topically treated with TFMKs, with those calc...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C(15)H(15)NO, the two benzene rings are twisted from each other by a dihedral angle of 47.97 (4)°. The crystal structure is stabilized by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O and C-H⋯π inter-actions, and π-π inter-actions with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.8493 (5) Å are observed.

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C(25)H(20)N(2)O(3), the dihedral angles formed by adjacent benzene rings are 66.75 (8), 48.37 (8) and 71.43 (9)°. In the crystal structure, centrosymmetrically related mol-ecules are linked into dimers by inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.