In the title compound, C20H14N2O, the phenyl ring is almost normal to the naphthalene ring system with a dihedral angle of 86.72 (9)°. The 4H-pyran ring fused with the naphthalene ring system has a boat conformation. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into a helical supra-molecular chain along the b axis via N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds. The chains are consolidated into a three-dimensional architect...

In the title compound, C(13)H(12)O(2), the dihedral angle between the pyran-one and phenyl rings is 57.55 (9)°. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are linked by π-π stacking inter-actions between the parallel pyran-one rings of neighboring mol-ecules with distances of 3.5778 (11) Å and 3.3871 (11) Å between the planes. C-H⋯O interactions also occur.

High-performance liquid chromatographic methods were developed for the isolation and quantitative determination of the group B soyasaponins, including 2,3-dihydro-2,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4H-pyran-4-one (DDMP)-conjugated soyasaponins alphag, betag, and betaa, and their non-DDMP counterparts, soyasaponins V, I, and II, respectively, with formononetin used as the internal standard. The limits of qu...

Effects of allixin, a phytoalexin of garlic, and its analogues were studied on the survival and morphology of primary cultured neurons from fetal rat brain. Addition of allixin (1-100 ng/ml) to medium significantly promoted the survival of neurons derived from various regions of brain and increased the number of branching points per axon in hippocampal neurons. Allixin, however, was cytotoxic a...

The mol-ecular structure of the title compound, C(19)H(20)O(2), reveals a slightly distorted chair conformation for the tetra-hydro-pyran ring with the two methyl and two phenyl substituents in equatorial positions.