A bacterium capable of utilizing citronellal or citral as the sole source of carbon and energy has been isolated from soil by the enrichment culture technique. It metabolizes citronellal to citronellic acid (65%), citronellol (0.6%), dihydrocitronellol (0.6%), menthol (0.75%), and 3,7-dimethyl-1,7-octane diol (1.7%). The metabolites of citral were geranic acid (62%), 6-methyl-5-heptanoic acid (...

Fractionation of petroleum ether partitioned ethanol extract and crude petroleum ether extract of the leaves of Murraya koenigii Linn (Rutaceae) led to the isolation of 5,8-dimethyl furanocoumarin (1) and 1-al, 3[6’, 6’ dimethyl 5-hexene] carbazole (2) and β-sitosterol (3). Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods such as UV, IR, NMR and LCMS. All the compounds were isolated fo...

In the title compound, C22H20ClN3O4, the central pyrrolidine ring adopts an envelope conformation on the N atom. The indolinone systems are individually roughly planar, with maximum deviations from their mean planes of 0.130 Å for the spiro C atom of the indolinone unit and 0.172 Å for the carbonyl C atom of the 5-chloro-1-methyl-indolinone unit. They make dihedral angles of 77.7 (8) and 86.1 (...

There are two independent 3,5-dimethyl-pyrazole and two independent 2-hy-droxy-5-(phenyl-diazen-yl)benzoic acid mol-ecules [in which intra-molecular O-H⋯O bonds form S(6) graph-set motifs] in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(5)H(8)N(2)·C(13)H(10)N(2)O(3). In the crystal, the components are linked by inter-molecular O-H⋯O, O-H⋯N and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming four-component cluste...

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C(11)H(15)N(5)OS(2), the thia-diazole and triazole rings are not coplanar, the dihedral angle formed by their mean planes being 59.9 (2)°. The exocyclic S atom, and the methyl-ene, carbonyl, tert-butyl and one methyl carbon form an approximately planar zigzag chain, which makes a dihedral angle of 74.6 (1)° with the thia-diazole ring.

Copper(II)  complex  [Cu(dmbt)2(H2O)](ClO4)2 (1)  was  prepared  from  the  reaction  of  copper(II) perchlorate  hexahydrate  with  2,2'-dimethyl-4,4'-bithiazole  (dmbt)  ligand  in  methanol  at  ambient temperature. The complex was quantitatively and qualitatively characterized by elemental analysis, absorption  and  infrared  spectrometries.  Complex  [Cu(DMSO)5](ClO4)2 (2)  was  also  synt...

The title compound, C30H28ClN3O2, features two spiro links, one connecting the piperidine and pyrrolidine rings, and the other connecting the pyrrolidine ring and indole residue. The configuration about the ethene bond is E. The piperidine ring adopts a half-chair conformation where the C atom connected to the spiro-C atom lies 0.713 (3) Å out of the plane of the remaining five atoms (r.m.s. de...

The metabolism of CI-976, a potent inhibitor of liver and intestinal acyl coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase, was investigated in isolated rat hepatocytes and Wistar rats after oral administration. The major metabolite observed both in vitro and in vivo was identified as the 6-carbon, chain-shortened 5,5-dimethyl-6-oxo-[(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)amino]hexanoic acid (M-4). M-4 was determined t...