Determination of the structure of heparin-derived oligosaccharides by (1)H NMR is challenging because resonances for all but the anomeric protons cover less than 2 ppm. By taking advantage of increased dispersion of resonances for the anomeric H(1) protons at low pD and the superior resolution of band-selective, homonuclear-decoupled (BASHD) two-dimensional (1)H NMR, the primary structure of th...

Infrared-ultraviolet two color pump-probe spectroscopy is used to measure the binding energy, D(0,) of a carboxylic acid-water dimer where the acid is 9-hydroxy-9-fluorenecarboxylic acid. The acid-water configuration presents a standard structure for the general acid-water interaction where the water bonds to the carboxylic acid group through two intermolecular hydrogen bonds. Photodissociation...

BT-SeCF 2 H is introduced as a nucleophilic reagent for the deoxygenative difluoromethylselenylation of readily available carboxylic acid and alcohols.

An NAD-dependent D-lactate dehydrogenase (D-nLDH) of Lactobacillus bulgaricus ATCC 11842 was rationally re-designed for asymmetric reduction of a homologous series of α-keto carboxylic acids such as phenylpyruvic acid (PPA), α-ketobutyric acid, α-ketovaleric acid, β-hydroxypyruvate. Compared with wild-type D-nLDH, the Y52L mutant D-nLDH showed elevated activities toward unnatural substrates esp...

Here we present a series of linked cage complexes of functionalised variants of the octametallic ring {Cr7Ni} with the general formula [(n)Pr2NH2][Cr7NiF8(O2C(t)Bu)15(O2CR)], where HO2CR is a N-heterocycle containing carboxylic acid. These compounds are made by reacting [(n)Pr2NH2][Cr7NiF8(O2C(t)Bu)15(O2CR)] with a variety of simple metal salts and metal dimers. The carboxylic acids studied inc...