11 -eis Retinal ((1) see Fig. 1) and its 3,4-dehydro derivative (11-ds A2-retinal, (2)) were believed to be the sole chromophores in the visual pigments. Recently, another retinal compound — 3-hydroxy retinal (3) — was identified as the functional chromophore in the eyes of several related insect orders [1—3]. It was demonstrated that the adaptation of 3-hydroxy retinal as visual chromophore pr...

New complexes of nickel (II) have been synthesized in the reaction mixture of nickel (II) acetate and 4-hydroxy-2-oxo-2Hchromene-3-carboxamide. Bis(4-hydroxy-2-oxo-2H-chromene-3carboxamidato-O,O)nickel (II) and diaquabis(4-hydroxy-2-oxo-2Hchromene-3-carboxamidato-O,O)nickel (II) were characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy and ESI mass spectrometry. Elemental analysis and mass spec...

Twenty-seven strains belonging to 12 Mycobacterium species were studied for 3-hydroxy fatty acid composition. Mycobacterial cells were subjected to both mild and strong acid methanolysis, after which the liberated hydroxy fatty acids were purified and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry as methyl ester trimethylsilyl ether derivatives. Altogether, 21 3-hydroxy fatty acids containin...

The bactericidal activities and postantibiotic effects (PAE) of clarithromycin-14-hydroxy-clarithromycin and amoxicillin-clavulanate against Bacteroides fragilis and Peptostreptococcus anaerobius were determined. A concentration of twice the MIC resulted in bactericidal activity against four of four and three of four organisms at 24 h with clarithromycin-14-hydroxy-clarithromycin and amoxicilli...

o-Fructose 1,6-bis(phosphate) aldolase from rabbit muscle (RAMA, 8.C.4.L.2.13) catalyzes the aldol condensation betwe.tr dihyd.oxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and various aldehydes; the products are ketosugars with 3(S),4iR) stereochemistry. When racemic a-hydroxy aldehydes are condensed with DHAF, two diastereomeric products are formed. This paper demonstrates that RAMA can kinetically resolve a-h...

Kidney and liver mitochondria of rat, rabbit and guinea pig are able to transform 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarate into acetoacetate, whereas ox liver mitochondria and rat mitochondria of heart, diaphragm and brain do not exhibit such an activity. Starvation and streptozotocin treatment decreases the formation of acetoacetate from 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarate. Addition of acetoacetate and succinate t...

Condensation of ethylaceto acetate (EAA) with resorcinol in concentrated H2SO4 afforded 7-hydroxy-4-methyl coumarin (1), which on reaction with thiosemicarbazide in anhydrous pyridine yielded 7-hydroxy-4-methyl-quinolinyl [1,5-c]-mercaptotriazole (2). Reaction of 2 with formaldehyde solution and amino acid in ethanol yielded 7-hydroxy-4-methyl-8-(N-methyl-aminoacid)-quinolinyl [1,5-c]-2''-merca...

The development of new approaches to obtain optically pure β-hydroxy esters is an important area in synthetic organic chemistry since they are precursors of other high value compounds. Herein, the kinetic resolution of racemic β-hydroxy esters using a planar-chiral DMAP derivative catalyst is presented. Following this procedure, a range of aromatic β-hydroxy esters was obtained in excellent sel...

Five new phenolic compounds, 4-(beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy)-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl-propanone (8), 3-[5-[(threo) 2,3-dihydro-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-3-hydroxymethyl-7-methoxybenzofuranyl]-propanoic acid (12), 2-[4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)-2,6-dimethoxyphenoxy]-3-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)propyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (13), 4-[(erythro) 2,3-dihydro-3(hydroxymethyl)-5-(3-hydropropyl)...

Recently, we reported the conversion of bisphenol A (BPA) to 4-(2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propan-2-yl)benzene-1,2-diol (hydroxy-BPA) by hyper lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete sordida YK-624 under non-ligninolytic condition. In the present study, the metabolism of hydroxy-BPA by P. sordida YK-624 was demonstrated under non-ligninolytic condition. Under these conditions, approximately 66% of hydrox...