The hydrogen abstraction/acetylene addition (HACA) mechanism has long been viewed as a key route to aromatic ring growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in combustion systems. However, doubt has been drawn on the ubiquity of the mechanism by recent electronic structure calculations which predict that the HACA mechanism starting from the naphthyl radical preferentially forms acenaphth...

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) plays an important role in the formation of combustion-generatedparticles such as soot, and their presence in atmosphere aerosols has been widely shown. The formation of five-membered rings, detected in combustion effluent, is of great interest due to their genotoxic activity.The present study reports an investigation of the electronic structure of Acenapht...

A simple and novel protocol for the efficient synthesis of a series of 8-carboxylnaphthyl functionalized pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine derivatives was developed through a one-pot, three-component reaction involving acenaphthylene-1,2-dione and 1H-pyrazol-5-amine in acetic acid medium. The reaction represents the first facile conversion of acenaphthenequinone to naphthoic acid via C-C bond cleavage wi...

N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands have become a privileged structural motif in modern homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis. The last two decades brought plethora of structurally electronically diversified ligands, enabling the development cutting-edge transformations, especially area carbon-carbon bond formation. Although most these were accomplished with common imidazolylidene imidazoliny...

1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides derived from acenaphthylene-1,2-dione and 5methyl-benzo[b]-thiophene-2,3-dione with L-proline, thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid and 1,2,3,4tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid with various electron deficient dipolarophiles leads to the formation of novel spiroheterocycles having two or more chiral centers. Semiempirical studies have been performe...

A pathway for the biotransformation of the environmental pollutant and high-molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) benzo[k]fluoranthene by a soil bacterium was constructed through analyses of results from liquid chromatography negative electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI(-)-MS/MS). Exposure of Sphingobium sp. strain KK22 to benzo[k]fluoranthene resulted in t...