Methyl indolenines (4a-c) and(5a-c) were prepared in high yield by a Fischer indole synthesis reaction of o,m-tolylhydrazine hydrochlorides (1a-b) with isopropyl methyl ketone (2) and 2-methylcyclohexanone (3) in acetic acid at room temperature. o,p- Nitrophenylhydrazines (1c-d) were reacted with 2-methylcyclohexanone (3) in acetic acid at reflux to give nitroindolenines (5d-e), while the attem...

Cogongrass is a troublesome, invasive weedy species with reported allelopathic properties. The phytotoxicity of different constituents isolated from roots and aerial parts of this species was evaluated on garden lettuce and creeping bentgrass. No significant phytotoxic activity was detected in the methylene chloride, methanol, or water extracts when tested at 1.0 mg ml. However, the total essen...

Ce(2)(SO(4))(3)(H(2)O)(4) was obtained hydro-thermally from an aqueous solution of cerium(III) oxide, trimethyl-amine and sulfuric acid. The precision of the structure determination has been significantly improved compared with the previous result [Dereigne (1972 ▶). Bull. Soc. Fr. Mineral. Cristallogr.95, 269-280]. The coordination about the two Ce atoms is achieved by seven and six bridging O...

The title mol-ecule, C21H25NO7, has four stereogenic centres and crystallized as a racemate. It consists of enanti-omeric pairs with the relative configuration rac-(1R*,2S*,3R*). The cyclo-hexenone ring adopts an envelope conformation; the dimethyl-substituted C atom lies 0.640 (1) Å out of the mean plane formed by the rest of the ring atoms (r.m.s. deviation = 0.016 Å). The oxacyclo-hexene rin...

An error in the original formulation of the title compound in the paper by Sadiq-ur-Rehman, Sherzaman, Ali, Shahzadi & Helliwell [Acta Cryst. (2007), E63, m2329] is corrected.The title compound in the paper by Sadiq-ur-Rehman, Sherzaman, Ali, Shahzadi & Helliwell [Acta Cryst. (2007), E63, m2329] was an unexpected product which seemed to have nitrate coordinated to three Sn atoms. However, it wa...

A simple and efficient one pot synthesis of 2-amino-4H-chromen-4-yl phosphonate derivatives has been accomplished by the condensation of salicylaldehyde, malononitrile/ethylcyanoacetate and triethyl phosphite/trimethyl phosphite in the presence of molecular iodine as catalyst in water at room temperature. All the reactions were very clean and the products were obtained in very good to excellent...

Z. Naturforsch. 2009, 64b, 323 – 327; received June 13, 2008 A new bisabolene derivative (1S∗, 2R∗, 4R∗, 7R∗, 10R∗)-1,7,10,11-tetrahydroxy-1,7,11-trimethyl-4,10(H)-2-O-cinnamoyl-bisabol-8(9)-ene (1), together with cinnamic acid (2), methyl cinnamate (3), sodium cinnamate (4) and methyl elaidate (5) have been isolated from the leaves and barks of Fissistigma petelotii. Sodium cinnamate (4) was i...