The work investigates the adhesive/cohesive molecular and physical interactions together with nanoscopic features of commonly used orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) excipients microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and D-mannitol. This helps to elucidate the underlying physico-chemical and mechanical mechanisms responsible for powder densification and optimum product functionality. Atomic force micr...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study assesses the cytotoxicity of hyperosmolar mannitol on human endothelial and meningioma cells in vitro and summarizes the initial clinical experience of using mannitol as a liquid tumor embolization agent. METHODS Human umbilical vein endothelial cells and primary meningioma cells from surgical specimens were treated with 300, 600, 900, and 1200 mOsm of mannit...

An asymmetric route for the synthesis of highly functionalized 2,3-epoxy-syn-1,4cyclohexane diol derivatives present in some polyketide natural products has been developed. The key step involves RCM of an appropriately constructed 1,7-dienol derived from D-mannitol to cyclohexane1,4-diol followed by its stereoselective epoxidation.

[reaction: see text] The callipeltoside A chlorocyclopropyl-containing dienyne side chain has been synthesized in nine steps and 33% overall yield from commercially available 1,2,5,6-O-dicyclohexylidene-D-mannitol. The key steps in the synthesis are a highly diastereoselective cyclopropanation of a vinyl chloride allylic ether and a Suzuki cross-coupling to complete the carbon framework.

[structure: see text] A new chiral ferrocenyl diphosphine ligand 3 was synthesized from readily available D-mannitol. Rh-complex with this ligand showed high enantioselectivity and reactivity in the asymmetric hydrogenation of dehydroamino acid derivatives and itaconic acid derivatives. Up to over 99% ee and 10 000 TON were achieved with this catalytic system.

Thia-Claisen rearrangements have been carried out using N-benzylpyrrolidine-2-thione and chiral allylic bromides derived from D-mannitol. Introduction of a bromine atom onto the double bond of the allylic bromide reverses the sense of diastereoselectivity in the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement. Density functional theory calculations lead us to rationalise the observed selectivity in terms of a ...