The first direct enantioselective catalytic alpha-oxidation of carbonyls has been accomplished. The use of enamine catalysis has provided a new organocatalytic strategy for the enantioselective oxyamination of aldehydes, to generate alpha-oxyaldehydes, important chiral synthons for natural product and medicinal agent synthesis. The use of l-proline as the asymmetric catalyst has been found to m...

In the title compound, C(25)H(23)N(3)O(3)S, an intra-molecular N-H⋯O inter-action generates an S(6) ring, which stabilizes the enamine-keto form of the compound. This S(6) ring and the pyrazole ring are essentially coplanar, making a dihedral angle of 1.49 (6)°. The bond lengths within the S(6) ring of the mol-ecule lie between classical single- and double-bond lengths, indicating extensive con...

The aim of this work was to synthesize steroidal heterocycles and to elucidate the potential role of these compounds as antimicrobial agents. The synthesis of steroidal heterocycles containing the pyrazole, isoxazole, thiazole, pyrane, pyridine, pyridazine, or benzopyrane ring attached to the pregnene nucleus is reported. Progesterone (1) reacts with dimethyl formamide dimethyl acetal to form e...

A convenient synthesis of the new enamine derivatives 2-(4-morpholinyl)-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphthalenedione, 2-(1-piperidinyl)-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphtalenedione and 2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphthalenedione was carried out from natural 2-hydroxy-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphthalenedione (lapachol) and morpholine, piperidine and pyrrolidine. The structures...

An enantioselective Brønsted acid catalyzed Mannich reaction between acetophenone derived enamines and N-Boc imines has been developed. Simple diol (S)-H(8)-BINOL has been identified as the optimal catalyst, to afford versatile beta-amino aryl ketones in good yield and enantiomeric excess.

The YjgF/YER057c/UK114 family proteins are highly conserved across all three domains of life, and most of them currently have no clearly defined biological roles. In vitro, these proteins were found to hydrolyze the enamine/imine intermediates generated from serine or threonine, and were renamed Reactive Intermediate Deaminase A (RidA). RidA was recently discovered in Arabidopsis thaliana, and ...

OBJECTIVES Our aim was to unravel the inactivation pathway of the class A β-lactamase produced by Bacillus licheniformis BS3 (BS3) by clavulanate. METHODS The interaction between clavulanate and BS3 was studied by X-ray crystallography, pre-steady-state kinetics and mass spectrometry. RESULTS The analysis of the X-ray structure of the complex yielded by the reaction between clavulanate and ...

This report presents the synthesis of the first neutral trianionic ONO pincer-type tungsten alkylidyne complex, [CF(3)-ONO]W≡C((t)Bu)(OEt(2)) (5) {where CF(3)-ONO = (MeC(6)H(3)[C(CF(3))(2)O])(2)N(3-)}. Treating 5 with 1-phenylpropyne, 4,4-dimethyl-2-pentyne, and cyclooctyne yields the corresponding tungstenacyclobutadiene complexes [CF(3)-ONO]W[κ(2)-C((t)Bu)C(Me)C(Ph)] (6), [CF(3)-ONO]W[κ(2)-C(...