Recent high resolution structures of several pentameric ligand-gated ion channels have provided unprecedented details of their molecular architecture. However, the conformational dynamics and structural rearrangements that underlie gating and allosteric modulation remain poorly understood. We used a combination of electrophysiology, double electron-electron resonance (DEER) spectroscopy, and x-...

Alkylation of 2-mercaptopyridine with 1,2-dibromoethane affords a cyclic dihydrothiazolopyridinium salt that can serve as a precursor of 2-aminopyridines. Its reaction with primary or secondary amines, either neat or in DMSO, under mild conditions gives the title compounds.

An unprecedented alkylation reaction of malononitriles with enantioenriched primary allylic amines has been developed in a stereospecific manner through palladium-catalyzed sp(3) C-N bond cleavage without additives at room temperature.

The three component reaction of primary aliphatic amines, glyoxalic acid and indole or N-methylindole in water at ambient temperature affords indol-3-yl or N-methylindol-3-yl-glycine in almost quantitative yields.

A range of highly enantioenriched primary allylic amines underwent palladium-catalyzed oxidative coupling with sulfonyl hydrazides open to air at room temperature to give structurally diverse allylic sulfones in moderate to excellent yields with excellent retention of ee.

Stable commercial primary ammonium chlorides were combined with tertiary amines to initiate the controlled ring opening polymerisation of amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides to yield polypeptides with defined end group structure, predetermined molar mass and narrow molar mass distribution.

3-Substituted-1-phenyl-1H -pyrazolo[3,4-d ]pyrimidin-4-amines 2a–c were synthesized by treating 5-aminopyrazole-4-carbonitriles 1a–c with formamide. The reactivity of compounds 1a–c towards some cyclic anhydrides was studied. The condensation of 5-aminopyrazole-4-carbonitrile 1b with triethylorthoformate gives imidate 7b, which reacts with a series of primary amines and leads to pyrazolo[3,4-d ...

Developing mild and efficient catalytic methods for the selective synthesis of amines is a longstanding research objective. In this respect, deoxygenative amide reduction has proven to be promising but challenging, as approach necessitates C–O bond cleavage. Herein, we report hydroboration primary, secondary, tertiary amides at room temperature catalyzed by an earth-abundant-metal catalyst, Zr-...