In the title compound, [Au(C(10)H(11)N(2)O(3)S)(C(18)H(33)P)], the gold(I) atom is linearly coordinated within a SP donor set. The distortion from linearity [S-Au-P = 177.54 (3)°] can be traced to an intra-molecular Au⋯O contact of 3.009 (3) Å. In the crystal, layers of mol-ecules are stabilized by a combination of C-H⋯O and C-H⋯π inter-actions.

The ring-opening polymerization of L-lactic acid O-carboxyanhydrides was initiated by triisopropoxyneodymium in toluene-THF mixtures. Typically, high yields and relatively high molecular weight PLAs were obtained within 4 h at 25 °C. The reaction was highly controllable and easy to conduct, and the molecular weight distribution of the PLAs was rather narrow (Mw/Mn = 1.10-1.36). NMR analysis sho...

A series of novel indene-derived retinoic acid receptor α (RARα) agonists have been designed and synthesized. The use of receptor binding, cell proliferation and cell differentiation assays demonstrated that most of these compounds exhibited moderate RARα binding activity and potent antiproliferative activity. In particular, 4-((3-isopropoxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-5-yl)-carbamoyl)benzoic acid (36...

Ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts bearing dithiolate ligands have been recently employed to generate olefins with high E-selectivity (>99% E) but have been limited by low to moderate yields. In this report, 1H NMR studies reveal that a major contributing factor to this low activity is the extremely low initiation rates of these catalysts with trans olefins. Introducing a 2-isopropoxy-...