Addition of Potassium cyanide to a mixture of Schiff base and lithium perchlorate afforded a-aminonitriles in high yields. Addition of potassium cyanide to a methanolic solution of Schiff base and phosphoric acid afforded a-aminonitriles. When the reaction mixture was refluxed it gave a-amino acids in high yields.

Reaction between Schiff-base ligand and half-sandwich complex M(Pc)(acac) led to the isolation of new sandwich-type mixed (phthalocyaninato)(Schiff-base) di-lanthanide compounds M2(Pc)2(L)H2O (M = Dy, Gd) (1, 2) [H2Pc = metal free phthalocyanine, Hacac = acetylacetone, H2L = N,N'-bis(3-methyloxysalicylidene)benzene-1,2-diamine] with the triple-decker molecular structure clearly revealed by sing...

The binding of chloride is known to shift the absorption spectrum of most long-wavelength-absorbing cone-type visual pigments roughly 30 nm to the red. We determined that the chloride binding constant for this color shift in the gecko P521 visual pigment is 0.4 mM at pH 6.0. We found an additional effect of chloride on the P521 pigment: the apparent pKa of the Schiff base in P521 is greatly inc...

A new class of rhodopsins covalently linked to an enzymatic domain was discovered recently. A member of this class of enzymerhodopsins, the rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclase (RhGC) was identified in the aquatic fungus Blastocladiella emersonii (BE). Characterization of RhGC showed that the second-messenger molecule cGMP (cyclic guanylyl monophosphate) is produced upon green light illumination. Here, t...

Attaching dialkylaminomethyl arms to commercial phenolic oxime copper extractants yields reagents which transport base metal salts very efficiently by forming neutral 1:1 or 1:2 complexes with zwitterionic forms of the ligands.

A simple and selective synthesis of 1,3-benzoxazine-2,4-dione and 4-methylene-1,3benzoxazine-2-one derivatives is reported from the reaction of Schiff bases and triphosgene. The selective synthesis of those 1,3-benzoxazine derivatives were found to be dependent on the type of substituents present on the Schiff base.

A Schiff base was prepared from the interaction of ethanolic solutions of 2-hydroxy-1– naphthaldehyde and butylenediamine. The complexes were synthesized by refluxing the mixture of ethanolic solutions of the Schiff base and respective metal (II) chloride. Their solubility, melting point/decomposition temperature, molar conductance, elemental analysis and IR were carried out. The melting point ...

Schiff base macrocycles are emerging as useful scaffolds for binding two or more catalytic metals in close proximity. Such coordination chemistry allows for the evaluation of potentially beneficial catalytic cooperative effects. In the field of ring opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters, only a handful of metal systems bound by Schiff base [2 + 2] type macrocycles have been studied. Nev...

A method of optimisation of new extractants structure using the desirable function has been developed. Earlier the desirable function has been proposed by Harrington (Ind Qual Control 21: 494-498, 1965) for the optimisation of processes with several response functions. The developed method of optimisation of new extractants structure has been used for construction of phenolic type extractants (...