Coarctate reactions are defined as reactions that include atoms at which two bonds are made and two bonds are broken simultaneously. In the pursuit of the discovery of new coarctate reactions we investigate the fragmentation reactions of cyclic ketals. Three ketals with different ring sizes derived from indan-2-one were decomposed by photolysis and pyrolysis. Particularly clean is the photolysi...

The conformation of the title compound, C(27)H(21)NO(3), is stabilized by a weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond, which generates an S(6) ring motif. The pyrrolidine ring adopts a half-chair conformation. Both of the other five-membered rings are in envelope conformations. No significant inter-molecular hydrogen bonds are observed.

Benzofuran, indan and tetrahydronaphthalene analogs of 3,4-(methylenedioxy)amphetamine (MDA) were prepared in order to examine the role of the dioxole ring oxygen atoms of MDA in interacting with the serotonin and catecholamine uptake carriers. The series of compounds was evaluated for discriminative stimulus effects in rats trained to discriminate saline from the training drugs (S)-(+)-MBDB (1...

The metabolically versatile Rhodococcus sp. strain DK17 is able to grow on tetralin and indan but cannot use their respective desaturated counterparts, 1,2-dihydronaphthalene and indene, as sole carbon and energy sources. Metabolite analyses by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry clearly show that (i) the meta-cleavage dioxygenase mutant strain DK180...

heavy alkylated benzene (hab), which is a by-product in linear alkylbenzene (lab) production by uop process, is separated by distillation from lab and consists of a range of components such as polyalkylbenzenes, diphenylalkanes, alkyl tetralins, and alkylindans. the products of sulfonation of hab or its distillation cuts are of wide industrial applications such as emulsifiers, dispersants in lu...