Marine organisms such as seaweeds, sponges and corals protect their own surfaces from fouling by their high anesthetic, repellant, and settlement inhibition properties. Within the marine ecosystem, evolution has allowed for the development of certain antifouling properties. Isatin is a biologically active chemical produced by an Alteromonas sp. strain inhibiting the surface of embryos of the ca...

An exceptionally mild method for the preparation of isatin derivatives has been developed using a sulfur ylide mediated carbonyl homologation sequence starting from anthranilic acid precursors. This method proceeds at ambient temperature via a sulfur ylide intermediate without the need for protection of the amine or chromatographic isolation of the intermediate ylide. Gentle oxidation of the su...

Isatin, previously shown to promote growth in green and etiolated pea stems, is converted mainly to anthranilate in those tissues; small quantities of isatate are also formed. Fed anthranilate is converted mainly to its beta-d-glucoside; smaller amounts are metabolized to anthranilamide, tryptophan and kynurenine. These data provide some basis for understanding the growth promoting activity of ...

Isatin is a heterocyclic molecule that belongs to one of the most important classes organic compounds known as indolines. Isatin, isatin analogs, and their Schiff bases have recently attracted lot attention in medicinal chemistry. itself, shows various biological activities such antiviral, anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antioxidant, anticonvulsant. Bis- containing moie...

The rhodium-catalyzed reactions of 3-diazoindolin-2-imines with N,N-dialkylanilines, N-allyl-N-alkylanilines, and N-propargyl-N-alkylanilines and 3-diazoindolin-2-imines furnished 3-aryl-2-aminoindoles, 3-allyl-3-amino-2-iminoindolines, and tetrahydro-[1,4]diazepino[2,3-b]indoles, respectively. 3-Diazoindolin-2-imines acted as precursors of α-imino rhodium carbenes in these transformations.

The first N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalyzed [3+4] cycloaddition of azomethine imines and enals is disclosed. Oxidative catalytic remote activation of enals affords 1,4-dipolarophile intermediates that react with 1,3-dipolar azomethine imines to generate dinitrogen-fused seven-membered heterocyclic products with high optical purities. Our approach also provides effective kinetic resolution ...

A method is described which provides for the direct asymmetric catalytic synthesis of trisubstituted aziridines from imines and diazo compounds. While unactivated imines were not reactive to α-diazo carbonyl compounds in which the diazo carbon was disubstituted, N-Boc imines react with both α-diazo esters and α-diazo-N-acyloxazolidinones to give trisubstituted aziridines with excellent diastere...

Enantioselective conjugate addition of bis(pinacolato)diboron to α,β-unsaturated imines proceeds smoothly in water in the presence of a chiral copper(II) complex consisting of Cu(OAc)2 and chiral 2,2'-bipyridine. The corresponding β-boryl imines, which were oxidized to β-hydroxy imines, further leading to γ-amino alcohols, were obtained in high yields and high enantioselectivities.

Schiff bases of N-methyl and N-acetyl isatin derivatives with different aryl amines have been synthesized and screened for anticonvulsant activities against maximal electroshock (MES) and subcutaneous metrazole (ScMet). N-methyl-5-bromo-3-(p-chlorophenylimino) isatin (2) exhibited anticonvulsant activity in MES and ScMet with LD50 > 600 mg kg(-1), showing better activity than the standard drugs...