the use of methanesulfonic acid as a brønsted acid for direct ortho-acylation of phenols and naphthols proves to be a convenient, more general and direct route to various hydroxyaryl ketones. the route is regioselective, leading to ortho c-acylated products in satisfactory to high yields in most cases. the solvent free reactions described below exhibited environmentally benign in terms of faste...

The title compound, C(17)H(26)O, is a di-ortho-alkyl substituted phenyl ethanone that exhibits a significant twisting of the ketone fragment relative to the aromatic ring [O-C-C-C torsion angle = 89.32 (17)°] due to steric pressure from the ortho-isopropyl groups. One ortho- and the para-isopropyl group exhibit orientational disorder with a refined site occupancy factor of 0.562 (3):0.438 (3).

We discuss the production of ortho-projection graphs from alternating knot diagrams, and introduce a more general construction of such graphs from “splittings” of closed, non-orientable surfaces. As our main result, we prove that this new topological construction generates all ortho-projection graphs. We present a minimal example of an ortho-projection graph that does not arise from a knot diag...

A Chevalley type integral basis for the ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebra is constructed. The simple modules of the ortho-symplectic supergroup over an algebraically closed field of prime characteristic not equal to 2 are classified, where a key combinatorial ingredient comes from the Mullineux conjecture on modular representations of the symmetric group. A Steinberg type tensor product theorem...

The synthesis of tetra-ortho-substituted biaryl naphthalenes, including examples bearing multiple ortho-isopropyl groups, has been developed via a catalytic rearrangement process.