The pure rotational spectrum of phenanthridine (C(13)H(9)N), a small polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycle (PANH), has been measured from 48 to 85 GHz employing Stark modulated millimetre wave absorption spectroscopy of a supersonic rotationally cold molecular beam. Initial survey search scans were guided by rotational constants obtained through quantum chemical calculations performed at the...

Jadomycins are anticancer antibiotics isolated from Streptomyces venezuelae. The core of these natural products consists of a dihydro-phenanthridine ring-system. Another unique feature built to the core is a fused 1,3-oxazolidine-5-one ring. Recent synthetic reports suggest a structural revision of the fused oxazolidinone ring in jadomycin S and jadomycin T. This review will focus on the synthe...

A metal-free visible-light photoredox-catalyzed intermolecular cyclization reaction of O-2,4-dinitrophenyl oximes to phenanthridines was developed. In this study, the organic dye eosin Y and i-Pr₂NEt were used as photocatalyst and terminal reductant, respectively. The oxime substrates were transformed into iminyl radical intermediates by single-electron reduction, which then underwent intermole...

A gold(I)-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cyclization of aromatic 1,5-enyne was developed to synthesize 2-(naphthalen-2-yl)aniline. The functional group tolerance this examined systematically and a possible mechanism proposed. derivatization 2-(naphthalen-2-yl)aniline carried out facile access benzo[α]carbazole, benzo[c,h]cinnoline dibenzo[i]phenanthridine derivatives in divergent way.

The title compound, C(23)H(18)BrN, was synthesized by the reaction of 4-bromo-benzaldehyde, naphthalen-2-amine and cyclo-hexa-none in tetra-hydro-furan, catalyzed by iodine. The saturated six-membered ring adopts a half-chair conformation, and the four vicinal rings form a helical conformation, which results in a significant deviation from planarity for the pyridine ring. In the crystal, a weak...

It is well known that several antitrypanosomatid drugs accumulate in the parasite's mitochondrion, where they often bind to the organellar DNA, the kinetoplast. To what extent this property relates to the mode of action of these compounds has remained largely unquantified. Here we show that single point mutations that remove the dependence of laboratory strains of the sleeping sickness parasite...

Bioconversion (biotransformation) experiments on arenes (aromatic compounds), including various tricyclic fused aromatic compounds such as fluorene, dibenzofuran, dibenzothiophene, carbazole, acridene, and phenanthridine, were done using the cells of Escherichia coli transformants expressing several arene dioxygenase genes. E. coli carrying the phenanthrene dioxygenase (phdABCD) genes derived f...