Pyrroloquinone ring systems are important structural units present in many biologically active molecules including a number of marine alkaloids. For example, they are found in a series of marine metabolites, such as tsitsikammamines, zyzzyanones, wakayin, and terreusinone. Several of these alkaloids have exhibited antimicrobial, antimalarial, antifungal, antitumor, and photoprotecting activitie...

The reaction of cyanothioacetamide with aromatic aldehydes and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds followed by aminomethylation or S-alkylation gave a series heterocyclic derivatives 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine 1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydroquinoline fragment. resulting were tested for analgesic activity in vivo. Some the prepared showed an antinociceptive effect superior to that ketorolac dynamics.

A novel polysaccharide fraction (BCP-1) was extracted from the black currant fruit by ultrasound-assisted compound enzyme and purified by chromatography on macroporous resin D4006, anion-exchange Q-Sepharose FF and Sephadex G-100 columns. BCP-1 consisted of galacturonic acid, xylose, mannose, glucose and galactose in a ratio of 1.00:3.14:1.83:17.90:1.98 and its molecular weight was 14,050 Da. T...

The primary role of yeast Ara1, previously mis-annotated as a D-arabinose dehydrogenase, is to catalyze the reduction of a variety of toxic α,β-dicarbonyl compounds using NADPH as a cofactor at physiological pH levels. Here, crystal structures of Ara1 in apo and NADPH-complexed forms are presented at 2.10 and 2.00 Å resolution, respectively. Ara1 exists as a homodimer, each subunit of which ado...

A simple, green synthesis of N-alkyl-3-acetyl-2-methylpyrrole derivatives using ZnO nanoparticles from the three component reaction of aliphatic amines, acetylacetone (as a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound) and α-haloketones under solvent-free condition is described.

Iron (III) phosphate catalyzed condensation reaction of aldehydes, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds and amuniom acetate refluxing ethanol that remains a common theme in current literature.