The title compound, C(16)H(18)O(7), was prepared by the reaction of 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane-4,6-dione and 2,3,4-trimeth-oxy-benzaldehyde. The 1,3-dioxane ring is in a slightly distorted boat conformation. The crystal structure is stabilized by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.47.].

A novel NHC-catalyzed three-component domino strategy to access high functionalized cis-ε-ketoesters with excellent yields (up to 98%) and high stereoselectivities (up to 20:1) is documented. The title domino reactions are atom economical and work on a broad range of substrates. The relative stereochemistry could be explained by a cascade crossed-benzoin/oxy-Cope rearrangement/esterification pr...

[reaction--see text] The antibiotic (-)-choramphenicol has been synthesized in only four steps from p-nitro-benzaldehyde in optically pure form from an asymmetric catalytic aziridination reaction with a chiral catalyst prepared from triphenylborate and the (R)-VAPOL ligand. Catalysts generated from the VAPOL and VANOL ligands give much higher asymmetric induction than do catalysts prepared from...

In the title mol-ecule, C(17)H(18)O(5), which was prepared by the reaction of (R)-1,5-dioxaspiro-[5.5]undecane-2,4-dione and 4-meth-oxy-benzaldehyde with ethanol, the 1,3-dioxane ring is in a distorted envelope conformation with the spiro C atom forming the flap. The crystal structure is stabilized by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

We examined the effects of elevated C02 on growth and carbon/nutrient balance in a natural population of the deciduous temperate zone shrub Lindera benzoin. Our data concern whole plant, leaf, and stem growth for the first two seasons of a long-term field experiment in which C02 levels were manipulated in situ. In addition to growth parameters, we evaluated changes in leaf and stem chemistry, i...

Micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) and capillary electrochromatography (CEC) are two of the major capillary electrophoresis (CE) modes that have been interfaced to mass spectrometry (MS) for sensitive and selective analysis of chiral compounds. This research combines these two modes and expands their applications in chiral CE analysis. Chapter 1 is a review of amino acid based molecu...

General synthetic avenues to the pyrido-annulated triazolium salts with different steric and electronic properties have been developed. This architecture can be readily altered with different N-alkyl or aryl substituents at the N2 position of the triazole ring and modifications to the pyridine backbone. Deprotonation of the triazolium salts 12 with NaH led to formation of stable carbenes 11 at ...