A new ortho-rhom-bic polymorph of the title compound, C30H24N4, with a density of 1.315 Mg m(-3), has been obtained. The mol-ecule is centrosymmetric with the centroid of the cyclo-hexa-1,4-diene ring located on an inversion center. The two unique benzene rings are almost perpendicular to each other [dihedral angle = 86.70 (6)°] and are oriented at dihedral angles of 30.79 (5) and 68.07 (5)° wi...

Highly functionalized, cyclobutene-containing adducts are afforded through intramolecular cycloadditions between cyclobutadiene and tethered dienes. The cycloaddition displays the following reactivity trend: cyclobutadiene serves as a dienophile in intramolecular reactions when it is connected to the diene through a four-atom tether. In cases where a three-atom linker separates the two reaction...

The urine and plasma of epileptic patients receiving therapeutic doses of valproic acid (2-propyl- pentanoic acid) was found to contain five doubly unsaturated metabolites of valproic acid, which were identified as their trimethylsilyl derivatives by GC/MS. A series of reference substances was synthesized but only two of them were identical with native metabolites: 2(2-propenyl)-4-pentenoic aci...

The title compound, C(6)Cl(10), cystallizes in a nearly C2-symmetrical gauche conformation. Both trichloro-vinyl groups are nearly planar [Cl-C-C-Cl torsion angles = -178.47 (12) and -179.93 (11)°] and the lengths of their C-Cl bonds increase from the terminal trans and cis C-Cl bonds to the inter-nal bonds. The Cl-C-Cl bond angles of the terminal dichloro-methyl-ene units are compressed to 111...

Alkali-treated extracts of Rhodopseudomonas palustris growing photosynthetically on benzoate were examined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for partially reduced benzoate derivatives. Two cyclic dienes, cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1-carboxylate and cyclohexa-1,4-diene-1-carboxylate, were detected. Either compound supported cell growth as effectively as benzoate. These results suggest that these ...

Three new triterpenoid aglycones named Philinopgenin A (1), B (2), and C (3) were isolated from the acid hydrolysate of the crude glycoside mixture prepared from the whole sea cucumber Pentacta quadrangulasis Lesson. The corresponding structures were determined as 16β-acetoxyholosta-8(9), 24(25)-diene-3β-ol (1), 20, 25-epoxy-lanosta-9(11)-ene-3β-ol 18(16)–lactone (2) and 16β-acetoxyholosta-9(11...

Three new abietane-type diterpenoids, 7a-butoxyabieta-8,12-diene-11,14-dione (1), 6a,7a-dihydroxyabieta-8,12-dien-11,14-dione (2), and 6a,7b-dihydroxyabieta8,12-diene-11,14-dione (3) were isolated from the bark of Cryptomeria japonica D. Don. Their structures were established by means of 1D and 2D NMR, IR, UV, and HR-EI-MS spectra and comparison with the data of known analogues. ã 2016 Publishe...

II S, stearate; M, mOlloene; D, diene; T, trien€; CD, conjugated {Hene; eDT, conjugated diene-triene. Copper chl'omite 9.12.15 8.9 22.9 33,S 4,6 31.6 17 Nickel 9,12,15 0,9 40,S 21.1 0,5 20 Copper chromite 5,9,12 O,S 27.3 39.4 30,2 0,9 1.4 18 Copper chromite 3.9,12 lOJ 22.3 69,4 6,7 18 D T CD CDT Composition, % Position of double bonds in tl'ienes Analyses of Products Formed During :Hydrogenutio...