Polysaccharides are complex but essential compounds utilized in many areas such as biomaterials, drug delivery, cosmetics, food chemistry or renewable energy. Modifications and functionalizations of such polymers are often necessary to achieve molecular structures of interest. In this area, the emergence of the “click” chemistry concept, and particularly the copper-catalyzed version of the Huis...

The 2-aryl-6,8-dibromo-4-chloroquinazolines derived from the 2-aryl-6,8-dibromoquinazolin-4(3H)-ones were subjected to the Sonogashira cross-coupling with terminal acetylenes at room temperature to afford novel 2-aryl-6,8-dibromo-4-(alkynyl)quinazoline derivatives. Further transformation of the 2-aryl-6,8-dibromo-4-(phenylethynyl)quinazolines via Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling with arylboronic a...

The following acetylenic substrates have been shown to mediate NADPH-dependent loss of cytochrome P450 on incubation with hepatic microsomes from phenobarbital-pretreated rats: 1-ethynylcyclohexanol, 1ethynylcyclopentanol, 3-methyl-1-pentyn-3-01, norethisterone, (1-methoxycyclohexyl)acetylene, 3-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)-1-propyne, 3-(4-nitrophenoxy)-l-propyne, 3-phenoxy-l-propyne, 4-phenyl-l-butyn...

The [2 + 2] cycloaddition of monosubstituted acetylenes to ketene has been studied by ab initio(G2(MP2,SVP) and DFT (B3LYP/6-31Gd)) methods. The activation barrier decreases with increasing electron-donating ability of the acetylene substituent, and it can be roughly correlated with the energy of the acetylene HOMO. The addition to the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C bond of ketene (giving cy...

An overview of the known methods introducing selenium under action elemental into structures various saturated, unsaturated, and heteroaromatic selenacycles containing C–Se, N–Se, B–Se, Ge–Se P–Se bonds is presented. These include metal, iodine, bromine or chlorine exchange for direct cyclization 1-(2-bromoaryl)benzimidazoles, polyunsaturated hydrocarbons, acetylenes, propargylic amines, 3-halo...