Mono- and diglycosylated aromatics and heteroaromatics may serve as building blocks for the construction of metabolically stable mimetics of oligosaccharides. Methods for their preparation from monosaccharidic precursors by direct C-glycosylation, dipolar cycloaddition or Larock cyclization are described.

[reaction: see text] Aryl coumaryl ethylenes undergo oxidative photocyclization readily to yield helical pyrone-annulated condensed aromatics. The pyrones are conveniently converted to the corresponding photochromic diphenylpyrans/chromenes. Both pyrones and chromenes exhibit helicity-dependent fluorescence efficiency and persistence, respectively.

This paper reports a useful method for facile direct syntheses of aromatic methyl esters from methyl aromatics by aerobic photo-oxidation using anthraquinone-2,3-dicarboxylic acid as an organophotocatalyst.

Ir catalysts supported by bidentate silyl ligands that contain P- or N-donors are shown to effect ortho borylations for a range of substituted aromatics. The substrate scope is broad, and the modular ligand synthesis allows for flexible catalyst design.

Aromatics growth beyond 2-, 3-ring PAH is analyzed through a radical-molecule reaction mechanism which, in combination with a previously developed PAH model, is able to predict the size distribution of aromatic structures formed in rich premixed flames of ethylene at atmospheric pressure with C/O ratios across the soot threshold limit. Modeling results are in good agreement with experimental da...

Bio-aromatics (benzene, toluene, xylenes, BTX) were prepared by the catalytic pyrolysis of six different black liquors using both in situ and ex situ approaches. A wide range of catalysts was screened and conditions were optimized in microscale reactors. Up to 7 wt % of BTX, based on the organic fraction of the black liquors, was obtained for both the in situ and ex situ pyrolysis (T = 500-600 ...

Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are first elements in sensing chemicals, heat, and force and are widespread among protists and fungi as well as animals. Despite their importance, the arrangement and roles of the amino acids that constitute the TRP channel gate are unknown. The yeast TRPY1 is activated in vivo by osmotically induced vacuolar membrane deformation and by cytoplasmic Ca...

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the utilization of rhodococci in the bioremediation of petroleum contaminated environments. This study investigates the response of Rhodococcus erythropolis IBBPo1 cells to 1% organic solvents (alkanes, aromatics). A combination of microbiology, biochemical, and molecular approaches were used to examine cell adaptation mechanisms likely to be pursue...

Polyketide synthases are extraordinarily complex enzymatic machineries that govern the assembly and cyclization of poly-β-carbonyl intermediates to an enormous diversity natural products. Captivatingly, this biosynthetic strategy is transferable retrosynthetic analysis unnatural aromatics, enabling strategic biomimetic polyketide cyclizations design extensive range otherwise unrelated aromatic