In recent years, Old Yellow Enzymes (OYEs) and their homologues have found broad application in the efficient asymmetric hydrogenation of activated C=C bonds with high selectivities and yields. Members of this class of enzymes have been found in many different organisms and are rather diverse on the sequence level, with pairwise identities as low as 20 %, but they exhibit significant structural...

Chiral bidentate hemi-labile bis(phosphine) monoxide ligands were shown to be quite effective in various copper-catalyzed transformations. Among them, the nucleophilic addition to imines, the conjugate addition to α,β-unsaturated nitro derivatives, and the conjugate reduction of α,β-unsaturated sulfones generally gave good to excellent yields and high enantiomeric excesses.

Efficient one-pot methods for the synthesis of variously functionalised conjugated nitro alkenes have been reported. Despite the utility in different fields of these compounds, only a few multi-step syntheses have been reported in the literature, giving the target compounds in low overall yields. α-Nitro acrylates or cinnamates, α-nitro α,β-unsaturated ketones and, most importantly, aromatic an...

The title compound, C3H2N4O4, forms crystals with two mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit which are conformationally similar. With the exception of the O atoms of the nitro groups, the mol-ecules are essentially planar. In the crystal, adjacent mol-ecules are associated by N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the imidazole N-H donors and N-atom acceptors of the unsaturated nitro-gen of neighboring ring...

A Michael-type reaction of β,γ-unsaturated α-keto ester and α-nitro ketone was established. With a thiourea catalyst derived from cinchona alkaloid, the reactions afford products in 47-94% yields with 68-96% ee.

Nitrated derivatives of unsaturated fatty acids are endogenously formed under oxidative and nitrative stress condition and are defined as electrophilic fatty acids containing a nitro group to a carbon-carbon double bond. Among the most studied nitro derivatives of unsaturated fatty acids are nitro-oleic acid (OA-NO2) and nitro-linoleic acid (LNO2). These products exhibit novel protective action...