An efficient synthesis of isoquinoline-2,3-dicarboxylates is described via one-pot reactions of isoquinoline and alkyl bromids with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in water at 70oC. The mild reaction conditions and high yields of the products exhibit the good synthetic advantage of these methods. 

I have developed a procedure to monitor, by gas chromatography with electron-capture detection, the concentration of vaiproic acid in serum. The valprolc acid Is derivatized into Its phenacyl ester. The assay Is very sensitive, measuring as little as 100 pg of valproic acid easily and accurately. Solvent extraction and concentration of the drug are not necessary; Instead, one only has to precip...

A series of functionalized spiro[indoline-3,2'-oxiran]-2-ones was efficiently synthesized by Darzens reaction of phenacyl bromides with isatins both with N-alkyl groups and without N-substituent in the presence of potassium carbonate as a base catalyst. When two equivalents phenacyl bromides were used in the reaction, the N-substitution reaction of isatin also finished with the formation of spi...

Isoquinoline-degrading microbial cultures were isolated from oil- and creosote-contaminated soils. The establishment of initial enrichment cultures required the use of emulsified isoquinoline. Once growth on isoquinoline was established, isoquinoline emulsification was no longer required for utilization of isoquinoline as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen by these cultures. An isoquinoline...

Phthalimide reacted with phenacyl bromide under microwave irradiation to yield phenacyl isoindolidene-1,3-dione (3b), while 3a reacted with phenylhydrazine to yield the phenylhydrazone 4 that was readily converted into indoylphthalimide 8. Similarly N-benzotriazolylacetone (6a) reacted with phenyl hydrazine to yield the phenylhydrazone 7a that was converted into indoylbenzotriazole 9. Treatment...

Anthelmintic resistance creates a major hitch over the decades throughout the world. As per WHO only few drugs are frequently used in the treatment of helminth infestations in human beings. In view of this, an attempt has been made to study the anthelmintic activity of some newly synthesized 1-substituted imidazoles (1a-1d, 2a-2d) were synthesized and characterized by their spectral data. All t...

A set of 13 fatty acids was transformed into their phenacyl esters by reaction with phenacyl bromide in acetonitrile using 18-crown-6 as phase-transfer catalyst. Conditions for the RP-18 HPL chromatographic separation of most of the esters has been worked out. Using this standard the fatty acid spectra from skin surface sebum lipids of 17 test persons was taken after microwave-assisted hydrolys...