Organic salts, such as Fe, Ca, and Mg oxalates acetates, may be widespread radiolysis oxidation products of organic matter in Martian surface sediments. Such salts are challenging to identify by evolved gas analysis but the ubiquitous CO2 CO pyrolysis data from Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity rover indirectly points their presence. Here, we examined laboratory result...

We have prepared supported gold, palladium and gold–palladium bimetallic catalysts by the physical mixing of the acetate salts of the metals followed by a simple heat treatment. The use of the acetates as the metal precursor eliminates chloride from the catalyst preparation step. Extensive characterisation shows the formation of bimetallic alloy particles. These catalysts are extremely active f...

Treatment of aryl iodides with indium metal in the presence of lithium chloride leads to the formation of an organoindium reagent capable of participating in cross-coupling reactions under transition-metal catalysis. Combination with aryl halides in the presence of 5 mol % Cl2Pd(dppf) furnishes biaryl compounds in good yields; similarly, reaction with acyl halides or allylic acetates/carbonates...

RESUMO – This work aimed the evaluation of a saline extractive distillation for the ethanol production. Unlike the current method of dehydration of ethanol, which uses a solvent, distillation with the use of salt does not include problems related to toxicity and has lower power consumption, since salt is not volatilized within the distillation column. Many salts had been tested like calcium chl...

2,3-Unsaturated-4-keto glycosyl acetates were found to exhibit low reactivity under several glycosylation conditions. Chemoselective glycosylations were effectively performed using 2,3-unsaturated glycosyl and 2,3-dideoxy glycosyl acetates as armed glycosyl donors, and 2,3-unsaturated-4-keto glycosyl acetates as disarmed glycosyl donors.

Tandem reactions use consecutive reaction steps to efficiently synthesize compounds of high molecular complexity. This paper presents a tandem Pd-catalyzed Heck and alkoxycarbonylation reaction for the stereoselective synthesis of (E)-oxindolylidene acetates. The mechanism underlying the Pd-catalyzed tandem reaction involves the syn-carbopalladation of ynamides followed by alkoxycarbonylation w...

Methoxysubstituted 5,6-dihydro-indolo[2,l-a]isoquinolines with a methyl (2b-f) or a formyl group at C-12 (4a-f) and 12,12-dimethylisoquinolinium salts (3b-f) were synthesized and tested for cytostatic activity in vitro. The tetramethoxy-indoloisoquinoline 4f was the most active derivative in the P 388 Dl leukemia cell line, whereas compounds with two methoxy groups (4a, 4b) were more potent aga...

Protocols for selective acetylation of the hydroxyl groups of ginkgolide C have been developed. These acetylations have given rise to various ginkgolide C acetates and iso-ginkgolide C acetates, the latter having a rearranged skeleton resulting from translactonization. These acetyl derivatives, as well as ginkgolides A and B acetates have been investigated for their ability to bind to a cloned ...