Formyl radicals, DCO, were produced in solid CO matrix and studied by EPR using gas deposition technique on a cold substrate at 4.2 K. The radical electron spin-lattice relaxation was measured to be anisotropic. anisotropy found originate from the anisotropic orientational motion of with most intensive librations performed around z axis corresponding smallest moment inertia molecule. It shown t...

Four new flavonoids, 3'-formyl-4',6',4-trihydroxy-2'-methoxy-5'-methylchalcone (1), 3'-formyl-6',4-dihydroxy-2'-methoxy-5'-methylchalcone 4'-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (2), (2S)-8-formyl-6-methylnaringenin (3), and (2S)-8-formyl-6-methylnaringenin 7-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (4) were isolated from the buds of Cleistocalyx operculatus (Myrtaceae). The structures of the new metabolites (1-4) were de...

Glycolaldehyde, the simplest monosaccharide sugar, has recently been detected in lowand high-mass star-forming cores. Following our previous investigation into glycolaldehyde formation, we now consider a further mechanism for the formation of glycolaldehyde that involves the dimerization of the formyl radical, HCO. Quantum mechanical investigation of the HCO dimerization process upon an ice sur...

The phenylperoxyl radical has long been accepted as a critical intermediate in the oxidation of benzene and an archetype for arylperoxyl radicals in combustion and atmospheric chemistry. Despite being central to many contemporary mechanisms underpinning these chemistries, reports of the direct detection or isolation of phenylperoxyl radicals are rare and there is little experimental evidence co...

An efficient palladium-catalyzed Heck-type reaction of secondary trifluoromethylated alkyl bromides has been developed. The reaction proceeds under mild reaction conditions with high efficiency and excellent functional group tolerance, even towards formyl and hydroxy groups. Preliminary mechanistic studies reveal that a secondary trifluoromethylated alkyl radical is involved in the reaction.

Rate coefficients have beenmeasured at 298 K and atmospheric pressure for the reaction of OH radicals and Cl atoms with propylene carbonate. The measurements were performed in a large volume photoreactor using in situ FTIR spectroscopy for the analysis. The following rate coefficients (in units of cm per molecule per s) were obtained: k(OH + PC) 1⁄4 (2.52 0.51) 10 12 and k(Cl + PC) 1⁄4 (1.77 0....

Two "end-off" compartmental ligands, 2-formyl-4-chloro-6-N-ethylmorpholine-iminomethyl-phenol (HL1) and 2-formyl-4-methyl-6-N-ethylpyrrolidine-iminomethyl-phenol (HL2) have been designed and three complexes of Mn(ii), one mono-, one di- and a polynuclear, namely Mn(L1)(SCN)2(H2O)] (), [Mn2(L1)(OAc)2](BPh4)] (), and [Mn2(L2)(OAc)2(dca)]n () have been synthesized and structurally characterized. V...

Oxygen derived free radicals are considered to play an important part in the development of inflammation. A whole blood chemiluminescence assay was used to study N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine induced oxygen radical production in subjects with ankylosing spondylitis or previous yersinia arthritis. In luminol enhanced chemiluminescence, the subjects with previous yersinia arthritis show...