Ni-B/TiO_2 Amorphous Catalyst Used in Heavy Arenes of Petrochemicals Hydrogenation

The various distillation of petroleum contains arenes. For environmental protection, the hydrogenation of arenes becomes important. The amorphous alloy is a new class of material with special catalytic properties for reduction arenes1-4. In this paper, we prepared the Ni-B/TiO2 and Ni-B/Al2O3 amorphous catalysts by impregnation and reduction by KBH4 solution. Their catalytic activities for hydrogenation arenes were tested by the hydrogenation of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene (TMB) in the co…     

The Synthesis of N-Morphine Hapten and Production of Monoclonal Antibody

The drug overdose and addiction is a serious international problem. Therefore developing a rapid, accurate, convenient and cheap method for detecting morphine in urea is useful and necessary, especially for investigation of epidemiology, identification of medical jurisprudence and determination of drug addict etc. There are many compounds that are similar to morphine in chemical structure and tend to have cross-reaction with the anti-morphine antibody. In order to reduce the cross reaction a…     

Effect of Calix[4]pyrrole as Addition Reagent on Anions Separation in Capillary Zone Electrophoresis (CZE)

Calixpyrroles, as new macrocyclic receptors, have gain increasing interest in host-guest chemistry. Pioneering work in this area by Sessler and co-workers have evidenced that calix[4]pyrroles are effective anion binding agents and have used for anion binding, sensing and new anion separation technologies1, 2. In this letter, we report that calix[4]pyrroles A, B and C3,4 (Scheme 1) can serve as additives in CZE for the separa- tion of halide ions. Scheme 1 A B C When analyzing anions with…     

Synthesis of a New β-Mercaptoalcohol

Mercaptoalcohols are a rare class of natural products. Some optically active mercaptoalcohols have been used as catalysts in asymmetric reduction of prochiral Ketone1,2. In this letter, we report the synthesis of a new optically active (-mercaptoalcohols, (R)-1,1-diphenyl-2-mercapto-3-methyl-1-butanol 7, from L- valine.Our first attempt is showed in Scheme 1. According to literature's method L-valine was converted to (S)-2-Hydroxy-3-methylbutanoic acid 21,2. 2 was treated with MeOH/SOCl2…     

Baker''''s Yeast Mediated Reduction of Optically Active Diketone

Baker's yeast (BY) mediated reduction of synthetic substrate is a useful method for preparing chiral intermediate in synthesis chemistry1,2, because it is readily available and inexpensive. The selectivity is generally predicted by Prelog rule3, that is, a hydride is transferred to the re face of the prochiral ketone.The baker's yeast mediated reduction of bicyclic diketones was previously reported by several groups4-6, but to our knowledge, no application of this reduction to sesquiter-pene-…     

A Novel Synthesis of Some Hexasubstituted Cyclotriphosphazenes

In recent years, many efforts were focused on the preparation and characterization of phosphazene which contained a framework of alternating phosphorous and nitrogen atoms with two substituent groups attached to each phosphorous atom1. It is noticeable that cyclophosphazene, especially hexaaryloxyphosphazene and perfluoroaryloxyphosphazene exhibit excellent thermal and chemical stability which can be used as fireproof materials, high temperature lubricants, vacuum pump oils and hard disk surfac…     

Molecular Arrangement of a Bolaamphiphilic Anthrancene Derivative in Langmuir-Blodgett Film

Langmuir monolayer at the air/water interface is the basis to understand the molecular arrangement and to fabricate the organized molecular films1. Bolaamphiphiles describes the molecules in which two head functional groups are linked by one or two hydrophobic chains2,3. In comparison with the one-headed amphiphile, abundant configurations of Langmuir monolayer are expected in bolaamphiphiles. Generally, three kinds of configurations of the Langmuir monolayers of bolaamphiphile at the air/w…     

Preparing Nano-ZnS by Solid State Reaction at Room Temperature

Solid-state reaction has been studied for a long time1-3. In recent years, some researches have been focused on the preparation of coordination compounds at low temperatures or even at room temperature4-5. In this letter, preparation of ZnS nanoparticles by using solid state reaction at room temperature is reported.ZnS nanoparticles were prepared as follows: Zn(CH3COO)2 and Na2S?9H2O, in equal molar ratio, were ground in agate mortar. After 20 minutes, the powder was washed by water and …     

Concise Synthesis of(±)-epi-Chrysotricine

Chrysotricine 1 was isolated from the Chinese herb medicine Hedyotis Chrysotricha and was shown to possess antitumor activity1. Its structure has been elucidated as a novel zwitterionic (-carboline alkaloid containing a 2,2,5-trisubstituted tetrahydrofuranyl group. The (-carboline compounds have attracted considerable attraction in recent years because of their promising and intriguing biological activities2. Recently, we have established the absolute configuration of chrysotricine by the fir…     

New diterpenoid glucosides from Siegesbeckia pubescens

Plants of the genus Siegesbeckia are annual herbs widely distributed in tropical and temperate zones and they are used as a traditional medicine to treat rheumatic arthritis, hypertension, malaria, neurasthenia and snake-bite in China. In previous papers, we reported on five new ent-kaurane and ent-pimarane diterpenoids, siegesbeckioside, siegesbeckiol and siegesbeckic acid1, orientalin A and B, and eight know compounds2,3. The present paper describes the isolation and structural elucidation …