A new dimeric secoiridoids derivative,japonicaside E,from the flower buds of Lonicera japonica

A new dimeric secoiridoids derivative, named japonicaside E, together with six known compounds were isolated from the flower buds of Lonicera japonica. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by the analyses of mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. All compounds were evaluated for anti-inflammatory activity in vitro.     

Synthesis,antioxidant and anticholinesterase activities of novel quinoline-aminophosphonate derivatives

A series of 20 novel α-aminophosphonate derivatives bearing quinoline or quinolone moiety was designed and synthesized via Kabachnik-Fields reaction in the presence of triethylammonium acetate as a solvent and catalyst under ultrasound irradiation. This procedure affords products in high yields and short reaction times. Molecular structures of the synthesized compounds 4a-g and 5a-m were confirmed using various spectroscopic methods. The antioxidant activity of these compounds was evaluated by eight complementary in vitro tests. The anticholinesterase activity (AChE, BChE) of these compounds were also evaluated. In addition, theoretical calculations of all compounds were investigated as corrosion inhibitors using density functional theory (DFT). The results revealed that 16 of these compounds exhibited high levels of antioxidant activities depending on the assay and that most compounds showed more potent inhibitory activities against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE).     

GPC analysis of model compounds. I. Phenyl- and benzo-substituted aromatic compounds

A series of 36 compounds of known structure was used in a study to elucidate the mechanism of separation of gel-permeation chromatography (GPC). The various molecular dimensions were defined and measured for these compounds. The elution volume for these compounds was determined by GPC under specified and controlled conditions. The relationships between elution volume and molecular dimension were investigated using computer-based statistical analysis for the entire set of compounds and manual simultaneous equations for smaller sets of compounds. It was found that, as increasingly more molecular dimensions are considered, (1) the importance of the maximum molecular dimension A_p′ (the only dimension considered by many investigators) significantly decreases and (2) a significantly better prediction of the elution volume of these compounds could be made.     

Characterization of protoberberine alkaloids in Coptidis Rhizoma (Huanglian) by HPLC with ESI‐MS/MS

This study aims to qualitatively analyze protoberberine alkaloids in crude extract of Coptidis Rhizoma using HPLC with ESI‐MS/MS. Possible specific molecular weights of protoberberine alkaloids were firstly deduced according to literatures and were adopted to screen the alkaloids in the HPLC with ESI‐MS of crude extract of Coptidis Rhizoma. As a result, 21 protoberberine alkaloids were found, including compounds of very low concentration and compounds coeluted in one peak. Among these, two compounds were positively identified and verified by comparison with standards. Ten of these compounds were first reported in this study for Coptidis Rhizoma. In addition, chromatographic retention parameters a and c of all compounds were obtained using their retention times under five gradient conditions and were applied to confirm the deduction about the structures of protoberberine alkaloids by tandem mass data.     

Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of 2-(4-(benzo[d]thiazol-5-ylsulfonyl)piperazine-1-yl)-N-substituted acetamide derivatives

A new series of 2-(4-(benzo[d]thiazol-5-ylsulfonyl)piperazin-1-yl)-N-substituted acetamide (5a-5k) compounds have been synthesized, and these compounds were characterized with spectral data like IR, NMR, and Mass spectroscopy. All compounds were evaluated in vitro for their efficacy as antimicrobial against Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogenic bacterial strains such as Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa using ciprofloxacin as a standard and fungal strains like Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus as compared with standard drug Clotrimazole, and Molecular docking study shows that all these compounds were having good to excellent correlation binding energy as compared with binding energy of standard drugs.     

Synthesis and Bioactivities Evaluation of Novel Anthranilic Diamides Containing N‐(tert‐Butyl)benzohydrazide Moiety as Potent Ryanodine Receptor Activator

Anthranilic diamides have been proven to be a class of efficacious and safe insecticides targeting ryanodine receptors (RyRs) during the last decade. In order to develop innovative scaffolds with high insecticidal activity, two series of N‐pyridylpyrazole derivatives containing N‐(tert‐butyl)benzohydrazide substructures were designed and synthesized. Their insecticidal activities against oriental armyworm (Mythimna separata) and diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) were evaluated. Preliminary bioassay results revealed that some of the new compounds exhibited good insecticidal activity against the oriental armyworm and diamondback moth. The mode of action of these compounds were verified using calcium‐imaging technique and the results showed that some new compounds could effectively modulate the insect cytosolic Ca²⁺ level, and break the cellular calcium homeostasis, indicating some of these compounds were potent activators of the RyRs.     

Novel Pyrazoline‐based Organometallic Compounds Containing Ferrocenyl and Quinoline units: Synthesis,Characterization and Microbial susceptibilities

Some novel pyrazoline‐based organometallic compounds were synthesized as new leads in antimicrobial chemotherapy. The structures of compounds were elucidated by different spectroscopic techniques and elemental analyses. All compounds were investigated for in vitro antimicrobial studies against fifteen ATTC bacterial and fungal strains. The microbial susceptibility of these compounds revealed that all the tested compounds gave good minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values against the tested organisms that are either similar or even better than the reference drugs amoxicillin and fluconazole, which gave MIC values 8‐64 μg/ml against bacterial and 64 μg/ml against fungal strains, respectively. Among all compounds, compound ( 4d ) 1‐(5‐(4‐chlorophenyl)‐3‐ferrocenyl‐4,5‐dihydropyrazol‐1‐yl)‐2‐quinolin‐8‐yloxy) ethanone, emerged out the most promising antimicrobial organometallic derivative with MIC values against all the strains ranging from 8‐32 μg/ml. Other compounds gave a range of MIC values between 16‐64 μg/ml against S. bovis, 16‐32 μg/ml against E. coli, and C. tropicalis except compound ( 4d) which gave MIC 8 μg/ml against S. bovis and E. coli, whereas 32 μg/ml against C. tropicalis. Collectively, these compounds gave a lower MIC value between 32‐64 μg/ml against both of the biofilm forming strains namely, P. aeruginosa and S. mutans. The results of microbial susceptibility concluded that these novel organometallic compounds are new leads in antimicrobial chemotherapy and can be very useful for further optimization work on microbial chemotherapy.     

微量热研究几种新型吡啶酰胺希夫碱对大肠杆菌的抑制作用

用微量热研究一系列新型吡啶酰胺希夫碱对大肠杆菌的抑制作用, 不同的吡啶酰胺希夫碱衍生物对大肠杆菌生长的抑制作用不同. 通过热动力学模型计算得到生长速率常数(k)和抑制率(I), 我们获得了吡啶酰胺希夫碱衍生物的抗菌作用效果. 通过药物作用于细菌处于生长对数期的实验发现, 有两种化合物(F和G)对大肠杆菌生长有非常好的抑制作用, 他们的半抑制浓度(IC50)分别是0. 106 和0. 113 g/L, 但是药物对大肠杆菌的无氧发酵过程抑制作用比较差. 通过进一步分析药物结构与药物半抑制浓度, 我们发现: 希夫碱衍生物的亲水性对其抗菌活性有很大的影响, 这主要是由细菌的细胞膜结构不同所致. 对希夫碱及其碱衍物的结构与抗菌活性关系进行了初步探讨, 它们对大肠杆菌的抗菌活性顺序为: F＞G＞C＞D＞E＞B＞A.     

New Phragmalin‐Type Limonoid Orthoesters from the Bark of Chukrasia tabularis var. velutina

Three new phragmalin‐type limonoid orthoesters, velutabularins K–M ( 1 – 3 ) and seven structurally related known compounds were isolated from the bark of Chukrasia tabularis var. velutina. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis. The structure of 1 was confirmed by single crystal X‐ray diffraction. In addition, the brine shrimp lethality of compounds 1, 3 , and the known compounds was evaluated.     

Take a “Snapshot” of New Syntheses,Reactions, and Characterizations from Unusual Unsaturated Ring Strained Group 4 Metallacycles

Recently published syntheses, reactions and characterizations of unusual unsaturated ring strained Group 4 metallocene metallacycles like metalla-cyclocumulenes, -cycloallenes and -cycloalkynes with different ring size are updated for the last three years. There exist for some of these metallacycles, depending on the ring size, 7-, 5- and 4-membered compounds. The new results for these metallacycles are summarized here and considered in addition to the former published results. Additionally, several compounds of this type were now characterized by new reactions. For a better understanding of these compounds, some spectroscopical methods as well as theoretical calculations were published. Despite of these all-C-metallacycles, only in some cases the syntheses and reactions for the corresponding hetero-metallacycles were published too. Examples for these metallaheterocyclic compounds will not be considered in this article. All these unusual ring strained compounds have a great potential for a lot of interesting synthetic applications in the future. Additionally, they are very interesting from the theoretical point of view.     

Highly Efficient and Versatile Acetalization of Glycol Catalyzed by Cupric p-Toluenesulfonate

Acetalization of glycol with carbonyl compounds was carded out catalyzed by cupric p-toluenesulfonate. These carbonyl compounds included cyclohexanone, propionoaldehyde, n-butyraldehyde, /so-butyraldehyde, n-valeraldehyde, benzaldehyde and butanone. Satisfactory results were obtained： the conversions of these carbonyl compounds were more than 90%, the selectivities were higher than 99.1%, only 0.1% mole ratio of catalyst to substrate and 90 min were sufficient in most cases. The catalyst and products were separated easily by phase separation.     

含胆固醇和 4-(反式-正烷基环己基)苯甲酸结构单元的双液晶基元液晶化合物的合成及其性质

本文合成了一系列含有胆固醇和4-（反式-正烷基环己基）苯甲酸结构单元的新型双液晶基元液晶化合物。这些化合物中两个介晶基元是利用不同长度的氧烷酰基连接在一起。利用FT-IR、MS、1H NMR、POM、DSC 表证了所得化合物的结构和介晶性,并选择几种双液晶基元液晶测定了它们的机械黏度和在主体液晶中的螺旋扭曲力（HTP)。结果表明,绝大多数化合物显示较低相变温度的胆甾相（N*）,并且被选择的化合物的平均机械黏度和螺旋扭曲力类似于或优于胆甾醇任酸酯。     

Ethyl (4-N-acylaminopyridin-3-yl)glyoxylate and 5-azaisatin as new synthons for a route to various new polyheterocycles

From 4-N-protected-aminopyridines which were functionalized at their 3-position, 5-azaisatin and equivalent synthons where obtained. Via the use of the Pfitzinger reaction, these compounds provided an easy route to new and various polyheterocyclic compounds.     

Bioactive Components from the Mycelium of Antrodia Salmonea

Three new compounds, 2,4‐dimethoxy‐6‐methylbenzene‐1,3‐diol ( 1 ), salmoquinone ( 2 ), and 3‐(4‐hydroxyphenyl)‐4‐isobutyl‐1H‐pyrrole‐2,5‐dione ( 3 ), together with six known compounds, 2‐methoxy‐6‐methyl‐p‐benzoquinone ( 4 ), 2,3‐dimethoxy‐5‐methyl‐p‐benzoquinone ( 5 ), 2‐hydroxy‐5‐methoxy‐3‐methyl‐p‐benzoquinone ( 6 ), eburcoic acid ( 7 ), fomefficinic acid C ( 8 ), and a pyrroledione ( 9 ), were isolated from the mycelium of Antrodia salmonea. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by spectrometric analyses including IR, NMR, and MS. Among these compounds, 4 and 5 exhibited cytotoxicity against KB, HepG2, and H2058 cell lines.     

Identification of O-Isobutyl S-(2-Diethylaminoethyl) Methylthiophosphonate Chemical Neutralization Products in Bitumen–Salt Matrices

Products of the chemical neutralization of O-isobutyl S-(2-diethylaminoethyl) methylthiophosphonate, a VX Group warfare agent, in bitumen–salt matrices were studied by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. Forty-four compounds were characterized by their electron impact ionization mass spectra and gas chromatographic retention indices on standard nonpolar polydimethylsiloxane phases; seven of these compounds were determined as derivatives. The structures of 26 compounds were identified, including structures of 24 O-isobutyl S-(2-diethylaminoethyl) methylthiophosphonate neutralization products. To solve this problem, chromatographic retention indices of unknown compounds were evaluated using reference data for their structural analogues. Partition coefficients in the binary heterophase hexane–octanol system were determined for the major components.     

Synthesis and Antifungal Activity of Novel 1,2,4‐Triazole Derivatives Containing 1,2,3‐Thiadiazole Moiety

Starting from carbonic acid diethyl ester, a series of 1,2,4‐triazole derivatives containing 1,2,3‐thiadiazole were synthesized. Reactions were performed by microwave irradiation or ultrasonic irradiation as well as by conventional heating. The structure of title compounds was characterized by ¹H‐NMR, MS, and elemental analyses. The fungicidal activities of these compounds were tested in vivo. Most of title compounds exhibited good antifungal activity against Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Some of title compounds displayed moderate antifungal activities against Fusarium oxysporum, Pseudoperonospora cubensis, Sphaerotheca fuligenea, Corynespora cassiicola, and Xanthomonas axonopodis.     

Synthesis of 4‐(2‐hydroxyphenyl)‐1‐phenyl‐1,2,4‐triazolidine‐3,5‐dione derivatives through cyclic transformations of 3‐(2‐phenylcarbazoyl)‐2(3H)‐benzoxazolone derivatives

Four 3‐(3‐benzylidene‐2‐phenylcarbazoyl)‐2(3H)‐benzoxazolone derivatives 3 have been synthesized from benzoxazolone derivatives 1 and benzaldehyde N‐chloroformylphenylhydrazone 2. By acid hydrolysis, these compounds yielded 3‐(2‐phenylcarbazoyl)‐2(3H)benzoxazolone derivatives 4 which were not isolated and were transformed via an intramolecular reaction into 4‐(2‐hydroxyphenyl)‐1‐phenyl‐1,2,4‐triazolidine‐3,5‐dione derivatives 5 in a good yield. Attempts to cyclize these compounds by intramolecular elimination of water into tricyclic compounds 6 with various dehydrating agents were unsuccessful.     

The cis–trans transformation of cyclohexane formic acid ester compounds

Trans-alkyl cyclohexane formic acid phenol ester compounds are synthesised by reaction of trans-cyclohexane formic acid and phenols. This process also produces many harmful cis-alkyl cyclohexane formic acid phenol ester compounds that are harmful to the environment. Using p-toluenesulphonic acid as the catalyst in this experiment, these cis compounds were transformed to their trans form. The yields of trans-alkyl cyclohexane formic acid phenol ester compounds were more than 70%, which was significantly higher when compared to the yields of 40–60% obtained using the control method. The effects of catalyst, reaction time and reaction temperature on cis–trans transformation were investigated. The possible mechanism of cis–trans transformation has been discussed in this report.     

Electrochemical Synthesis of Complex Compounds of Transition Elements with Carboxyl- and Carbonyl-containing Ligands

Complex compounds of d- and f-elements with carboxyl- and carbonyl-containing ligands were synthesized by the electrochemical method. The influence exerted by a number of factors on the process course was studied. The dependence of the electrosynthesis parameters on the composition of the forming compounds was established. The composition of these compounds was determined. A new method for anodic synthesis of these compounds was developed.__________Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, Vol. 78, No. 6, 2005, pp. 918–923.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Frolov, Bolotin, Panyshkin.     

Synthesis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of 2H-pyrido [1,2-a] pyrimidin-2-ones

Reaction of ethyl phenylpropiolate with several 2-aminopyridines afforded the corresponding 2H-pyrido[1,2-a] pyrimidin-2-ones in good yields. Analysis of the nmr spectra of these compounds and their hydrobromides were based on comparing their spectra with their 3-deuterated analogues. It was found that in these 2-oxo compounds, the proton at position-7 is shielded and absorbs together with the olefinie proton at position-3 in the region of 5 6.35-6.70 ppm. The latter proton could be used for differentiating these compounds from the corresponding 4-oxo isomers which have already been identified by the deshielded proton at pusition-6 near § 9.0 ppm. The ir and nmr spectral data for all these compounds are tabulated and discussed.