From cyclopentadiene to isoxazoline-carbocyclic nucleosides: a rapid access to biological molecules through nitrosocarbonyl chemistry

A rapid access to carbocyclic nucleosides containing a fused isoxazoline ring is proposed starting from cyclopentadiene. The route involves an hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction of nitrosocarbonylbenzene followed by a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides, cleavage of the N-O tether and elaboration of the heterocyclic aminols into nucleosides via linear construction of purine and pyrimidine heterocycles.     

Reactions of organomercury fulminates with acetylene derivatives

Organomercury fulminates react with acetylene derivatives to give unstable 3-(organomercurio)isoxazoles, which isomerize to 2-cyanoenolates. These are hydrolyzed with hydrochloric acid to the corresponding enols and are cleaved by water at the double bond. With monosubstituted acetylenes, substitution at the free position by the organomercury residue is predominant.     

FLUORESCENCE OF Euglena gracilis PHOTORECEPTOR PIGMENT: AN in vivo MICROSPECTROFLUOROMETRIC STUDY

Abstract— The spectroscopic characterization of the photoreceptor pigment is one of the main questions in the study of the photosensory transduction chains in photomotile microorganisms. One of the possible techniques that can be used is in vivo microspectrofluorometry. By means of a tunable dye-laser microspectrofiuorometer developed by us, we have investigated some of the spectroscopic properties of the photoreceptor pigment of the green flagellate Euglena gracilis. The in vivo fluorescence excitation spectrum has been determined and the fluorescence quantum yield has been measured. The results show that flavins are indeed present in the paraflagellar body of E. gracilis and that their fluorescence quantum yield is much lower than that of a free flavin. An estimate of the order of magnitude of the rate constants for primary molecular reactions is tentatively given.     

Aluminium(III) as a promoter of cellular oxidation

Aluminium has been known as a neurotoxic agent to experimental animals since the last century (Arch. Exp. Pharmacol. 40 (1897) 98). However, great interest arose in it bioinorganic chemistry as well biology when it was demonstrated to be the causative agent in pathologies related to the long-term dialysis treatment of uremic subjects with renal failure (Life Chem. 11 (1994) 197), and as a potential etiopathogenic cofactor for several neurodegenerative diseases. The inorganic biochemistry of aluminium is still largely to be discovered. In this review the pro-oxidative property of aluminium toward biological membrane will be presented and its implications in involvement in human pathology will be discussed in an interdisciplinary frame from the bioinorganic point of view.     

Researches on pyridodiazepines. Behavior of 7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-5-methylcyclopenta[e]pyrido[3,2-b][1,4]-diazepin-6(5H)-one with chloroacetyl chloride

Following a previous experiment, an original heteropolycyclic structure 4 was obtained by a reaction of chloroacetyl chloride with compound 3 bearing a conjugated double bond system. The condensation develops with an initial NH-chloroacetylation and ring closure by quaternarization of the pyridine nitrogen. This is achieved through an 1,4 -cycloaddition of chloroketene to make a pyranone ring.     

Hemithio-analogues of meisenheimer complexes and sulphide group activation of aromatic substitution by alkoxides

EtO^? in DMSO adds to ethylthiopicrate at C-3 to generate an ephemeral

-adduct which ends into 1-ethylthio-4-ethoxy-2,5-dinitrobenzene, whilst ethyl picrate gives two adducts of attack of EtS^? at C-3 or C-1.     

Die Kristallstruktur des l, 6-8, 13-Bis-oxido-[14]-annulens

Crystals of 1,6-8, 13-bis-oxido-[14]-annulene are monoclinic, a = 9,29, b = 9,74, c = 11,46 Å, β = 90,0°, space group P 2₁/c, with 4 molecules in the unit cell. The structure has been solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares analysis of three-dimensional intensity data. The cis-configuration of the two oxygen bridges is confirmed, and the observed molecular parameters are in full accord with the aromatic properties of the molecule.     

PHOTOMORPHOGENIC RESPONSES TO UV RADIATION. II: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UV EFFECTS ON HYPOCOTYL ELONGATION IN A WILD-TYPE AND AN aurea MUTANT OF TOMATO (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)

Hypocotyl growth in etiolated seedlings of wild-type and an aurea mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculenturn Mill.), that appears to be deficient in labile phytochrome, is strongly inhibited by UV radiation in the region of 300–400 nm. The role of phytochrome in the UV-mediated inhibition of hypocotyl growth was studied using different experimental approaches: (1) by comparing the effectiveness of treatments of increasing duration of exposure to 692 nm and UV radiation; (2) by modifying the UV spectral range with specific cut-off filters. The experimental results suggest that the UV-induced inhibition of growth in wild-type tomato is mediated to a large extent by the longer wavelengths of the UV-A region and is mediated mainly by phytochrome. In contrast, at wavelengths < 305 nm a strong UV-B effect was found in the aurea mutant, suggesting a preeminent action of a specific UV-B absorbing photoreceptor that displays less action in the wild-type.