Antonio Noronha, Ph.D., is director of the Division of Neuroscience and Behavior, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, Maryland. Translational research helps move basic science and clinical laboratory discoveries toward application in health and medicine. Through controlled experiments, basic scientists use animal models to reproduce disease characteristics caused by a...

alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...

the synthesis of aryl amides via the reactions of carboxylic acids and isocyanides in methanol was carried out in 78-95% yields under ultrasound irradiation. the method has wide applicability, and the protocol is mild, fast and efficient compared to the existing methods based on silent conditions.

The Cover Feature illustrates the photochemical conversion of carboxylic acids to Weinreb and morpholine amides. Sunlight or LED 370 nm irradiation mediates direct coupling N,O-dimethylhydroxylamine in presence 4-dimethylaminopyridine bromotrichloromethane, providing corresponding amides satisfactory high yields. More information can be found Research Article by C. G. Kokotos, Kokotos et al.

Ten novel hydrogen-bonding catalysts based on open-chain P(V)-amides of BINOL and chinchona alkaloids as well as three catalysts based on rigid cis-P(V)-cyclodiphosphazane amides of N (1),N (1)-dimethylcyclohexane-1,2-diamine have been developed. Employed in the asymmetric Michael addition of 2-hydroxynaphthoquinone to β-nitrostyrene, the open-chain 9-epi-aminochinchona-based phosphorus amides ...

The wound-activated biosynthesis of phytoalexin hydroxycinnamic acid amides of tyramine was compared in untransformed and transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) lines that express tryptophan decarboxylase (TDC), tyrosine decarboxylase (TYDC), or both activities. Transgenic in vitro-grown tobacco lines expressing TDC activity accumulated high levels of tryptamine but not hydroxycinnamic amides o...

Amides are important atmospheric organic-nitrogen compounds. Hydrogen bonded complexes of methanol (MeOH) with amides (formamide, N-methylformamide, N,N-dimethylformamide, acetamide, N-methylacetamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide) have been investigated. The carbonyl oxygen of the amides behaves as a hydrogen bond acceptor and the NH group of the amides acts as a hydrogen bond donor. The dominant ...