In the crystal structure of the zinc(II) complex of bicine, [Zn(C(6)H(12)NO(4))(2)], the deprotonated amino acid O,N,O'-chelates to the metal atom through a carboxyl-ate O atom, a hy-droxy O atom and the N atom, the three atoms occupying fac positions of the distorted octa-hedron surrounding the metal atom. The metal atom lies on a center of inversion. The uncoordinated carboxyl-ate O atom is h...

We describe a general catalytic methodology for the enantioselective dearomative alkylation of pyridine derivatives with Grignard reagents, allowing direct access to nearly enantiopure chiral dihydro-4-pyridones yields up 98%. The involves dearomatization in situ-formed N-acylpyridinium salts, employing alkyl organomagnesium reagents as nucleophiles and copper (I) complex catalyst. Computationa...

the stereochemistry of the actinide elements has recently undergone considerable development and a wide variety of coordination numbers and geometries have been observed. this structural versatility arises from the lack of strong crystal field effects for the 5f-electronic configurations as well as from the large ionic radii of these metal ions, which change markedly with oxidation number, or a...

The development of a rapid method for the determination of N-methyl2-pyridone-5-carboxamide (pyridone) in urine (1) has made it practical to attempt to confirm and extend the studies of Holman and de Lange (2) and others (3-5) concerning the excretion of the pyridone following the administration of various known or possible precursors to man. In the conversion of nicotinic acid to the pyridone ...