The specific site of the chemical action of insulin has been the subject of much speculation. Insulin is apparently not essential for the synthesis or breakdown of carbohydrates. There is no positive evidence to indicate that insulin has any effect on the reactions of the Embden, Meyerhof, Parnas, and Cori schemes. Recent investigations have suggested that the action of insulin may be on the tr...

Seventeen water-soluble substances (of sodium, ammonium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, formate, methanesulfonate, glyoxylate, chloride, nitrite, nitrate, glutarate, succinate, malate, malonate, sulfate and oxalate) in 94 samples of particle matter the ambient air, collected over ten months, a suburb Belgrade (Serbia), were determined by ion chromatography. To apportion sources air pollution, l...

The bisphosphine-catalyzed double-Michael addition of dinucleophiles to electron-deficient acetylenes is an efficient process for the synthesis of many nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Because the resulting heterocycles contain at least one stereogenic center, this double-Michael reaction would be even more useful if an asymmetric variant of the reaction were to be developed. Aminophosphines c...

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C13H14O4, the benzene ring forms dihedral angles of 18.60 (7) and 81.36 (8)° with the two arms of the malonate moiety. The crystal structure features C-H⋯O inter-actions, which form chains running parallel to the b axis.

In the title compound, C(14)H(15)NO(6), the ethoxy-carbonyl groups adopt extended conformations. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into centrosymmetric dimers via pairs of C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds with a R(2) (2)(20) motif.

In Coffea arabica leaves, the purine ring of theobromine (3,7-dimethylxanthine) and caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) is provided by de novo purine biosynthesis: (a) [14C]glycine, [14C]bicarbonate, and [14C]formate were incorporated into inosine 5[prime]- monophosphate (IMP), sum of adenine nucleotides ([sigma]Ade), theobromine, and caffeine; and (b) incorporation of [14C]formate into IMP, [si...