Papaya (Carica papaya L.) pulp tissue disks in an incubation medium composed of 0.4 m sucrose evolve ethylene at an optimum pH of 5.25 at 30 C. Disks of young preclimacteric fruit evolve the gas linearly with fruit age until fruit age reaches 4 months. Disks from 5-month-old postclimacteric fruit produce approximately 5-fold more ethylene than disks from 4-month-old fruit. Ethylene evolution by...

As part of an ongoing project aimed at identifying protective capsular polysaccharide epitopes for the development of vaccine candidates against the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, the synthesis and glycosylation properties of a naphthalenylmethyl (NAP) orthogonally protected trisaccharide thioglycoside, a common building block for construction of serotype B and C capsular polysacchari...

A few analogues of atevirdine or 1-[(5-methoxyindol-2-yl) carbonyl]-4-[3- (ethylamino)-2-pyridyl] piperazine – an anti-HIV belonging to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors were synthesized and evaluated for anti-HIV activity. Replacement of indolyl moiety with 2-alkylthio-1-benzyl-5-imidazolyl substituent afforded 1-[2-(alkylthio-1-benzyl-5-imidazolyl) carbonyl]-4-[3-(isopropylamino...

a study was conducted to determine the optimum concentration of benzyladenie (ba) and gibberllic acid (ga3) to break the dormancy of gladiolus corms in relation to storage period and to find out the effect of ba and ga3 on growth and development of gladiolus corm and cormels. the effect of ga3 on dormancy breaking was most pronounced in the 100 ppm treatment being 26.93 days while in the water ...

We report the photocatalytic oxidation of benzylic carbon atoms under mild conditions using riboflavin tetraacetate as photocatalyst and blue-emitting LEDs (440 nm) as light source. Oxygen is the terminal oxidant and hydrogen peroxide appears as the only byproduct in most cases. The process oxidizes toluene derivatives, stilbenes, styrenes and phenylacetic acids to their corresponding benzaldeh...

The pseudo-four component click synthesis of dibenzylated 1,2,3-triazoles derived from aniline is reported. The cycloaddition of sodium azide to N-(prop-2-ynyl)-benzenamine (I) in the presence of equimolar amounts of p-substituted benzyl derivatives, yields a mixture of mono- and dibenzylated 1,2,3-triazoles. When two equivalents of the benzyl derivative are added to the multicomponent reaction...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, [ReCl(C(26)H(22)NP)(CO)(3)]·CH(2)Cl(2), the Re(I) atom exhibits a distorted octa-hedral environment defined by a facial arrangement of three carbonyl groups, a Cl atom and an N-[2-(diphenyl-phosphino)benzyl-idene]benzyl-amine ligand. The compound crystallizes with one CH(2)Cl(2) mol-ecule per asymmetric unit. The benzyl-amine ligand and the Re(I) ...

The specificity of substrates for measuring cystyl-amino peptidase activity in pregnant serum in the assessment of placental function was studied, using £-cystine-di-j3-naphthylamide, L-cystine-bis-/?-nitroanilide,/,-cysteine-j3naphthylamide, and S-benzyl-i-cysteine-p-nitroanilide. The enzyme activity with S-benzyl-Z,-cysteine-/?-nitroanilide increased more rapidly and markedly than with other ...

The synthesis of (2S)-2-benzyloxymethyl-3-(2-fluoro-4-methoxyphenyl)- propionic acid, (2S)-2-benzyloxymethyl-3-(2-fluoro-4-methylphenyl)propionic acid and (2S)-2-benzyl-oxymethyl-3-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)propionic acid has been achieved by TiCl4 mediated alkylation of the corresponding (4R)-4-benzyl-3-[3-(2-fluoro-4-methoxyphenyl-, 2-fluoro-4-methylphenyl-, 2,4- dimethylphenyl-)propionyl]-2-oxazol...