An unprecedented oxidant-mediated reductive amination of tertiary anilines and aldehydes without external reducing agents was developed via the nucleophilic attack of the oxygen atom of the carbonyl group to in situ generated iminium ions, in which tertiary anilines were used as both nitrogen source and reducing agent for the first time.

Transition-state structures for the allylboration reaction between the tartrate ester and tartramide modified allylboronates and acetaldehyde are located at the B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory. An attractive interaction between the boron-activated aldehyde and the ester or amide carbonyl oxygen lone pair is found to play a major role in the favored transition states 11a and 13. This attractive int...

The title compound, [Ni(C(11)H(6)N(2)O)(H(2)O)(4)](NO(3))(2), was prepared by the reaction of Ni(NO(3))(2) and 4,5-diaza-fluoren-9-one (dafo). The crystal packing consists of a three-dimensional network via O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the coordin-ated water mol-ecules and the nitrate anions. The Ni atom lies on a special position (Wyckoff position 4e, site symmetry 2), as does the carbonyl O a...

The reaction of propargyl bromide and 6-bromo-1,3-dihydro-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-one in refluxing dimethyl-formamide yields the title compound, C(12)H(8)BrN(3)O, which features nitro-gen-bound propadienyl and propynyl substituents. The imidazolopyridine fused ring is planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.012 Å); the propadienyl chain is coplanar with the fused ring as it is conjugated with it, whereas ...

Nitroso compounds have two reactive nitrogen and oxygen atoms. It is interesting and important to perform a nitrogen or oxygen selective reaction with interesting substrates. These atom specific reactions are crucial to specifically synthesis of specific compounds. An enantioselective N-specific reaction of nitrosobenzene with unmodified aldehydes was successfully achieved catalyzed first by a ...

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is one of the major sources of stratospheric sulfate aerosols, which affect the global radiation balance and ozone depletion. COS-degrading microorganisms are ubiquitous in soil and important for the global flux of COS. We examined the sulfur isotopic fractionation during the enzymatic degradation of COS by carbonyl sulfide hydrolase (COSase) from Thiobacillus thioparus T...

The rates of phosphorescence decay of 4,7-dimethylindanone (2), 6,9-dimethylbenzosuberone (3), and several related compounds have been analyzed between 4 and 100 K to determine the contributions of intramolecular hydrogen atom tunneling from the o-methyl group to the excited state carbonyl oxygen. Changes in the benzocycloalkanone ring size from five to seven not only affect the geometry at the...

Antimicrobial activity of copper chalcogenides nanoparticles was investigated by synthesizing selenide, sulfide, and oxide via the hot-injection method. Since reaction time has a profound effect on nanocrystals size shapes, also during synthesis to obtain with desired properties. The showed no phase composition synthesized oxide, selenide nanoparticles. However, variation different observed. Re...

Pyruvate formate-lyase-activating enzyme (PFL-AE) from Escherichia coli (E. coli) catalyzes the stereospecific abstraction of a hydrogen atom from Gly734 of pyruvate formate-lyase (PFL) in a reaction that is strictly dependent on the cosubstrate S-adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet). Although PFL-AE is an iron-dependent enzyme, isolation of the enzyme with its metal center intact has proven difficul...

The discovery of symbioses between marine invertebrates and sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and in other high-sulfide marine environments has stimulated research into the adaptations of metazoans to potentially toxic concentrations of sulfide. Most of these studies have focused on a particular action of sulfide--its disruption of aerobic metabolism by the inhibition of...