Pieces of the digestive gland of the starfish, Asterias forbesi, were incubated in vitro with various radioactive lipid precursors in order to follow the biosynthesis of the alkyl and alkenyl glycerol ethers. Acetate-1-14C was incorporated readily into alkyl glycerol ethers of both neutral lipid and phospholipid fractions, but very poorly into the alkenyl glycerol ethers. Stearic acid-l-14C and...

The allyl and propenyl ethers of diols and polyols have recently attracted increasing attention as monomers and comonomers [1–2]. Most convenient method of the preparation of propenyl ethers consists in isomerization of the corresponding, readily available allyl ethers. Moreover, this isomerization is a key step of deprotection of hydroxyl group, protected as allyl ether [3,4]. Particularly con...

The very low basicity and nucleophilicity of the phosphorus donor in phosphinines can be drastically increased by introducing strongly σ-donating Me3Si substituents to aromatic heterocycle. highest gas-phase was found for 2,3,5,6-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)phosphinine, which is even more basic gas phase than pyridine. This finding led first quantitative synthesis a phosphinine selenide treating re...

Homoallenic alcohols are prepared from propargyl vinyl ethers using a trinuclear gold(I)-oxo complex, [(Ph3PAu)3O]BF4, as a catalyst for propargyl Claisen rearrangement at room temperature. The gold(I)-catalyzed reaction is effective for a diverse collection of propargyl vinyl ethers, including substrates containing aryl and alkyl groups at the propargylic position, and hydrogen, aryl, and alky...

methoxymethylation of a variety of alcohols was performed using formaldehyde dimethyl acetal in the presence of 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethyl hydantoin [dcdmh] and poly n,n′-dibromo-n-ethyl naphthyl-2,7-disulfonamide [pbns] as catalysts at room temperature and under solvent-free conditions. our experiments show that primary and secondary alcohols can be smoothly converted into the corresponding mom...

We examined the effect of p-substituents in p-substituted cinnamyl methyl ethers and 1-(p-substituted phenyl)allyl methyl ethers with CSI, and confirmed that the CSI reaction of allyl ethers (p-substituted ethers) is a competitive reaction of S(N)i and S(N)1 mechanism according to the stability of the carbocation. And, the only terminal allylic amine was obtained through the migration reaction ...

Tris(trimethylsilyl)silane (TTMSS) and azobisisobutironitrile (AIBN) promote the intramolecular heteroarylation of arenesulfonamides with pyridyl radicals under thermal conditions. The arenesulfonamides are easily prepared from pyridinium N-2 0pyridylaminide. The heteroarylation process involves pyridyl radical cyclization and ipso substitution. q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.