Azathioprine (AZA) is a commonly used immunosuppressant for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Myelosuppression is a serious adverse reaction due to AZA and its metabolites. Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) is the rate-limiting enzyme. Variations of TPMT enzyme activity may be responsible for myelosuppression. However, a correlation between certain mutant alleles of low TPMT enzyme activi...

An efficient stereocontrolled route to ( )-cylindricine C is described. Reaction of 9-hydroxynon-1-en-5one oxime with 2,3-bis(phenylsulfonyl)-1,3-butadiene affords a 7-oxa-1-azanorbornane cycloadduct in high yield. The formation of the bicyclic isoxazolidine arises from conjugate addition of the oxime onto the diene to give a transient nitrone that spontaneously undergoes an intramolecular dipo...

The diastereoselective synthesis of cis-2-amino-3-hydroxyindanones was realized by the N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed [4 + 1] annulation of phthalaldehyde and imines, which may involve a tandem aza-benzoin reaction and aldol reaction.

An efficient and odourless procedure for a one-pot synthesis of thioesters by the reaction of benzoic anhydrides, thiourea and various organic halides (primary, allylic, and benzylic) or structurally diverse, electron-deficient alkenes (ketones, esters, and nitriles) in the presence of Et3N has been developed. In this method, thiobenzoic acids were in situ generated from the reaction of thioure...

protonation of the highly reactive 1:l intermediate produced in the reaction between triphenylphosphine and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate by 2- hydroxyacetophenone leads to vinyltriphenylphosphonium salt, which undergoes aromatic electrophilic substitution reaction with the conjugate base to produce compounds 4,5, and 6 in 1 : 1.2:0.5 ratios

In the title compound, C36H36N2, a product of the condensation reaction of 2,3-dimethyl-6-phenyl-vinyl-benzenamine and 2,3-butane-dione, the complete mol-ecule is generated by the application of an inversion centre. The central C-C bond in the 1,4-di-aza-butadiene fragment is trans-configured and situated about the inversion center. The dihedral angle between the ring attached to N and the 1,4-...

Protonation of the highly reactive 1:l intermediate produced in the reaction between triphenylphosphine and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate by 2- hydroxyacetophenone leads to vinyltriphenylphosphonium salt, which undergoes aromatic electrophilic substitution reaction with the conjugate base to produce compounds 4,5, and 6 in 1 : 1.2:0.5 ratios

Here we report that readily available silyl- and boron-based Lewis acids in combination with chiral copper catalysts are able to overcome the reactivity issues of unactivated enamides, known as the least reactive carboxylic acid derivatives, toward alkylation with organomagnesium reagents. Allowing unequaled chemo-reactivity and stereocontrol in catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition to enamid...