Cholesterol epoxide hydrolase (mCE) is a microsomal enzyme that hydrolyzes cholesterol-5,6-epoxides (CE) to cholestanetriol (CT). In the present study, hepatic mCE activity was measured in mice pretreated with several different xenobiotics known to induce a variety of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes. Only the phenoxyacetate hypolipidemics (clofibrate and ciprofibrate, included in the diet for...

M. Hassan Beyzavi , Casey J. Stephenson and Yangyang Liu have contributed equally to this work. As a C1 feedstock, CO2 has the potential to be uniquely highly economical in both a chemical and a financial sense. In particular, the highly atom-economical acid-catalyzed cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides to yield cyclic organic carbonates (OCs), a functionality having many important industrial appl...

The mutagenicity of 12 cycloaliphatic epoxides was investigated using the Ames Salmonella assay without the addition of liver homogenate fractions. Base-pair substitution mutagenic activity was detected for 8 members of this series of compounds, confirming our laboratory's previous observations of weak mutagenic response at high dose levels for cis-1,2-disubstituted epoxides. While mutagenicity...

A Ca2+-activated cysteine proteinase (calpain II) was purified from chicken gizzard smooth muscle by use of isoelectric precipitation, (NH4)2SO4 fractionation, chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, Reactive-Red 120-agarose and Mono Q. The apparent second-order rate constants for the inactivation of calpain by a series of structural analogues of L-3-carboxy-trans-2, 3-epoxypropionyl-leucylamid...

The article by Smith et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal extends the elegant work of this group on mapping reaction sites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) diol epoxides and other activated carcinogens in the p53 tumor suppressor gene (also known as TP53) (2–4). Previously, these investigators (4) have shown that diol epoxides of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]PDE) and benzo[g]chrysene, as well...

the difficult to handle and store zinc borohydride, zn(bh4)2, is stabilized by supporting it on polyvinylpyridine. this new mild, efficient, selective, and regenerable polymer supported borohydride reducing agent reduces a variety organic compounds such as, aldehydes, a-b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, acid chlorides, epoxides, disulfides, as well as reductive acetylation of carbonyl compounds...

This article summarizes the recent developments (particularly the uses of homogeneous organometallic catalysts) in ring-opening carbonylations, ring-opening carbonylative polymerizations and ring-expansion carbonylations of heterocycles such as epoxides, aziridines, lactones and oxazolines.

Herein we shed light on the mechanism of the reaction of epoxides with ammonium thiocyanate to give the corresponding thiiranes in water, and we present a computational mechanistic model for this highly useful reaction.

An efficient methodology for the synthesis of oxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonenes and substituted tetrahydropyrans has been developed in moderate yields from the reaction of geraniol with aldehydes and epoxides promoted by boron trifluoride etherate.

Medicinal plants and culinary herbs have been used since ancient times. Essential oils (EO) are a mixture of numerous compounds, mainly terpenes, alcohols, acids, esters, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones,aminesandsulfides,thatareprobablyproducedbyplantsasaresponsetostress[1].[...].