Ferrocene derived P,S-heterodonor ligands were effectively used in AgOAc catalyzed asymmetric cycloaddition of azomethine ylides. The roles of planar chirality and electronic properties of the phosphorous substituents have been examined, and up to 93% ee was obtained. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction has become a powerful synthetic tool, providing a...

Gold and quartz surfaces terminated in an alkane thiol self-assembled monolayer (SAM) that were partially terminated with azide were reacted with a helical peptide containing two alkyne groups in a Cu(I)-catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition. Surface grazing incidence angle reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy (GRAS-IR) was used to determine that when the Au surface was terminated with 25% of ...

Oligonucleotides incorporating 5-(octa-1,7-diynyl)-2'-deoxycytidine 1a, 5-(octa-1,7-diynyl)-2'-deoxyuridine 2a and 7-deaza-7-(octa-1,7-diynyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine 3a, 7-deaza-7-(octa-1,7-diynyl)-2'-deoxyadenosine 4a were prepared. For this, the phosphoramidites 7, 10, and 13 were synthesized and employed in solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis. The octa-1,7-diynyl nucleosides 1a- 4a were obtaine...

Ligands incorporating a tetraazamacrocycle receptor, a 'click'-derived triazole and a 1,8-naphthalimide fluorophore have proven utility as probes for metal ions. Three new cyclam-based molecular probes are reported, in which a piperidinyl group has been introduced at the 4-position of the naphthalimide fluorophore. These compounds have been synthesized using the copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne...

New N-substituted ?-aminonitrile derivatives from menthol were synthesized by consecutive succinic ester formation, propargylation, 1,3-dipolar Huisgen cycloaddition and Strecker reaction. The structures of the compounds confirmed diverse spectroscopic techniques including 1HNMR, 13C-NMR, ESI-MS IR. novel evaluated for their in vitro antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus as Gra...

The synthesis of new indoloannulated thiopyranethiones is reported. key-step a rhodium-catalyzed [2 + 2 2]-cycloaddition alkynyl-ynamides with carbon disulfide to close the pyrrole and thiopyranethione rings simultaneously. A violet idolothiopyrane thione or mixture red isomer result from [RhCl(C8H14)2]2/3BINAP catalyzed cycloadditions, regiochemistry controlled by substitution pattern on alkyn...

Adherence and survival of pathogenic bacteria on surfaces leading to concomitant transmission to new hosts significantly contributes to the proliferation of pathogens, which in turn considerably increases the threat to human health, particularly by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Consequently, more research into effective surface disinfection and alternative materials (fabrics, plastics, or coat...

The Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of organic azides and alkynes has gained considerable attention in recent years due to the introduction in 2001 of Cu(1) catalysis by Tornøe and Meldal, leading to a major improvement in both rate and regioselectivity of the reaction, as realized independently by the Meldal and the Sharpless laboratories. The great success of the Cu(1) catalyzed re...

DNA-protein cross-links (DPCs) are bulky, helix-distorting DNA lesions that form in the genome upon exposure to common antitumor drugs, environmental/occupational toxins, ionizing radiation, and endogenous free-radical-generating systems. As a result of their considerable size and their pronounced effects on DNA-protein interactions, DPCs can interfere with DNA replication, transcription, and r...