Crystalline samples of three N-aroyl-1,2,4-dithiazolidine-3,5-diones have been prepared as the first examples of a novel class of compound that displays the reactivity of an acyl isocyanate when treated with nucleophiles.

In this work, we demonstrate experimentally the use of an array of gold nanodisks on functionalized silicon for chemosensing purposes. The metallic nanostructures are designed to display a very strong plasmonic resonance in the infrared regime, which results in highly sensitive sensing. Unlike usual experiments which are based on the functionalization of the metal surface, we functionalized her...

Ketene N,N-acetals ( I ) and ketene 0,N-acetals (2) containing hydrogen in the 2-position afford P-substitution products when treated with compounds such as isocyanates and isothiocyanates that contain an electrophilic double bond system[l~zl. However, azosulfones (3) [31 and N-sulfonylimines (7) [41 react with ketene N,N-acetals ( I ) by cycloaddition, affording the hitherto unknown 1,2-dihydr...

Intermolecular [2+2+1] cycloaddition which incorporates an alkyne, an isocyanate, and an alkene into a γ-butyrolactam proceeds with nickel catalyst.

The imido complex (dtbpe)Ni(N(2,6-(CHMe2)2C6H3)) reacts with CO and CNCH2Ph with addition at the Ni-N bond to give (dtbpe)Ni(C,N:eta 2-C(O)N(2,6-(CHMe2)2C6H3)) and (dtbpe)Ni(C,N:eta 2-C(NCH2Ph)N(2,6-(CHMe2)2C6H3)); both complexes react further with CO to liberate the isocyanate and carbodiimide ligands with formation of (dtbpe)Ni(CO)2.

AIM Since the first notified case of occupational asthma in 1983, a total of 90 cases were confirmed as on 31st December 1999. In this study, demographic data, causative agents and impact on the workers were described. METHODS The data was derived from notifications to the Ministry of Manpower and referrals to the Occupational Lung Disease Clinic jointly run with Department of Respiratory Med...