A series of beta-(N-tosyl)amino diazo carbonyl compounds have been prepared by nucleophilic condensation of N-tosylimines with acyldiazomethanes. The diazo decomposition of these diazo carbonyl compounds under various catalytic conditions, including Rh(II) carboxylates, Cu(I) and Cu(II) complexes, PhCO(2)Ag/Et(3)N, TsOH, and SnCl(2).2H(2)O, has been investigated. It was found that, in most case...

Avena coleoptiles excrete hydrogen ions in response to the hormone auxin. Both auxin-induced cell elongation and hydrogen ion excretion occur after only a short lag, and both are prevented by either carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone or cycloheximide. These results support the idea that hydrogen ions act as a second messenger in auxin-induced cell elongation and can be the wall-loosening ...

Proton translocation coupled to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) reduction was examined in Escherichia coli HB101 grown anaerobically on glycerol and DMSO. Rapid acidification of the medium was observed when an anaerobic suspension of cells, preincubated with glycerol, was pulsed with DMSO, methionine sulfoxide, nitrate, or trimethylamine N-oxide. The DMSO-induced acidification was sensitive to the un...

Rapid injection of pyruvonitrile or benzoyl cyanide into solutions of Me2CuLi in THF-d8 at -100 °C gave complexes that were stable at this temperature. 1D NMR with multiply labelled substrates ((13)C/(15)N) and 2D NMR ((1)H/(13)C) identified them as the first cuprate-carbonyl π-complexes.

A simple, rapid and efficient practical method for one-pot synthesis of α-amino nitriles has been achieved by a threecomponent condensation of carbonyl compounds, amines and trimethylsilyl cyanide in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TsOH) as a catalyst at ambient temperature. Operational simplicity, economic consideration, high yield, short reaction time and low toxicity are the key fe...

The respiration of fresh potato (Solanum tuberosum, var. Russet Burbank) slices is predominantly cyanide-sensitive whether in the presence or absence of uncoupler. By contrast, the wound-induced respiration which develops in thin slices with aging is cyanide-resistant, and in the presence of cyanide, sensitive to chlorobenzhydroxamic acid, a selective inhibitor of the cyanide-resistant respirat...

L-Alanine transport was studied in plasma-membrane vesicles from rat liver. A gradient of NaSCN, but not of KSCN, stimulated alanine uptake. Monensin plus carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone abolished the observed overshoot in uptake. After equilibration of alanine, NaSCN induced uphill transport.

The caption for Figure 5 in the original publication incorrectly stated that data for complexes 1−4 were shown. It should refer only to data for complex 1. The corrected caption reads as follows: Figure 5. Bar graph showing the mitochondrial membrane polarization, determined by a reduction in red (FL2) fluorescence, by complex 1 against that of a negative and positive control (5 μM carbonyl cya...

The phosphorylation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is preceded by a transient increase in the intracellular level of cyclic AMP which activates a cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (Pohlig, G., and Holzer, H. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 13818-13823). Possible mechanisms by which sugars or ionophores might activate adenylate cyclase and thereby lead to an increase in cyclic AMP concentrations we...