Tritiated uridine-5'-diphosphogalactose (UDP-[3H]Gal) has been widely used to study oligosaccharide biosynthesis and structure. It can be synthesized either chemically or enzymatically using galactose oxidase to oxidize the hydroxyl moiety at C-6 to an aldehyde (6-aldo-UDP-Gal), which is then reduced back to the alcohol with tritiated sodium borohydride. Although the enzymatic approach is simpl...

Sodium-2-oxo-propanesulfonate (acetone sulfonate) was found to be a competitive inhibitor of acetoacetate carboxy lyase (acetoacetic decarboxylase, EC 4.1.1.4) the KI of which was numerically equal to the K, for acetoacetate at all temperatures investigated. K,,, like Kr in this case is therefore concluded to represent a dissociation constant. AH for the dissociation of either acetoacetate or a...

The rearrangement reaction of thebaine (1) with methanesulfonic acid, in the presence of hydrogen sulfide, resulted in a sulfide-type bisaporphine 13, instead of the expected thiol 12. The acidic hydrolysis of the thiocyanato derivatives 3, 9, 20 and 21, obtained from thebaine (1), as well as the reduction of 9 and 21 with sodium borohydride yielded disulfide-type bisaporphines 16 and 23.

Guanidinium borohydride (GBH) was structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and found to release more than 10 wt% H(2) as a fairly pure stream during a self-sustaining thermal decomposition reaction both with and without additives that were identified to reduce the concentration of the main ammonia impurity and control the reaction sustainability.

Reduction of virginiamycin S with sodium borohydride produces allo- and normal-dihydro-virginiamycin S. Reduction of the tosylhydrazone of virginiamycin S with sodium cyanoborohydride affords deoxyvirginiamycin S. These compounds are less active than virginiamycin S. Like virginiamycin S they enhance the activity of virginiamycin M1.

Bulky terphenolate ligands allow the synthesis of rare heteroleptic thorium chloride, and borohydride complexes; in the absence of donor solvents, the terphenolate ligands protect the metal ions through neutral Th-η(6)-arene interactions in a thorium bis(arene) sandwich motif.