This work describes catalytic and asymmetric aziridinations (15 examples, 95-98% ee) of benzyl bromide and imines via the imino Corey-Chaykovsky reaction using (thiolan-2-yl)diarylmethanol benzyl ether as an organocatalyst. The catalyst and analogues thereof were prepared through an expeditious and efficient synthetic route featuring a double nucleophilic substitution and Shi epoxidation as key...

This paper reports on the synthesis and characterization of two Schiff bases bearing 1,2,4-triazolic moieties, namely 4H-4-(2-hydroxy-benzylidene-amino)-5-benzyl-3-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole and 4H-4-(4-nitro-benzylidene-amino)-5-benzyl-3-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole using thin layer chromatography, melting interval, elemental analysis, spectroscopy and thermal stability studies.

In the title compound, C(18)H(17)N(3)S(2), the dihedral angle between the planes of the aromatic ring systems is 83.63 (16)°. In the crystal structure, inversion dimers occur, linked by pairs of N-H⋯S hydrogen bonds.

The title compound, C(14)H(11)ClFNO(2), the phenyl ring (A), the chloro-fluoro-phenyl ring (B) and the central ketone O/C/O group (C) are not coplanar, with dihedral angles B/C = 31.6 (2), A/B = 21.3 (2) and A/C = 50.1 (2)°. The crystal packing is stabilized by N-H⋯O and C-H⋯O inter-actions.

The Sn(IV) atom in the title compound, [Sn(C(6)H(5))(3)Cl(C(13)H(12)OS)], is situated within a distorted C(3)ClO trigonal-bipyramidal coordination geometry with a mean Sn-C distance of 2.136 (6) Å and with an Sn-O distance of 2.393 (4) Å. The Sn(IV) atom lies 0.171 (3) Å out of the equatorial C(3) plane in the direction of the axially bound Cl atom.

The three title compounds form part of a set of important precursor dissacharides which lead to novel therapeutics, in particular for Alzheimer's disease. All three crystallize as poorly diffracting crystals with one independent mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit. Two of them are isostructural: 4-meth-oxy-phenyl 4-O-[6-O-acetyl-2-azido-3-O-benzyl-2-de-oxy-4-O-(9-fluor-en-yl-methyl-oxycarbon-yl)-α...

The surface structure of mesoporous TiO(2) is reconstructed via a visible-light-driven reaction with benzyl alcohol molecules at mild, anaerobic conditions, which substantially extends its visible-light absorption and photocatalytic activities.

C-H activation through the coordination of a benzyl sulfide anchoring group with a C-S bond cleavage at a Co(v) center constitutes a regiospecific access to four- and five-membered metallacycles under mild conditions.

Two dinuclear aluminum alkyl complexes supported by a piperazidine-bridged bis(phenolato) group were prepared, and both complexes exhibited extremely high activity for the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone. In the presence of benzyl alcohol (BnOH), the polymerization accelerated dramatically.