The rhodium(I)-catalysed arylative annulation of 1,4-enynes with arylboronic acids was investigated. The reaction was found to proceed via an addition-1,4-rhodium migration-addition sequence, affording the corresponding 1,1-disubstituted 3-(arylmethylene)indanes.

Poliovirus (PV) and enterovirus 71 (EV71) cause severe neurological symptoms in their infections of the central nervous system. To identify compounds with anti-PV and anti-EV71 activities that would not allow the emergence of resistant mutants, we performed drug screening by utilizing a pharmacologically active compound library targeting cellular factors with PV and EV71 pseudoviruses that enca...

N, N΄-3, 4-di(methylamino)-1, 2, 5-oxadiazole (1f) was prepared by dehydration of N, N΄-3, 4-di(methylamino)glyoxime (2f) in aqueous potassium hydroxid at 170-180 ˚C. Under similar conditions N, N΄-3, 4-di(benzylamino)-1, 2, 5-oxadiazole (1c) and N, N΄-3, 4-di(isopropylamino)...

The title compound, C16H12N2O, exists in the crystalline state as the 5-imino-3,4-di-phenyl--1H-pyrrol-2-one tautomer. The dihedral angles between the pyrrole and phenyl rings are 35.3 (2) and 55.3 (2)°. In the crystal, inversion dimers linked by pairs of N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds generate a graph-set motif of R 2 (2)(8) via N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds.