Although mass spectrometric peptide mapping has become an established technique for the rapid identification of proteins isolated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), the results of the identification procedure can sometimes be ambiguous. Such ambiguities become increasingly prevalent for proteins isolated as mixtures or when only very small amounts of the proteins are isolated. The qu...

Previous studies have shown that alkylation of MS2 RNA by certain derivatives of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons renders it noninfectious. Since phage RNA serves as a template for translation and transcription, either of these RNA-directed processes, or both, could be responsible in vivo for the inhibition of phage replication by metabolically activated hydrocarbons. The present study correlat...

N -carboxyanhydrides ring-opening polymerization (ROP) showed that electron-donating groups of the -alkylation enhanced ROP kinetic rates through an inductive effect could counterbalance steric hindrance during propagation.

Alkylation of arenes by primary alcohol triflate or methanesulfonate esters can be efficiently catalyzed by AuCl3 with silver triflate.

An achiral Cp*Ir( iii )/chiral carboxylic acid-catalysed enantioselective C–H alkylation of ferrocene carboxamides with diazomalonates was achieved, providing planar chiral alkylated ferrocenes in up to 94 : 6 er.

A convenient one-pot approach to alkylcyanobiaryls is described. The method is based on biaryl cross-coupling between the sodium salt of the terephthalonitrile dianion and a neutral aromatic nitrile in liquid ammonia, and successive alkylation of the long-lived anionic intermediate with alkyl bromides. The reaction is compatible with benzonitriles that contain methyl, methoxy and phenyl groups,...

Photoredox catalysis and organocatalysis represent two powerful fields of molecule activation that have found widespread application in the areas of inorganic and organic chemistry, respectively. We merged these two catalysis fields to solve problems in asymmetric chemical synthesis. Specifically, the enantioselective intermolecular alpha-alkylation of aldehydes has been accomplished using an i...

A cyclometalated iridium(III) complex containing a N∧C∧N-coordinating terdentate ligand [Ir(dpyx-N,C,N)Cl(μ-Cl)]2 was found to be a general and highly effective catalyst for the α-alkylation of ketones and N-alkylation of amines with alcohols. In the presence of catalyst (1 mol % Ir) and base (0.2-0.5 equiv), a variety of desirable products were obtained in good yields under an air atmosphere. ...