A strategy for the linear synthesis of a sialylated glycolipopeptide cancer vaccine candidate has been developed using a strategically designed sialyl-Tn building block and microwave-assisted solid-phase peptide synthesis. The glycolipopeptide elicited potent humoral and cellular immune responses. T-cells primed by such a vaccine candidate could be restimulated by tumor-associated MUC1.

Microwave synthesis was utilized to rapidly build Py-Im polyamides in high yields and purity using Boc-protection chemistry on Kaiser oxime resin. A representative polyamide targeting the 5'-WGWWCW-3' (W = A or T) subset of the consensus Androgen and Glucocorticoid Response Elements was synthesized in 56% yield after 20 linear steps and HPLC purification. It was confirmed by Mosher amide deriva...

Microwave irradiation reduces the reaction time for the solid-phase synthesis of peptoids. Under these conditions, coupling of each residue requires only 1 min. The purity and yields of peptoids synthesized in this way are as good as or better than those achieved using standard methods. [reaction: see text]

A fast, efficient and novel method of preparation of hydroxyapatite using microwaves has been described.

The high commercial demand for quinoxalines needs a rapid, greener and safer synthetic method among the chemists. A series of quinoxaline derivatives has been synthesized by condensation of diamines and dicarboniles in microwave heating conditions and in solvent free media. This environmentally benign synthetic approach gives us excellent yields (80-90%) in shorter reaction time (3.5 minutes.)....

7-Azaindoles are versatile building blocks, especially in medicinal chemistry, where they serve as bioisosteres of indoles or purines. Herein, we are presenting a robust and flexible synthesis of 1,3- and 1,3,6-substituted 7-azaindoles starting from nicotinic acid derivatives or 2,6-dichloropyridine, respectively. Microwave heating dramatically accelerates the penultimate reaction step, an epox...

The fields of combinatorial and automated medicinal chemistry have emerged to meet the increasing requirement of new compounds for drug discovery, where speed is of the essence (Loupy, 2002). In this regard, domino (or tandem, or cascade) reactions where “two or more bond-forming transformations take place under the same reaction conditions without adding additional reagents and catalysts, and ...

Šucman E., Bednář J. (2012): Determination of fluoride in plant material using microwave induced oxygen combustion. Czech J. Food Sci., 30: 438–441. Fluorine is essential in human and/or animal nutrition, thus it is important to know its concentration in a diet. One of the important sources of fluorine for humans is tea, containing relatively high amounts of this trace element. A method for flu...

Post-combustion carbon capture is a key component of the fight against global warming and climate change. Amine stripping is currently the leading post-combustion technology, and indeed is employed at the World’s first and only commercial scale carbon capture project applied to a power plant, at Boundary Dam, Canada. Normally, regeneration of the spent amine solution is achieved by stripping wi...

this mini review article, intends to provide the essential information about microemulsion technique as a reliable approach toward the synthesis of zeolitic nano crystallites. the strategy discussed here provides a unique, effective, and potentially general methodology to the preparation of uniform and high purity nano crystallites of template-free zeolitic materials including lta, faujasite ty...