The phytochemical study of the aerial parts of Artemisia japonica ssp. littoricola (Asteraceae) led to the isolation of two acetylenic compounds, (3R)-dehydrofalcarinol (2) and (3R)-dehydrofalcarindiol (6), two sesquiterpenes, 1beta, 6alpha-dihydroxy-4(15)-eudesmene (5) and oplodiol (8), and four phenolic compounds, eugenol (1), vanillin (3), 3'-methoxy-4'-hydroxy-trans-cinnamaldehyde (4) and p...

Abstract Chiral phenylglycinol is a very important chemical in the pharmaceutical manufacturing. Current methods for synthesis of chiral often suffered from unsatisfied selectivity, low product yield and using non-renewable resourced substrates, then remain grand challenge. Design construction synthetic microbial consortia promising strategy to convert bio-based materials into high value-added ...

Non-hydrogen-bonded isomers were photogenerated by UV (lambda > 335 nm) irradiation of o-hydroxybenzaldehyde (salicylaldehyde) and o-hydroxyacetophenone monomers isolated in low-temperature Ar matrixes. These photoisomerizations were found to be photoreversible. Upon shorter wavelength (lambda > 235 nm or lambda > 270 nm) UV irradiation, the initial forms of the compounds (with intramolecular h...

Bisphenol A (BPA) is metabolized by a Gram-negative aerobic bacterium via a novel pathway involving oxidative skeletal rearrangement of the BPA. Oxidation of the aliphatic methyl group of BPA leads to coproduction of the methyl-hyroxylated 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1-propanol and a skeletally rearranged triol 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-propanol. The major route of metabolism (> 80%) is through t...

BACKGROUND Candida parapsilosis (R)-carbonyl reductase (RCR) and (S)-carbonyl reductase (SCR) are involved in the stereoconversion of racemic (R,S)-1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol (PED) to its (S)-isomer. RCR catalyzes (R)-PED to 2-hydroxyacetophenone (2-HAP), and SCR catalyzes 2-HAP to (S)-PED. However, the stereoconversion efficiency of racemic mixture to (S)-PED is not high because of an activity im...

Article history: Received on: 21/06/2014 Revised on: 13/07/2014 Accepted on: 02/08/2014 Available online: 30/10/2014 This paper reported series of complexes and their modes of coordination. The series consist of N,N’,O-donor Schiff base formed by condensation reaction of 2-hydroxyacetophenone with 4-(2-aminoethyl)morpholine. The ligand and complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, FT-...

Complexes of tailor-made ligands with life essential metal ions may be an emerging area to answer the problem of multi-drug resistance (MDR). The coordination complexes of VO(II), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) with the Schiff bases derived from 2-hydroxyacetophenone/2-chlorobenzaldehyde with 2-amino-4-chlorophenol were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductance, electron...