Cultures of actinomycete strain WRAT-210 produced a dark red crystalline metabolite which was named texazone. Spectroscopic evidence suggested that the structure of texazone is 2-(N-methylamino)-3H-phenoxazin-3-one-8-carboxylic acid. The structure was confirmed by chemical synthesis through oxidative dimerization of ethyl 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoate with 2-(N-methylamino)phenol and subsequent hyd...

Quaterpyridines have been demonstrated to be useful building blocks in metallo-supramolecular chemistry; however, their synthesis requires the preparation of sensitive building blocks. We present here three examples of nonsymmetric quaterpyridines that were easily obtained in yields of 70-85% by condensation of commercially available enones with 6-acetyl-2,2':6',2''-terpyridine through a Kröhnk...

Free imine imidazol-2-imine ligands with two different substitution patterns have been isolated for the first time and they were found to exist as an equilibrium mixture of geometric and mesomeric isomers. The relative ratios of these isomers are dependent on both the nature of the substituents and of the solvent. The synthesis of the titanium(IV) alkyl and arylimido complexes of these ligands ...

We describe an experimental and quantum chemical study for the accurate determination of the conformational space of small molecular systems governed by intramolecular non-covalent interactions. The model systems investigated belong to the biological relevant aminoalcohol's family, and include 2-amino-1-phenylethanol, 2-methylamino-1-phenylethanol, noradrenaline, adrenaline 2-aminoethanol, and ...

Reductions of imine compounds 2-methoxy-N-(1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylidene)ethanamine (L1), 2-methoxy-N-((pyridin-2-yl)methylene)ethanamine (L2), N,N-diethyl-N-((pyridin-2-yl)methylene)ethane-1,2-diamine (L3) and 2-((pyridin-2-yl)methyleneamino)ethanol (L4) using NABH4 produced their corresponding amine analogues N-(2-methoxyethyl)-1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethanamine (L1a), 2-methoxy-N-((pyridin-2-yl)methyl)...

Transport of representative neutral alpha-amino acids was measured in brain slices after injecting thyroxine into donor rats of various ages from 1 to 23 days old. The hormone did not alter uptake in slices from 1-day-old rats even when treatment was begun on pregnant rats as much as 10 days before delivery. Injecting thyroxine until age 6 days, however, decreased the activity of transport syst...