Difluoromethylation on sp(3) carbon of various nitrile compounds with lithium base and fluoroform (CF3H), which is an ideal difluoromethylating reagent, is shown to provide the α-difluoromethylated nitrile products with an all-carbon quaternary center in moderate to high yields. The Ruppert-Prakash reagent (CF3TMS) is also applicable to the reaction, affording the α-siladifluoromethylated nitri...

Silica gel loaded with saturated Al(N03)3. 10. H20 solution proved to be an efficient absorbent for the elimination of the interference of fluorine in the microdetermination of carbon and hydrogen in organofluorine compounds. The reagent is cheap, readily available and easily prepared. Three grams are sufficient for 25 determinations. Samples are burnt in a flow of oxygen using the rapid straig...

The carbon metabolism of the cryptoendolithic microbiota of sandstones from the Ross Desert of Antarctica was studied in situ and in vitro. Organic and inorganic carbon compounds were metabolized by the microbiota, with bicarbonate incorporation into community lipids occurring primarily in the light. Light intensity affected the photometabolism of carbon with a photosynthesis-intensity respon...

Recently, donor stabilized divalent carbon(0) compounds have undergone intense experimental and theoretical investigation due to their strong electron rich character. In this Article, some new cyclic and acyclic carbon(0) compounds stabilized by differential coordination modes (such as abnormal, remote and a mixture of both) of N-heterocyclic carbenes are studied theoretically. The cyclic carbo...

The ring closing metathesis (RCM) is a powerful method in organic synthesis for the preparation of cyclic compounds by formation of new carbon-carbon bonds. In the past years a particular subclass of the RCM, the ring closing enyne metathesis (RCEYM), has attracted attention due to its synthetic potential in the generation of ring structures with 1,3-diene moieties, which can subsequently be fu...