In ethyl 5-cyano-2,6-dimethyl-4-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate, C15H15N3O5, the molecules are linked into chains by a single N-H...O hydrogen bond. The molecules in diethyl 2,6-dimethyl-4-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate, C17H20N2O7, are linked by a combination of one N-H...O hydrogen bond and two C-H...O hydrogen bonds into sheets built from equal nu...

1-Vinylpyrrole-2-carbaldehydes react with acetylene at atmospheric pressure in a NaOH/EtOH/DMSO system at 7-10 °C to afford 2-(1-hydroxypropyn-2-yl)-1-vinylpyrroles in 53-94% yield. Thus, the first base-mediated direct ethynylation of pyrrolecarbaldehydes with free acetylene under modified conditions of the Favorsky reaction has been implemented to pave an expedient route to important biomolecu...

Our current studies on enzymatic mechanism and control have included consideration of the action of various types of inhibitors for the enzyme, succinate dehydrogenase (1). Interest in the succinate system stems from (a) its key role in cellular aerobic processes; and (b) the possibilities of investigation of mechanism and the action of inhibitors, partly from the point of view of an earlier in...

The reaction of di-(o-acetylphenyl)acetylene (1) with excess dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) produced bis-DMAD adducts meso-3 and rac-3. This transformation is suggested to involve thermal rearrangement of 1 to the intermediate 3,3'-dimethyl-1,1'-biisobenzofuran (A), and subsequent Diels-Alder cycloadditions of two equivalents of DMAD to A. The isolation of trapping products meso-3 and r...