LDL oxidation may promote atherosclerosis. We found that polyenyphosphatidylcholine (PPC), a mixture of polyunsaturated phospholipids extracted from soybeans, has antioxidant effects in in vivo models of oxidative stress. To assess whether components of PPC affect the in vitro oxidizability of LDL, plasma from 15 healthy volunteers was incubated with 10 microM of either dilinoleoyl-, palmitoyl-...

New antibiotics phoslactomycins A, B, C, D, E and F, which contain alpha, beta-unsaturated delta-lactone, phosphate ester, conjugated diene and cyclohexane ring moieties, were isolated from the culture broth of a soil isolate actinomycete. Morphological, cultural and physiological studies revealed that the isolate is a strain of Streptomyces nigrescens. Phoslactomycins were obtained by butanol ...

The linoleic acid hydroperoxide obtained by enzymatic peroxidation of linoleic acid was found to react with thiobarbituric acid to yield a red pigment. The optimum pH for the reaction was found to be 4.0. In the early stages of peroxidation of linoleic acid, thiobarbituric acid value, the amount of conjugated diene, oxygen consumption, and peroxide value were in parallel with one another. The d...

Selective 1,2-hydrosilylation of 1,3-dienes is a challenging problem in transition metal catalysis. Butadiene, specifically, would be a useful substrate because 3-butenylsilane products have promise as superior coupling reagents for hybrid organic/inorganic materials synthesis. We report the first selective 1,2-hydrosilylation of conjugated dienes including butadiene. Hydrosilylation proceeds t...

* corresponding author. e-mail: [email protected] Butyl-substituted 1-amino-3-oxocyclohexane-1-carboxylic acid derivatives have been prepared from 5,5-tethered dienes of (2R)-2,5-dihydro-2-isopropyl-3,6-dimethoxypyrazine in stereoselective synthesis. RCM reactions of the diene afforded a heterospirenone which was the substrate for the conjugated addition reaction with lithium dibutylcuprate. Hydrol...

ABSTRACT Reactions between (E)-2-aryl-1-cyano-1-nitroethenes and diazafluorene lead to acyclic 2,3-diazabuta-1,3-diene derivatives, instead of the expected pyrazoline systems. DFT calculations suggest that this is a consequence of formation of zwitterionic structure in the first stage of the reaction. It must be noted that this is a specific property of the (E)-2-aryl-1-cyano-1-nitroethenes gro...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate short-term effects aflatoxin B1 (AFB1 100 µg/kg feed) and sterigmatocystin (STC 1000 μg/kg exposure individually in combination (100 μg AFB1 + STC/kg on parameters lipid peroxidation glutathione redox system both biochemical gene expression levels one-year-old common carp. Lipid were slightly affected, as significant differences observed only conjugated ...

The protection of conjugated dienes by coordination to the tricarbonyliron fragment offers many potential applications of the resulting complexes to organic synthesis. The preparation of tricarbonyl(h4-1,3-diene)iron complexes is readily achieved by a 1-azabutadiene-catalyzed complexation of the free ligands. An asymmetric catalytic complexation of prochiral cyclohexa-1,3-dienes with pentacarbo...