The direct C-H annulation of anilines or related compounds with internal alkynes provides straightforward access to 2,3-disubstituted indole products. However, this transformation proceeds with poor regioselectivity in the synthesis of unsymmetrically 2,3-diaryl substituted indoles. Herein, we report the rhodium(III)-catalyzed C-H annulation of nitrones with symmetrical diaryl alkynes as an alt...

The inhibition of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) has demonstrated potential for the treatment of various components of metabolic syndrome. In this study, a series of 1,4-diaryl-1,4-dihydropyrazines were designed as inhibitors of 11β-HSD1 based on the structure-activity relationship of known 11β-HSD1 inhibitors through docking simulations. The docking simulation results suppo...

The title compound, C(13)H(9)N(5), is the first asymmetric diaryl-1,2,4,5-tetra-zine to be crystallographically characterized. We have been inter-ested in this motif for incorporation into supra-molecular assemblies based on coordination chemistry. The solid state structure shows a centrosymmetric mol-ecule, forcing a positional disorder of the terminal phenyl and pyridyl rings. The mol-ecule i...

An analysis of the (1)H- and (13)C-NMR spectra of a series of 1,2-diaryl-1H-4,5-dihydroimidazoles and comparisons with 4,5-dihydroimidazoles having different substitution patterns are presented. The influence of different 1-aryl and 2-aryl group substituents on spectroscopic parameters of the heterocyclic ring and on the contributions of possible mesomeric structures in the system was determine...

An efficient synthesis of 1,3-diaryl-4-halo-1H-pyrazoles was achieved. The synthesis involves the [3 + 2] dipolar cycloaddition of 3-arylsydnones and 2-aryl-1,1-dihalo-1-alkenes. The process proceeds smoothly in moderate to excellent yields. 1,3-Diaryl-4-halo-1H-pyrazoles are found to be important intermediates that can easily be converted into 1,2,5-triaryl-substituted pyrazoles via Pd-catalyz...

2-(methylthio)-1,4-diaryl-2-butene-1,4-dione (3) are prepared from readily available aryl methyl ketones in the presence of copper(II) oxide, iodine, and dimethyl sulfoxide. The success of the cross-coupling reaction of 4-chloroacetophenone with 2-acetylthiophene confirms a proposed self-sorting tandem reaction mechanism. Both Z- and E-isomers of compound 3 are readily converted into the corres...

Two novel series of diaryl urea derivatives 5a-i and 13a-l were synthesized and evaluated for their cytotoxicity against H-460, HT-29, A549, and MDA-MB-231 cancer cell lines in vitro. Therein, 4-aminoquinazolinyl-diaryl urea derivatives 5a-i demonstrated significant activity, and seven of them are more active than sorafenib, with IC50 values ranging from 0.089 to 5.46 μM. Especially, compound 5...

The title compound, C(43)H(32)F(6)N(2)S(2), is a new symmetrical photochromic diaryl-ethene derivative with 9-ethyl-carbazol-3-yl substituents. The mol-ecule adopts a photoactive anti-parallel conformation [Irie (2000). Chem. Rev.100, 1685-1716; Kobatake et al. (2002). Chem. Commun. pp. 2804-2805], with a dihedral angle between the mean planes of the two thio-phene rings of 56.23 (6)°. The dist...

A novel method of photoinduced synthesis of unsymmetrical diaryl selenides from triarylbismuthines and diaryl diselenides has been developed. Although the arylation reactions with triarylbismuthines are usually catalyzed by transition-metal complexes, the present arylation of diaryl diselenides with triarylbismuthines proceeds upon photoirradiation in the absence of transition-metal catalysts. ...

S-aryl thioacetates can be prepared by reaction of inexpensive potassium thioacetate with both electron-rich and electron-poor aryl iodides under a base-free copper/ligand catalytic system. CuI as copper source affords S-aryl thioacetates in good to excellent yields, by using 1,10-phenanthroline as a ligand in toluene at 100 °C after 24 h. Under microwave irradiation the time was drastically re...