Microbial niches contain toxic chemicals capable of forcing organisms into periods of intense natural selection to afford survival. Elucidating the mechanisms by which microbes evade environmental threats has direct relevance for understanding and combating the rise of antibiotic resistance. In this study we used a toxic small-molecule, bromoacetate, to model the selective pressures imposed by ...

Chiral beta-amino esters are synthesized in one-pot from three components, amines, aldehydes, and ethyl bromoacetate, under the rhodium-catalyzed Reformatsky-type reaction condition, where complete diastereoselection is achieved in the nucleophilic addition step of ethyl bromoacetate to the imines prepared in

The reactivities of the imidazole groups of histidyl residues in sperm whale myoglobin are being studied systematically to achieve a correlation with three-dimensional structure (1, 2). In the sequence between the Eand F-helices there occur 2 histidyl residues, EF4 and EF5, that can be isolated in the same tryptic peptide (3, 4).l It has been shown previously that treatment with bromoacetate be...

Regioselective synthesis of quinolone-1,2,4-triazoles was established starting from 4-hydroxyquinol-2-ones. The strategy started by the reaction ethyl bromoacetate with 4-hydroxyquinoline to give corresponding oxoquinolinyl acetates, which reacted hydrazine hydrate afford hydrazide derivatives. Subsequently, hydrazides isothiocyanate derivatives acyl thiosemicarbazides. Finally, subjecting thio...

Twelve adult rabbits of mixed stock weighing 1[5 to 2 5 kg. received intravenous injections of from 16 to 32 mg./kg. sodium bromoacetate. In three animals the dose was repeated on the following day. The nine survivors were killed for histological examination 3 to 21 days after injection. Two animals received combined injections of sodium bromoacetate (16 mg./kg.) and sodium iodoacetate (16 mg./...

We present herein the synthesis in good yields of two series of highly functionalized thiazolidinone derivatives from the reactions of various 4-phenyl-3-thio-semicarbazones with ethyl 2-bromoacetate and diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, respectively.

Some novel coumarins were synthesized starting from 4-hydroxycoumarin and methyl bromoacetate. The structures of the newly obtained compounds were confirmed by elemental analysis, mass, IR and NMR spectra.

Benzotetramisole promotes the catalytic asymmetric [2,3]-rearrangement of allylic quaternary ammonium salts (either isolated or prepared in situ from p-nitrophenyl bromoacetate and the corresponding allylic amine), generating syn-α-amino acid derivatives with excellent diastereo- and enantioselectivity (up to >95:5 dr; up to >99% ee).