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Protection groups were introduced during biomass pretreatment to stabilize lignin's α,γ-diol group during its extraction and prevent its condensation. Acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde stabilized the α,γ-diol without any aromatic ring alkylation, which sign ...
Vicinal amino alcohols are important structural motifs of bioactive compounds. Reported herein is an efficient method for their synthesis based on the palladium-catalyzed oxy-alkynylation, oxy-arylation, or oxy-vinylation of allylic amines. High regio- and ...
Polysaccharide depolymerization is an essential step for valorizing lignocellulosic biomass. In inexpensive systems such as pure water or dilute acid mixtures, carbohydrate monomer degradation rates exceed hemicellulose—and especially cellulose—depolymeriz ...
Introduction of highly reactive vinyl ether moieties along a poly(ethylene-glycol) (PEG) backbone has been realized by copolymerization of the novel epoxide monomer ethoxy vinyl glycidyl ether (EVGE) with ethylene oxide (EO). A series of copolymers with va ...
The anomeric effect, originally defined as the preference of an electronegative substituent at the anomeric position of pyranosides to stand in an axial rather than an equatorial position, results from the combination of multiple steric, stereoelectronic a ...
Chiral BINOL phosphorochloridites were esterified and amidated with enantiopure 6-hydroxytropinone [6-hydroxy-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-one] cyclic acetal to yield chiral bidentate and monodentate phosphite-phosphoramidite ligands for copper-catalyzed asy ...
Ruthenium-arene complexes bearing the 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphatricyclo-[3.3.1.1]decane ligand, namely, RAPTA compounds, are widely investigated as potential antimetastatic agents for cancer therapy. Although much evidence points toward covalent binding with ...
Sulphur dioxide reacts with 1-oxydienes generating zwitterions which are quenched by enoxysilanes to form substituted silyl alkenylsulfinates. These intermediates are desilylated with Bu4NF and the resulting sulfinates react with MeI giving the correspondi ...
The insertion of acetals that exhibit variable structural features into complex peptides such as cyclosporin C (CsC) results in oxazolidine derivatives (pseudoprolines, Psi Pro) of tailored physico-chemical and biological properties. N,O-Acetalation of the ...
Title compds. consisting of ribo-, arabino-, xylo-, or lyxo-pyranoses in place of the usual ribo-furanose, were prepd. and used in solid-phase synthesis to construct (b-D-ribo)-(4'->2')-H-GGGCGGGC-H(I). Thus, 1,2,3,4-tetra-O-benzoyl-a/b-D-ribo-pyranose was ...
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