Fooling Toxins with Mimetic Nanosponges-Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles wrapped with red blood cell membranes neutralize pore-forming toxins

Fooling Toxins with Mimetic Nanosponges

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles wrapped with red blood cell membranes neutralize pore-forming toxins
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Chemical Ecology: How Asian ladybugs destroy competitors with pathogens and use small molecules to protect themselves

Chemical Ecology: How Asian ladybugs destroy competitors with pathogens and use small molecules to protect themselves
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i21/Invading-Ladybugs-Carry-Bioweapons.html

RESVERATROL AND ITS BENEFITS

RESVERATROL AND ITS BENEFITS

Microwaves show their hand

Left and right handed molecules have the same dipole moments of the same magnitude but with different signs

Microwaves show their hand

New technique can tell left from right even at low concentrations

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/05/microwaves-show-their-hand-chirality

A new method for producing clean hydrogen

A new method for producing clean hydrogen

Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications. While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the environment, producing and collecting molecular hydrogen for transportation and industrial uses is expensive and complicated. Just as importantly, a byproduct of most … more…

World Drug Tracker: Scientists sequence genome of ‘sacred lotus,’ may ...

World Drug Tracker: Scientists sequence genome of ‘sacred lotus,’ may ...: Scientists sequence genome of ‘sacred lotus,’ may hold anti-aging secrets A team of 70 scientists from the U.S., China, Austral...

One-Pot Method for Regioselective Bromin­ation and Sequential Carbon–Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of Allylic Alcohol Derivatives

One-Pot Method for Regioselective Bromin­ation and Sequential Carbon–Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of Allylic Alcohol Derivatives

European Journal of Organic Chemistry Noriki Kutsumura, Yusuke Matsubara, Kentaro Niwa, Ai Ito and Takao Saito
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201300173

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejoc.201300173/abstract

Di- or trisubstituted olefins were synthesized in high yields with excellent regio- and cis–trans selectivities in one-pot reactions, including a regioselective DBU-promoted trans HBr elimination. This one-pot methodology could become a straightforward transformation of “straight” alkenes into “Y-shaped” alkenes.

An efficient one-pot method for the regioselective bromination of allylic alcohol derivatives (two-step reaction sequence) followed by Sonogashira, Negishi, or Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions in the same reaction vessel (three-step reaction sequence) has been developed. The key reaction in these one-pot systems is the regioselective DBU-promoted trans HBr elimination of vicinal dibromides bearing an adjacent O-functional group.