We report an efficient synthesis of protected (2S,3R)-3-hydroxy-3-methylproline that proceeds in three steps with complete stereoselectivity. This route represents a significant improvement over previous approaches to this noncanonical amino acid. Key to this success is the development of a one-...

Starting from enantiomerically pure 2,5-dihydropyrroles substituted at 2-position, efficient stereoselective syntheses of the (+)-Geissman-Waiss lactone and of (+)-1,4,5-trideoxy-1,4-imino-D-ribo-hexitol hydrochloride have been achieved. This work illustrates the high potential of 2,5-dihydropyr...

4-Hydroxy-2-methylproline diastereomers are successfully prepared without the use of an external chiral auxiliary. Dihydroxylation of the key intermediate 2 resulted in lactone 4 as a mixture of diastereomers in good yield. Mesylation, hydrogenation and concomitant intramolecular cyclization of ...

Intramolecular Michael reaction of methyl (R)-6-(tert-butoxycarbonylamino)oxy-4-hydroxy-2-hexenoate, in turn obtained from tert-butyl (R)-3-hydroxy-4-pentenoate, paved the way to the synthesis of both enantiomers of 2-oxa-6-azabicyclo[3.3.0]octan-3-one (the Geissman–Waiss lactone), a precursor ...

This chapter represents a comprehensive overview of different protocols for the preparation of esters and lactones and serves as an update to the review published in Comprehensive Organic Synthesis – Volume 1. Throughout the chapter, a general discussion of each protocol is followed by a recent...

Being under the influence during choice between drug and nondrug options can have a dramatic effect on choice outcomes. When rats face a choice between cocaine and sweet water and are not under the influence, they prefer sweet water. In contrast, when they are under the influence of cocaine, thi...

Behavioral sensitization is thought to be relevant to the psychopathology of drug addiction. A previous study from our research group demonstrated cross-sensitization between cocaine and ethanol. Although these findings suggest a common mechanism of action between these two drugs, little is know...

Cocaine use has been reported for more than 2500 years, but along this period of time its damage to society in general became evident. Nowadays, cocaine is classified as an illicit drug and studies which give support to drug enforcement institutions, particularly in the area of police intelligen...

Knowledge of family structure and behavioral dynamics of out-of-treatment drug users under poverty becomes relevant, because of the role that the family plays in drug use and rehabilitation.

Over the last decade, hair analysis has become a routine procedure in most forensic laboratories and, complementary to blood and urine, hair is a unique biological matrix which gives the opportunity to establish a temporal consumption profile. Despite hair is widely used to identify drug use, en...

Detection of drug vapors and volatile products of their decomposition is an important, and sometimes the only way to determine the presence of illegal drug traces at the surface of mail items, documents, hands and banknotes. This paper gives the results of experimental studies on the effect of U...

In order to develop theories relating to the mechanism through which cocaine can diffuse across the blood-brain barrier, it is important to understand the interplay between the hydration of the molecule and the adopted conformation. Here key differences in the hydration of cocaine hydrochloride ...

The potential of a low-cost (∼US$ 1000) portable near-infrared (NIR) spectrophotometer for in situ characterization of seized cocaine samples was evaluated. A set of 240 samples of cocaine seized in several regions and cities across Brazil by its federal police was employed in this study. These...

For nearly 30 years, the methods utilized in illicit cocaine hydrochloride production have remained relatively consistent. Cocaine hydrochloride is typically produced one kilogram at a time. As a result, each individual kilogram is unique and distinct from other kilograms in any particular seizu...

An unprecedented domino Michael/α-alkylation reaction between 2,5-dihydrothiophene-3-carbaldehydes and bromonitromethane is presented. This process, efficiently catalyzed by DL-proline in the presence of MeOH/NaOAc system, provides access to novel 6-nitro-3-thiabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-1-carbaldehy...

A hurdle in glycosylation reactions of 2-acetamido glycosyl donors is the formation of a stable and unreactive oxazoline that decreases the yield of these reactions significantly. As an effort to prevent oxazoline formation during glycosylation reactions, we protected the N–H of the acetamido g...

A 70mer oligonucleotide microarray was constructed to analyze genome-wide expression profiles of Corynebacterium jeikeium, a skin bacterium that is predominantly present in the human axilla and involved in axillary odor formation. Oligonucleotides representing 100% of the predicted coding region...

The dipeptide Fmoc-Val-(2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzyl)Gly-OBzl was synthesized and the 2-hydroxyl group carbamoylated to give a Boc-N(CH3)CH2CH2N(CH3)CO–, (Boc-Nmec-) modification of the 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzyl (Hmb) group. After catalytic hydrogenation and purification, the resulting dipeptide F...

With the aim of discovering potential and selective inhibitors targeting ROS1 kinase, we rationally designed, synthesized and evaluated two series of novel 2-amino-pyridine derivatives with 1-phenylethoxy at C-3 and C-4 position. The enzymic assays results indicated that six of the new compounds...

A mild and facile method for generation of p-methoxybenzyl cation through NIS-mediated activation of p-methoxybenzyl 4-pentenyl ether was achieved. Under the present activation conditions, various alcohols were converted to the corresponding p-methoxybenzyl ethers. A scope and limitation of the ...