The phosphine, generated together with hydrogen from red phosphorus and aqueous KOH, reacts with 1-bromonaphthalene in the t-BuOK/DMSO system under mild conditions (70 °C, atmospheric pressure) to give di(1-naphthyl)phosphine, which is easily oxidized in the presence of air to afford di(1-napht...

Bile acids (BAs) are a class of steroidal surfactants that have been studied as building blocks for constructing useful chemical frameworks. These starting materials have rigid structures with defined hydrophobic and hydrophilic faces, which promotes self-assembly in well-defined chemical archit...

We report the photophysical properties of three anthracene-dicarboxylic acids – 1,4-anthracene dicarboxylic acid (1,4-ADCA), 2,6-anthracene dicarboxylic acid (2,6-ADCA) and 9,10-anthracene dicarboxylic acid (9,10-ADCA) – in a series of polar aprotic solvents using steady-state absorption spect...

SummaryBackgroundProtein-rich beverages are widely used clinically to preserve muscle protein and improve physical performance. Beverages with high contents of leucine or its keto-metabolite β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) are especially anabolic in muscle, but it is uncertain whether this al...

A series of 6,7-disubstituted-4-phenoxyquinoline derivatives bearing the 1,8-naphthyridin-2-one moiety were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their biological activities. The target compounds exhibited moderate to high antiproliferative activity against three cancer cell lines (A549, HepG2...

On the basis of the very interesting pharmacological properties shown by the 5-amino[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a][1,8]naphthyridine-6-carboxamide derivatives 1, previously described by us, we have now prepared the 5-aminoimidazo[1,2-a][1,8]naphthyridine-6-carboxamide derivatives 2a–o (a new structural...

Racemic 4-[(N-allyl-cis-3-methyl-4-piperidinyl)phenylamino]-N,N-diethylbenzamide (3a) was synthesized and found to have good affinity and selectivity for the δ receptor. these compounds can be viewed as an analog of BW373U86 and SNC-80 where an internal piperazine nitrogen has been transposed w...

The asymmetric synthesis of the potent selective NOP agonist 2-(3-{1-[3-(5-methoxy-2-methyl-phenoxy)-4-methyl-pentyl]-piperidin-4-yl}-2-oxo-2,3-dihydro-benzimidazol-1-yl)-N-methyl-acetamide and analogues was developed. The key step, chiral reduction of methyl isobutyryl acetate, was achieved usi...

In the present research, we report the synthesis and in vitro antimicrobial activity of a new series of novel quinazolino-thiadiazoles as fused pharmacophore (3–20). In general, the results of the in vitro antibacterial activity are encouraging, as out of 18 compounds tested, Compounds 3 and 8 ...

Different compounds have been investigated as potent drugs for trypanosomiasis treatment, but no new drug has been marketed in the past 3 decades. 4-Thiazolidinone/thiazole as privileged structures and thiosemicarbazides cyclic analogs are well known scaffolds in novel antitrypanosomal agent des...

Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum Ps29 was repelled by maleate. Screening of a complete collection of Ps29 single-methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (mcp) gene mutants identified the RSp0303 homolog (McpP) as a chemotaxis sensor mediating negative chemotaxis to maleate. Interestingly, the mcpP-delet...

SummaryGreen production of bulk chemicals traditionally obtained from fossil resources is of great importance. One potential route toward realizing this goal is through the utilization of renewable lignin; however, current techniques generally lead to low product specificity because of the struc...

To elucidate the relative contribution of somatodendritic 5-HT1A autoreceptors and postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors in the specific anti-aggressive properties of 5-HT1A receptor agonists, the influence of the novel benzodioxopiperazine compound S-15535, which behaves in vivo as a competitive antago...

The effects of long-term (7, 14 or 21 days) administration of the 5-HT1A receptor agonist alnespirone [5 mg/(kg day), i.p.] on the binding characteristics of 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A and 5-HT3 receptors, and the functional status of 5-HT1A autoreceptors were assessed using biochemical and electrophysiolog...

VAN DE KAR, L. D., A. D. LEVY, Q. LI AND M. S. BROWNFIELD. A comparison of the oxytocin and vasopressin responses to the 5-HT1A agonist and potential anxiolytic drug alnespirone (S-20499). PHARMACOL BIOCHEM BEHAV 60(3) 677–683, 1998.—The effect of the serotonin1A (5-HT1A) agonist alnespirone (...

Alnespirone (S 20499) has previously been described as a potential anxiolytic drug that acts by stimulation of 5-HT1A receptors. Some data suggest that alnespirone might also be a weak dopamine D2 receptor agonist: it displays moderate affinity for dopamine D2 receptors in vitro and it inhibits ...

The effects of the new methoxy-chroman 5-HT1A receptor agonist, alnespirone (S-20499), on the dopamine systems in the rat brain were assessed in vivo by means of electrophysiological and neurochemical techniques. Cumulative doses of alnespirone (0.032–4.1 mg kg−1, i.v.) did not modify the spont...

Determination of the optimal assay conditions for the specific binding of a tritiated derivative of the novel potential anxiolytic drug alnespirone (S-20499, (+)-4-[N-(5-methoxy-chroman-3-yl)-N-propylamino]butyl-8-azaspiro-(4,5)-decane-7,9-dione) allowed the demonstration that this radioligand b...

MUÑOZ, C. AND M. PAPP. Alnespirone (S 20499), an agonist of 5-HT1A receptors, and imipramine have similar activity in a chronic mild stress model of depression. PHARMACOL BIOCHEM BEHAV 63(4) 647–653, 1999.—A chronic mild stress (CMS) model of depression was used to study an antidepressant-like...

The effects of the new chroman derivative, alnespirone (S 20499), which is a selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, were investigated in an animal model of depression, the learned helplessness test. Rats previously submitted to a session of 60 inescapable electric foot shocks (learned helpless contr...