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Sulfonylureas. The hypoglycemic effect of sulfonylureas was first noted in the early 1940s when several patients died in hypoglycemic coma after testing glyprothia2ole, a synthetic sulfonamide used to treat typhoid. Chemical modifications which enhanced activity and lowered toxicity led to the development of the first-generation sulfonylureas. Carbutamide [339-43-5] the first commercial sulfonylurea, came onto the European... 

Continued efforts to improve the activity of the monobactams against nonfermenting gram-negative rods such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa led to the discovery of SQ 83,360 [104393-00-2] (58), C22H24N q0 2 2 3-hydroxy-4-pyridone containing monocarbam. The enhanced activity of SQ 83,360 is... 

The enhanced activity from acylation of the 3- and 4 -hydroxyl groups of leucomycin prompted analogous studies of tylosin. Bioconversion of tylosin by S. thermotokrans yielded 3- and/or 4 -0-acyl derivatives possessing increased activity against certain resistant microorganisms and higher... 

The crown ethers and cryptates are able to complex the alkaU metals very strongly (38). AppHcations of these agents depend on the appreciable solubihty of the chelates in a wide range of solvents and the increase in activity of the co-anion in nonaqueous systems. For example, potassium hydroxide or permanganate can be solubiHzed in benzene [71 -43-2] hy dicyclohexano-[18]-crown-6 [16069-36-6]. In nonpolar solvents the anions are neither extensively solvated nor strongly paired with the complexed cation, and they behave as naked or bare anions with enhanced activity. Small amounts of the macrocycHc compounds can serve as phase-transfer agents, and they may be more effective than tetrabutylammonium ion for the purpose. The cost of these macrocycHc agents limits industrial use. 

Promoters, usually present in smaU amount, which enhance activity or retard degradation for instance, rhenium slows coking of platinum reforming, and KCl retards vaporization of CuCU in oxy-chlorination for vinyl chloride. 

Among the D vitamins, multiple fluonne substituents in the side chain of 25-hydroxy-D3 (4) markedly increases bone resorptive activity [21, 22] The enhanced activity may be due to blockade of degradation caused by the presence of fluorine in specific positions. 

Regardless of detail, the experimental facts are clear process conditions that favor formation of hydrogen-poor catalysts favor migration and isomerization. Table 1 is a convenient summary of this concept. Hydrogen availability refers to hydrogen concentration at the catalyst surface. Additives that retard the rate of reduction increase hydrogen availability and retard isomerization they may also block sites with enhanced activity for migration (53). 

A typical NaY zeolite contains approximately 13 wt% Na20. To enhance activity and thermal and hydrothermal stability of NaY, the sodium level must be reduced. This is normally done by the ion exchanging of NaY with a medium containing rare earth cations and/ or hydrogen ions. Ammonium sulfate solutions are frequently employed as a source for hydrogen ions. 

Assay results with the two new 1,2-cis (ft-d) cardenolides show enhanced activity as compared with the two unnatural, a-D-rhamnosides. They have potencies that fall well within the range for those of the naturally occurring cardenolides. These results support the postulate that the a-D-glycosidic linkage in cardenolides containing D-sugars is unfavorable for cardiotonic activity. 

As mentioned above, many transcription factors are not always active. Rather the activity of transcription factors is often achieved by induced reversible modification. Most frequently is the addition of phosphate groups (phosphorylation) to Ser, Thr, or Tyr residues. For the AP-1 component c-Jun the phosphorylation at Ser63 and Ser73 enhances activity when cells are subjected to stress, e.g. radiation. Phosphorylation is, however, dispensable for c-Jun-dqDendent tissue homeostasis in the liver, indicating that certain activities do not require the regulatory enhancement. Jun-N-teiminal kinase and a kinase called RSK or p38 catalyze the phosphorylation of AP-1. 

Differentiation between the two forms of Ag2C03 is not easy and, from the many methods used, electron spin resonance spectroscopy and thermal analysis have been most successfully applied [757]. The imperfections mentioned above occur in the low temperature decomposition product and are identified as being responsible for enhanced activity in readsorbing C02. Annealing of the residue removes these defects and reduces the reversibility of reaction. 

We will focus on the development of ruthenium-based metathesis precatalysts with enhanced activity and applications to the metathesis of alkenes with nonstandard electronic properties. In the class of molybdenum complexes [7a,g,h] recent research was mainly directed to the development of homochi-ral precatalysts for enantioselective olefin metathesis. This aspect has recently been covered by Schrock and Hoveyda in a short review and will not be discussed here [8h]. In addition, several important special topics have recently been addressed by excellent reviews, e.g., the synthesis of medium-sized rings by RCM [8a], applications of olefin metathesis to carbohydrate chemistry [8b], cross metathesis [8c,d],enyne metathesis [8e,f], ring-rearrangement metathesis [8g], enantioselective metathesis [8h], and applications of metathesis in polymer chemistry (ADMET,ROMP) [8i,j]. Application of olefin metathesis to the total synthesis of complex natural products is covered in the contribution by Mulzer et al. in this volume. 

Hashimoto, T., Mosser, R.D., Tremblay, J., Hamet, P. (1991). Increased accumulation of hsp70 mRNA due to enhanced activation of heat shock transcription factor in spontaneously hypertensive rats. J. Hyperten. Suppl. 9, S170-171. 

Subsequently Turner and coworkers were able to show that the Asn336Ser variant possessed broad substrate specificity, with the ability to oxidize a wide range of chiral amines of interest [19]. They also discovered a second mutation, Ile246Met, which conferred enhanced activity toward chiral secondary amines as exemplified by the deracemization of racemic 1-methyltetrahydroisoquinoline (MTQ) (9) (Figure 5.9)[20j. 

As shown in Table 2.1, the improved catalytic performance of alkaline-treated zeolites compared to the parent purely microporous counterparts has been demonstrated decidedly by different groups active in academia and in industry. The positive effect is reflected in the enhanced activity, selectivity, and/or lifetime (coking resistance) of the hierarchical systems. The examples listed embrace not only a variety of zeohte topologies (MFl, MOR, MTW, BEA, and AST) but also reactions involving hghter hydrocarbons as well as bulky molecules. This illustrates the potential of the desihcation treatment, although more work is to be done in optimizing the catalytic system for the wide variety of applications. 

All musical composers work with the same set of notes, but the geniuses put the notes together in an extraordinarily beautiful way. Synthetic chemists all have available to them the same elements. The successful medicinal chemist will combine atoms such that amazing therapeutic effect is achieved with the resulting molecule. The computational chemist s goal should be to help the medicinal chemist by providing information about structural and electronic requirements to enhance activity, namely, information about which regions of compound space are most propitious for exploration. 

Dideoxy-2 -fluorokanamycin A (Ref. 170), a kanamycin derivative in which the OH-2 or NH2-2 of kanamycin A and B, respectively, is replaced by a fluorine atom, was prepared by condensation of 6-azido-4-0-benzoyl-2,3,6-trideoxy-2-fluoro-a-D-n77ohexopyranosyl bromide, derived from 179 (see Section 11,2), with the pseudodisaccharide component of kanamycin. The compound showed mediocre antibacterial activity however, on attachment of an (5)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutanoyl residue, as in amikacin, to the NHj-l group, the derivative showed considerably enhanced activity. ... 

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