Heteroatomic substances

Both these methylketones were detected together in the volatiles from all cooked samples of S. lucens, A. japonicus, P. muelleri and Eh superba. It appears that these novel methylketones are important constituents in addition to the above-described heteroatomic substances of the flavors of cooked shrimps. 

The role of heteroatomic substances in the aroma compounds of food stuffs , Ohlaff, G. and Flament, L, Prog. Chem. Org. Nat. Prod., 1979, 36, 231. 

Contents F. W. WEHRLI and T. NISHIDA, The Use of Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Natural Products Chemistry - G. OHLOFF and I. FLAMENT, The Role of Heteroatomic Substances in the Aroma Compounds of Foodstuffs - A. J. WEIN-HEIMER, C. W. J. CHANG, and J. A. MATSON, Naturally Occurring Cembranes - Author Index - Subject Index. 

Not all cyclic compounds are hydrocarbons Many substances include an atom other than carbon called a heteroatom (Section 1 7) as part of a ring A ring that contains at least one heteroatom is called a heterocycle, and a substance based on a heterocyclic ring is... 

Substances that contain one or more atoms other than carbon as part of a nng are called heterocyclic compounds Rings m which the heteroatom IS oxygen nitrogen or sulfur rank as both the most common and the most important... 

Ionophores constitute a large collection of structurally diverse substances that share the ability to complex cations and to assist in the translocation of cations through a lipophilic interface.1 Using numerous Lewis-basic heteroatoms, an ionophore organizes itself around a cationic species such as an inorganic metal ion. This arrangement maximizes favorable ion-dipole interactions, while simultaneously exposing a relatively hydrophobic (lipophilic) exterior. 

The numerous biotransformations catalyzed by cytochrome P450 enzymes include aromatic and aliphatic hydroxylations, epoxidations of olefinic and aromatic structures, oxidations and oxidative dealkylations of heteroatoms and as well as some reductive reactions. Cytochromes P450 of higher animals may be classified into two broad categories depending on whether their substrates are primarily endogenous or xenobiotic substances. Thus, CYP enzymes of families 1-3 catalyze... 

In general compounds with heteroatoms (N, O, S and P) are more amenable to fluorescence reactions" than pure hydrocarbons. Under the influence of the catalytic sorbents substances rich in Jt-electrons are formed, that conjugate to rigid reaction products that are fluorescent when appropriately excited. The formation of fluorescent derivatives is frequently encouraged by gassing with nitrogen or carbon dioxide. 

Heterocyclic scaffolds form the cores of many pharmaceutically relevant substances. Not surprisingly, therefore, many publications in the area of microwave-assisted organic synthesis, both from academia and industry, deal with the preparation of heterocycles [5], In this final section of this chapter, the description of heterocycle synthesis is structured according to ring-size and the number of heteroatoms in the ring. 

In order to facilitate the reading and avoid too frequent recourse to the structural formulae, the macrobicyclic compounds have also been designated by a symbol which gives the number and nature of heteroatoms and other structural variations in the bridges. These symbols are listed together with the number of each substance. 

The oxidation of organic substances by cyclic peroxides has been intensively studied over the last decades , from both the synthetic and mechanistic points of view. The earliest mechanistic studies have been carried out with cyclic peroxides such as phthaloyl peroxide , and more recently with a-methylene S-peroxy lactones and 1,2-dioxetanes . During the last 20 years, the dioxiranes (remarkable three-membered-ring cyclic peroxides) have acquired invaluable importance as powerful and mild oxidants, especially the epoxidation of electron-rich as well as electron-poor alkenes, heteroatom oxidation and CH insertions into alkanes (cf. the chapter by Adam and Zhao in this volume). The broad scope and general applicability of dioxiranes has rendered them as indispensable oxidizing agents in synthetic chemistry this is amply manifested by their intensive use, most prominently in the oxyfunctionalization of olefinic substrates. 

Of the few known terpene compounds that contain heteroatoms such as nitrogen or sulfur, the thiol 8-mercapto-p-menthan-3-one described below has qualitatively important applications as a fragrance and flavor substance. The second thiol, -p-menthene-8-thiol, is described because its odor threshold value is far lower than that of most other fragrance and flavor materials. 

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