Silyl-protected dioxaborinanes: application in the Suzuki cross-coupling reaction.

The synthesis of a range of novel silyl-protected dioxaborinanes as a column- and bench-stable boron reagent were found to be advantageous to achieving good yields in palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions under standard conditions.

Experimental testing of quantum mechanical predictions of mutagenicity: aminopyrazoles.

A computational method for predicting the likelihood of aromatic amines being active in the Ames test for mutagenicity was trialed on a set of aminopyrazoles. A virtual array of compounds was generated from the available sets of hydrazines and α-cyanoaldehydes (or ketones) and quantum mechanical calculations used to compute a probability of being active in the Ames test. The compounds selected for synthesis and testing were not based on the predictions and so spanned the range of predicted probabilities.