Alleviating Effect of Lipid Phytochemicals in Seed Oil ( L.) on Oxidative Stress Injury Induced by HO in HepG2 Cells via Keap1/Nrf2/ARE Signaling Pathway.

α-tocopherol (α-T), β-sitosterol (β-S), canolol (CA), and sinapic acid (SA) are the four main endogenous lipid phytochemicals (LP) found in L. seed oil, which possess the bioactivity to prevent the risk of several chronic diseases via antioxidant-associated mechanisms. Discovering the enhancer effects or synergies between LP is valuable for resisting oxidative stress and improving health benefits.

Asymmetric ring-opening reactions of donor-acceptor cyclopropanes with 1,3-cyclodiones.

Asymmetric ring-opening reactions of donor-acceptor cyclopropanes with 1,3-cyclodiones have been established for the synthesis of enantioenriched γ-hydroxybutyric acid derivatives in the presence of Cu(ii)/trisoxazoline catalyst. These reactions offered the desired products in 70% to 93% yields with 79% to 99% enantiomeric excesses.

Lewis acid-catalyzed [3 + 2] annulations of oxindole based spirocyclic donor-acceptor cyclopropanes with ynamides.

[3 + 2] annulations of oxindole based spirocyclic donor-acceptor cyclopropanes and ynamides catalyzed by copper triflate have been developed for the synthesis of biologically important spirocyclopenteneoxindoles. These reactions tolerated a wide scope of substrates and provided the desired products in good to high yields (up to 90%) with up to >40 : 1 diastereoselectivities under mild conditions.

Catalyst-free [3 + 2] cyclization of dihydroisoquinoline imines and isatin-derived Morita-Baylis-Hillman carbonates via 1,5-electrocyclization: synthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline-fused spirooxindoles.

We have developed a mild and scalable catalyst-free [3 + 2] cyclization of dihydroisoquinolines and isatin-derived Morita-Baylis-Hillman carbonates. The incorporation of tetrahydroisoquinoline and spirooxindole frameworks could be realized affording highly functionalized heterocycles in moderate to excellent yields with good diastereocontrols (up to 92% yields, >20 : 1 dr). The extension of this method to dihydro-β-carbolines has also been achieved.