Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of sulfonamides which are aspartyl protease inhibitors. In one embodiment, this invention relates to a novel class of HIV aspartyl protease inhibitors characterized by specific structural and physicochemical features. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The compounds and pharmaceutical compositions of this invention are particularly well suited for inhibiting HIV-1 and HIV-2 protease activity and consequently, may be advantageously used as anti-viral agents against the HIV-1 and HIV-2 viruses. This invention also relates to methods for inhibiting the activity of HIV aspartyl protease using the compounds of this invention and methods for screening compounds for anti-HIV activity.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel class of cyanine dyes that are functionalized with a linker moiety that facilitates their conjugation to other species. Also provided are conjugates of the dyes, methods of using the dyes and their conjugates and kits including the dyes and their conjugates.

Abstract: The present invention concerns nitrogenated derivatives of narciclasine and pancratistatin of the following general formula (I) as well their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The present invention also concerns the use of these compounds in cancer therapy as well as a method for their preparation.

Abstract: The invention is directed to 4,5-dihydro-(1H)-pyrazole (pyrazoline) derivatives as cannabinoid CB1 receptor modulators, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, to methods for their syntheses, to methods for preparing novel intermediates useful for their syntheses, and to methods for preparing compositions. The invention also relates to the uses of compounds and compositions administered to patients to achieve a therapeutic effect in multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, pain including chronic pain, neuropathic pain, acute pain and inflammatory pain, osteoporosis, appetite disorders, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, Tourette's syndrome, cerebral ischaemia, emesis, nausea, and gastrointestinal disorders. Compounds of the present disclosure are directed to formula (I): wherein the substituents have the definitions given in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel indole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of disorders and conditions modulated by the androgen receptor.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically effective 2,4,5-trisubstituted imidazole compounds, methods of preparing the same, and compositions comprising the compounds alone or in combination with other agents. The present invention further provides for the use of the compounds as anti-microbial agents. The anti-microbial properties of the compounds include anti-bacterial and/or anti-fungal activity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that are sodium channel inhibitors and to their use in the treatment of various disease states, including cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. In particular embodiments, the structure of the compounds is given by Formula (IA) or (IB): as further described herein. The invention also relates to methods for the preparation of the compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.

Abstract: Fluorescent phenyl xanthene dyes are described that comprise any fluorescein, rhodamine or rhodol comprising a particular C9 phenyl ring. One or both of the ortho groups on the lower C9 phenyl ring is ortho substituted with a group selected from alkyl, heteroalkyl, alkoxy, halo, haloalkyl, amino, mercapto, alkylthio, cyano, isocyano, cyanato, mercaptocyanato, nitroso, nitro, azido, sulfeno, sulfinyl, and sulfino. In one embodiment, halo and/or hydroxy groups are used. Optimal dyes contain a lower C9 phenyl ring in which both ortho groups are the same and the lower ring exhibits some form a symmetry relative to an imaginary axis running from the phenyl rings point of attachment to the remainder of the xanthene dye through a point para to the point of attachment. The phenyl xanthene dyes may be activated. Furthermore, the phenyl xanthene dyes may be conjugated to one or more substances including other dyes.

Abstract: This invention relates to bis-azo colorants for use as bluing agents, laundry care compositions comprising bis-azo colorants that may serve as bluing agents, processes for making such bluing agents and laundry care compositions and methods of using the same. The bluing agents are generally comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. These bluing agents are advantageous in providing a whitening effect to fabrics, while not building up over time and causing undesirable blue discoloration to the treated fabrics.

Abstract: The invention relates to sphingosine derivative compounds, like D-erythro-sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), to be used as immunomodulators in a microbicidal treatment of infections derived from bacteria and specifically Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Such compounds are characterized in that they stimulate macrophagic Phospholipase D (PLD) (FIG. 1). The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing sphingosine derivative compounds and diagnostic methods for the preparation thereof. Further objects of the invention are methods of inducing or restoring the microbicidal activity in vitro of macrophages for monitoring the efficiency of phagocytosis and degradation processes performed by the same and assay methods suitable to evaluate therapeutic effectiveness of candidate microbicides.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a process for preparing acrolein by dehydration of glycerol in the presence of a catalyst system comprising oxygen, phosphorus and at least one metal chosen from vanadium, boron or aluminium. The process is preferably carried out in the gas phase in the presence of oxygen starting from aqueous solutions of glycerol.

Abstract: A compound having the structure formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of using the compounds for treating hypertension.

Abstract: Disclosed is a group of azo quencher compositions useful as fluorescence quenchers having the general structure of formula 1, methods of making or using the compositions, and kits comprising the composition.

Abstract: New polymorphs of Eltrombopag and Eltrombopag ethanolamine salt have been obtained and characterized. These polymorphs and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are useful, for example, in treating conditions leading to thrombocytopenia.

Abstract: Organic compounds containing at least one site of ethylenic unsaturation are catalytically hydrocyanated and the medium of hydrocyanation is separated into desired linear organic compounds containing at least one nitrile function, e.g., 3-pentenenitrile, and undesired nitrile by-products, e.g., methylglutaronitrile, and the undesired nitrile by-products are hydrodenitrogenated into ammonia and at least one hydrocarbon compound under an absolute hydrogen pressure ranging from 0.1 to 10 MPa at a temperature ranging from 200° to 500° C. and in the presence of a hydrodenitrogenation catalyst.

Abstract: Methods for the preparation of the high intensity sweetener, monatin, 3-(1-amino-1,3-dicarboxy-3-hydroxy-but-4-yl)indole, its salts and internal condensation products thereof, including methods applicable to the large-scale production of monatin are described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to organic molecules capable of modulating tyrosine kinase signal transduction in order to regulate, modulate and/or inhibit abnormal cell proliferation.

Abstract: The synthesis of purified functionalized organosilicon compounds containing at least one active azo group having formula (I): [(G0)3SiO1/2]m[(G0)2SiO2/2]n[G0SiO3/2]o[SiO4/2]p[(G2)a(G1)a?(Z—CO—HN?NH—CO-A)SiO(3-a-a?)/2] entails providing at least one hydrazino (—HN—NH—) precursor (II) of the compound (I) and oxidizing the precursor (II) into an azo group specific to the compound (I) with the aid of an oxidizing system comprising at least one oxidant (Ox) and at least one base (B), wherein 1) Ox is selected from among the oxidants that can oxidize a hydrazine function into an azo function, with or without the exclusion of N-bromosuccinimide (NBS), 2) and/or Ox (optionally B) is/are employed in stoichiometric quantities in relation to the precursor (II); 3) and/or the organosilicon compounds (I) thus prepared are subjected to a purification post-treatment to eliminate any unwanted residues of the base B used, with the proviso that, when NBS is not excluded, characteristic (1) is combined with characteristic (2) a

Abstract: To provide a novel method for producing an isothiocyanate compound having a carboxyl group(s) from the corresponding amino compound having a carboxyl group(s). A method for producing an isothiocyanate compound which has a carboxyl group(s) and is represented by the formula (2). And the method comprises reacting an amino compound which has a carboxyl group(s) and is represented by the formula (1) (wherein A is e.g. a C6-14 aromatic hydrocarbon group or a C1-12 saturated hydrocarbon group, and B is e.g. a single bond, a C6-14 aromatic hydrocarbon group or a C1-12 saturated hydrocarbon group), in a solvent, with carbon disulfide (CS2) and then with a halogen as a simple substance.

Abstract: The present invention discloses processes for producing substituted pyrrole compounds, such as 2,5-disubstituted pyrroles. Synthetic processes which directly convert substituted furan compounds to substituted pyrrole compounds, via a reaction of the substituted furan compound with ammonia and/or an ammonium salt in the presence of a catalyst, also are described.