Abstract: There is provided a process for the reduction of one or more amide moieties in a compound comprising contacting the compound with hydrogen gas and a transition metal catalyst in the presence or absence of a base under conditions for the reduction an amide bond. The presently described processes can be performed at low catalyst loading using relatively mild temperature and pressures, and optionally, in the presence or absence of a base or high catalyst loadings using low temperatures and pressures and high loadings of base to effect dynamic kinetic resolution of achiral amides.

Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds of the Formula (I) that stimulate rates of glucose oxidation in myocardial cells. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds capable of stimulation of glucose oxidation, methods for increasing glucose oxidation rates in myocardial cells, and methods of treatment of myocardial ischemia wherein W is C1–C6 alkyl, halogen, or aryl; Cyc is C3 or C4 cycloalkyl; p is 0–3 for Cyc being C4 cycloalkyl and p=0–2 for Cyc being C3 cycloalkyl; Y is O, S, or NR, where R?H, alkyl or aryl; X is O, S, NR, or CR3R4; Z is H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or (cyclo)alkylcarbonyl; R1 is H, alkyl, aryl or O; R2 is H, alkyl or aryl; R3 and R4 are, independently, H, alkyl or aryl; and n is an integer from 1 to 10; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or prodrug thereof.