Abstract: This invention is directed to asymmetric synthesis of funapide, which is useful for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions, such as pain.

Abstract: This invention is directed to asymmetric synthesis of funapide, which is useful for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions, such as pain.

Abstract: Diazomethane is produced in a continuous process with little or no explosion hazard, by dissolving an N-methyl-N-nitroso amine in a mixture of a water-miscible organic solvent that dissolves the N-methyl-N-nitroso amine and a water-immiscible organic solvent that dissolves diazomethane, and combining a stream of this solution with a stream of an aqueous inorganic base, allowing the aqueous and organic phases to settle after a suitable residence time, and phase separating the phases, all on a continuous basis. When using N-methyl-N-nitrosourea as the amine, the diazomethane process is preceded by a continuous nitrosation process involving combining aqueous solutions of methyl urea and a nitrite salt with an organic solution of a mineral or organic acid, the solvent in the organic solution being a mixture of the two organic solvents referred to above, allowing the aqueous and organic phases to settle after a suitable residence time, and phase separating the phases, all on a continuous basis.

Abstract: A novel polyphenylene resin is formed by the polycyclotrimerization of vinylethynylbenzene, diethynylbenzene and phenylacetylene. Polymerization is carried out under conditions which result in the retention of unreacted vinyl groups from the vinylethynylbenzene component, which are then susceptible to crosslinking. The polymer is useful in the formation of high-performance carbon--carbon composites, producing an unusually high char yield with advantageous handling and processing characteristics.

Abstract: A novel resin is formed by the copolymerization of vinylethynylbenzene and diethynylbenzene. Polymerization is carried out under conditions which result in the retention of both unreacted vinyl groups from the vinylethynylbenzene component and unreacted ethynyl groups from the diethynyl component, both of which are then susceptible to crosslinking. The polymer is useful in the formation of high-performance carbon-carbon composites, producing an unusually high char yield with advantageous handling and processing characteristics.