Abstract: Salts of kukoamine B, their preparation method and their pharmaceutical use in preparation of drugs for preventing and treating sepsis. Experiments indicate that salts of kukoamine B have a good effect on antagonizing the key factors inducing sepsis, and can be used in the preparation of drugs for preventing and treating sepsis. Under the current circumstances of the lack of effective measures for the treatment of sepsis in clinical practice, the medicinal formulations, which comprise the salts of kukoamine B, pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or diluent, provide a new approach for the prevention and treatment of sepsis.

Abstract: A 5-aminolevulinic acid salt which is useful in fields of microorganisms, fermentation, animals, medicaments, plants and the like; a process for producing the same; a medical composition comprising the same; and a plant activator composition comprising the same.

Abstract: A process is provided for obtaining high-purity valine in high yield by a simple method using an inexpensive precipitant of p-isopropylbenzene sulfonic acid or a water-soluble salt thereof.

Abstract: Precursors and methods for the synthesis of mono- and difunctionalized acetylenes are described. The invention includes novel tricoordinate iodonium transfer reagents and novel alkynyldi(phenyliodonium) salts, both of which are precursors for the functionalized acetylenes. The iodonium transfer reagents take the general form of mixed iodonium sulfonates PhI.sup.+ (X)OSO.sub.2 R.sub.f, where X may be OAc, NHAc, NCO, or CN. These mixed iodonium sulfonates are produced by reaction of iodosobenzene with certain substituted trimethylsilanes.To make the alkynyldi(phenyliodonium) salt PhI.sup.+ C.tbd.CI.sup.+ Ph.cndot.2 R.sub.f SO.sub.3.sup.-,a mixed iodonium sulfonate is reacted with a bistin acetylene of the kind R'.sub.3 SnC.tbd.CSnR".sub.3. Alternatively, the reaction may be performed with disubstituted tin diacetylenes to produce PhI.sup.+ C.tbd.C-C.tbd.CI.sup.+ Ph.cndot.2 R.sub.f SO.sub.3.sup.- to produce a dialkynyldi(phenyliodonium) salt.

Abstract: Sulphonic acids of bis-styrylbiphenyls, which are useful optical brighteners, are obtained in good yields in a simple manner by reacting styrene compounds with 4,4'-dibromobiphenyl-3,3'-disulphonic acids or their salts in the presence of bases and palladium catalysts.The bis-stilbene compounds have the formula: ##STR1## where at least one of the rings A or B contains a sulfonic acid group.

Abstract: The quaternary ammonium monomers of this invention have the formula ##STR1## wherein R is an ethylenically unsaturated organic groupR.sup.1 is a linear C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl group, optionally hydroxy substitutedX is chlorine, bromine or iodineY.crclbar. is a surfactant anion.The epoxides derivable from the halohydrin of Formula (I) are other monomers of this invention.The monomers are soluble in common organic solvents and comonomers. The invention is also directed to addition polymers of these monomers and to methods of producing both the monomers and the polymers. The halohydrin monomers and the polymers are stable at acid pH values, although capable of reacting with materials reactive with the hydroxyl and/or halide groups. Upon heating, they are self-reactive and can become cross-linked. At alkaline pH values they become self-reactive; the polymers crosslink slowly even at room temperature, with a crosslinking rate increasing rapidly with temperature.