Christian V. Stevens

TL;DR: The emulsion stability was found to be strongly correlated with the lipid phase composition and the type of salts, and it is hypothesized that a combination of Ostwald ripening and coalescence due to an IFT increase and dehydration was responsible for the instability of the emulsions containing the more polar oregano EO and carvacrol in the presence of salt.

TL;DR: A variety of cyclopropylphosphonates were prepared in moderate to good yields by Michael Induced Ring Closure of trialkyl phosphites with the corresponding β-bromoalkylidene cyanoacetates and malonates as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In vitro anti-invasive activity data point towards an active conformation for chalcones more resembling their s-trans geometry than the s-cis counterpart.

TL;DR: In this article, a variety of hydrogen cyanide adducts of β-chloroaldimines using acetone cyanohydrin were prepared, and the reactive behavior of these α-amino-γ-chloronitriles towards bases was investigated with the aim to generate 1-aminocyclopropanecarbonitrile, which are precursors for the potentially plant growth regulating 1-AMINOCOPPARANecarboxylic acids.

TL;DR: A three-step synthesis of benzo[c]thiophenes is presented in which the key transformation is the gold-catalyzed 5-exo-dig migratory cycloisomerization of a diallyl thioacetal.