Elevation of intracellular calcium by muscarinic receptor activation induces a block of voltage-activated rat ether-à-go-go channels in a stably transfected cell line.

We have studied the properties of r-eag voltage-activated potassium channels in a stably transfected human embryonic kidney cell line. It was found that r-eag channels are rapidly and reversibly inhibited by a rise in intracellular calcium from 30 to 300 nM. The inhibition does not appear to depend on the activity of calcium-dependent kinases and phosphatases. The effect of calcium on r-eag channel activity was studied in inside-out membrane patches. Calcium inhibited r-eag channel activity with a mean IC50 of 67 nM. Activation of muscarinic receptors, generating calcium oscillations in the transfected cells, induced a synchronous inhibition of r-eag mediated outward currents. This shows that calcium can mediate r-eag current inhibition following muscarinic receptor activation. The data indicate that r-eag channels are calcium-inhibitable voltage-activated potassium channels.

Catalyzed addition of acid chlorides to alkynes by unmodified nano-powder magnetite: synthesis of chlorovinyl ketones, furans, and related cyclopentenone derivatives

Inexpensive and commercially available nano-powder magnetite is an excellent catalyst for the addition of acid chlorides to internal and terminal alkynes, yielding the corresponding chlorovinyl ketones in good yields. The process has been applied to the synthesis of 5-chloro-4-arylcyclopent-2-enones, 3-aryl-1H-cyclopenta[a]naphthalen-1-ones, and (E)-3-alkylidene-2,3-dihydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]naphthalen-1-ones, just by changing the nature of the starting acid chloride or the alkyne. All tested processes elapse with an acceptable or excellent regio- and stereo-selectivity. Moreover, the use of the iridium impregnated on magnetite catalyst permits the integration of the chloroacylation process with a second dehydrochlorination–annulation process to yield, in one-pot, 1-aryl-2,4-dialkylfurans in good yields, independently of the nature of the starting reagents, and including the heteroaromatic ones.

Osmium Catalyst for the Borrowing Hydrogen Methodology: α-Alkylation of Arylacetonitriles and Methyl Ketones

Complex [Os(η6-p-cymene)(OH)(IPr)]OTf is an efficient catalyst precursor for the α-alkylation of arylacetonitriles and methyl ketones with alcohols, which works with turnover frequencies between 675 and 176 h–1 for nitriles and between 194 and 28 h–1 for ketones.

Enantioselective addition of aryl ketones and acetone to nitroalkenes organocatalyzed by carbamate-monoprotected cyclohexa-1,2-diamines

Enantiomerically pure carbamate-monoprotected trans-cyclohexane-1,2-diamines are used as chiral organocatalysts for the addition of aryl ketones and acetone to nitroalkenes to give enantioenriched β-substituted γ-nitroketones. The reaction was performed in the presence of 3,4-dimethoxybenzoic acid as an additive, in chloroform as the solvent at room temperature, achieving enantioselectivities up to 96%. Theoretical calculations are used to justify the observed sense of the stereoinduction.

Ether lipids in deep sea and swamp sediments

Methanogen ether lipids have been quantified in sediments from a Florida swamp and the Atlantic ocean. Swamp cores containing acyclic and monocyclic isopranyl ethers are clearly differentiated from deep sea sediments which also contain bicyclic compounds. A concentration maximum near the bottom of the sulfate reducing zone in deep sea sediments may reflect a biogeochemical system in which methanogenesis and sulfate reduction are coupled by the process of methane oxidation. Lipid diagenesis is evident in the deep sea sediments. Species zonation, possibly caused by oxygen sensitivity, is detected in the relative lipid abundances in swamp sediments.

Ether, the all inspiring. A study and a reconcilement.

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Matter, ether, and motion; the factors and relations of physical science

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On the action of voltaic electricity on alcohol, ether, and aqueous solutions.

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Radio control. Hearings before the Committee on interstate commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 1 and S. 1754, bills reaffirming the use of the ether for radiocommunication or otherwise to be the inalienable possession of the people of the United States and their government, providing for the regulation of radiocommunication, and for other purposes.

Hearings held Jan. 8.-Mar. 2, 1926.

Ketones: acetone, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK).

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Ether anesthesia in dogs /

Thesis (D.V.M.)--Cornell University, 1907.

Etudes sur l'ether cetipique.

Thesis (doctoral)--