Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 18, Issue 23, 2014

The growing impact of environmental concerns of industrial processes carried out to the development of the socalled “Green Chemistry” approaches. By these technologies, the use of any hazardous substances within the synthesis of chemicals, nutraceuticals or therapeutics, is avoided, and considerable safety and biocompatibility advantages are raised. Among the different products prepared by Green Chemist Read More

Lysophospholipids (LPLs), including glycerolysophospholipids and lysosphingolipids, constitute a group of important lipid mediators. What is more, dietary LPLs have a positive impact towards health, apparently without meaningful side effects. Since the total chemical synthesis of fully active, enantiomerically pure LPLs is a very complicated challenge, the present review is devoted to biotransformations based on the action of Read More

The “diseases of affluence” are defined as particular medical conditions determined by an increasing wealth in a society and to the consequent increase in life expectancy and change in lifestyle. Unhealthy dietary habits and additional risk factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, poor physical exercise) have been recognized as important triggering agents for the diseases of affluence. Increasing evidence linked a correct dietar Read More

Prebiotics is an exciting concept in human nutrition and digestive function for which many physiological and health claims have already been made. There are only few oligosaccharides like inulin, trans galacto-oligosaccharides and lactulose which fulfil all the three strict criteria of prebiotics. The interest in the present prebiotic research has been to justify the health claims of new and unexplored experimental materials using thes Read More

β-Ketosulfones are an important class of oxygen-containing extremely versatile compounds in organic chemistry. They attract the interest of chemists due to their interesting biological properties and synthetic applications on natural products and organic compounds. In this review we summarise the methods of synthesis and also the reactivity of β- ketosulfones with the main focus on the position where the reaction ta Read More

Investigation of polyol synthesis from rapeseed oil as a raw material, which is easily available in EU, is essential for the development of industrial biotechnology in order to meet green chemistry requirements and sustainability goals of polyurethane (PU) consumers. The objective of this research was to develop a green synthetic route for polyol production from rapeseed oil as it is yet a new research area without any def Read More