The present invention relates to methods and intermediates for synthesizing 2-deoxy-2,2-difluorotetrahydrouridine compounds.

The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of associative polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), optionally containing surfactants, biocidal agents and/or oxidants, which can provide a cleaning benefit and surface protection to treated articles including reduced soiling tendency, reduced cleaning effort and improved soil repellancy, as well as providing bacteriostatic properties to treated surfaces that thereby gain resistance to water, environmental exposure and microbial challenge. Treatment means and compositions are provided that employ associative polyelectrolyte complexes formed by combining a water soluble cationic first polyelectrolyte with a water soluble second polyelectrolyte bearing groups of opposite charge to the first polyelectrolyte under suitable mixing conditions and at least one oxidant selected from the group: alkaline metal salts and/or alkaline earth metal salts of hypochlorous acid, hypochlorous acid, solubilized chlorine, any source of free chlorine, acidic sodium chlorite, active chlorine generating compound and any combinations or mixtures thereof. Also provided are means to form stable associative polyelectrolyte complexes with at least one oxidant in aqueous solutions having R values from about 0.10 to 20.

The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of associative polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), optionally containing surfactants, biocidal agents and/or oxidants, which can provide a cleaning benefit and surface protection to treated articles including reduced soiling tendency, reduced cleaning effort and improved soil repellancy, as well as providing bacteriostatic properties to treated surfaces that thereby gain resistance to water, environmental exposure and microbial challenge. Treatment means and compositions are provided that employ associative polyelectrolyte complexes formed by combining a water soluble cationic first polyelectrolyte with a water soluble second polyelectrolyte bearing groups of opposite charge to the first polyelectrolyte under suitable mixing conditions and at least one oxidant selected from the group: alkaline metal salts and/or alkaline earth metal salts of hypochlorous acid, hypochlorous acid, solubilized chlorine, any source of free chlorine, acidic sodium chlorite, active chlorine generating compound and any combinations or mixtures thereof. Also provided are means to form stable associative polyelectrolyte complexes with at least one oxidant in aqueous solutions having R values from about 0.10 to 20.

Provided herein are cinchonium betaine catalysts and methods of promoting asymmetric imine isomerization reactions using the same.

Provided herein are cinchonium betaine catalysts and methods of promoting asymmetric imine isomerization reactions using the same.

A method is described for chiral resolution of chiral species contained in a liquid placed in a cell formed by an inner wall and an outer wall surrounding the inner wall over at least a portion of the inner wall, where each of the outer and inner walls are a solid of revolution about a longitudinal axis and are coaxial to one another, where the method comprises rotating the outer wall in one direction of rotation with respect to the inner wall for generating a Taylor-Couette flow within the liquid; collecting at least one of the chiral species.

A method is described for chiral resolution of chiral species contained in a liquid placed in a cell formed by an inner wall and an outer wall surrounding the inner wall over at least a portion of the inner wall, where each of the outer and inner walls are a solid of revolution about a longitudinal axis and are coaxial to one another, where the method comprises rotating the outer wall in one direction of rotation with respect to the inner wall for generating a Taylor-Couette flow within the liquid; collecting at least one of the chiral species.

Provided is a method for producing an optically active substance, the method including an asymmetric induction, wherein an asymmetry inducer is allowed to act on a chiral molecule having a half-life of enantiomeric excess of shorter than 10 hours, thereby increasing abundance of one enantiomer of the chiral molecule. According to this method, one enantiomer of a chiral molecule that is susceptible to racemization can be selectively and efficiently obtained.

Provided is a method for producing an optically active substance, the method including an asymmetric induction, wherein an asymmetry inducer is allowed to act on a chiral molecule having a half-life of enantiomeric excess of shorter than 10 hours, thereby increasing abundance of one enantiomer of the chiral molecule. According to this method, one enantiomer of a chiral molecule that is susceptible to racemization can be selectively and efficiently obtained.

A method is provided to conveniently separate racemic (3R,4S)-3-acetamido-4-allyl-N-(tert-butyl)pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide and (3S,4R)-3-acetamido-4-allyl-N-(tert-butyl)pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide using selective crystallization with chiral carboxylic acids.