The present disclosure pertains to peptide nucleic acid (PNA) monomers and oligomers, as well as methods and compositions useful for the preparation of PNA monomer precursors (e.g. PNA Monomer Esters, Backbone Esters and Backbone Ester Acid Salts, as described below) that can be used to prepare PNA monomers wherein said PNA monomers can be used to prepare said PNA oligomers. In some embodiments, the disclosure features sulfonic acid salts of Backbone Ester compounds, which sulfonic acid salts generally tend to be crystalline and can be obtained in reasonably good yield, often without requiring any chromatographic purification of the reaction product of the Backbone Ester synthesis reaction. This disclosure also pertains to novel methods for the synthesis of said Backbone Ester compounds and novel methods for the formation of the related sulfonic acid salts. Exemplary ester groups include, but are not limited to, 2,2,2-trichloroethy-(TCE), 2,2,2-tribromoethyl-(TBE), 2-iodoethyl-groups (2-IE) and 2-bromoethyl-(2-BrE) as the ester group. These particular ester groups can be removed under conditions where both Boc and Fmoc protected amine groups are stable.

The present application relates to extracting a plurality of compounds from a traditional Chinese medicine, or synthesizing a compound capable of promoting nucleic acid delivery, and utilizing the extracted compound, or a plurality of combinations to promote absorption and entry of a nucleic acid such as sRNA into a target cell, and to facilitate the entry of a nucleic acid into a target site in a subject in need thereof

Provided is a method for preparing bencaosome comprising the steps of: mixing one or more lipid components with any one or more of the following: nucleic acid, compound and mancromolecules, and treating the obtained mixture by heating. Also provided is a method for extracting decoctosome from plants comprising the steps of: preparing an extract of the plant with a solvent; performing differential centrifugation to the extract; resuspending the precipitates with an aqueous solution to provide the decoctosome.

The invention relates to a process for preparation of the compound 3-methyl-5-benzyloxy-2-(4-benzyloxyphenyl)-1H-indole 5, an intermediate for the synthesis of bazedoxifene and bazedoxifene acetate. ##STR00001##

The invention relates to a process for preparation of the compound 3-methyl-5-benzyloxy-2-(4-benzyloxyphenyl)-1H-indole 5, an intermediate for the synthesis of bazedoxifene and bazedoxifene acetate. ##STR00001##

This document describes biochemical pathways for producing a difunctional product having an odd number of carbon atoms in vitro or in a recombinant host, or salts or derivatives thereof, by forming two terminal functional groups selected from carboxyl, amine, formyl, and hydroxyl groups in an aliphatic carbon chain backbone having an odd number of carbon atoms synthesized from (i) acetyl-CoA and propanedioyl-CoA via one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation or (ii) propanedioyl-[acp] via one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation. The biochemical pathways and metabolic engineering and cultivation strategies described herein rely on enzymes or homologs accepting methyl ester shielded aliphatic carbon chain backbones and maintaining the methyl ester shield for at least one further enzymatic step following one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation.

This document describes biochemical pathways for producing a difunctional product having an odd number of carbon atoms in vitro or in a recombinant host, or salts or derivatives thereof, by forming two terminal functional groups selected from carboxyl, amine, formyl, and hydroxyl groups in an aliphatic carbon chain backbone having an odd number of carbon atoms synthesized from (i) acetyl-CoA and propanedioyl-CoA via one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation or (ii) propanedioyl-[acp] via one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation. The biochemical pathways and metabolic engineering and cultivation strategies described herein rely on enzymes or homologs accepting methyl ester shielded aliphatic carbon chain backbones and maintaining the methyl ester shield for at least one further enzymatic step following one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation.

Provided is a production method of kakeromycin and a derivative thereof showing an antifungal activity and cytotoxicity and expected as a new antifungal agent or anticancer agent, by chemical synthesis. A production method of a compound represented by the formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein R is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group; and n is 0 or 1, or a salt thereof, including a step of subjecting a compound represented by the formula (2): ##STR00002##
wherein R and n are as defined above, or a salt thereof, to an oxidation reaction.

Provided is a production method of kakeromycin and a derivative thereof showing an antifungal activity and cytotoxicity and expected as a new antifungal agent or anticancer agent, by chemical synthesis. A production method of a compound represented by the formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein R is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group; and n is 0 or 1, or a salt thereof, including a step of subjecting a compound represented by the formula (2): ##STR00002##
wherein R and n are as defined above, or a salt thereof, to an oxidation reaction.

The present invention relates to compounds and methods useful for selectively modulating mTORC1 activity.