A sensitive and efficient method was developed for the simultaneous determination of eight synthetic dyes (Chrysoidin, Auramine O, Sudan(I–IV), Para Red, and Rhodamine B) in bean and meat products using high-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. A simple extraction procedure using acetonitrile has been applied for the extraction of these dyes from spiked bean and meat samples. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a Waters XTerra C₁₈ column (2.1 × 150 mm, 5 μm) with a multistep gradient elution. Detection and quantification were performed using mass spectrometry in multiple reaction monitoring mode. Linear calibrations were obtained with correlation coefficients R² > 0.99. The limits of detection and quantification for the eight dyes were in the ranges of 0.03–0.75 and 0.1–2.0 μg/kg depending on matrices, respectively. The recoveries of these dyes in different food matrices were between 71.2 and 116.9% with relative standard deviations <15.2%, suggesting that the developed method is promising for the accurate quantification of the eight dyes at trace levels in bean and meat products.

A series of 4-anilino-6-phenylpyrimidines containing urea moiety were synthesized and the structures of all products were confirmed by ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR and HRMS. The antiproliferative activities of these compounds were evaluated against three human tumor cell lines (MGC-803, MCF-7 and EC-109) by applying the MTT assay method. compounds 4a, 4b and 6a showed the most effective activity, among which, 6a was more cytotoxic than 5-fluorouracil against all tested human cancer cell lines with IC₅₀ values ranging from 1.80 to 2.72 µmol·L⁻¹.

A series of new andrographolide C-glycoside derivatives were synthesized by a facile route. The new compounds showed higher potency than the parent andrographolide evaluated as α-glycosidase inhibitors in the preliminary study.

The separation of rac-o-chloromandelic acid 1 with enantiopure aryloxypropylamine via diastereomeric salt formation was investigated. (R)-o-chloromandelic acid (R)-1, a key intermediate for the antithrombotic agent clopidogrel, was obtained in 65% yield and 98% ee by Dutch resolution of rac-1 with (S)-2-hydroxyl-3-(p-chlorophenoxy) propylamine (S)-5 as resolving agent and (S)-2-hydroxyl-3-(o-nitrophenoxy) propylamine (S)-4 as nucleation inhibitor. Chirality 24:1013–1017, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

In this study, a novel route to (−)-limonidilactone analogues 10, 11 by way of stereoselective reaction of andrographolide (5) from 8, 9 was reported. The anti-tumor and α-glucosidsae inhibition activities of some synthetic compounds were screened.

Complexations between three oridonin derivatives and β-cyclodextrin (βCD) were studied by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method. Job's plots for complexes were depicted by ¹H NMR spectra chemical shifts, which proved the 1:1 stoichiometry inclusion complex formation between each derivative and βCD. Two-dimensional rotating frame overhauser effect spectroscopy (2D ROESY) support the above conclusion and also proved that ring A of each oridonin derivative deeply enters into hydrophobic cavity from the wider rim and the other parts are outside the cavity. Apparent formation constants (K_a) of complexes between three oridonin derivatives and two CDs are calculated according to Scott's equation. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.