Peizhi Zhang

Room-Temperature Synthesis of Pyrazoles, Diazepines, β-Enaminones, and β-Enamino Esters Using Silica-Supported Sulfuric Acid as a Reusable Catalyst Under Solvent-Free Conditions

Abstract Silica-supported sulfuric acid (H2SO4·SiO2) has been utilized as a heterogeneous recyclable catalyst for a highly efficient regio- and chemoselective condensation of hydrazines/hydrazides, diamines, and primary amines with various β-dicarbonyl compounds at room temperature to afford pyrazoles, diazepines, and β-enaminones/β-enamino esters under solvent-free conditions within 5–15 min.

Finding new elicitors that induce resistance in rice to the white-backed planthopper Sogatella furcifera.

Herein we report a new way to identify chemical elicitors that induce resistance in rice to herbivores. Using this method, by quantifying the induction of chemicals for GUS activity in a specific screening system that we established previously, 5 candidate elicitors were selected from the 29 designed and synthesized phenoxyalkanoic acid derivatives. Bioassays confirmed that these candidate elicitors could induce plant defense and then repel feeding of white-backed planthopper Sogatella furcifera.