A highly efficient visible-light-promoted metal-free aerobic hydroxyazidation of alkenes has been developed. This protocol was operationally simple with broad substrate scope using relatively simple and readily available starting materials, such as alkenes and air, to construct valuable β-azido alcohols which are significant building blocks to build N-containing compounds. The distinct possible mechanisms were proposed via the generation of azido radical and alkene radical cation.

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The objective of the present study was to perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for growth curve parameters using nonlinear models that fit original weight–age records. In this study, data from 808 Chinese Simmental beef cattle that were weighed at 0, 6, 12, and 18 months of age were used to fit the growth curve. The Gompertz model showed the highest coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.954). The parameters’ mature body weight (A), time-scale parameter (b), and maturity rate (K) were treated as phenotypes for single-trait GWAS and multi-trait GWAS. In total, 9, 49, and 7 significant SNPs associated with A, b, and K were identified by single-trait GWAS; 22 significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified by multi-trait GWAS. Among them, we observed several candidate genes, including PLIN3, KCNS3, TMCO1, PRKAG3, ANGPTL2, IGF-1, SHISA9, and STK3, which were previously reported to associate with growth and development. Further research for these candidate genes may be useful for exploring the full genetic architecture underlying growth and development traits in livestock.

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An efficient visible light promoted metal-free dihydroxylation of styrenes with water and dioxygen has been developed for the construction of vicinal alcohols. The protocol was operationally simple with a broad substrate scope. The mechanistic studies demonstrated that one of the hydroxyl groups came from water and the other one came from molecular oxygen. Additionally, the β-alkyoxy alcohols could also be obtained using a similar strategy.

Cite this paper: Yang, B.; Ren, X.; Shen, X.; Li, T.; LuABSTRACT A novel difunctionalization of unactivated alkenes has been reported via visible light-promoted three-component carboazidation using TMSN 3 and acrylonitrile as partners without any stoichiometric oxidants. This protocol is operationally simple for straightforward access to azido derivatives with good functional group tolerance from readily available starting materials. A facile azido radical-catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition reaction of vinylcyclopropane with acrylonitrile was also observed to deliver a multi-substituted cyclopentane.Yang et al. mol/L), alkene (0.3 mmol), Michael acceptor (6.0 equiv.), TMSN 3 (2 equiv.), MeOH (3 equiv.), r.t., 8 W blue LEDs. Scheme 2 Further derivatizationswith acrylonitrile was observed to deliver a substituted cyclo-Chin.

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