5-Oxobenzo[e][1,4]diazepine-3-carboxamides were synthesized by sequential Ugi reaction-Staudinger/aza-Wittig cyclization. The pseudopeptidic backbone of the new benzodiazepine derivatives superimposed well with type I, I', II, and II' beta-turn motifs. The intermediate Ugi adducts were characterized as two conformers of the enol form by the correlation between (1)H NMR spectra and X-ray diffraction structures of model compounds.

Cyclohexyl or benzyl isocyanide, benzoyl-, or 4-methoxybenzoylformic acid and semicarbazones underwent Ugi reactions in methanol for 3 days to give the Ugi adducts, which were then stirred with sodium ethoxide in ethanol for 12 h to give 3-hydroxy-6-oxo[1,2,4]triazin-1-yl alaninamides. The X-ray diffraction structure of the first example showed the tautomer having the proton in the O2 atom that was fixed in the crystal by packing in dimers with a H-bond distance of 1.9 A. Selected [1,2,4]triazines were treated with diazomethane for 12 h to get the O-methyl derivatives. Both hydroxy and O-methyl derivatives obtained by this method constitute a new class of pseudopeptidic [1,2,4]triazines composed of two different amino acids, arylglycine and alanine derivatives, in which the N-terminal arylglycine and the peptidic amide nitrogen atoms are bonded through a urea moiety.

[4,3-b]pyrrol-4(1H)ones were obtained by the Fischer-Fink reaction starting from 4-chloro-3-formylcoumarin and different a-amino derivatives (e.g. glycinonitriles, ethyl glycinates and a-amino ketones). In general limitations to the synthetic method arise when a-amino derivatives with very reactive functions were used (e.g. carboxaldehyde groups or their acetal derivatives) leading to Knorr type reactions, or when they contain relatively inactive methylenes (e.g. carboxamide groups) which failed to complete the cyclization process.

The synthesis of 3‐substituted 5‐arylisoxazoles from oximes of α,β‐unsaturated ketones is studied. The formation of the isoxazole derivatives takes place by cyclization of oximes in the presence of iodine and potassium iodide. The presence of isoxazoline is detected. On the basis of the results a plausible mechanism is suggested.

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ZCCHC9 is a human nuclear protein with sequence homology to yeast Air1p/Air2p proteins which are RNA-binding subunits of the Trf4/Air2/Mtr4 polyadenylation (TRAMP) complex involved in nuclear RNA quality control and degradation in yeast. The ZCCHC9 protein contains four retroviral-type zinc knuckle motifs. Here, we report the NMR spectral assignment of the zinc knuckle region of ZCCHC9. These data will allow performing NMR structural and RNA-binding studies of ZCCHC9 with the aim to investigate its role in the RNA quality control in human.

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