Simple and Efficient Aromatic C−H Oxazolination

Aromatic oxazolines are versatile in organic synthesis as directing groups,ligands,and protected carboxylic acids.Developing efficient approaches to oxazoline from an aromatic C−H bond is more desirable compared to the established protocols from carboxylic acid and its equivalents.Herein,a simple and efficient aromatic C−H oxazolination with broad substrate scope is described.By employing this transformation as an enabling step,diversity-oriented synthesis of functionalized arenes and target-oriented synthesis of four drugs were accomplished.Mechanistic experiments suggest that this aromatic oxazolination is an electrophilic aromatic substitution.It is anticipated that this transformation will find applications in aromatic C−H functionalization with oxazoline either as a removable directing group or as a masked carboxylic acid.

Impacts of produced water origin on bacterial community structures of activated sludge

The purpose of this study was to reveal how activated sludge communities respond to influent quality and indigenous communities by treating two produced waters from different origins in a batch reactor in succession. The community shift and compositions were investigated using Polymerase Chain Reaction–denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis（PCR–DGGE） and further16 S ribosomal DNA（r DNA） clone library analysis. The abundance of targeted genes for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon（PAH） degradation, nah Ac/phn Ac and C12O/C23 O, was tracked to define the metabolic ability of the in situ microbial community by Most Probable Number（MPN） PCR. The biosystem performed almost the same for treatment of both produced waters in terms of removals of chemical oxygen demand（COD） and PAHs. Sludge communities were closely associated with the respective influent bacterial communities（similarity 〉 60%）, while one sludge clone library was dominated by the Betaproteobacteria（38%） and Bacteriodetes（30%）and the other was dominated by Gammaproteobacteria（52%）. This suggested that different influent and water quality have an effect on sludge community compositions. In addition, the existence of catabolic genes in sludge was consistent with the potential for degradation of PAHs in the treatment of both produced waters.