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[reaction: see text] Palladium acetate was supported on amorphous silica with the aid of an ionic liquid, [bmim]PF(6). The immobilized catalyst was highly efficient in promoting the Mizoroki-Heck reaction without a ligand in n-dodecane for at least six reuses, in 89 approximately 98% yields. The TON and TOF reached 68 400 and 8000, respectively.

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The naturally occurring guaianolides, namely mokko lactone (1), dehydrocostus lactone (2), eremanthin (3), and related guaianolides, 16, 17, 21, 22, 28-31, 33, 36, 37, and 39, have been synthesized starting from l-alpha-santonin in an effort to examine their structure-activity relationship as inhibitors of the killing function of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and the induction of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). It was observed during the present study that the guaianolides possessing an alpha-methylene gamma-lactone moiety, i.e., 2, 3, 30, 33, 37, and 39, exhibited significant inhibitory activity toward the killing function of CTL and the induction of ICAM-1.

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