2,1-Bensoidoxazoles [anthranils]. Synthesis and opening of the isoxazole ring (review)
The present review covers the literature on the synthesis of 2,l-benzoisoxazoles (anthranils) (I), and reactions of this bicyclic system which involve opening of the isoxazole ring. Since a detailed and satisfactorily full review of the chemistry of 2, l-benzoisoxazoles was published in 1967 [96], the main thrust of the present review is to cover the literature of the last twenty years. It has nevertheless been necessary to include earlier publications, especially when these deal with general methods of synthesis of anthranils. t i. Synthesis of 2~l-Benzisoxazoles
Intramolecular nitrene insertion into nitrogen containing rings. Pyrolyses of 3-(1-methyl-2-imidazolyl)- and 3-(1-methyl-5-pyrazolyl)-2,1-benzisoxazole (anthranils)
Die Cyclisierung von 3-(2-Pyridyl)-2,1-benzisoxazol (I) zu (III) uber die Nitren-Zwischenstufe (II) wird auf ahnliche Verbindungen ubertragen.
The denial of death and the out-of-the-body experience
The out-of-the-body experience is a phenomenon which continues to be reported and continues to be interpreted in many ways. It seems, however, that more attention is given to finding a spiritual base for this occurrence than a psychological understanding of it. This paper considers the psychological forces of denial as a suitable explanation for the OBE and suggests that these experiences may be understood as hallucinations caused by traumatic events rather than genuine previews of the afterlife. That is: “Do these people transcend their bodies and also time and space to acquire these experiences, or could it be that nothing has been transcended at all save the need to deny death and thus transcend its feared consequence, which is ‘not being’?”