Structural effects on the photophysical properties of mono-β-diketonate and bis-β-diketonate EuIII complexes

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 16136-16144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyu Zhu ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
Hongfeng Li ◽  
Wenbin Sun ◽  
Ting Gao ◽  
...  

Two mononuclear and binuclear europium complexes with similar chemical structures show structure-dependent photophysical properties.

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4808
Author(s):  
Nitza Soto ◽  
Karoll Ferrer ◽  
Katy Díaz ◽  
César González ◽  
Lautaro Taborga ◽  
...  

Brassinosteroids are polyhydroxysteroids that are involved in different plants’ biological functions, such as growth, development and resistance to biotic and external stresses. Because of its low abundance in plants, much effort has been dedicated to the synthesis and characterization of brassinosteroids analogs. Herein, we report the synthesis of brassinosteroid 24-nor-5β-cholane type analogs with 23-benzoate function and 22,23-benzoate groups. The synthesis was accomplished with high reaction yields in a four-step synthesis route and using hyodeoxycholic acid as starting material. All synthesized analogs were tested using the rice lamina inclination test to assess their growth-promoting activity and compare it with those obtained for brassinolide, which was used as a positive control. The results indicate that the diasteroisomeric mixture of monobenzoylated derivatives exhibit the highest activity at the lowest tested concentrations (1 × 10−8 and 1 × 10−7 M), being even more active than brassinolide. Therefore, a simple synthetic procedure with high reaction yields that use a very accessible starting material provides brassinosteroid synthetic analogs with promising effects on plant growth. This exploratory study suggests that brassinosteroid analogs with similar chemical structures could be a good alternative to natural brassinosteroids.


2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (18) ◽  
pp. 9826-9839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boddula Rajamouli ◽  
Rachna Devi ◽  
Abhijeet Mohanty ◽  
Venkata Krishnan ◽  
Sivakumar Vaidyanathan

The red light emitting diode (LED) was fabricated by using europium complexes with InGaN LED (395 nm) and shown digital images, corresponding CIE color coordinates (red region) as well as obtained highest quantum yield of the thin film (78.7%).


1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 933-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Buchert ◽  
Jack L. Koenig ◽  
Shi-Qing Wang ◽  
John L. West

In samples of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs), submicron droplets of liquid crystal reside within a polymer matrix. By the use of the cross polarization technique for solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy, the NMR spectrum of the liquid crystal can be obtained without interference from the polymer spectrum, even though the two materials have some similar chemical structures. Both 13C T1 and 13C T1 ρ relaxation experiments were performed on a PDLC system of 5CB in epoxy as a function of 5CB domain size. The 13C T1 relaxation constants and the localized motions they measure showed no significant change over the liquid crystal domain size studied. However, the 13C T1 ρ relaxation constants and the segmental motions of molecules they measure revealed a significant change over the liquid crystal domain size studied. Therefore, the 13C T1 ρ values can be used to determine the change in mobility of the molecular segments of the SCB molecules resulting from increased interaction between the liquid crystal and the polymer matrix and to further understand the importance of the molecular motions of the liquid crystal in the switching phenomenon for PDLC materials.


IUCrJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Yanming Xia ◽  
Yuanfeng Wei ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Shuai Qian ◽  
Jianjun Zhang ◽  
...  

Recently, cocrystallization has been widely employed to tailor physicochemical properties of drugs in the pharmaceutical field. In this study, cocrystallization was applied to separate natural compounds with similar structures. Three flavonoids [baicalein (BAI), quercetin (QUE) and myricetin (MYR)] were used as model compounds. The coformer caffeine (CAF) could form cocrystals with all three flavonoids, namely BAI–CAF (cocrystal 1), QUE–CAF (cocrystal 2) and MYR–CAF (cocrystal 3). After adding CAF to methanol solution containing MYR and QUE (or QUE and BAI), cocrystal 3 (or cocrystal 2) preferentially formed rather than cocrystal 2 (or cocrystal 1), indicating that flavonoid separation could be achieved by competitive cocrystallization. After co-mixing the slurry of two flavonoids with CAF followed by centrifugation, the resolution ratio that could be achieved was 70–80% with purity >90%. Among the three cocrystals, cocrystal 3 showed the lowest formation constant with a negative Gibbs free energy of nucleation and the highest energy gap. Hirshfeld surface analysis and density of states analysis found that cocrystal 3 had the highest strong interaction contribution and the closest electronic density, respectively, followed by cocrystal 2 and cocrystal 1, suggesting CAF could competitively form a cocrystal with MYR much more easily than QUE and BAI. Cocrystallization is a promising approach for green and effective separation of natural products with similar chemical structures.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Hudeček ◽  
Roberto Benoni ◽  
Martin Culka ◽  
Martin Hubálek ◽  
Lubomír Rulíšek ◽  
...  

Dinucleoside polyphosphates (NpnNs), discovered more than 50 years ago,1 are pleiotropic molecules present in almost all types of cells.2 It has been shown that their intracellular concentration can under stress conditions increase from the µM to mM range 2,3. However, the cellular roles and mechanisms of action of NpnNs are still speculative4,5. They have never been considered as part of the RNA, even though they have similar chemical structures as already known RNA caps, such as the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)6-8 and 7-methylguanylate cap9. Here, we show that both methylated and non-methylated Npn Ns serve as RNA caps in Escherichia coli (E. coli). NpnNs are excellent substrates for T7 and E. coli RNA polymerases (RNAP) and efficiently initiate transcription. Further, we demonstrate that the E. coli decapping enzyme RNA 5’ pyrophosphohydrolase (RppH) is able to remove the NpnNs-cap from the RNA. RppH was, however, not able to cleave the methylated forms of the NpnN-caps, suggesting that the methylation adds an additional layer to the RNA stability regulation. Our work introduces an original perspective on the chemical structure of RNA in prokaryotes and the function of RNA caps. This is the first evidence that small molecules like NpnNs can act in cells via their incorporation into RNA and influence the cellular metabolism.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7026
Author(s):  
Norizatie Muhammad Zaki ◽  
Nurul Azhani Yunus ◽  
Muhamad Shakir Yusoff ◽  
Saiful Amri Mazlan ◽  
Siti Aishah Abdul Aziz ◽  
...  

This paper investigated the effects of petroleum-based oils (PBOs) as a dispersing aid on the physicochemical characteristics of natural rubber (NR)-based magnetorheological elastomers (MREs). The addition of PBOs was expected to overcome the low performance of magnetorheological (MR) elastomers due to their inhomogeneous dispersion and the mobility of magnetic particles within the elastomer matrix. The NR-based MREs were firstly fabricated by mixing the NR compounds homogeneously with different ratios of naphthenic oil (NO), light mineral oil (LMO), and paraffin oil (PO) to aromatic oil (AO), with weight percentage ratios of 100:0, 70:30, 50:50, and 30:70, respectively. From the obtained results, the ratios of NO mixed with low amounts of AO improved the material physicochemical characteristics, such as thermal properties. Meanwhile, LMO mixed the AO led to the best results for curing characteristics, microstructure observation, and magnetic properties of the MREs. We found that the LMO mixed with a high content of AO could provide good compatibility between the rubber molecular and magnetic particles due to similar chemical structures, which apparently enhance the physicochemical characteristics of MREs. In conclusion, the 30:70 ratio of LMO:AO is considered the preferable dispersing aid for MREs due to structural compounds present in the oil that enhance the physicochemical characteristics of the NR-based MREs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasiia V. Kharcheva ◽  
Denis A. Evdokimov ◽  
Marina D. Reshetova ◽  
Viktor I. Yuzhakov ◽  
Svetlana V. Patsaeva ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangbo Yu ◽  
Ruiping Deng ◽  
Lining Sun ◽  
Zhefeng Li ◽  
Hongjie Zhang

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 10514-10522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Giussani ◽  
Graham A. Worth

S1/S0 accessibility strongly influences the triplet quantum yields of nitronaphthalenes.


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