{"title":"The xanthate route to six-membered carbocycles","authors":"S. Zard","doi":"10.1177/17475198221088194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221088194","url":null,"abstract":"Convergent routes to various six-membered carbocyclic architectures exploiting the unique radical chemistry of xanthates are described in this brief review. Three approaches are discussed. The first is the modification of existing cyclohexane building blocks, namely, cyclohexanones, cyclohexenones and cyclohexenes. The second deals with the construction of six-membered carbocycles by associating the chemistry of xanthates with classical ionic reactions, especially the Robinson annulation, the Michael addition and the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons condensation. Finally, the third route is the formation of six-membered rings by direct six-exo and, but more rarely, six-endo cyclisation modes. Many of the complex structures presented herein would be tedious to obtain by more traditional methods.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84078211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Zheng, Lin Zhang, Yuhe Chen, Yue Ma, Xue Dai, L. Shi, Yanli Lu, Xinan Yang, P. Ma
{"title":"Construction of a supramolecular framework consisting of cucurbit[8]uril and 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)piperazine","authors":"Jun Zheng, Lin Zhang, Yuhe Chen, Yue Ma, Xue Dai, L. Shi, Yanli Lu, Xinan Yang, P. Ma","doi":"10.1177/17475198221106398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221106398","url":null,"abstract":"We report the supramolecular self-assembly of cucurbit[8]uril(Q[8]) and 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)piperazine inclusion complex. The complex is cultured in 3 M hydrochloric acid solution under CdCl2 induction conditions to obtain a new crystal, the structure of which was characterized by X-ray single-crystal diffraction. The results show that the crystal belongs to the monoclinic crystal system with a C2/m space group. The host–guest interaction ratio of Q[8] and 1-(4-methoxyphenyl) piperazine is 1:2.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"195 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75629797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verbascoside extracted from Clerodendrum inerme: A natural monomer for the fabrication of a sensitive electrochemical Cu(II) sensor","authors":"Minh-Trong Tran, H. V. Tran","doi":"10.1177/17475198221096596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221096596","url":null,"abstract":"Verbascoside is isolated from the whole plants of the Verbenaceae family and demonstrates significant levels of bioactivity. In this work, we report on the isolation of verbascoside, a phenolic glycoside, from the stems of Clerodendrum inerme collected in Vietnam and verify its structure by comparing its spectroscopic data with those reported in the literature. Verbascoside is then applied as a monomer for the electrochemical deposition of a layer of polyverbascoside onto glassy carbon electrodes toward Cu2+ sensing. Electrochemical results demonstrate that the polyverbascoside-modified glassy carbon electrode is highly selective for Cu2+ ions compared to other evaluated ions including Ni2+ and Co2+. The developed sensor can detect Cu2+ in a concentration range from 0 to 175 μM with a sensitivity of 0.372 µA µM−1 and a limit of detection of 50 nM Cu2+ ions.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73452168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiandi Ding, HaiJiao Chen, Yan Li, Ying Li, Y.. Zhi, Zhiqiang Qu, Qiang Sun, Qingqiang Yao, Bo Liu
{"title":"Discovery of an SphK1 inhibitor: A hybrid approach involving a receptor–ligand-complex-based pharmacophore and docking-based virtual screening","authors":"Tiandi Ding, HaiJiao Chen, Yan Li, Ying Li, Y.. Zhi, Zhiqiang Qu, Qiang Sun, Qingqiang Yao, Bo Liu","doi":"10.1177/17475198221089222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221089222","url":null,"abstract":"Sphingosine kinase is a lipid kinase that catalyzes the phosphorylation of sphingosine to sphingosine-1-phosphate. Sphingosine-1-phosphate is a bioactive lipid that regulates biological processes. The overexpression of sphingosine kinases is related to a variety of pathophysiological conditions. For example, SphK1 has been shown to be highly expressed in various cancer cells including ovarian, cervical, colon, stomach, lung, and brain cancer. Inhibition of sphingosine kinases is a promising way to treat diseases such as cancer. Through computer-aided drug design, we have discovered a new SphK1 inhibitor named Amb30572637 (SAMS10). In this report, we describe the discovery process and biological characteristics. In biochemical experiments, SAMS10 shows a prominent inhibitory effect on SphK1, with an IC50 value of 9.8 μM. Subsequent MTT experiments show that SAMS10 has anticancer effects toward A549, SKVO3, A375, and LOVO cell lines and has essentially no cytotoxicity against the healthy cell L929. SAMS10 has significant inhibitory activity against the A549 and LOVO cell lines, with IC50 values of 14.64 and 14.48 μM, respectively. It belongs to a moderately active SphK1 inhibitor with lower anticancer activity than the control compound cisplatin, but the effect of SAMS10 toward SphK1 and its anticancer activity indicate that it is a promising lead compound for the development of effective SphK1 anticancer inhibitors.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88314825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining classical molecular docking with self-consistent charge density-functional tight-binding computations for the efficient and quality prediction of ligand binding structure","authors":"Amar Y. Al-Ansi, Haorui Lu, Zijing Lin","doi":"10.1177/17475198221101999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221101999","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the successful prediction rate of the existing molecular docking methods, a new docking approach is proposed that consists of three steps: generating an ensemble of docked poses with a conventional docking method, performing clustering analysis of the ensemble to select the representative poses, and optimizing the representative structures with a low-cost quantum mechanics method. Three quantum mechanics methods, self-consistent charge density-functional tight-binding, ONIOM(DFT:PM6), and ONIOM(SCC-DFTB:PM6), are tested on 18 ligand-receptor bio-complexes. The rate of successful binding pose predictions by the proposed self-consistent charge density-functional tight-binding docking method is the highest, at 67%. The self-consistent charge density-functional tight-binding docking method should be useful for the structure-based drug design.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74935629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis, spectral analysis, and theoretical investigations of diphenyl fumarate","authors":"M. You, Weiqiang Liao, Genlai Zhou, Yihui Bai","doi":"10.1177/17475198221085550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221085550","url":null,"abstract":"Diphenyl fumarate is synthesized from maleic anhydride and phenol under solvent-free conditions. The structure of the product is characterized by FTIR, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR. The molecular structure is optimized using the density functional theory approach at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level and the structural parameters are analyzed. Theoretical vibrational frequencies are investigated at the same level; the 1H NMR and 13C NMR are simulated using the default gauge-independent atomic orbital method at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level and the solvation model density implicit continuum solvation model for chloroform; chemical shifts are scaled using scaling factors available on the cheshirenmr.info website (accessed 12 September 2021). In addition, the UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence emission are simulated using the time-dependent method at the PBE38/6-311G(d,p) level. All the calculated spectral values are compared with the experimental data. A generally good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results is found. The results reveal diphenyl fumarate as a candidate substrate for small-molecule organic fluorophores with a large Stokes shift. This work provides a detailed experimental and theoretical study on the structural and spectral properties of diphenyl fumarate, and thus provides proof for the novel applications of diphenyl fumarate and its derivatives.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"302 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88208821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORRIGENDUM to “Atomic polarizability: A periodic descriptor”","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/17475198221095958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221095958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75133807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongyu Luo, Wenmei Yu, Si Chen, Zhenyu Wang, Zejie Tian, Jun He, Yunmei Liu
{"title":"Application of metalloporphyrin sensitizers for the treatment or diagnosis of tumors","authors":"Hongyu Luo, Wenmei Yu, Si Chen, Zhenyu Wang, Zejie Tian, Jun He, Yunmei Liu","doi":"10.1177/17475198221090914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221090914","url":null,"abstract":"At present, metalloporphyrin compounds demonstrate three main uses as anticancer sensitizers: (1) photosensitizers, (2) photothermal conversion agents, and (3) ultrasound sensitizers. Developing efficient sensitizers for cancer with excellent controllability and biocompatibility is an important goal of oncology medicine. Because of the different structural diversity of anticancer sensitizers, such sensitizers are used for treating cancers by employing a variety of tumor treatment methods such as mature photodynamic therapy, commonly used clinically photothermal therapy and promising sonodynamic therapy. Among the many sensitizers, metalloporphyrin-complex sensitizers attract wide attention due to their excellent performance in tumor treatment and diagnosis. This review briefly describes some metalloporphyrin anticancer drugs and diagnostic agents related to photodynamic, photothermal and sonodynamic therapy, and discusses the roles of metal atoms in these drugs.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77158701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obtaining elemental sulfur for Martian sulfur concrete","authors":"A. Barkatt, M. Okutsu","doi":"10.1177/17475198221080729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221080729","url":null,"abstract":"A potential candidate material for the construction of Mars habitats is concrete made from the Martian regolith and sulfur extracted from the regolith itself. Sulfur concrete, which has excellent mechanical properties, can be prepared at a low temperature (<150 °) and without water (unlike Portland-cement concrete). The surface of Mars has a much higher concentration of sulfur than those of the Earth, the Moon, or the asteroids. Sulfur on Mars, however, exists not as elemental sulfur—which is needed in concrete production—but as sulfates (usually hydrated) and sulfides. This paper surveys thermochemical and electrochemical methods that might be used to produce elemental sulfur from its compounds contained in the minerals on Mars. Possible methods include chemical or electrochemical oxidation or decomposition of sulfides, which include sulfides that exist naturally on Mars as well as sulfides that are produced via chemical or electrochemical reduction of sulfates. Some of the methods to obtain elemental sulfur—such as chemical or electrochemical oxidation or decomposition of metal sulfides or hydrogen sulfide—have already been demonstrated. The methods of producing elemental sulfur from sulfur-containing minerals on Mars will have the added benefit of generating byproducts (e.g. water, hydrogen, oxygen, and metals) that are useful for explorations of the Red Planet. In the future, chemical processes for the production of elemental sulfur may also have important industrial applications on Earth.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75271852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Qiu, Chunfeng Mao, Jiaqi Zhang, Yanyun Wang, S. Ge, Rundong Wang, Yuzhong Huang, Yuming Zhou
{"title":"Preparation and properties of allyl ether-based polycarboxylate superplasticizer with short-branched chains modified by nano-silica","authors":"Lei Qiu, Chunfeng Mao, Jiaqi Zhang, Yanyun Wang, S. Ge, Rundong Wang, Yuzhong Huang, Yuming Zhou","doi":"10.1177/17475198221091903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198221091903","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of nanoparticles and polycarboxylate ether superplasticizers is expected to simultaneously improve the durability and mechanical properties of mortar and concrete. However, the uniform dispersion of nanoparticles in cement materials has always been a difficult challenge. In this paper, nanoparticles are modified with surfactants to provide a research direction for better dispersion of nanoparticles in cementitious materials. Modified allyl ether polycarboxylate superplasticizer with short-branched chains was synthesized from acrylic acid and allyl glycidyl ether. Nano-silica/polycarboxylate ether was obtained by grafting nano-silica onto polycarboxylate ether molecular chains through intermolecular dehydration, thus achieving a homogeneous dispersion of nano-silica in the cementitious material. The results show that nano-silica/polycarboxylate ether has better dispersibility in cement matrix and strong clay resistance, which compensates for the poor dispersion of polycarboxylate ether synthesized from conventional polyethylene glycol graft chains in the presence of clay impurities.","PeriodicalId":15318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Research-s","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79275256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}