Purification,Crystallization, and Preliminary Crystallographic Studies of Human As(III) S-Adenosylmethionine Methyltransferase (hAS3MT)

Crystallography Reports - Exposure to environmental arsenic is associated with serious of health issues such as cancer, diabetes and developmental delays in infants and children. In human liver,...     

Grindstone Chemistry: Design,One-Pot Synthesis,and Promising Anticancer Activity of Spiro[acridine-9,2′-indoline]-1,3,8-trione Derivatives against the MCF-7 Cancer Cell Line

In this study, the synthesis of one-pot 10-phenyl-3,4,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-spiro [acridine-9,2′-indoline]-1,3,8-trione derivatives was achieved via a four-component cyclocondensation reaction, which was carried out in solvent-free conditions, and using p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TSA) as a catalyst. The product was confirmed by FT-IR, ¹H-NMR, ¹³C-NMR, mass spectra, and elemental analysis. Furthermore, the anticancer activity was screened for all compounds. Among these compounds, compound 1c was more effective (GI₅₀ 0.01 µm) against MCF-7 cancer cell lines than standard and other compounds. Therefore, the objective of this study was achieved with a few promising molecules having been demonstrated to be potential anticancer agents.     

Evaluation of laser ablation threshold in polymer samples using pulsed photoacoustic technique

The acoustic signals generated in solids due to interaction with pulsed laser beam is used to determine the ablation threshold of bulk polymer samples of teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) and nylon under the irradiation from a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1.06μm wavelength. A suitably designed piezoelectric transducer is employed for the detection of photoacoustic (PA) signals generated in this process. It has been observed that an abrupt increase in the amplitude of the PA signal occurs at the ablation threshold. Also there exist distinct values for the threshold corresponding to different mechanisms operative in producing damages like surface morphology, bond breaking and melting processes at different laser energy densities.     

Complexes of lanthanide nitrates with 4n-(2′-hydroxy benzylidene)-aminoantipyrine

New complexes of lanthanide nitrates with 4N-(2′-hydroxy benzylidene)-aminoantipyrine (HBAAP) having the general formula [Ln(HBAAP)₂(NO₃)₃] (where Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Y) have been prepared and characterized. Conductance studies indicate non-electrolytic behaviour for these complexes. Their infrared spectra show that both the ligand and the nitrate group are bound to the metal ion in a bidentate fashion. Electronic spectra indicate weak covalent character in the metal-ligand bond. Thermogravimetric studies indicate that these complexes are stable up to ～200°C and undergo complete decomposition in the range 200–550° resulting in the formation of the stable lanthanide oxides.     

Solid State Metathesis Reactions in Various Applications

Solid state metathesis reactions have been studied in fused silica tubes, by differential thermal analysis, and by X‐ray powder diffraction. A selection of reactions between metal (La, Nb, and Ni) chlorides and lithium nitride or lithium acetylide were investigated to get more insight into reaction pathways and intermediate reaction stages that may be adopted on course of the formation of metal nitrides or carbides. Intermediate compounds are considered to be important because they can control the reactivity of a system. Such compounds were traced by changing the molar ratios of reaction partners away from the salt‐balanced binary metal nitride or carbide target compositions. New preparative perspectives are discovered when metal chlorides were reacted with lithium nitridoborate or lithium cyanamide. Due to their reductive nature towards several d‐block metal chlorides, (BN₂)^3‐ and (CN₂)^2‐ react to form metals or metal nitrides plus X‐ray amorphous BN, and probably C₃N₄. With lanthanum chloride they can react to form nitridoborates and nitridocarbonates. The metathesis reaction between lithium cyanamide and cyanuric chloride (C₃N₃Cl₃) instead of metal chloride was studied for the synthesis of C₃N₄.     

A thermal decomposition study on cobalt(II) complexes of 1,2-di(imino-4′-antipyrinyl)ethane

The phenomenological, kinetic and mechanistic aspects of thermal decomposition of perchlorate, nitrate, chloride, bromide and iodide complexes of cobalt(II) with the Schiff base 1,2-di(imino-4′-antipyrinyl)ethane (GA) have been studied by TG and DTG analyses. The kinetic parameters like the activation energy, pre-exponential factor and entropy of activation were calculated. The decomposition reactions follow “random nucleation with one nucleus on each particle—Mampel model”.     

Integrability and singularity structure of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Multimode propagation of electromagnetic waves in optical fibre is often described by coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations. To understand the integrability properties of such coupled NLS systems, we extend the Painlevé singularity structure analysis of two coupled systems to three coupled systems and identify four integrable sets of parameters. We bilinearize these cases to obtain soliton solutions. The results are extended to N-coupled systems, completing the earlier analysis of Sahadevan, Tamizhmani and Lakshmanan.