Novel Stereoselective Synthesis of 1,3-Dienyl Tellurides by Palladium Catalyzed Cross-coupling Reaction of (E)-β-Bromovinyl Tellurides

Conjugated dienes are valuable intermediates in organic chemistry. Many biologically active compounds occurring in nature possess the structural skeleton of conjugated dienes such as chillea amide1 and pelltoine2. Besides, the synthesis of conjugated dienes for use in the Diels-Alder reaction is still an important challenge in organic synthesis. One particularly attractive approach has been the incorporation of heteroatom substituents that can activate the diene3.Recently, we found that β-br…     

Spectroscopic Study of the Interaction of Bu_2SnCl_2 with EHPG

A number of Sn (Ⅳ)complexes have been synthesized since 1980 and tested its anticancer activity1. The simplest complex Bu2SnCl2 has activity to P388 tumor cells. Several metal complexes such as Ru-ind (trans-indazolium (bisindazole) tetrachloro- ruthenate (Ⅲ)) had used transferrin as a drug delivery system, the complexes still exhibit high antitumor activity and lower toxicity2. We use EHPG as a model ligand3 to study the interaction between Bu2SnCl2 and EHPG. EHPGAt first, we stud…     

Resveratrol Tetramers from the Roots of Ampelopsis sinica

Various biological activities of stilbenoids have been described, such as antifungal and antibacterial activities1, antihepatotoxic activity2-4, anti-HIV activity5. Stilbenoids mainly existed in Vitaceae, Diperocarpaceae, Gnetaceae, Cyperaceae, Leguminase1. Many oligostilbenes have been isolated from Vitaceaeous plants. But, there was no report on the stilbenoids in Ampelopsis sinica (Miq.) W. T. Wang which was traditionari- ly used to treat arthritis6. In our study on the constituen…     

Cross-linking Copolymerization of Acrylic Acid and Multi-armed Cross-linkers

Polymer gels are of considerable interests in material science1-3. Many theoretical and experimental studies have been made on the cross-linking copolymerization4-6 of these systems. Recently, in situ interferometry is applied in studying this process7-9. As shown in Figure 1, the common two-armed cross-linkers will lead to defects in the network, while multi-armed cross-linkers will enhance the integrity of the network. This paper studies the cross-linkers influence on cross-linking and t…     

SYNTHESIS OF A SERIES OF NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUNDS WITH TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION AND TWO-PHOTON PUMPED LASING

Two-photon absorption (TPA) occurs through the simultaneous absorption of two photons via virtual states in a medium. Materials with large TPA cross section are gaining increasing attention recently due to their potential applications in optical data storage, two-photon up-converted lasing, two-photon-laser scanning fluorescence microscopy, optical power limiting and photodynamic therapy1-3. Numerous organic compounds have been investigated both experimentally and theoretically in order to u…     

A New Flavone Glycoside from Isodon enanderianus

Isodon enanderianus (Hand.-Mazz.) H. W. Li, a perennial shrub plant of Labiatae family, is widely distributed in the southern part of Yunnan province. It has long been used as folk medicine to diminish inflammation and detoxify1. The Isodon genus is known to be rich in ent-kaurane diterpenoids, a series of new ent-kaurane diterpenoids have been isolated from the dried leaves of I. enanderianus2-4. During the course on a re-investigation of the chemical constituents of I. enanderianus, four…     

Synthesis and DNA Cleavage Studies of 2,6-Dimethoxyhydroquinone-3-Mercaptoacetic Acid Conjugates

In previous paper and work, we reported the synthesis and cytotoxicity studies of a novel series of short chain peptide conjugates of the cytotoxic agent 2, 6-dimethoxyhydro -quinone-3-mercaptoacetic acid1 (DMQ-MA). The DMQ-MA is a derivative of 2,6-dimethoxybenzoquinone, which is a natural product of fermented wheat germ and found to have a wide spectrum of cytotoxicity against various tumor cell lines under the synergistic activation of L-ascorbic acid (AH2)2,3. Compared with DMQ, DMQ…     

The Existence and Long-Time Behavior of Weak Solution to Bipolar Quantum Drift-Diffusion Model

The authors study the existence and long-time behavior of weak solutions to the bipolar transient quantum drift-diffusion model,a fourth order parabolic system.Using semi-discretization in time and entropy estimate,the authors get the global existence of nonnegative weak solutions to the one-dimensional model with nonnegative initial and homogenous Neumann(or periodic)boundary conditions.Furthermore,by a logarithmic Sobolev inequality,it is proved that the periodic weak solution exponentially approaches its mean value as time increases to infinity.     

Exponential Synchronization of the Linearly Coupled Dynamical Networks with Delays

In this paper,the authors investigate the synchronization of an array of linearly coupled identical dynamical systems with a delayed coupling.Here the coupling matrix can be asymmetric and reducible.Some criteria ensuring delay-independent and delay- dependent global synchronization are derived respectively.It is shown that if the coupling delay is less than a positive threshold,then the coupled network will be synchronized.On the other hand,with the increase of coupling delay,the synchronization stability of the network will be restrained,even eventually de-synchronized.     

Effects of Anions and Cations on π-Complexation Between Olefin and Metal Halide

Introduction Separation,recoveryofolefinorremovalof tracequantitiesofolefinfromitsmixturesbyusing π-complexatonisamostpromisingsolution,com- paredwithenergy-intensivedistillationorotheral- ternatives.π-Complexationisasubgroupofchemi- calcomplexationwhereamixtureisbroughtinto contactwithasecondphasecontainingacomplex- ingagent[1].Forexample,theadsorbentscontain- ingAg+orCu+canselectivelyadsorbolefinfroman ethylene/ethaneorpropylene/propanemixture. Becausetheπ-complexationbondsarestronger th…