Synthesis and in vitro anti-arthritic,anti-inflammatory studies on hypervalent pyranoside glycodendrimers with triazole bridging point

Synthesis of novel glycodendrimer scaffolds containing hypervalent sugar pyranosides and triazole bridging points is described. Dendrimers with a greater number of bridging triazole units and α-d-glycopyranosyl surface groups exhibit better anti-arthritic and anti-inflammatory activity than dendrimers with less number of triazole and α-d-glycopyranosyl units.     

Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Glycodendrimers and N-alkyldendrimers with Amide Core and Triazole Functionality through Click Chemistry

The syntheses of various types of 1,2,3-triazole-based dendrimers 1–4 with sugar pyranosylazides and N-ethyl and N-heptylazides as a surface unit and benzene-1,3,5-tricorboxlyic amide as core unit through click chemistry approach are described.

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Synthesis, complexation studies and biological activity of some novel mono and tricyclic cyclophane amides and cyclophane sulfonamides

A series of mono, tricyclic cyclophane tetraamides and cyclophane sulfonamides have been synthesized and characterized from spectral and XRD studies. All the cyclophane amides form charge transfer (CT) complex with TCNQ. The cyclophane amides show moderate to good anti-inflammatory activity. Some of them were active against Gram positive (Klebsiella pneumonia) and Gram negative (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) human pathogens.     

Synthesis and thermal studies of bisphenol-A based bismaleimide

The compound 2,2-bis[4-(4-maleimidophenoxy phenyl)]propane was prepared by the imidization of bisamic acid of 2,2-bis(4-aminophenoxy phenyl)propane. Various nanoclays were blended with this bismaleimide and thermally cured. The structural characterization of the synthesized materials and the thermal properties of the bismaleimide and their blends were investigated through FTIR, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, differential scanning calorimetry and thermo gravimetric analysis. Among the various clays investigated, Cloisite 15A shows strong influence on the cure exotherm of bismaleimide. Introduction of clay mineral into bismaleimide shifts the onset of curing exotherm to higher temperature and is nearly 40 °C. The thermal stability of the clay loaded cured bismaleimide increases and the presence of clay particles in the cured bismaleimide matrix enhances the char formation.     

Structure of Two Acetylene Derivatives of Salicylic Acid

Crystallography Reports - Methyl 2-hydroxy-5-[(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]benzoate and methyl 2-hydroxy-5-ethynylbenzoate have been synthesized, and the crystallographic data on these compounds are...     

Vesicle formation in hydrocarbons assisted with microbial hydrolases and biosurfactants

The present study demonstrates the role of microbial hydrolases in the transformation of hydrocarbons (soybean, sunflower, groundnut and gingelly oil, etc.) to vesicles. The combined effect of lipolytic enzyme generation and biosurfactants production during microbial growth at optimized media and environmental conditions mediates this transformation. Among the microbial species, Candida albicans exhibit complete transformation compared to Pseudomonads and Bacillus sps. Within hydrocarbons, only soybean and sunflower oils transformed to solid mass and no change with the remaining oils. Characterization of the vesicles revealed an increase in total weight by 160-180% compared to the original weight of hydrocarbon taken for the study and more than 73% increases in viscosity. Acid value and saponification value also showed an increase, respectively, by 78 and 84%. The bound water content estimated was 26%. Light microscopic analysis exhibit, presence of unilamellar and bi-lamellar structures.     

Synthesis of a new class of electron rich chiral cyclophanes with large cavities

BINOL based electron rich chiral cyclophanes possessing large cavities have been synthesized starting from m-terphenyl dibromide and methyl m-/p-cinnamate. The presence of double bonds in the chiral cyclophanes makes them electron rich as revealed by C-T complexation studies of such cyclophanes donors with guests like TCNE, TCNQ and DDQ.     

Shape resonances in slow electron scattering by aromatic molecules. I. Anthraquinone derivatives

A series of anthraquinone (C(14)O(2)H(8)) derivatives has been studied by means of electron capture negative ion mass spectrometry (ECNI-MS), photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), and AM1 quantum chemical calculations. Mean lifetimes of molecular negative ions M(-.) (MNI) have been measured. The mechanism of long-lived MNI formation in the epithermal energy region of incident electrons has been investigated. A simple model of a molecule (a spherical potential well with the repulsive centrifugal term) has been applied for the analysis of the energy dependence of cross sections at the first stage of the electron capture process. It has been shown that a temporary resonance of MNI at the energy approximately 0.5 eV corresponds to a shape resonance with lifetime 1-2.10(-13) s in the f-partial wave (l = 3) of the incident electron. The next resonant state of MNI at the energy approximately 1.7 eV has been associated with the electron excited Feshbach resonance (whose parent state is a triplet npi* transition). In all cases the initial electron state of the MNI relaxes into the ground state by means of a radiationless transition, and the final state of the MNI is a nuclear excited resonance with a lifetime measurable on the mass spectrometry timescale. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Synthesis, characterization and ion transportation studies of some novel cyclophane amides

Various novel cyclophane amides with a large cavity have been synthesized. The structures of cyclophane amides 14 and 15 were resolved using XRD studies. Cyclophane amide 28 shows a shift in λ_max in the UV/Vis. spectra when treated with Cu (II) ion as well as with Pb (II) ion. Ion transportation studies were carried out with cyclophane amide 14 which proved that the Na⁺ ion passes through the cavity while K⁺ ions are retained.     

A finite element formulation for global linear stability analysis of a nominally two‐dimensional base flow

A stabilized finite element method, to carry out the linear stability analysis of a two‐dimensional base flow to three‐dimensional perturbations that are periodic along span, is presented. The resulting equations for the time evolution of the disturbance requires a solution to the generalized eigenvalue problem. The analysis is global in nature and is also applicable to non‐parallel flows. Equal‐order‐interpolation functions for velocity and pressure are utilized. Stabilization terms are added to the Galerkin formulation to admit the use of equal‐order‐interpolation functions and to eliminate node‐to‐node oscillations that might arise in advection‐dominated flows. The proposed formulation is tested on two flow problems. First, the mode transitions in the circular Couette flow are investigated. Two scenarios are considered. In the first one, the outer cylinder is at rest, while the inner one spins. Two linearly unstable modes are identified. The primary mode is real and represents the axisymmetric Taylor vortices. The second mode is complex and consists of spiral vortices. For the counter‐rotating cylinders, the primary transition is via the appearance of spiral vortices. Excellent agreement with results from earlier studies is observed. The formulation is also utilized to investigate the parallel and oblique modes of vortex shedding past a cylinder for the Re = 100 flow. It is found that the flow is associated with a large number of unstable oblique shedding modes. The parallel mode of vortex shedding is a special case of this family of modes and is associated with the largest growth rate. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.