Experimental Detection of Induced Damage in Yeast RNA Due to γ‐Irradiation

Non‐isothermal studies by means of thermogravimetric (TG) measurements were carried out using a derivatograph to obtain the number of water molecules per repeat unit of yeast ribonucleic acid (RNA) before and after exposure to γ‐doses of 3 to 600 Gray. IR spectroscopy was utilized to determine which molecular subgroups of RNA adsorb water molecules and to investigate the conformational changes produced in RNA after γ‐irradiation. γ‐Irradiation was found to lead to ring opening or bond cleavage per unit nucleotide, which results in the formation of crosslinked regions (increase in molecular size). Such cleavage becomes more pronounced at doses >300 Gy leading to an increase in the number of water molecules per repeat unit and a decrease in molecular weight (degradation effect). A γ‐dose of 300 Gy may be considered as a critical damaging dose for yeast RNA molecules.     

Search for Down-Type Fourth Generation Quarks with the ATLAS Detector in Events with One Lepton and Hadronically Decaying W Bosons

This Letter presents a search for pair production of heavy down-type quarks decaying via b^{'}→Wt in the lepton+jets channel, as b^{'}b[over ˉ]^{'}→W^{-}tW^{+}t[over ˉ]→bb[over ˉ]W^{+}W^{-}W^{+}W^{-}→l^{±}νbb[over ˉ]qq[over ˉ]qq[over ˉ]qq[over ˉ]. In addition to requiring exactly one lepton, large missing transverse momentum, and at least six jets, the invariant mass of nearby jet pairs is used to identify high transverse momentum W bosons. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb^{-1} from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector, a heavy down-type quark with mass less than 480?GeV can be excluded at the 95% confidence level.     

Chemistry of quinazolines: Reinvestigation of the action of hydrazine on thioxo derivatives

The action of hydrazine on 2-mercapto and 2-alkylmercaptoquinazolin-4-ones is reinvestigated. The structure of the isolated products have been revised.     

Synthesis and structure of 6- and 7-(2-arylvinyl)pteridines

7-Hydroxy-6-styrylpteridine 9 and 7-(2-arylvinyl)-6-hydroxypteridines 10–12 were synthesized via the condensation of 5,6-diaminouracil 1 with benzylidenepyruvic acids 2–4 . The synthesis of the 2-methylthio analogue 15 is also described.     

Spectral, Magnetic, Electrical and Thermal Studies on Malonyl bis(thiosemicarbazide) Complexes

Mono- and binuclear complexes of malonyl bis(thiosemicarbazide), H₄ MBT, with VO²⁺, Co²⁺, Ni²⁺, Cu²⁺, Cd²⁺ and Pt⁴+ have been isolated. The elemental analyses, magnetic moments, spectra [u.v.–vis., i.r., e.s.r. (for Cu²⁺; VO²⁺) and mass], thermal and voltammetric measurements [for Co²⁺ and Ni²⁺] have been used to characterize the isolated complexes. The ligand behaves as binegative quadridentate with Cu²⁺, Co²⁺ and VO²⁺ ions, binegative pentadentate with Pt⁴+ and hexadentate, either as trinegative in [Cd₂(HMBT)(OC₂H₅)(C₂H₅OH)]H₂O or mononegative in [Ni₂(H₃MBT)(OAc)₃(C₂H₅OH)]. The lack of thiol and/or enol hydrogen during the complex formation was confirmed pH-metrically. The pK’s (10.70, 8.50 and 8.15) of H₄MBT reveal the removal of CSNH protons in one step and CONH in two steps. Also, the stability constants reveal a higher value for the Cu²⁺ complex and a lower one for VO²⁺. The TG analyses suggest high stability for most complexes followed by thermal decomposition in different steps. The kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for some decomposition steps in VO²⁺and Pt⁴⁺ thermograms have been calculated     

Determination of cimetidine,famotidine, and ranitidine hydrochloride in the presence of their sulfoxide derivatives in pure and dosage forms by high-performance thin-layer chromatography and scanning densitometry

A selective, precise, and accurate method was developed for the determination of cimetidine (C), famotidine (F), and ranitidine hydrochloride (R x HCl) in the presence of their sulfoxide derivatives. The method involves quantitative densitometric evaluation of mixtures of the drugs and their derivatives after separation by high-performance thin-layer chromatography on silica gel plates (10 x 20 cm) with ethyl acetate-isopropanol-20% ammonia (9 + 5 + 4, v/v) as the mobile phase for both C and F and ethyl acetate-methanol-20% ammonia (10 + 2 + 2, v/v) as the mobile phase for R x HCl; Rf values for C, F, and R x HCl and their corresponding derivatives were 0.85 and 0.59, 0.73 and 0.41, and 0.56 and 0.33, respectively. Developing time was approximately 20 min. For densitometric evaluation, peak areas were recorded at 218, 265, and 313 nm for C, F, and R x HCl, respectively. The relationship between concentration and the corresponding peak area was plotted for the ranges of 5-50 microg/spot for C and 2-20 microg/spot for F and R x HCl. Mean recoveries were 100.39 +/- 1.33, 99.77 +/- 1.30, and 100.09 +/- 0.69% for C, F, and R x HCl, respectively. The proposed method was used successfully for stability testing of the pure drugs in the presence of up to 90% of their degradates, in bulk powder and dosage forms. The results obtained were analyzed statistically and compared with those obtained by the official methods.     

A robust in vitro Anticancer,Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Agents Based on New Metal-Azomethine Chelates Incorporating Ag(I), Pd (II) and VO (II) Cations: Probing the Aspects of DNA Interaction

A novel azomethine ligand (HNAP) [HNAP = 1-(Pyridin-3-yliminomethyl)-naphthalen-2-ol] and its Ag(I), Pd (II) and VO (II) chelates have been synthesized and structurally inspected using a wide range of spectroscopic and analytical tools, including infra-red (IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) and ¹H NMR spectroscopy techniques, CHN analysis, molar conductance, magnetic susceptibility, and thermogravimetric analysis. The molar conductance measurements reveal that the chelates are non-electrolytes. The thermal behavior of the investigated metal chelates shows that the hydrated, coordinated water molecules and the anions are removed in successive steps followed immediately by decomposition of the ligand in the subsequent steps. The activation thermodynamic parameters are calculated from the TG curves and discussed. Complexes formation study via continuous variation m molar ratio has been investigated, and results were consistent to those found in the solid complexes with a ratio of (M:L) as (1:1) or 1:2 (M:L) molar ratio for all the monolithic and bi-valent metal complexes with square planar for Pd (II), and Ag(I) cations while, square pyramidal geometry for VO (II) cation. DFT calculations for the titled different metal-chelates have been studied and showed a good correlation with the experimental data. The prepared compounds had been checked In vitro towards numerous sorts of plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria to evaluate their antimicrobial properties and compared with some known antibiotics. Significantly, all the complexes show excellent antimicrobial activity against various strains of bacteria and fungi, including both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Besides, the complexes exhibited high cytotoxicity against various carcinoma cell lines, including HCT-116, MCF-7, and HepG-2. Moreover, the effect of the new synthesized compounds as antioxidants was determined by reduction of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) and compared with that of Vitamin C. Furthermore, the binding interactions of the complexes with CT-DNA were explored using UV-Vis spectroscopy, viscosity and gel electrophoreses measurements. They cooperatively bind to DNA possibly through intercalations. The binding ability of the complexes was shown as HNAPAg > HNAPPd > HNAPVO complex.     

A novel method for the synthesis of 1-aryltetrahydroisoquinolines

Carbenium ions generated from substituted benzhydryls using acid catalysis undergo smooth intramolecular trapping by pendant sulfonamide groups to provide excellent yields of 1-aryltetrahydroisoquinolines.     

The 52Cr(t,p)54 reaction at Et = 15 MeV

Using the ⁵²Cr(t, p)⁵⁴Cr reaction at a bombarding energy of 15 MeV, excitation energies have been measured for 30 levels up to E_x = 5.583 MeV in ⁵⁴Cr. Angular distributions were obtained for all but one of these levels; these have been compared with distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) calculations to determine the L-transfer (and hence J^π). The measured cross sections have been compared to the predictions of DWBA calculations that use two-neutron transfer amplitudes from a shell-model calculation with the active neutrons restricted to the $\text{(2}\text{p}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>3</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{,}\text{If}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>5</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{, 2}\text{p}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{)}$ orbitals.