A Facile Synthesis of Bromo-Substituted Benzofuran Containing Thiazolidinone Nucleus Bridged with Quinoline Derivatives: Potent Analgesic and Antimicrobial Agents

Treatment of 5-bromo-2-acetyl benzofuran with hydrazine followed by condensation of the resulting hydrazone with different quinoline derivatives gave the corresponding Schiff bases. Reaction of these Schiff bases with thioacetic acid furnished the target thiazolidinone molecule. Some of the newly synthesized compounds show promising analgesic and antimicrobial activity.

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Identification of 11 Marker Compounds Simultaneously in Herb Lancea tibetica by Using High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography

JPC – Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC - A high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) method was developed for simple and rapid chemical analysis of Lancea tibetica...     

Measurement of interfacial adhesion between glassy polymers using the JKR method

The surface and interfacial energies of polymers are measured using the JKR-type experiments. A novel method has been developed to prepare samples of glassy polymers for adhesion measurements. A thin layer of a polymer is coated on the surface of an O₂-plasma modified cross-linked poly(dimethylsiloxane) [PDMS] spherical cap resulting in the formation of a composite. Using the JKR theory, the surface energies of polystyrene [PS] and poly(methyl methacrylate) [PMMA] are determined from the measurements of the contact radius as a function of applied load. The results of the JKR-type experiments are compared to adhesion measurements done using the surface forces apparatus (SFA). Adhesion hysteresis was observed for PS-PS contact as well as PMMA-PMMA contact. However, no hysteresis was observed for PDMS-PDMS, PDMS-PS, and PDMS-PMMA contacts. The exact origin of the hysteresis is not clear at present. The current evidence suggests that hysteresis is due to rearrangement of the interface during contact.