Synthesis of Symmetrical Multichromophoric Bodipy Dyes and Their Facile Transformation into Energy Transfer Cassettes

Multichromophoric boron‐dipyrromethene (Bodipy) dyes synthesized on phenylene‐ethynylene platforms have been be converted to energy transfer cassettes in a one‐step chemical transformation. Excitation energy transfer processes in these highly symmetrical derivatives were studied in detail, including time‐resolved fluorescence spectroscopy techniques. Excitation spectra and the emission lifetimes suggest efficient energy transfer between the donor and acceptor chromophore. These novel energy transfer cassettes, while highlighting a short‐cut approach to similar energy transfer systems, could be useful as large pseudo‐Stokes shift multichromophoric dyes with potential applications in diverse applications.     

Synthesis and Antitumor,Antioxidant Effects Studies of N-Ethylpiperazine Substitute Thiourea Ligands and Their Copper(II) Complexes

A series of N-ethylpiperazine substitute thioureas [C₆N₂H₁₃NHCSNHR], where R = -C₃H₅ (L ₁ ), -C₁₀H₇ (L ₂ ), and -C₇H₇ (L ₃ ), and their copper (II) complexes have been synthesized. These ligands and complexes have been characterized by elemental analyses, IR, ¹H and ¹³C-NMR spectra, UV-Vis, magnetic susceptibility, thermogravimetrical analyses, and MALDI-TOF MS. In vitro antitumor activity of ligands and their complexes has been screened toward several tumor cell lines. The effects on these complexes of the growth of L1210 and MCF7 were studied comparatively with that of free ligands. Antioxidant and radical scavenging activities of synthesized compounds were determined by various in vitro assays including 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl free radicals (DPPH), 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid radicals (ABTS+), and ferrous ion (Fe²⁺) chelating activities. Moreover, these activities were compared to synthetic and standard antioxidant trolox. The results showed that the synthesized compounds had effective antioxidant power.     

2-[3-Phenyl-5-(m-Chlorophenyl)-2-Pyrazolin-1-yl]-3-Methyl-4(3H)-Quinazolinone

There are two molecules in the asymmetric unit (I and II). The structure consists of a 2-pyrazoline ring and three aromatic rings two of which are free and the third one is condensed with a 3-methyl-4(3H)-pyrimidine ring (4(3H)-Quinazolinone). While the pyrazoline ring is in the distorted envelope conformation, the free aromatic rings are planar and the pyrimidine ring deviates from the planarity. The crystal structure is stabilized by C–HO inter and intramolecular bonds.     

Studies on the synthesis of some dihydropyridine derivatives possessing calcium antagonistic activity

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the synthesis and the calcium antagonistic activity of some flavone derivatives which contain the 1,4-dihydropyridine ring system at the A ring of the flavone nucleus. For this purpose we first synthesized 6-formylflavone and then twelve 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives were synthesized by the reaction of 6-formylflavone with alkylacetoacetates, acetoacetanilide and methyl or ethyl aminocrotonate. Conformational analysis was performed for compound 3a . The calcium antagonistic activity of compound 2a was examined using nifedipine as the reference compound.     

The assessment of miscibility and morphology of poly(ε-caprolactone) and poly(para-chlorostyrene) blends

The miscibility and morphology of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCl) and poly(para-chlorostyrene) (PpClS) blend were investigated by using thermal analysis, morphological analysis, viscometry, and the study of melting point depression. A single glass transition temperature was observed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for PCl/PpClS blends in the whole compositional range (0/100, 25/75, 50/50, 62.5/37.5, 75/25, 90/10). Morphology of the polymers and their blends was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The Fourier transform infrared spectra of the samples were obtained by spectrometer. Up to 12 cm⁻¹ shifts in carbonyl stretching band of PCl was detected in the spectra of PpClS rich blends. The viscosity of PCl, PpClS and their blends has also been studied to investigate the miscibility according the miscibility criteria Δb, and Δ[η]. Using this data, the interaction parameters α and μ, based on the Chee and Sun et al. approaches were determined. These criteria indicated that the blend is miscible in all proportions up to 90% of PCl content in the blends. The melting point depression of PCl in the blends was examined to obtain the interaction parameter, χ₁₂ for this system. The parameter, χ₁₂ was found to be composition dependent. Negative values of the obtained interaction parameter also support the miscibility of this system up to the 90% PCl in the blend.     

Crystal structures of two azo compounds, 2-methyl-2-(4-bromphenylazo)-1,3-indandione and 2-methyl-2-(4-ethoxyphenylazo)-1,3-indandione

In the two title compounds, the 2-methyl-1,3-dioxoindan-2-yl and 4-(brom; ethoxy) phenyl groups aretrans with respect to one another. The phenyl ring and the azo group are not coplanar in the two molecules. The five-membered rings of the two compounds adopt an envelope conformation. The crystallographic parameters are as follows: 2-Methyl-2-(4-bromphenylazo)-1,3-indandione (I): monoclinic, P2₁/a witha=8.098(2),b=14.442(2),c=12.554(1)Å, =100.55(2)^o, andD _calc=1.58 g cm^–3 forZ=4; 2-methyl-2-(4-ethoxyphenylazo)-1, 3-indandione (II): monoclinic, P2₁/a witha=8.258(2),b=14.449(1),c=13.559(2)Å, =101.19(1)^o, andD _calc=1.29 g cm^–3 forZ=4.     

离子液体作为溶剂/催化剂用于卤代烃对胺的选择性烷基化反应

在三乙胺存在下,在离子液体([bmim]I和[bmim]PF6)中进行了各种卤代烃对胺类化合物中氨基的选择性烷基化反应.反应在相对温和的条件下进行,转化率和选择性优异.离子液体可以回收并重复使用.     

2′-Methyl-3′-nitroflavone

The crystal and molecular structure of the title compound has been determined by direct methods and refined to a final R of 0.044. The compound crystallizes in space group P2₁/n with cell dimensions a = 16.681(2), b = 3.838(1), c = 20.550(4) Å, and β = 104.21(2)°. The phenyl and benzene rings of the title molecule are quite planar. The γ-pyrone ring exhibits maximum deviation 0.032(4) Å from planarity and makes a dihedral angle of 139.8(2)° with the 2-phenyl substituent.     

Neural Network Structure Optimization by Simulated Annealing

A critical problem in large neural networks is over parameterization with a large number of weight parameters, which limits their use on edge devices due to prohibitive computational power and memory/storage requirements. To make neural networks more practical on edge devices and real-time industrial applications, they need to be compressed in advance. Since edge devices cannot train or access trained networks when internet resources are scarce, the preloading of smaller networks is essential. Various works in the literature have shown that the redundant branches can be pruned strategically in a fully connected network without sacrificing the performance significantly. However, majority of these methodologies need high computational resources to integrate weight training via the back-propagation algorithm during the process of network compression. In this work, we draw attention to the optimization of the network structure for preserving performance despite compression by pruning aggressively. The structure optimization is performed using the simulated annealing algorithm only, without utilizing back-propagation for branch weight training. Being a heuristic-based, non-convex optimization method, simulated annealing provides a globally near-optimal solution to this NP-hard problem for a given percentage of branch pruning. Our simulation results have shown that simulated annealing can significantly reduce the complexity of a fully connected network while maintaining the performance without the help of back-propagation.     

4-(2-Methylphenyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroquinazoline-2,5-dione (I) and 4-(4chlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroquinazoline-2,5-dione (II)

The crystal and molecular structures of the title compounds have been determined by x-ray structure analysis. The compounds (I) and (II) crystallize in space groups P2₁2₁2₁ and 12/a respectively. The structures were solved by direct methods and refined to R = 0.058 and R = 0.046. The saturated pyrimidine-2-one ring in both structures deviates from the planarity. There are two intermolecular hydrogen bonds in (I) and (II). The configuration at C4 in (I) is S.