Integrated Access to Genomic and Other Bioinformation: An Essential Ingredient of the Drug Discovery Process

Abstract

Due to the high rate of data production and the need of researchers to have rapid access to new data, public databases have become the major medium through which genome mapping and sequencing data as well as macromolecular structural data are published. There are now more than 250 databases of biomolecular, structural, genetic, or phenotypic data, many of which are doubling in size annually. These databases, many of which were created and are maintained by experimentalists for their own research use, provide valuable collections of organized, validated data. However, the very number and diversity of databases now make efficient data resource discovery as important as effective data resource use. Existing autonomous biological databases contain related data which are more valuable when interconnected than when isolated. Political and scientific realities dictate that these databases will be built by different teams, in different locations, for different purposes, and using different data models and supporting DBMSs. As a consequence, connecting the related data they contain is not straightforward. Experience with existing biological databases indicates that it is possible to form useful queries across these databases, but that doing so usually requires expertise in the semantic structure of each source database. Advancing to the next level of integration among biological information resources poses significant technical and sociological challenges.     

How Strain Affects the Reactivity of Surface Metal Oxide Catalysts

Highly dispersed molybdenum oxide supported on mesoporous silica SBA‐15 has been prepared by anion exchange resulting in a series of catalysts with changing Mo densities (0.2–2.5 Mo atoms nm^?2). X‐ray absorption, UV/Vis, Raman, and IR spectroscopy indicate that doubly anchored tetrahedral dioxo MoO₄ units are the major surface species at all loadings. Higher reducibility at loadings close to the monolayer measured by temperature‐programmed reduction and a steep increase in the catalytic activity observed in metathesis of propene and oxidative dehydrogenation of propane at 8 % of Mo loading are attributed to frustration of Mo oxide surface species and lateral interactions. Based on DFT calculations, NEXAFS spectra at the O‐K‐edge at high Mo loadings are explained by distorted MoO₄ complexes. Limited availability of anchor silanol groups at high loadings forces the MoO₄ groups to form more strained configurations. The occurrence of strain is linked to the increase in reactivity.     

磷酸钛固载磷钨酸非均相催化合成异戊酸己酯

通过在300℃下焙烧2h制备了磷酸钛固载15%磷钨酸H3PW12O40(简记为HPW)非均相酯化催化剂HPW/Ti3(PO4)4;采用红外光谱仪分析了催化剂的结构;基于异戊酸与正己醇的酯化反应考察了催化剂用量、n(正己醇)∶n(异戊酸)、反应时间、带水剂种类和催化剂重复使用性能等因素对酯化率的影响.结果表明,该催化剂催化合成异戊酸己酯的适宜反应条件为:0.2mol异戊酸,催化剂用量0.6g,n(正己醇)∶n(异戊酸)=1.6∶1,反应时间4.5h,环己烷10mL;相应的酯化率达95.1%.与此同时,该催化剂循环利用6次后酯化率不低于84%.     

Hydroarylation of arenes with styrenes using Montmorillonite K-10 as an efficient,selective, and recyclable catalyst

Abstract

Hydroarylation of styrene and its derivatives with arenes and heteroarenes was studied using Montmorillonite K-10 as an efficient, environmentally benign, economical, greener, and recyclable catalyst. The reaction gives 1,1-diarylalkanes with a very high selectivity and excellent yields in short time with greater substrate compatibility.     

Chemoselective acetylation of amines and thiols using monodispersed Ni-nanoparticles

Abstract

We report here a method by which Ni-nanoparticles can be used efficiently to catalyze the acetylation of a variety of amines and thiols under ambient conditions at room temperature. However in a competitive reaction, the thiol was acetylated selectively while the amine remained almost unaffected. The demonstrated chemoselectivity could have multiple potential synthetic applications. Some of the major advantages of this method are high yields, selectivity, short reaction times (<40 min), ease of operation, and compatibility with other protecting groups. Additionally, the process reported is environmentally benign.     

High‐Efficiency Conversion of Trimethylsilyl Ethers to Their Corresponding Ethers using Carbon‐Based Solid Acid as a New Catalyst in Heterogeneous Mixtures

Carbon‐based solid acid was used as a new catalyst for conversion of trimethylsilyl ethers to their corresponding ethers in heterogeneous mixtures. The experiments were done moderately at room temperature, and high yields in suitable times were obtained under these conditions.     

Micron Particles of AlN/Al: Efficient,Novel, and Reusable Heterogeneous Catalyst for the Synthesis of Bis(indolyl)methanes

The present work introduces for the first time the catalytic utility of micron particulate aluminium nitride (AlN/Al) as a novel and reusable heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of bis(indolyl)methanes involving the electrophilic substitution of indoles on aldehydes. The catalyst is recyclable and works without any significant change in its catalytic activity.     

KG-60-Piperazine as a New Heterogeneous Catalyst for Gewald Three-Component Reaction

Piperazine supported on amorphous silica (KG-60-piperazine) as a basic catalyst acts in the Gewald three-component reaction of some aldehydes and ketones with malononitrile as well as ethyl cyanoacetate. The catalyst shows general utility with a variety of starting carbonyl compounds. Moreover, the catalyst can be reused for four additional cycles without significant loss of the activity.

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Synthesis of New and Novel N-Protected 1-Aminoalkyl-2-naphthol Derivatives

A series of three-component reactions has been carried out using HClO₄-SiO₂ as a versatile heterogeneous catalyst. A series of new and novel N-protected 1-aminoalkyl-2-naphthol derivatives have been prepared under thermal solvent-free reaction conditions. In all cases, the reaction conditions were very simple and high-yielding.