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Aromatic Molecules (aromatic + molecule)
Selected AbstractsComposites of Graphene with Large Aromatic MoleculesADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 31 2009Qi Su A novel approach to functionalize graphene with large aromatic donor and acceptor molecules consisting of nanographene units is presented, producing an unprecedented class of graphene and nanographene composites with tunable electronic properties. The stability of aqueous dispersion of graphene sheets is greatly enhanced, and a large number of monolayer and double-layer graphene sheets could be facilely fabricated on the substrates [source] Electronic Decoupling of Aromatic Molecules from a Metal by an Atomically Thin Organic Spacer,ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 23 2008Roman Forker Electronic coupling effects of organic adsorbates to metallic surfaces are examined optically. Covering a Au(111) substrate with an ultrathin (,0.3 nm) nanographene-like layer of flat lying molecules leads to decoupling of further molecular layers to a large extent. Our work suggests that not only inorganic salts or oxides can be used as insulating spacers but also particular organic monolayers. [source] Thermal Fusion Reactions of meso -(3-Thienyl) Groups in [26]Hexaphyrins to Produce Möbius Aromatic Molecules,ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE, Issue 36 2009Mitsunori Inoue Verdrillt, weil fusioniert: Einfache thermische Reaktionen von meso -(3-Thienylgruppen) in Hückel-aromatischen [26]Hexaphyrinen (links im Bild; N,blau, S,gelb, F,grün) liefern 3-Thienyl-kondensierte [28]Hexaphyrine (rechts) mit Möbius-aromatischem Charakter, wie eine Reihe spektroskopischer Untersuchungen nahelegt. [source] ChemInform Abstract: On the Resonance Energy in New All-Metal Aromatic MoleculesCHEMINFORM, Issue 14 2002Alexander I. Boldyrev Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source] ChemInform Abstract: Observation of All-Metal Aromatic Molecules.CHEMINFORM, Issue 18 2001Xi Li Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source] Formation and reactions of cluster ions from aromatic carboxylic acids together with amino acidsISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, Issue 2 2001Anja Meffert The cluster formation of several aromatic carboxylic acids, ferulic acid, vanillic acid, sinapinic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid was investigated by means of laser desorption into a supersonic beam followed by multiphoton ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The formation of not only homogeneous clusters, but also of heterogeneous clusters with some small amino acids was studied. The different neutral clusters formed in the supersonic expansion were ionized by a multiphoton process employing either nano- or femtosecond laser pulses. Strong differences in the detection of cluster ions due to the laser pulse length employed for multiphoton ionization were observed. Only femtosecond activation led to mass spectra with intense signals of the cluster ions. In addition, in the case of femtosecond ionization, protonated amino acids were detected in the mass spectra. As direct ionization of the free amino acids is not possible under the chosen ionization conditions because they lack an adequate chromophore, these protonated amino acids are assumed to be formed via an intracluster proton transfer in the heterogeneous dimer and subsequent decay of the ionized cluster (dissociative proton transfer). Such well-known processes for heterogeneous clusters consisting of a substituted aromatic molecule and small polar solvent molecules may be involved in the matrixassisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) process. [source] Indole in DNA: Comparison of a Nucleosidic with a Non-Nucleosidic DNA Base SubstitutionEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2009Janez Barbaric Abstract The synthetic incorporation of indole as an artificial DNA base into oligonucleotides by two different structural approaches is described. For both types of modification, the indole moiety is attached through the C-3 position to the oligonucleotides. As a mimic of natural nucleosides, the indole nucleoside of ,-2,-deoxyribofuranoside (In) was synthesized. The corresponding In-modified duplexes were compared with duplexes that contained the indole group connected through (S)-3-amino-1,2-propanediol as an acyclic linker between the phosphodiester bridges of the oligonucleotides. This linker was tethered to the C-3 position of the indole heterocycle either directly (In,) or by a carbamate function (In,). The melting temperatures of the corresponding indole-modified DNA duplexes were measured and compared. Interestingly, not only the In, and In, modifications but also the natural-like In base surrogate destabilize the DNA duplex strongly. This result supports our approach to apply the acyclic glycol linker to incorporate aromatic molecules as artificial DNA base substitutions. The major advantage of acyclic glycol linkers [such as the applied (S)-3-amino-1,2-propanediol] is that the corresponding modifications are synthetically more easily and readily accessible, as it avoids the preparation of the nucleosidic bond and the separation and purification of the ,- and ,-anomers. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2009) [source] Self-Assembled Graphene,Enzyme Hierarchical Nanostructures for Electrochemical BiosensingADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Issue 19 2010Qiong Zeng Abstract The self-assembly of sodium dodecyl benzene sulphonate (SDBS) functionalized graphene sheets (GSs) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) by electrostatic attraction into novel hierarchical nanostructures in aqueous solution is reported. Data from scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction demonstrate that the HRP,GSs bionanocomposites feature ordered hierarchical nanostructures with well-dispersed HRP intercalated between the GSs. UV-vis and infrared spectra indicate the native structure of HRP is maintained after the assembly, implying good biocompatibility of SDBS-functionalized GSs. Furthermore, the HRP,GSs composites are utilized for the fabrication of enzyme electrodes (HRP,GSs electrodes). Electrochemical measurements reveal that the resulting HRP,GSs electrodes display high electrocatalytic activity to H2O2 with high sensitivity, wide linear range, low detection limit, and fast amperometric response. These desirable electrochemical performances are attributed to excellent biocompatibility and superb electron transport efficiency of GSs as well as high HRP loading and synergistic catalytic effect of the HRP,GSs bionanocomposites toward H2O2. As graphene can be readily non-covalently functionalized by "designer" aromatic molecules with different electrostatic properties, the proposed self-assembly strategy affords a facile and effective platform for the assembly of various biomolecules into hierarchically ordered bionanocomposites in biosensing and biocatalytic applications. [source] Thin Films: One Nanometer Thin Carbon Nanosheets with Tunable Conductivity and Stiffness (Adv. Mater.ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 12 200912/2009) Andrey Turchanin and co-workers report on page 1233 on the fabrication and characterization of atomically thin (,1 nm) carbon films and membranes with tunable conductivity and stiffness, arbitrary size and shape. These carbon nanosheets are produced using self-assembled monolayers of aromatic molecules, which are cross-linked by electrons, detached from the surfaces, and subsequently pyrolized. The technical applicability of these novel materials is demonstrated by incorporating them into a microscopic pressure sensor. The optical microscopy image shows a folded nanosheet transferred onto an oxidized silicon wafer. [source] Microwave-Assisted Oxidation of Side Chain Arenes by MagtrieveTMADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS (PREVIOUSLY: JOURNAL FUER PRAKTISCHE CHEMIE), Issue 12 2003Marcin Lukasiewicz Abstract A commercial tetravalent chromium dioxide (MagtrieveTM) as a magnetically retrievable oxidant is shown to be a very useful compound for microwave-assisted and conventional transformation of aromatic and alkyl aromatic molecules into the corresponding aryl ketones, quinones or lactones. [source] Accurate prediction of proton chemical shifts.JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 16 2001Abstract Forty-five proton chemical shifts in 14 aromatic molecules have been calculated at several levels of theory: Hartree,Fock and density functional theory with several different basis sets, and also second-order Møller,Plesset (MP2) theory. To obtain consistent experimental data, the NMR spectra were remeasured on a 500 MHz spectrometer in CDCl3 solution. A set of 10 molecules without strong electron correlation effects was selected as the parametrization set. The calculated chemical shifts (relative to benzene) of 29 different protons in this set correlate very well with the experiment, and even better after linear regression. For this set, all methods perform roughly equally. The best agreement without linear regression is given by the B3LYP/TZVP method (rms deviation 0.060 ppm), although the best linear fit of the calculated shifts to experimental values is obtained for B3LYP/6-311++G**, with an rms deviation of only 0.037 ppm. Somewhat larger deviations were obtained for the second test set of 4 more difficult molecules: nitrobenzene, azulene, salicylaldehyde, and o -nitroaniline, characterized by strong electron correlation or resonance-assisted intramolecular hydrogen bonding. The results show that it is possible, at a reasonable cost, to calculate relative proton shieldings in a similar chemical environment to high accuracy. Our ultimate goal is to use calculated proton shifts to obtain constraints for local conformations in proteins; this requires a predictive accuracy of 0.1,0.2 ppm. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 22: 1887,1895, 2001 [source] Free-radical 4-nitrophenylation of thieno[2,3- b]pyridine.JOURNAL OF HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 6 2001Part 3: Consideration of mechanistic, selectivity factors involved in the substitution process A 1:1 geometrically oriented encounter complex between thieno[2,3-b]pyridine (1) and 4-nitrophenyldia-zoacetate (2) is proposed to account for the dominant formation (ca. 64%) of the 2-isomer in the mixture of 4-nitrophenyl-l isomers obtained previously. A mechanism involving one-electron transfer from 1 to 2 plus fragmentation of 2· into 4-nitrophenyl free radical, N2, and acetate ion is invoked. Formation of other isomers is discussed. It is noted that there is a close correlation between orientational rules plus mechanisms of reaction for numerous free-radical substitutions (SR) with SN reactions of alkyllithiums on furan, thiophene, N -alkylpyrroles, pyridine, and their condensed aromatic molecules, including 1, as substrates. Also isomeric selectivities for SE, SN, and SR substitutions into 1 were shown to be qualitatively consistent with one another. While SE reactions occur largely at position 3 and then at 2, SN and SR reactions occur either at 2 or 6. Selectivity for positions 4 or 5 is small or zero. [source] An Electrophilicity Based Analysis of Toxicity of Aromatic Compounds Towards Tetrahymena PyriformisMOLECULAR INFORMATICS, Issue 2 2006R. Roy Abstract Electrophilicity index is one of the important quantum chemical descriptors in describing toxicity or biological activities of the diverse classes of chemicals to bio-systems in the context of development of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR). In this study a large number of selected 174 aromatic compounds containing phenols, nitrobenzenes and benzonitriles are chosen as the training set to verify their toxic potency to Tetrahymena pyriformis in the light of electrophilicity. A systematic analysis has been made to find out the electron donation/acceptance nature of these model compounds by comparing their electronegativity values with those of the NA bases/DNA base pairs. The training sets are classified into two groups, viz., the electron donor group comprising 97 phenol derivatives and the electron acceptor group consisting of 77 nitrobenzenes and benzonitriles grouped together. Regression analysis in terms of correlation coefficient (), variance adjusted to degrees of freedom () and variance of leave-one-out cross-validation () has been made for both the electron donor and acceptor aromatic groups to predict the toxicity values of these model compounds to Tetrahymena pyriformis. It is heartening to note that the global and local electrophilicity indices along with the total Hartree-Fock energy can explain more than 80% of cross-validation variance of data of those aromatic molecules. [source] Gas-phase formation of protonated benzene during collision-induced dissociation of certain protonated mono-substituted aromatic molecules produced in electrospray ionizationRAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, Issue 11 2010Min Li Protonated benzene, C6H, has been studied extensively to understand the structure and energy of a protonated organic molecule in the gas phase. The formation of C6H is either through direct protonation of benzene, i.e., chemical ionization, or through fragmentation of certain radical cations produced from electron ionization or photon ionization. We report a novel observation of C6H as a product ion formed in the collision-induced dissociation (CID) of protonated benzamide and related molecules produced via electrospray ionization (ESI). The formation of C6H from these even-electron precursor ions during the CID process, which has not been previously reported, is proposed to occur from the protonated molecules via a proton migration in a five-membered ring intermediate followed by the cleavage of the mono-substituent CC bond and concurrent formation of an ion-molecule complex. This unique mechanism has been scrutinized by examining some deuterated molecules and a series of structurally related model compounds. This finding provides a convenient mean to generate C6H, a reactive intermediate of considerable interest, for further physical or chemical investigation. Further studies indicate that the occurrence of C6H in liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) appears to be a rather common phenomenon for many compounds that contain ,benzoyl-type' moieties. Hence, the observation of the C6H ion in LC/ESI-MS/MS can be used as an informative fragmentation pathway which should facilitate the identification of a great number of compounds containing the ,benzoyl-type' and similar structural features. These compounds are frequently present in food and pharmaceutical products as leachable impurities that require strict control and rapid elucidation of their identities. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Does the ligand-biopolymer equilibrium binding constant depend on the number of bound ligands?,BIOPOLYMERS, Issue 11 2010Daria A. Beshnova Abstract Conventional methods, such as Scatchard or McGhee-von Hippel analyses, used to treat ligand-biopolymer interactions, indirectly make the assumption that the microscopic binding constant is independent of the number of ligands, i, already bound to the biopolymer. Recent results on the aggregation of aromatic molecules (Beshnova et al., J Chem Phys 2009, 130, 165105) indicated that the equilibrium constant of self-association depends intrinsically on the number of molecules in an aggregate due to loss of translational and rotational degrees of freedom on formation of the complex. The influence of these factors on the equilibrium binding constant for ligand-biopolymer complexation was analyzed in this work. It was shown that under the conditions of binding of "small" molecules, these factors can effectively be ignored and, hence, do not provide any hidden systematic error in such widely-used approaches, such as the Scatchard or McGhee-von Hippel methods for analyzing ligand-biopolymer complexation. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 93: 932,935, 2010. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||