High yielding synthetic routes to 3’,5’-diamino-2’,3’,5’-trideoxycytidine and 3’,5’-diamino-2’,3’,5’-trideoxyadenosine are described. In addition, the protonation behavior of 3’,5’-diamino-2’,3’,5’-trideoxycytidine, 3’,5’-diamino-2’,3’,5’-trideoxyadenosine, 3’,5’diamino-3’,5’-dideoxythymidine, and 3’,5’-diamino-2’,3’,5’-trideoxyuridine has been studied by means of pH-metric measurements and NMR...

Since there is no flue-gas desulfurization facility (FGD) in Australian Power Plants, the temperatures of flue gases from the plants range from 393–433 K which is much higher than the absorption temperatures in a typical post combustion CO2 capture (PCC) process. The additional cooling systems and equipments are required to cool flue gases. This adds to the cost, and water and energy consumptio...

The adsorption of selenium (Se) on soil is important because of the relevance of Se to environmental and health issues. The adsorption of Se(IV) and Se(VI) was evaluated on soil samples from São Paulo State, Brazil, as a function of varying pH, and the experimental data were fitted to the constant capacitance model. Adsorption experiments were conducted for 15 soil samples, after the addition o...

Calcite-water interactions are important not only in carbon sequestration and the global carbon cycle, but also in contaminant behaviour in calcite-bearing host rock and in many industrial applications. Here we quantify the effect of variations in surface structure on calcite surface reactivity. Firstly, we employ classical Molecular Dynamics simulations of calcite surfaces containing an etch p...

In the crystal structure of the title polymeric compound, [C42H38N6O33Sr5.2(H2O)]n, five independent metal atoms (Sr1-Sr5) have different coordination environments. The Sr1 and Sr5 atoms are nine coordinated and feature distorted tricapped trigonal-prismatic and capped square-antiprismatic geometries, respectively....

Protonation and complexation equilibria of embelin were investigated in 86% v/v dimethyl sulphoxide - water mixture electrometrically at an ionic strength of 0.17 mol dm-3 and at a temperature of 303K. The best fit chemical models were arrived at based on statistical grounds employing crystallographic R factor, χ2, skewness and kurtosis. The existence of binary complex species with Co(II), Ni(I...

A combination of atomic correlation statistics and quantum chemical calculations are shown to predict biological function. In the present study, various antigenic peptide-Major Histocompatibility Complex (pMHC) ligands with near-identical stereochemistries, in complexation with the same T cell receptor (TCR), were found to consistently induce distinctly different quantum chemical behavior, dire...

diosmin, a vascular-protecting agent, is practically insoluble in water, and its oral absorption is limited by its extremely low dissolution rate. in this study, β-cyclodextrin (βcd) and 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (hpβcd) were obtained to improve the solubility and dissolution rate of diosmin. phase solubility studies of diosmin with βcd and hpβcd in distilled water were conducted to charac...

The complexation of copper(II) perchlorate with cis,trans-1,3,5-triamino-cyclohexane (transtachH) yields four related mononuclear complexes, [Cu(trans-tachH)2](ClO4)4·(H2O) (1), [Cu(transtachH)2](ClO4)4·2MeOH (2), [Cu(trans-tachH)2(ClO4)](ClO4)3 (3) and [Cu(trans-tach)(transtachH)(ClO4)2](ClO4)·H2O (4). These complexes only differ with respect to ligand protonation, solvent coordination / conte...

Abstract Crown ethers containing an acridone or acridine unit are successfully applied opto- and electrochemical cation sensors. The heteroaromatic of these macrocycles can be in different forms during the applications, which have a strong influence on sensing behavior. Moreover, case acridono-macrocycles prototropic equilibrium takes place upon complexation, is effected by physicochemical char...