Dietary flavonoids show beneficial effects in the prevention of chronic diseases. However, flavonoid bioavailability is poor, probably due to their interaction with serum albumins. In the current work, the binding interactions of eight related flavonoids, sharing a similar core structure, with bovine serum albumin (BSA) were investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy. The binding affinities of t...

Naphthalimides make up a class of organic molecules characterised by excellent spectroscopic properties due to their extended conjugate system. Furthermore, various asymmetric or symmetric compounds can be obtained from naphthalimides the different functionalization that performed on nitrogen and/or aromatic rings. The introduction wide range substituents in positions allows chemical and regula...

The title compound, C(21)H(21)N(5)O(2), is a 1,4-dimethyl-1,2,3-triazole having dimethyl-benzodiazepindione and phenyl substituents on each methyl group; the substituents are positioned on opposite sides of the five-membered ring. The seven-membered fused-ring of the larger substituent adopts a boat-shaped conformation (with the methine C atom as the prow).

Three dithienylethene derivatives having anthracene substituents (connected at 1-, 2- and 9-positions) were prepared. Although these three derivatives exhibit photochromic reactivity in solution, only one of the derivatives (connected at 2-position) undergoes the photochromic reaction in the crystalline phase. X-Ray crystallographic analysis and DFT calculation revealed that conformation of the...

Acidic substituents for Ala-177 (helix 6) or Tyr-236 (helix 7) in LacY cause effects on sugar recognition and cosubstrate coupling that are stereotypical of neutral substituents. Thus, helices 6 and 7 are probably oriented to produce little side-chain contact with the low dielectric lipid bilayer at positions 177 and 236.

The treatment of cyclopropanes having donor and acceptor substituents at the vicinal positions on the cyclopropane ring with a Lewis acid readily generates a 1,3-zwitterion, which reacted with allylsilanes to produce cycloadducts and allylic products. It was found that the yield of the cycloadduct depends on the steric demand of the alkyl substituents on the silicon atom.

UiO-66-X (X = H, NH2, NO2, Br) have been successfully synthesized and tested for their photocatalytic activity in water treatment. Results show that electronic effect of the ligand substituents greatly affects the photocatalytic activity of UiO-66. The rates obtained by different substituents are linearly correlated with their Hammett coefficients.

Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is a recently discovered central nervous system (CNS) target for treating obesity. Two novel series of amide derivatives were synthesized and evaluated biologically as MCH-R1 (melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1) antagonists. The results showed that diphenyl substituents on the amide lead to better activity than biphenyl substituents.

The nature and the position of substituents are important factors driving NLO properties.

Spin polarization in the electron transmission of radicals is important for understanding single-molecule conductance experiments focusing on shot noise, Kondo properties, or magnetoresistance. We study how stable radical substituents can affect such spin when attached to oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene) (OPE) backbones. find that it not straightforward translate density a substituent into spin-dep...