In 2012, approximately 22,280 women will be diagnosed with ovarian carcinoma in the United States and roughly 15,500 will die from this disease, ranked the most common cause of death among gynecologic malignancies in developed countries [1]. Most women with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) present with advanced disease (stage III or IV) at the time of diagnosis. This phenomenon is mainly due to ...

Platinum(IV) coordination complexes like oxoplatin (cis,cis,trans-diammine-dichlorido-dihydroxido-platinum[IV]) show high stability and therefore can be utilized orally for outpatient care. Although oxoplatin is capable of binding directly to DNA after prolonged incubation, platinum(IV) agents are considered to be largely inert prodrugs that are converted to highly cytotoxic platinum(II) compou...

In this paper we provide benchmark results for two classes of methods used in interpreting noun compounds (NCs): semantic similarity-based methods and their hybrids. We evaluate the methods using 7-way and binary class data from the nominal pair interpretation task of SEMEVAL-2007.1 We summarize and analyse our results, with the intention of providing a framework for benchmarking future researc...

The properties of liquid-crystalline (LC) hybrid systems made of inorganic nanoparticles grafted with photosensitive azo compounds are presented. For materials with a large density of azo ligands at the surface, the LC structure can be reversibly melted by UV light, and the return to the LC state does not require the absorption of visible light. For systems with a lower density of azo ligands, ...

Platinum-organic Compounds, Syntheses, Reductive Elimination, Activation Parameters The Compounds cw-[Pt(PPh3)2(4-X-C6H4)2] [X = F, Cl, CF3, OCH3, N(CH3)2] and cis[Pt(PPh3)2(4-X-C6H4)(Y-C6H4)] [X = F/Y = 3 Cl, 4-C1, 3-CH30, 4 -CH 3 0; X = CF3/Y = 3-F, 4-F] have been synthesized and studied thermally with respect to the reductive elimination of disubstituted biphenyls. Activation parameters A H+...

Platinum atom clusters (Pt nanoparticles, Pt-NPs) were produced selectively at one end of helical plant viruses, tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and potato virus X (PVX), when platinum coordinate compounds were reduced chemically by borohydrides. Size of the platinum NPs depends on conditions of the electroless deposition of platinum atoms on the virus. Results suggest that the Pt-NPs are bound conc...

The reactions o f M n(CF3COO)2 (1) with N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine (tmen), 2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) and triethanolamine (tea) yield three new mononuclear coordination compounds: rra«5-[Mn(tmen)2(CF3COO)2] (2), cw-[Mn(bipy)2(C F3COO)2] (3), and [Mn(tea)2](CF3COO)2 (4). The X-ray structures o f the compounds 2, 3, and 4 are described. The seven-coordination o f the manganese(II) ion in 4,...

Two organometallic compounds containing zinc and manganese in different ratios are used as single-source precursors for the preparation of various new, bimetallic oxide materials with nanoscaled dimensions. It is shown that the materials synthesis can be performed in the solid-state, the liquid-phase, and even in the gas-phase. The molecular composition of the precursors determines the composit...

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A method for the analysis of 10 perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in whole fish homogenate is presented and applied to 60 fish samples collected from the Ohio, Missouri, and upper Mississippi Rivers in 2005. Method accuracy ranged between 86 and 125% with limits of quantitation between 0.2 and 10 ng/g wet weight. Intra- and inter-batch precision was generally +/-20%. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PF...