We describe the first application of our methodology for heterodimerization via diazene fragmentation towards the total synthesis of (-)-calycanthidine, meso-chimonanthine, and (+)-desmethyl-meso-chimonanthine. Our syntheses of these alkaloids feature an improved route to C3a-aminocyclotryptamines, an enhanced method for sulfamide synthesis and oxidation, in addition to a late-stage diversifica...

Reaction of meso-tetraphenylsecochlorin bisaldehyde with hydroxylamine results in the formation of the known meso-tetraphenyl-2-nitroporphyrin and the novel meso-tetraphenylimidazolophorphyrin. The products are the result of two diverging pathways of the presumed intermediate monooxime monoaldehyde that are unusual and surprising, but fully rationalized. The structures of both products were con...

We investigated in meso crystallization of membrane proteins to develop a fast screening technology which combines features of the well established classical vapor diffusion experiment with the batch meso phase crystallization, but without premixing of protein and monoolein. It inherits the advantages of both methods, namely (i) the stabilization of membrane proteins in the meso phase, (ii) the...

We report single-crystalline mesoporous molybdenum nitride nanowires (meso-Mo3N2-NWs) prepared by topotactic reaction using single-crystalline molybdenum oxide nanowires. The single-crystalline nature of meso-Mo3N2-NWs was clearly observed by field-emission transmission electron microscopy. The meso-Mo3N2-NWs exhibited mesoporous structure with 45 m/g in specific surface area and 4.6 nm in aver...

Slipped cofacial porphyrin dimer 1(2) with di-p-anisylamino groups on the meso-positions shows characteristic photo- and electroproperties making it suitable as a photosynthetic special pair model: more intense and red-shifted absorptivities in the visible region, and electronic communication between the two porphyrins in mixed-valent cation radical 1(2)(+), which is quantified with an IVCT ban...

A variant of the Trotter-Kato approximation theorem is used to derive from a spacediscrete model the non-linear Boltzmann-like equations introduced by Th.W. Ruijgrok and T.T. Wu. The application include a micro-meso-macro link for cars in traffic.