Due to the unique optical properties like high brightness and narrow emission bands of Quantum dots, it is used as simple fluorescence materials in bio-imaging, immunoassays, microarrays, and other applications. To easy invistigate cell lines that overexpressed somtostatin receptors, somatostatin (SST) was conjugated with Quantum dots carrying PEG amine (Qdots-PEG-NH2). The conjugation of SST t...

In this study, perthiophosphonic acid anhydrides which are previously known (2,4-bis(3-methoxytolyl)-1,3-dithia-2,4-diphosphetane-2,4-disulfide ([(3-methoxytolyl)P(S)S)2], SAV-B1 reagent and 2,4-bis(ferrocenyl)-1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane-2,4-disulfide [(ferrocenyl)P(S)S)2], FcLR, Ferrocenyl Lawesson's Reagent) react with alcohols to obtain new dithiophosphonic acids (3-methoxytolyl=(CH3)(OCH3)...

A photoaffinity labelling study of the messenger RNA-binding region of E. coli ribosomes has been made, using oligoadenylic acids as mRNA analogs. The oligonucleotides, of chain length 6 to 8 and thus several nucleotides longer than oligonucleotides previously employed for this purpose, carried a radioactive photolabile aromatic azide reagent bound covalently to the 3'-terminal ribose moiety. T...

Strategic replacement of protons with fluorine atoms or functional groups fluorine-containing fragments has proven a powerful strategy to optimize the activity therapeutic compounds. For this reason, synthetic chemistry organofluorides been subject intense development and innovation for many years. By comparison, literature on biocatalysis still makes slim chapter. Herein we introduce S-adenosy...

Automated adaptations of dithionite and urea-dithionite tube tests are accurate, reliable, inexpensive methods for detecting hemoglobin S. More than 3,000 individuals have been screened (120 determinations per hour; reagent cost, 2 to 4 cents per test). The dithionite reagent consists of potassium phosphate, sodium dithionite, and saponin. When S hemoglobin contacts this reagent, the red cells ...

A new rapid iodination reagent, N1,N3,N5-tris[(2,4,6-trimethylpyridine)iodo(I)]-2,4,6-triphenyl-s-triazine trihexafluorophosphate, was synthesized in a modification of the established synthesis 2,4,6-triiodo-3,5-dimethylphenol presence bis(2,4,6-trimethylpyridine)iodo(I) hexafluorophosphate and used for precise post-modification mono- trisubstituted phenyl compounds. We performed triple iodinat...

Introduction of a difluoromethyl (CF2H) unit into organic molecules is of specific interest in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology, as compounds with a CF2H moiety can act as an isostere to molecules having a methanol (CH2OH) unit with improved lipophilicity. Among several strategies for the synthesis of CF2H compounds available, a late-stage difluoromethylation using easy-to-handle reagen...

A new one-pot preparative route was developed to synthesize novel organophosphorus-sulfur heterocycles via the reaction of the four-membered ring thionation reagent [2,4-diferrocenyl-1,3,2,4-diathiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide (FcLR, a ferrocene analogue of Lawesson's reagent)] and alkenyl/aryl-diols and I₂ (or SOCl₂) in the presence of triethylamine. Therefore, a series of five- to ten-membered...