In this work, we present the temperature-dependence and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) of CdS nanoparticles capped independently with three different ligands thiophenol, thioglycerol, and l-cysteine over a broad temperature range from 10 to 300 K. The respective nanoparticles sizes in the three systems studied in this work are 1.5, 4, and 2 nm as determined from X-ray diffraction (XRD). F...

Chloromethane (CH(3)Cl), a gaseous natural product released as a secondary metabolite by many woodrotting fungi of the family Hymenochaetaceae, has been shown to act as a methyl donor for biosynthesis of methyl esters of benzoic and furoic acid in the primary metabolism of Phellinus pomaceus. The broad-specificity methylating system could esterify a wide range of aromatic and aliphatic acids. I...

Coumarin derivatives possessing diverse biological activities play important roles as versatile building blocks for the synthesis of natural products and biologically active compounds. In particular, 4-hydroxycoumarin derivatives, such as 4-hydroxycoumarin and 4-hydroxythiocoumarin, have been used as useful intermediates for the synthesis of anticoagulants, herbicides, and anticancer agents. Re...

The Front Cover shows the structure of RTFt1, a rhodamine-based sensor that can report on presence Fenton reactants, Fe(II) and H2O2. Two sets cells are depicted: healthy have low levels so remains in its non-fluorescent form; while undergoing ferroptosis right higher activity, is converted to red-fluorescent form, visible by confocal microscopy. More information be found Communication E. J. Ne...

The bacterial phosphotriesterase from Pseudomonas diminuta is a zinc metalloenzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of a variety of organophosphorus nerve agents with high efficiency. The active site of the enzyme consists of a coupled binuclear metal center embedded within a cluster of histidine residues. Potential protein-substrate interactions at the active site were probed by a systematic var...

Background/aims: Pyrimidines have a long and distinguished history extending from the days of their discovery as important constituents of nucleic acids to their current use in medicinal chemistry. As a part of project devoted to the development of pyrimidine analogs as antimicrobial agents we have focused our attention on synthesis of C5/C6 substituted pyrimidine derivatives, specifically C6 s...

An acid phosphatase (HppA) activated by NH4Cl was purified 192- and 34-fold from the periplasmic and membrane fractions of Helicobacter pylori, respectively. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that HppA from the latter appears to be several kilodaltons larger in molecular mass than from the former by about 24 kDa. Under acidic conditions (pH< or =4.5), the enzyme activity was entir...

The highly substituted pyridine derivatives are found to exhibit diverse pharmacological activities. They are also emerged as potential medicinal leads in developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of various diseases. In this work, a series of 2-amino-3,5-dicarbonitrile-6-thio-pyridine derivatives have been synthesized at room temperature via one-pot, multi-component reaction of various a...

Novel ZnS–poly(urethane-methacrylate macromer) (PUMM) nanocomposite films with high refractive index were prepared by incorporating thiophenol (PhSH)–4-thiomethyl styrene (TMSt)-capped ZnS nanoparticles into a urethane-methacrylate macromer (UMM), followed by spin-coating and ultraviolet radiation initiated free radical polymerization. PhSH–TMSt-capped colloidal ZnS solution was synthesized by ...