New anthraquinone derivatives were prepared and used as active layers of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs); these devices showed good n-type characteristics and the quinones were found to be useful for organic semiconductors in OFETs.

BACKGROUND Severe asthma is associated with T helper (TH) 2 and 17 cell activation, airway neutrophilia and phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) activation. Asthma exacerbations are commonly caused by rhinovirus (RV) and also associated with PI3K-driven inflammation. Anthraquinone derivatives have been shown to reduce PI3K-mediated AKT phosphorylation in-vitro. OBJECTIVE To determine the anti-inf...

Various intricate propellane derivatives and oxa-bowls have been synthesized via a ring-rearrangement metathesis (RRM) as a key step starting from readily accessible starting materials such as p-benzoquinone, 1,4-naphthoquinone and 1,4-anthraquinone.

We established callus cultures of the monocotyledonous plants Kniphofia foliosa and K. tuckii (Asphodelaceae), which produce the anthraquinone derivatives chrysophanol and its glycosides. The minor product chrysophanol 8-O-beta-gentiobioside was fully characterized by spectroscopic analysis and synthesis.

A spectrophotometric method is used to determine the acidity constants of some derivatives of 9,10-anthraquinone in binary methanol-water mixtures at 25 °C. There is a linear inverse relationship between pKa of all acids and the mole fraction of methanol in the mixed solvent. The influence of substituents in the molecular structure on the ionization constants is discussed.  

M. R. Gerhardt, Dr. Q. Chen, Prof. R. G. Gordon, Prof. M. J. Aziz Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cambridge, MA 02138, USA E-mail: [email protected] L. Tong, Dr. R. Gómez-Bombarelli, Prof. A. Aspuru-Guzik, Prof. R. G. Gordon Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Prof. M. P. Marshak Department of Chemistry and ...

Novel anthraquinone-based cyclic antioxidants containing amino, thio and oxo groups were synthesized their antioxidant capacity was determined by using the cerium(IV)-reducing (CERAC) assay. 1H, 13C NMR, FTIR-spectroscopy ESI (Electrospray Ionization) mass spectrometry used for characterization of anthraquinone derivatives exhibiting CERAC capacity. This study is great importance, because compo...

Modifying a gold electrode surface with hydroxy-alkyl-thiols significantly reduces the observed rate of electron transfer. This designed and controlled decrease in electron transfer rate readily allows reversible and irreversible electrode processes to be more clearly delineated. Separation of such voltammetric responses can facilitate the direct study of redox catalytic processes, which would,...

Two types of one-handed exact helical polymers, coil- and screw-shaped polymers, were synthesized by the two-point-covalent-linking protocol using C2-chiral spirobifluorene (SBF) and C2- or C(s)-symmetric anthraquinone spacers. Central to this protocol is a new aromatic ring-forming reaction based on the stepwise reductive cyclization of bis(aryloxy group)-substituted anthraquinone derivatives....