The kinetics and thermodynamics of the pH-dependent multistate species generated by trans-chalcone n-pyridinebenzopyrylium (n = 2′, 3′) were studied UV–vis spectroscopy, 1H NMR HPLC-MS, results compared with those reported for n 4′. Due to slow interconversion, conjugation these techniques has shown be a powerful tool investigate behaviour systems. involved in are mutatis mutandis same observed...

Cancer is commonly diagnosed in dogs over the age of 10 and is a leading cause of death due to the lack of effective drugs. Flavonoids possess antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenic properties and have been studied as chemopreventive agents in human cancer therapy. However, the literature on dogs is sparse. In this study, we analyzed the effect of nine flavonoids on cell viability,...

Viscum album L. has been used in the indigenous systems of medicine for treatment of headache and some inflammatory diseases. In order to evaluate this information, antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of the five flavonoids (5,7-dimethoxy naringenin or 4',6'-dimethoxy chalcononaringenin) derivatives, isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction of the extract from V. album ssp. album, ...

Flavonoids are valuable natural products derived from the phenylpropanoid pathway. The objective of this study was to create a host for the biosynthesis of naringenin, the central precursor of many flavonoids. This was accomplished by introducing the phenylpropanoid pathway with the genes for phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) from Rhodosporidium toruloides, 4-coumarate:coenzyme A (CoA) ligase (...

Photoresponsive molecular devices can be a valuable tool to promote chemical changes in response multiple signals, such as photons and pH, deliver drugs or detect physiological conditions vivo. For example, trans-chalcones (Ct) from 4′-hydroxyflavylium (F1) 7-hydroxyflavylium (F2) undergo cis-trans isomerization by photoreaction into many different structures. The takes place at slow rate pH ch...

Transgenes inserted into the plant genome can become inactive (gene silencing) or result in silencing of homologous cellular genes [homology-dependent gene silencing (HDG silencing)]. In an earlier study we reported HDG silencing of chalcone synthase (CHS) in Arabidopsis. This study concerns genetic revertants of one of the CHS HDG-silencing transgenic homozygotes. Two monogenic recessive trans...

The mol-ecule of the title heteroaryl chalcone derivative, C13H11NOS, exists in a trans-configuaration and is almost planar with a dihedral angle of 3.73 (8)° between the phenyl and thio-phene rings. An intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond generates an S(6) ring motif. In the crystal, two adjacent mol-ecules are linked into a dimer in an anti-parallel face-to-face manner by a pair of C-H⋯O inter...