Through metabolic profiling of mutants and wild type of the endofungal bacterium Burkholderia rhizoxinica two novel rhizoxin derivatives with unusual nitrile substitutions were discovered. The nitrile groups result from a photochemical oxidative cleavage of the oxazolyl moiety. In vitro studies revealed that the photooxidation by singlet oxygen also takes place in the absence of a photosensitiz...

Suinizary. A nunibl)er of pteridfines were examined( for activity in promotinig photop)hosphorylation in broken spinach chlioroplasts anid in stimlulating cvtochrome c photooxidation ill sonicated chloroplasts. Correlation was fouind between activities for the 2 reactions. Photophosphorylation promoted by pteridines was inhibited by DCMU and by anaerobic conditiolns. It is concluded that pterid...

Starting from readily available phenanthrenequinone and alkenes, biaryl containing medium-ring bislactones could be easily prepared through sequential photocycloaddition-photooxidation reactions with good yields and diastereoselectivity.

The iridium(III) cyclometalation of alkylated pyrene-benzimidazole ligands proceeds in an unprecedented manner. The resultant complexes display remarkably enhanced photooxidation capabilities using 1,5-dihydroxynaphthalene as a substrate.

The photochemical instability of CdSe nanocrystals coated by hydrophilic thiols was studied nondestructively and systematically in water. The results revealed that the photochemical instability of the nanocrystals actually included three distinguishable processes, namely the photocatalytic oxidation of the thiol ligands on the surface of nanocrystals, the photooxidation of the nanocrystals, and...

anionic dbs surfactant can be photodegraded in a tio2 dispersion and h2o2 solution under an hg-lamp (15 w) uv illumination or solar exposure. degradation process has been monitored through cleavage of aromatic moiety. degradation of the detergent was small when the photolysis was carried out in the absence of tio2 and h2o2 and it was negligible in the absence of light. most of the curves repres...

Polychlorinated esters released to the atmosphere can suffer photooxidation, that lead persistent Cl-containing compounds, with harmful effects environment at local, regional and global scale.