To synthesize ligands that are capable of coordinating two metals, 1,4-dilithiumbenzene and 4,4′-dilithiumbiphenyl were reacted with different sulfurdiimides to give coupled diimidosulfinates. [(THF)4Li2{(NSiMe3)2S}2biphenyl] (1) and [(THF)1.5Li2{(NSiMe3)2S}2biphenyl]∞ (2) could be isolated and structurally characterized. While 1 forms distinct molecules in the solid state, 2 crystallizes in in...

Article history: Received 24 March 2015 Received in revised form 12 June 2015 Accepted 16 June 2015 Available online 17 June 2015 Editor: M. Doser The decay Bs → ψ(2S)K+π− is observed using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The branching fraction relative to the B0 →ψ(2S)K...

The synthesis of (2S)-2-benzyloxymethyl-3-(2-fluoro-4-methoxyphenyl)- propionic acid, (2S)-2-benzyloxymethyl-3-(2-fluoro-4-methylphenyl)propionic acid and (2S)-2-benzyl-oxymethyl-3-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)propionic acid has been achieved by TiCl4 mediated alkylation of the corresponding (4R)-4-benzyl-3-[3-(2-fluoro-4-methoxyphenyl-, 2-fluoro-4-methylphenyl-, 2,4- dimethylphenyl-)propionyl]-2-oxazol...

Streptonigrin is a potent antitumor antibiotic, active against a wide range of mammalian tumor cells. It was reported that its biosynthesis relies on (2S,3R)-β-methyltryptophan as an intermediate. In this study, the biosynthesis of (2S,3R)-β-methyltryptophan and its isomer (2S,3S)-β-methyltryptophan by enzymes from the streptonigrin biosynthetic pathway is demonstrated. StnR is a pyridoxal 5'-p...

Iron-Sulfur (Fe-S) clusters and proteins are essential to many growth and developmental processes. In plants, they exist in the plastids, mitochondria, cytosol, and nucleus. Six types of Fe-S clusters are found in the plastid: classic 2Fe-2S, NEET-type 2Fe-2S, Rieske-type 2Fe-2S, 3Fe-4S, 4Fe-4S, and siroheme 4Fe-4S. Classic, NEET-type, and Rieske-type 2Fe-2S clusters have the same 2Fe-2S core; ...

Working in the nonrelativistic-QCD factorization framework at next-to-leading order ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}$, we fit relevant color octet long-distance matrix elements of $\ensuremath{\psi}(2S)$ meson, $⟨{\mathcal{O}}^{\ensuremath{\psi}(2S)}({^{1}S}_{0}^{[8]})⟩$, $⟨{\mathcal{O}}^{\ensuremath{\psi}(2S)}({^{3}S}_{1}^{[8]})⟩$, and $⟨{\mathcal{O}}^{\ensuremath{\psi}(2S)}({^{3}P}_{0}^{[8]})⟩$, to...

Drosophila melanogaster 5.8S and 2S rRNAs were end-labeled with 32p at either the 5' or 3' end and were sequenced. 5.8S rRNA is 123 nucleotides long and homologous to the 5' part of sequenced 5.8S molecules from other species. 2S rRNA is 30 nucleotides long and homologous to the 3' part of other 5.8S molecules. The 3' end of the 5.8S molecule is able to base-pair with the 5' end of the 2S rRNA ...

Monothiol glutaredoxins play a crucial role in iron-sulfur (Fe/S) protein biogenesis. Essentially all of them can coordinate a [2Fe-2S] cluster and have been proposed to mediate the transfer of [2Fe-2S] clusters from scaffold proteins to target apo proteins, possibly by acting as cluster transfer proteins. The molecular basis of [2Fe-2S] cluster transfer from monothiol glutaredoxins to target p...

A series of optically active poly(diphenylacetylene) derivatives bearing a chiral substituent (poly-2S) or chiral and achiral substituents (poly-(2Sx-co-31-x)) on all of their pendant phenyl rings were synthesized by the reaction of poly(bis(4-carboxyphenyl)acetylene) with (S)-1-phenylethylamine ((S)-2) or benzylamine (3) in the presence of a condensing reagent. Their chiroptical properties and...

The present invention provides a new process for the preparation of 2S,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-amino-4phenylbutyl)-p-nitrobenzenesulfonylamide hydrochloride, wherein this compound is prepared directly from the chloromethylalcohol. Importantly, the process of the present invention results in higher yields of 2S,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2hydroxy -3 -amino -4-phenylbu tyl) -pnitrobenzenesulfonylamide...