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The demand for a new solvent to treat oilsands was behind the purpose of this project; molecular dynamics simulation was used in this study. Supercritical water, supercritical carbon dioxide and other selected organic solvents in their supercritical state were studied. Meso-tetraphenyl porphyrin (H2TPP) and Octaethyl porphyrin (H2OEP) are the porphyrin model compounds and, 4’-Bis-(2-pyren-1-yl-...

The intracellular microenvironment is essential for the efficiency of photo-induced therapies, as short-lived reactive oxygen species generated must diffuse through their intracellular surrounding medium to reach their cellular target. Here, by combining measurements of local cytoplasmic dissipation and active trafficking, we found that photosensitizers activation induced small changes in surro...

Two-photon absorption spectra in absolute cross-section values are presented for a number of octaethyl-, tetraphenyl-, and tetrabenzo-substituted porphyrins. In excitation spectral region of 710–810 nm, the two-photon absorption efficiency is resonantly enhanced due to nearby Q(0–0) one-photon transition. The cross-section value calculated directly from the groundand excited-state absorption pa...

Very little is known about enolate addition chemistry under solver-free mechanochemical conditions. In this report, we investigated the ability to selectively form products arising from the primary, secondary, and tertiary enolates under solvent-free conditions. Using potassium tert-butoxide as the base and primary, secondary, and tertiary electrophiles, we were able to generate various enolate...

Condensation of glyoxal, formaldehyde and anilines lead to the formation of 2,4,6,8- tetraphenyl and substituted phenyl 2,4,6,8-tetraazabicyclo [3.3.0] octanes. The reactions are sensitive to pH and temperature. Ortho derivatives of anilines do not participate in this condensation. X-ray structural determination reveals a cis-dienvelope geometery about the two fused rings.