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Pyramidal inversion

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Organic molecules are indispensable have greatly contributed to the confort of our modern life. Nevertheless, humanity is facing now new challenges such as environmental issues and emerging drug resistances. In order to solve these major concerns, chemists ...

EPFL2016

One-Pot Three-Component Synthesis of Vicinal Diamines via In Situ Aminal Formation and Carboamination

Jérôme Waser, Ugo Jonathan Orcel

A synthesis of vicinal diamines via in situ aminal formation and carboamination of allyl amines is reported. Employing highly electron-poor trifluoromethyl aldimines in their stable hemiaminal form was key to enable both a fast and complete aminal formatio ...

2016

Indolizine-Based Donors as Organic Sensitizer Components for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fabrizio Giordano, Aron Joel Huckaba

Strong electron-donating functionality is desirable for many organic donor-pi-bridge-acceptor (D-pi-A) dyes. Strategies for increasing the electrondonating strength of common nitrogen-based donors include planarization of nitrogen substituents and the use ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Anandamide Hydrolysis in FAAH Reveals a Dual Strategy for Efficient Enzyme-Assisted Amide Bond Cleavage via Nitrogen Inversion

Ursula Röthlisberger, Andrea Cavalli, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Giulia Palermo

Herein, we combined classical molecular dynamics (MD) and quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations to unravel the whole catalytic cycle of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) in complex with anandamide, the main neurotransmitters involved i ...

2015

Diminishing SAR for Wearable UHF Antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Jovanche Trajkovikj

This letter presents a study on the specific absorption rate (SAR) evaluation of UHF wearable antennas. A planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) intended to operate in wireless body area networks (WBANs) is taken as an example for the investigation. The presence ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Effect of ammonia on the decomposition of ammonium formate over Au/TiO2 under oxidizing conditions relevant to SCR: Enhancement of formic acid decomposition rate and CO2 production

Oliver Kröcher

Ammonium formate (AmFo) and formic acid decomposition were carried out in the presence of excess O-2 and H2O over 0.5 wt%Au/TiO2 anatase monolithic catalysts using various contact times and temperatures between 160 degrees C and 300 degrees C, under spray ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Arene ruthenium dichloro complexes containing isonicotinic ester ligands: Synthesis, molecular structure and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Olivier Pierre Zava

A series of p-cymene ruthenium dichloro complexes containing isonicotinic ester ligands, [(arene) RuCl2NC5H4-4-COO-C6H4-p-O-(CH2)(n)-CH3] (n = 1: 1, n = 3: 2, n = 5: 3, n = 7:4, n = 9: 5, n = 11: 6, n = 13: 7, n = 15: 8), were prepared from p-cymene ruthen ...

Elsevier2013

Intertwining of Zeeman and Coulomb interactions on excitons in highly symmetric semiconductor quantum dots

Daniel Oberli

We present an experimental study and develop a group theoretical analysis of the Zeeman effect on excitons in pyramidal semiconductor quantum dots possessing the symmetries of the C3v point group. The magnetic field dependence of the emission pattern origi ...

2012

DNA Reactivity Profile of trans-Platinum Planar Amine Derivatives

Alexey Nazarov

New trans-platinum planar amines (TPAs) represent a family of platinum-based drugs with cytotoxicity equivalent to that of cisplatin, but with negligible cross-resistance. According to the substitution pattern around the metal center, distinct DNA adducts ...

2011

The Cause for Tremendous Acceleration of Chloride Substitution via Base Catalysis in the Chloro Pentaammine Cobalt(III) Ion

François Rotzinger, Basile Curchod

The base hydrolysis reaction of Co(NH3)5Cl2+ was investigated using density functional theory and molecular orbital methods. Geometries and energies of conjugate bases, intermediates, transition states, and minimum energy crossing points were computed. For ...

2011

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