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Tert-butyl-substituted diethynylallenes (DEAs) are ideal for the construction of novel topologies because undesirable reactions on the cumulenic moiety are suppressed. The authors developed the asym. synthesis of two shape-persistent enantiopure alleno-ace ...
A carbopalladation cascade reaction of easily accessible gem-dibromoolefins and alkynes furnishes monobenzo- and mononaphthopentalenes. The new chromophores accessed by this short route exhibit small HOMO-LUMO gaps and redox amphoteric behavior with tunabl ...
A series of aryl nitrile-based ligands were prepd. to investigate the effect of their electrophilicity on the affinity against the cysteine proteases rhodesain and human cathepsin L. D. functional theory calcns. provided relative reactivities of the nitril ...
A reversible, reaction-based sensor for biol. mobile zinc was designed, prepd., and characterized. The sensing mechanism of this probe is based on the zinc-induced, ring-opening reaction of spirobenzopyran to give a cyanine fluorophore that emits in the de ...
The allene core of 1,3-di-tert-butyl-1,3-diethynylallenes has been shown in the past to be essentially unreactive. However, its inherent reactivity could be unleashed by the introduction of tailored substituents to induce a variety of highly selective reac ...
The first near-IR fluorescent turn-on sensor for the detection of nitroxyl (HNO), the one-electron reduced form of nitric oxide (NO), is reported. The new copper-based probe, CuDHX1, contains a dihydroxanthene (DHX) fluorophore and a cyclam deriv. as a Cu( ...
Enantiopure 1,3-diethynylallenes were used as monomers in the construction of monodisperse oligomers and cyclooligomers. The open-chain structures show a non-linear increase in the intensity of the chiroptical properties as the no. of monomeric units incre ...
A review. This Minireview provides a crit. account of the development of allene-contg. advanced functional materials, starting with the design and synthesis of stable and enantiopure building blocks. A variety of systems, including shape-persistent macrocy ...
The substrate scope of the [2+2] cycloaddn.-cycloreversion (CA-CR) reaction between electron-deficient (2,2-dicyanovinyl)benzene (DCVB) or (1,2,2-tricyanovinyl)benzene (TCVB) derivs. and N,N-dimethylanilino (DMA)-substituted acetylenes was studied. The str ...
Fluorescent sensors are valuable tools for investigating the biochem. of metal cations, notably calcium and zinc. Most probes rely on quenching of photoinduced electron transfer as a fluorescence turn-on mechanism. The information that can be obtained from ...
