TY - JOUR A1 - Zentel, Rudolf A1 - Behl, Marc A1 - Neher, Dieter A1 - Zen, Achmad A1 - Lucht, Sylvia T1 - Nanostructured polytriarylamines : orientation layers for polyfluorene Y1 - 2004 SN - 0065-7727 ER - TY - THES A1 - Yue, Xiuli T1 - Monolayer phase behavior of bipolar amphiphiles and their coupling with DNA Y1 - 2004 CY - Golm ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yenesew, Abiy A1 - Induli, M. A1 - Derese, Solomon A1 - Midiwo, Jacob O. A1 - Heydenreich, Matthias A1 - Peter, Martin G. A1 - Akala, Hoseah M. A1 - Wangui, Julia A1 - Liyala, Pamela A1 - Waters, Norman C. T1 - Anti-plasmodial flavonoids from the stem bark of Erythrina abyssinica N2 - The ethyl acetate extract of the stem bark of Erythrina abyssinica showed anti-plasmodial activity against the chloroquine-sensitive (D6) and chloroquine-resistant (W2) strains of Plasmodium falciparum with IC50 values of 7.9 +/- 1.1 and 5.3 +/- 0.7 mug/ml, respectively. From this extract, a new chalcone, 2,3,4,4'-tetrahydroxy-5- prenylchalcone (trivial name 5-prenylbutein) and a new flavanone, 4',7-dihydroxy-3'-methoxy-5'- prenylflavanone (trivial name, 5-deoxyabyssinin II) along with known flavonoids have been isolated as the anti- plasmodial principles. The structures were determined on the basis of spectroscopic evidence. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved Y1 - 2004 SN - 0031-9422 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wenzel, Barbara A1 - Wehse, Burkhard A1 - Schilde, Uwe A1 - Strauch, Peter T1 - 1,2-Dithioquadratato- und 1,2-Dithiooxalatoindate(III) = 1,2-dithiosquarato- and 1,2-dithiooxalatoindates(III) N2 - Indium(III) chloride forms in water with potassium 1,2-dithiooxalate (dto) and potassium 1,2-dithiosquarate (dtsq) stable coordination compounds. Due to the higher bridging ability of the 1,2-dithiooxalate ligand in all cases only thiooxalate bridged binuclear complexes were found. From 1,2-dithioquadratate with an identical donor atom set mononuclear trischelates could be isolated. Five crystalline complexes, (BzlMe(3)N)(4)[(dto)(2)In(dto)In(dto)(2)] (1), (BzlPh(3)P)(4)[(dto)(2)In(dto)In(dto)(2)] (2), (BzlMe(3)N)(3)[In(dtsq)(3)] (3), (Bu4N)(3)[In(dtsq)(3)] (4) and (Ph4P)[In(dtsq)(2)(DMF)(2)] (5), have been isolated and characterized by X-ray analyses. Due to the type of the complex and the cations involved these compounds crystallize in different space groups with the following parameters: 1, monoclinic in P2(1)/c with a = 14.4035(5) Angstrom, b = 10.8141(5) Angstrom, c = 23.3698(9) Angstrom, beta = 124.664(2)degrees, and Z = 2; 2, triclinic in P (1) over bar with a = 11.3872(7) Angstrom, b = 13.6669(9) Angstrom, c = 17.4296(10) Angstrom, alpha = 88.883(5)degrees, beta = 96.763(1)degrees, gamma = 74.587(5)degrees, and Z = 1; 3, hexagonal in R3 with a = 20.6501(16) Angstrom, b = 20.6501(16) Angstrom, c = 19.0706(13) Angstrom and Z = 6; 4, monoclinic in P21/c with a = 22.7650(15) Angstrom, b = 20.4656(10) Angstrom, c = 14.4770(9) Angstrom, P Y1 - 2004 UR - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/109594384 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Venkatraman, S. A1 - Kumar, R. A1 - Sankar, J. A1 - Chandrashekar, T. K. A1 - Sendhil, K. A1 - Vijayan, C. A1 - Kelling, Alexandra A1 - Senge, Mathias O. T1 - Oxasmaragdyrin-ferrocene and oxacorrole-ferrocene conjugates : Synthesis, structure, and nonlinear optical properties N2 - Ferrocenyl macrocyclic conjugates involving 22pi oxasmaragdyrins and 18pi oxacorroles have been synthesized and characterized. The direct covalent linkage of the ferrocenyl moiety to the meso position of the macrocycle is achieved by simple oxidative coupling of appropriate precursors with trifluoroacetic acid as catalyst. The electronic coupling between the ferrocenyl moiety and the macrocyclic pi system is apparent from: a) the red shifts (293-718 cm(-1)) of the Soret and Q-bands in the electronic absorption spectra of ferrocenyl conjugates; b) the shift of oxidation potentials (50 130 mV) of both the ferrocene and the corrole rings to the positive potentials; and c) considerable shortening of the C-C bond which connects the ferrocene and the meso-carbon atom of the macrocycle. The single-crystal X-ray structure of oxasmaragdyrin-ferrocene conjugate 9 reveals the planarity of the 22pi skeleton with very small deviations of the meso-carbon atoms. The meso-ferrocenyl substituent has a small dihedral angle of 38degrees, making way for mixing of the molecular orbitals of the ferrocene and the macrocycle. However, the other two meso substituents are almost perpendicular to the mean plane, defined by the three meso carbon atoms. Classical C-(HO)-O-... and nonclassical C- H(...)pi interactions lead to a two-dimensional supramolecular network. Ferrocene-smaragdyrin conjugate 9 bonds to a chloride ion in the protonated form and a rhodium(i) ion in the free base form. Nonlinear optical measurements reveal a larger nonlinear refractive index (-5.83 x 10(-8) cm(2) W-1) and figure of merit (2.28 x 10(-8) cm(3)W(-1)) for the rhodium smaragdyrin-ferrocene conjugate 19 than for the others, suggesting its possible application in optical devices Y1 - 2004 SN - 0947-6539 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vaaje-Kolstad, G. A1 - Vasella, A. A1 - Peter, Martin G. A1 - Netter, C. A1 - Houston, Douglas R. A1 - Westereng, B. A1 - Synstad, Bjoenar A1 - Eijsink, Vincent G. H. A1 - van Aalten, Daan M. F. T1 - Interactions of a family 18 chitinase with the designed inhibitor HM508 and its degradation product, chitobiono- delta-lactone N2 - We describe enzymological and structural analyses of the interaction between the family 18 chitinase ChiB from Serratia marcescens and the designed inhibitor N,N'-diacetylchitobionoxime-N-phenylcarbamate (HM508). HM508 acts as a competitive inhibitor of this enzyme with a K-i in the 50 muM range. Active site mutants of ChiB show K-i values ranging from 1 to 200 muM, providing insight into some of the interactions that determine inhibitor affinity. Interestingly, the wild type enzyme slowly degrades HM508, but the inhibitor is essentially stable in the presence of the moderately active D142N mutant of ChiB. The crystal structure of the D142N-HM508 complex revealed that the two sugar moieties bind to the -2 and -1 subsites, whereas the phenyl group interacts with aromatic side chains that line the +1 and +2 subsites. Enzymatic degradation of HM508, as well as a Trp-->Ala mutation in the +2 subsite of ChiB, led to reduced affinity for the inhibitor, showing that interactions between the phenyl group and the enzyme contribute to binding. Interestingly, a complex of enzymatically degraded HM508 with the wild type enzyme showed a chitobiono-delta- lactone bound in the -2 and -1 subsites, despite the fact that the equilibrium between the lactone and the hydroxy acid forms in solution lies far toward the latter. This shows that the active site preferentially binds the E-4 conformation of the -1 sugar, which resembles the proposed transition state of the reaction Y1 - 2004 SN - 0021-9258 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tahtinen, Petri A1 - Bagno, Alessandro A1 - Koch, Andreas A1 - Pihlaja, Kalevi T1 - Conformational analysis of saturated trans-fused 1,3,2-benzoxazaphosphinine 2-oxides - DFT calculation of NMR J(PH) coupling constants N2 - The (3)J(P,H) and (4)J(P,H) spin-spin coupling constants of a selected test set of organophosphorus compounds, calculated by density functional theory (DFT) methods, were found to correlate well with the experimentally measured coupling constants. The contribution of the spin-dipole (SD) term to the coupling constants was found to be negligible, and the diamagnetic and paramagnetic spin-orbit (DSO and PSO) terms cancelled each other, as in the case of J(H,H). Calculation solely of the Fermi contact (FC) term was found to be sufficient to provide good estimates of the coupling constants. In the second part of the work, the conformational equilibria and coupling constants in 2-bis(2- chloroethyl)amino-trans-octahydro-2H-1,3,2-benzoxazaphosphinine 2-oxide and its 3-methyl derivative were studied. DFT methods failed in predicting the relative stabilities of the conformations but yielded good geometries and coupling constants. Optimization of the conformations at the Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2) level resulted in energy differences compatible with previous experimental observations. ((C) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2004) Y1 - 2004 SN - 1434-193X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Taddei, F. A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich T1 - The anomeric effect in substituted cyclohexanes : I. The role of hyperconjugative interactions and steric effect in monosubstituted cyclohexanes N2 - The relative energy of conformers, DeltaE, of monosubstituted cyclohexanes with OR (R = Me, Et, i-Pr and t-Bu) and R substituents (R = Me, Et, i-Pr and t-Bu) was calculated with MO ab initio theory at RHF, MP2 and QCISD levels with the 6-311G* and 6-311 + G* basis sets. A selected group of delocalizing interactions were calculated with the natural bond orbital method in order to quantify the hyperconjugative contribution, DeltaE(hyp.), to the relative stability of conformers. From the calculated values of DeltaE and DeltaE(hyp.) an estimate of the differential steric effect, DeltaE(ster.), of substituents in cyclohexane was obtained. The values of DeltaE(hyp), and DeltaE(ster.) show that they have a similar magnitude for OR substituents, while for R substituents the values of are greater. The shift in the conformational equilibrium towards the axial conformer, the so-called anomeric effect, takes place when, within a series of substituents, hyperconjugative interactions and steric interactions balance in favour of the stability of this conformer. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved Y1 - 2004 SN - 0166-1280 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Szatmari, Istvan A1 - Martinek, T. A. A1 - Lazar, L. A1 - Koch, Andreas A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Neuvonen, Kari A1 - Fulop, Ferenc T1 - Stereoelectronic effects in ring-chain tautomerism of 1,3-diarylnaphth[1,2-e][1,3]oxazines and 3-alkyl-1- arylnaphth[1,2-e][1,3]oxazines N2 - The disubstitution effects of X and Y in 1-(Y-phenyl)-3-(X-phenyl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-naphth[1,2-e][1,3]oxazines on the ring-chain tautomerism, the delocalization of the nitrogen lone pair (anomeric effect), and the C-13 NMR chemical shifts were analyzed by using multiple linear regression analysis. Study of the three-component equilibrium B reversible arrow A reversible arrow C revealed that the chain reversible arrow trans (A reversible arrow B) equilibrium constants are significantly influenced by the inductive effect (sigma(F)) of substituent Y on the 1-phenyl ring. In contrast, no significant substituent dependence on Y was observed for the chain reversible arrow cis (A reversible arrow C) equilibrium. There was an analogous dependence for the epimerization (C reversible arrow B) constants of 1-(Y-phenyl)-3- alkyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-naphth[1,2-e] [1,3]oxazines. With these model compounds, significant overlapping energies of the nitrogen lone pair was observed by NBO analysis in the trans forms B (to sigma*(C1-C1'), sigma*(C1-C10b), and sigma*(C3-O4)) and in the cis forms C (to sigma*(C1-H), sigma*(C1-C10b), and sigma*(C3-O4)). The effects of disubstitution revealed some characteristic differences between the cis and trans isomers. However, the results do not suggest that the anomeric effect predominates in the preponderance of the trans over the cis isomer. When the C-13 chemical shift changes induced Y by substituents X and Y (SCS) were subjected to multiple linear regression analysis, negative rho(F)(Y) and rho(F)(X) values were observed at C-1 and C-3 for both the cis and trans isomers. In contrast, the positive rho(R)(Y) values at C-1 and the negative rho(R)(X) values at C-3 observed indicated the contribution of resonance structures f (rho(R) > 0) and g (rho(R) < 0), respectively. The classical double bond-no-bond resonance structures proved useful in explaining the substituent sensitivities of the donation energies and the behavior of the SCS values Y1 - 2004 SN - 0022-3263 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strehmel, Veronika A1 - Sarker, A. M. A1 - Lahti, P. M. A1 - Karasz, F. E. A1 - Strehmel, Bernd T1 - One and two-photon optical properties of ionic block copolymers with phenylenediethylenebispyridinium- chromophores Y1 - 2004 SN - 0065-7727 ER -