The structures of diphenyl [3-methyl-1-(3-phenylthioureido)butyl]phosphonate and diphenyl [2-methyl-1-(3-phenylthioureido)butyl]phosphonate, both C(24)H(27)N(2)O(3)PS, are reported. In both compounds, the thiourea moiety adopts a syn-syn conformation (i.e. the S-C-N-C torsion angles are synperiplanar), which enables N-H...O hydrogen bonds to be formed between centrosymmetrically related molecul...

Although natural products have been a particularly rich source of human medicines, activity-based screening results in a very high rate of rediscovery of known molecules. Based on the large number of natural product biosynthetic genes in microbial genomes, many have proposed "genome mining" as an alternative approach for discovery efforts; however, this idea has yet to be performed experimental...

Divalent metal complexes of macrocyclic ligand 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane-1,8-bis(methylphosphonic acid)) (1,8-H4te2p, H4L) were investigated in solution and in the solid state. The majority of transition-metal ions form thermodynamically very stable complexes as a consequence of high affinity for the nitrogen atoms of the ring. On the other hand, complexes with Mn2+, Pb2+ and alkaline e...

A series o f functionalized tetraazamacrocycles 2-8 carrying in their pendant side-chain a group which can be hydrolyzed, have been synthesised and their Cu(I1) complexes prepared. The structure analysis of the Cu(I1) complex with 5 shows a pentacoordinate Cu(I1) surrounded by the four nitrogens of the macrocycle and the carbonyl oxygen o f the ester group in a distorted square pyramidal geomet...

caffeic acid phenethyl ester(cape) suppresses the growth of transformed cells such as human breast cancer cells, hepatocarcinoma , myeloid leukemia, colorectal cancer cells, fibrosarcoma, glioma and melanoma. a group of heterocyclic esters of caffeic acid was synthesized using mitsunobu reaction and the esters were subjected to further structural modification by electrooxidation of the catechol...

Using N-(phosphonomethyl) iminodiacetic acid (H4PMIDA), as a complexing agent, two new complexes, (NH4)La(PMIDA)(H2O)•H2O, 1 and (NH4)Yb(PMIDA), 2 have been synthesized hydrothermally. In both compounds, the metal ions are trapped by a three five-membered chelate rings by the chelating PMIDA anions giving a tricapped trigonal prismatic LaO8N and monocapped trigonal prismatic YbO6N geometries fo...

a new category of hybrid organic-inorganic zirconium phosphonate, zr[(o3pch2)2nc6h4co2h].2h2o was synthesized and the applicability of the prepared sorbent as an ion-exchanger for removal of ni2+, cu2+ and zn2+ from aqueous solutions was evaluated. the characterization of the synthesis product was done using tg-dtg, sem, xrd, ft-ir techniques. study of the sorption isotherms and its kinetic par...

Bacteria able to use at least one of 13 ionic alkylphosphonates of O-alkyl or O,O-dialkyl alkylphosphonates as phosphorus sources were isolated from sewage and soil. Four of these isolates used 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid (AEP) as a sole carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus source. None of the other phosphonates served as a carbon source for the organisms. One isolate, identified as Pseudomonas put...

Oxiranes are famous and very interesting compounds with a wide range application, they have found in the chemistry and industry. It is well known, that their ring opening is possible as in acidand in base reaction conditions, as well as by nucleophilic attack from the internal or external nucleophile molecule. The acid-catalyzed ring opening reaction has been described by T. Biela, P. Kubisa, R...

Glycerophosphodiesterase (GpdQ) from Enterobacter aerogenes is a nonspecific diesterase that enables Escherichia coli to utilize alkyl phosphodiesters, such as diethyl phosphate, as the sole phosphorus source. The catalytic properties of GpdQ were determined, and the best substrate found was bis(p-nitrophenyl) phosphate with a kcat/Km value of 6.7 x 10(3) M-1 s-1. In addition, the E. aerogenes ...