A mononuclear platinum(II) complex with two monodentate-S H4tg(-) ligands, [Pt(H4tg-κS)2(bpy)] (1), was newly synthesized by the reaction of [PtCl2(bpy)] (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridyl) with NaH4tg (NaH4tg =1-thio-β-d-glucose sodium salt) in water. Complex 1 reacted with additional [PtCl2(bpy)] in water to give an S-bridged dinuclear complex, [Pt2(μ2-H4tg-κ(1)S:κ(1)S)2(bpy)2](2+) ([2](2+)), in which a s...

A combination of X-ray crystallography, (6)Li, (15)N, and (13)C NMR spectroscopies, and density functional theory computations affords insight into the structures and reactivities of intervening aggregates underlying highly selective asymmetric alkylations of carboxylic acid dianions (enediolates) mediated by the dilithium salt of a C2-symmetric chiral tetraamine. Crystallography shows a trilit...

We anticipate high-valent metal–fluoride species will be highly effective hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) oxidants because of the magnitude H−F bond (in product) that drives HAT oxidation. prepared a dimeric FeIII(F)−F−FeIII(F) complex (1) by reacting [FeII(NCCH3)2(TPA)](ClO4)2 (TPA=tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine) with difluoro(phenyl)-λ3-iodane (difluoroiodobenzene). 1 was sluggish oxidant, however, ...

in this research, the tacticity and microstructure of polyvinyl chloride (pvc) were studied through back bone methylene and methine carbons and protons splitting by carbon (13c nmr), proton (1h nmr) and two-dimensional (2dnmr) nulear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in deuterated etrahydrofuran.polyvinyl chloride was synthesized by emulsion polymerization of vinyl chloride (vcm) under pressure t...

Various important functional roles played by membrane proteins that are related to a number of diseases, will be better understood once their high-resolution structures and dynamics are revealed. Although structural studies on membrane proteins have been a great challenge to most biophysical techniques, recent NMR spectroscopic studies were able to overcome many of the difficulties of structura...

The HDL (high-density lipoprotein)-associated enzyme PON (paraoxonase)-1 protects LDL (low-density lipoprotein) from oxidative modification in vitro, although it is unknown if this anti-atherogenic action occurs in vivo. In a cross-sectional study of 58 Type II diabetic subjects and 50 controls, we examined the fasting plasma LDL basal conjugated diene concentration [a direct measurement of cir...

The neutral host cucurbit[7]uril forms very stable complexes with a series of cationic cholines (R(3)NCH(2)CH(2)OR'(+)) and their phosphonium analogues (R(3)PCH(2)CH(2)OR'(+)) (R(3) = Me(3), Et(3), or Me(2)Bz, or R(3)N = quinuclidinium, and R' = H, COCH(3), CO(CH(2))(2)CH(3), or PO(3)H), and (+/-)-carnitine, in aqueous solution. The complexation behaviour has been investigated using (1)H and (3...