In view of the current speculation regarding the possible role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in apoptosis, both under physiological conditions and in response to chemicals that promote their intracellular formation, the present investigation was undertaken to examine whether DNA fragmentation during oxidative stress results from endonuclease activity (apoptosis) or from direct attack by ROS....

The present work introduces coordinative binding of CuII ions with both amino-functionalized silica nanoparticles (SNs) and green-emitting carbon dots (CDs) as the pregrequisite for CuII-assisted self-assembly CDs at surface SNs. produced composite SNs exhibit stable in time stimuli-responsive green fluorescence derived from assemblage CDs. response is sensitive to complex formation glutathione...

Five coordinated novel complexes of CuII and NiII have been synthesized from benzil and 1,3- diaminopropane-CuII/NiII complex and characterized by elemental analysis, i.r., n.m.r., e.p.r, molar conductance and u.v-vis, spectroscopy. The complexes are ionic in nature and exhibit pentaeoordinated geometry around the metal ion. The reaction kinetics of C25H36N5O2CuCl with calf thymus DNA was studi...

The copper–phenanthroline complex CuI(Phen)2 was the first artificial nuclease studied in biology. mechanism responsible for this activity involves CuII(Phen)2 and H2O2. Even if H2O2/Cu systems have been extensively biology oxidative chemistry, most of these studies were carried out at physiological pH only, little information is available on generation radicals by H2O2/CuII-Phen system. In con...

first row transition metal complexes of phthalocyanine are employed as catalysts for the oxidation of cyclohexene and cyclooctene using iodosylbenzene and pentafluoroiodosyl benzene. the catalysis was performed in dichloromethane: methanol:water (80:18:2) solvent mixture.  the products of the catalysis for cyclohexene are epoxycyclohexane, 2-cyclohexene-1-ol and 2-cyclohexene-1-one whereas for ...

Hybrid organic-inorganic coordination assemblies are synthesized using modified aminocarboxylic acid ligands as the structure-directing agents. The synthetic approach results in two novel dinuclear copper(II) complexes, K2[CuII(hnida)]2.2H2O (1) and K4[CuII(chnida)]2.4H2O.4MeOH (2) that assemble in the presence of suitable counterions into a densely packed hexagonal array or an open-framework s...

Bis-thiosemicarbazones derived from the ?-diketone benzoylacetone (H3banR, R=Me, Et, Ph) are potentially tetradentate N2S2 ligands whose coordination chemistry with copper is reported. In absence of oxygen and in presence base they form anionic CuII complexes fully deprotonated [CuII(banR)]–. Upon exposure to atmospheric undergo a complex series reactions leading two types products; one ligand ...