Flourene and phenanthrene are organic compounds with high hydrophobicity and toxicity. Being recalcitrant in nature they are accumulating in the environment at an alarming concentration, posing serious threat to living beings. Thus in the present study, microorganisms were screened for their ability to degrade these contaminants at high concentrations in least period of time. Two out of fifteen...

The title compound, C34H34, systematic name 9,9,9',9'-tetra-ethyl-2,2'-bi(9H-fluorene), crystallized with two crystallographically independent mol-ecules (A and B) in the asymmetric unit. These differ mainly in the orientation of the lateral ethyl chains: in mol-ecule A, they are both on the same side of the mol-ecule whereas in mol-ecule B, one di-ethyl-fluorene moiety has undergone a 180° rot...

In the title compound, C(30)H(26), the dihedral angle between the two fluorene ring systems is 61.75 (4)°.

The metabolism of fluorene, a tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, by Cunninghamella elegans ATCC 36112 was investigated. Approximately 69% of the [9-14C]fluorene added to cultures was metabolized within 120 h. The major ethyl acetate-soluble metabolites were 9-fluorenone (62%), 9-fluorenol, and 2-hydroxy-9-fluorenone (together, 7.0%). Similarly to bacteria, C. elegans oxidized fluorene at the C-9 p...

Herein, three-photon absorption (3PA) effect of a symmetrical fluorene-based molecule, pumped with 38 ps Q-switched 1064 nm laser pulses, is reported. An accurate Gaussian fitting method is used to obtain the three-photon absorption cross-section. The obtained three-photon absorption cross-section, 8.54 x 10(-76) cm(6) s(2), is very high. The irradiance limiting nonlinear transmittance is as lo...

We have synthesized a highly luminescent (log e > 5.0, F > 0.9) pyrene dye based on a spirobifluorene skeleton [2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(7-tert-butyl-1-pyrenyl)-9,9'-spirobi[9H-fluorene; 4-PySBF]. The use of spirobifluorene prevents fluorescence quenching by intramolecular energy transfer and/or electron transfer among the chromophores in the excited state. The emission spectra of 4-PySBF exhibited a...

Silole groups are known to present a high electron affinity. Initially, copolymerization of siloles with fluorene was aimed at improving electron injection into the polymer layer and so improving the electroluminescent properties of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED’s) made from fluorene. But it also provides the ability to turn the light emission colour to the green part of the spectrum and ...

The series: 9-methyl, 9-isopropyl, 9-cyclohexyl, 9,9-dimethyl, 9,9-diethyl, and the unsubstituted parent 2,7-bis (acetamido) fluorene were synthesized from the corresponding 9-substituted fluorenes. The two routes employed consisted of either (1) dinitration, reduction to the diamine, and diacetylation, or (2) Friedel-Crafts diacylation, then rearrangement via the Schmidt reaction. This provide...

This paper presents a method for synthesis and cytotoxicity of new platinum(II) complexes of (9'-fluorene)-spiro-5-hydantoin (L1) and (9'-fluorene)-spiro-5-(2-thiohydantoin) (L2). The new obtained complexes were studied by elemental analysis: ultraviolet-visible, attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR), and 1H- and 13C-NMR for Pt(II) compounds and additionally Raman sp...