A new anthraquinone derivative, named anthrasesamone F, was isolated from the seeds of Sesamum indicum. Its structure was determined to be (Z)-6,7-dihydroxy-2-(6-hydroxy-4-methyl-3-pentenyl)anthraquinone on the basis of spectroscopic evidence.

A new series of polymerizable methacrylated anthraquinone dyes has been synthesized by nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions and subsequent methacrylation. Thereby, green 5,8-bis(4-(2-methacryloxyethyl)phenylamino)-1,4-dihydroxyanthraquinone (2), blue 1,4-bis(4-((2-methacryloxyethyl)oxy)phenylamino)anthraquinone (6) and red 1-((2-methacryloxy-1,1-dimethylethyl)amino)anthraquinone (12), a...

A series of anthraquinone-imide-based dimers, C5 -AQI-Si2, C5 -AQI-Si3, C5 -AQI-Si4, and C5 AQI-Si8, have been prepared by the hydrosilylation of N-(hex-5-enyl)-6-(40-((S)-2-methylbutoxy)phenyl)anthraquinone-2,3-dicarboxylic imide and hydride-terminated siloxanes with different lengths. Their liquid crystalline behaviors, and piezochromic and near-infrared electrochromic properties have been ch...

Quinones are widely found in nature, used in chemistry and medicine, and are just beginning to gain importance in materials engineering. In order to harvest their potential as an ordered or highly crystalline solid, their crystal formation processes need to be well investigated and controlled. We chose 1,4-anthraquinone, a commercially available type of quinone, as a model compound to study its...

An oligotriarylamine (OTA) unit, a Ru(bpy)3(2+) photosensitizer moiety (Ru), and an anthraquinone (AQ) entity were combined to a molecular dyad (Ru-OTA) and a molecular triad (AQ-Ru-OTA). Pulsed laser excitation at 532 nm led to the formation of charge-separated states of the type Ru(-)-OTA(+) and AQ(-)-Ru-OTA(+) with lifetimes of ≤10 ns and 2.4 μs, respectively, in de-aerated CH3CN at 25 °C. U...

The accelerating effect of dissolved redox mediators has been studied in details in the bio-decolorization processes, but there are little literatures about the non-dissolved redox mediators. Here we describe the accelerating effect of anthraquinone as a redox mediator in the bio-decolorization. Decolorization of azo dyes was carried out experimentally using the salt-tolerant bacteria under imm...

The dielectric properties of pure nematic liquid crystal (BKS/B07) and dye doped (Rhodamine B and Anthraquinone) nematic liquid crystal have been investigated in a wide frequency range of 1 kHz to 10 MHz through the dielectric spectroscopic method at varying temperature. In addition to this optical transmittance and textures of the samples have also been observed with a polarizing microscope.

A water-soluble anthraquinone derivative (2-[methylamino-N-(1 0-methylethyl)]-9,10-anthraquinone monophosphate), previously found to be selectively toxic towards Planktothrix perornata at submicromolar concentrations, was studied to determine its toxic mode of action towards this cyanobacterium. Chlorophyll fluorescence was monitored as an indicator of photosynthetic efficiency, and measurement...

Rheum species are medicinally important herbs, posses several type of biological activities due to the presence of anthraquinone derivatives. Several HPLC methods have been used for sepeatation of anthraquinone of Rheum Species. In most cases anthraquinones were separated using C18 column as a stationary phase, acetonitrile, water and methanol with or without acid as mobile phase at 1.0 ml/min ...

Literature survey reveal that a good number of Anthracene and substituted Anthracene are potential lasing organic compounds. As per mit suo meada66 9,10-dimethyl and 9,10-diphenyl Anthracenes exhibit lasing properties, around 435-450 nm (ethanol). In continuation of our studies in this lab, our objective is to synthesize new lasing organic dyes, in particular, new Anthracene derivatives and stu...