Plant endophytic microorganisms represent a largely untapped resource for new bioactive natural products. Eight polyketide natural products were isolated from a mangrove endophytic fungus Phomosis sp. A818. The structural elucidation of these compounds revealed that they share a distinct feature in their chemical structures, an oxygen-bridged cyclooctadiene core skeleton. The study on their str...

Copper ions in the active sites of several proteins/enzymes interact with phenols and quinones, and this interaction is associated to the reactivity of the enzymes. In this study the speciation of the Cu(2+) with iminodiacetic phenolate/hydroquinonate ligands has been examined by pH-potentiometry. The results reveal that the iminodiacetic phenol ligand forms mononuclear complexes with Cu(2+) at...

The oxidation of Ti terminated NiTi surfaces is investigated with density functional theory. The surfaces considered are (001) and (110) of the austenite phase (B2) and (010) of the martensite phase (B19’). The favored adsorption sites for atomic oxygen are fourfold hollow on B2 (001), and twofold bridged between two surface Ti atoms on B2 (110) and B19’ (010). Adsorption of one oxygen molecule...

The dioxygen reactivity of a cyclic iron(ii) tetra-NHC-complex (NHC: N-heterocyclic carbene) is investigated. Divergent oxidation behavior is observed depending on the choice of the solvent (acetonitrile or acetone). In the first case, exposure to molecular oxygen leads to an oxygen free Fe(iii) whereas in the latter case an oxide bridged Fe(iii) dimer is formed. In acetone, an Fe(iii)-superoxi...

Reaction of Na-,PdCl4 with N-ferrocenylmethylidene-2,4,6-trimethylaniline yields the di­ meric, chloro-bridged Pd(II) complex [Pd{(C5H 5)FeC5H 3C(H )=N -2 ,4,6-(CH3)3C6H2}Cl]2. The title complex (1 ) is obtained by substitution of the chloro-bridges with acetate. 1 crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pbca with the lattice parameters a = 1346.4(4), b = 2876.6(2), c = 2472.8(5) pm and Z ...

We have synthesized a novel, two-photon-absorbing photosensitizer for two-photon-absorption photodynamic therapy (2PA-PDT). The molecule is a butadiyne-bridged porphyrin dimer terminated with two water-soluble porphyrin monomers connected through Zn-imidazolyl self-assembly and covalently linked through olefin metathesis. It has an effective two-photon-absorption (2PA) cross-section value, sigm...

The characterization of Fe/ZSM5 zeolite materials, the nature of Fe-sites active in N2O direct decomposition, as well as the rate limiting step are still a matter of debate. The mechanism of N2O decomposition on the binuclear oxo-hydroxo bridged extraframework iron core site [Fe(m-O)(m-OH)Fe] inside the ZSM-5 zeolite has been studied by combining theoretical and experimental approaches. The ove...

The organoindium subhalide [R(Cl)In-In(Cl)R]2 [R = C(SiMe3)3] 1 reacts with Na2[Fe2(CO)8] to form an iron-indium coordination compound which was isolated as the sodium choride adduct [Na(THF)4][Fe2(CO)6(μ-CO)(μ-InR)2Cl] 2. The iron atoms of 2 are bridged by a CO ligand and two InR groups, the indium atoms of which are further connected by the μ2-bridging chlorine atom. Four THF molecules and tw...

The characterization of Fe/ZSM5 zeolite materials, the nature of Fe-sites active in N(2)O direct decomposition, as well as the rate limiting step are still a matter of debate. The mechanism of N(2)O decomposition on the binuclear oxo-hydroxo bridged extraframework iron core site [Fe(II)(mu-O)(mu-OH)Fe(II)](+) inside the ZSM-5 zeolite has been studied by combining theoretical and experimental ap...