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Molecules, Volume 15, Issue 2

February 2010 - 35 articles

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Articles (35)

  • Review
  • Open Access
232 Citations
24,365 Views
29 Pages

Revealing the Power of the Natural Red Pigment Lycopene

  • Kin-Weng Kong,
  • Hock-Eng Khoo,
  • K. Nagendra Prasad,
  • Amin Ismail,
  • Chin-Ping Tan and
  • Nor Fadilah Rajab

23 February 2010

By-products derived from food processing are attractive source for their valuable bioactive components and color pigments. These by-products are useful for development as functional foods, nutraceuticals, food ingredients, additives, and also as cosm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,850 Views
9 Pages

23 February 2010

Thiosemicarbazone analogs of papaveraldine and related compounds 1–6 were synthesized and evaluated for cytotoxic and antimalarial activities. The cytotoxic activity was tested against HuCCA-1, HepG2, A549 and MOLT-3 human cancer cell lines. Thiosemi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,875 Views
10 Pages

Synthesis of 1-(4-Trifluoromethoxyphenyl)-2,5-dimethyl-3-(2-R-thiazol-4-yl)-1H-pyrroles via Chain Heterocyclization

  • Mykhaylo V. Vovk,
  • Oleksandr M. Pinchuk,
  • Andrij O. Tolmachov and
  • Andrei A. Gakh

23 February 2010

The title compounds, (4-trifluoromethoxyphenyl)-2,5-dimethyl-3-(2-R-thiazol-4-yl)-1H-pyrroles, were prepared in four steps starting from commercially available 4-trifluoromethoxyaniline. The pyrrole (second ring) was added in one step using the Paal-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
13,901 Views
21 Pages

Polysaccharides Coatings on Medical-Grade PVC: A Probe into Surface Characteristics and the Extent of Bacterial Adhesion

  • Ahmad Asadinezhad,
  • Igor Novák,
  • Marián Lehocký,
  • František Bílek,
  • Alenka Vesel,
  • Ita Junkar,
  • Petr Sáha and
  • Anton Popelka

23 February 2010

Medical-grade polyvinyl chloride was coated by polysaccharides through a novel physicochemical approach. An initial surface activation was performed foremost via diffuse coplanar surface barrier discharge plasma in air at ambient temperature and pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,048 Views
13 Pages

23 February 2010

Novel Ru(II) complex-based hybrid inorganic-organic materials immobilized via a diamine co-ligand site instead of the conventional diphosphine ligand have been prepared. The complexes were prepared by two different methods: sol-gel and surface modifi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
17,496 Views
33 Pages

23 February 2010

An overview of the synthesis and applications of chiral 2,3-epoxy alcohols containing unsaturated chains is presented. One of the fundamental synthetic routes to these compounds is Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, which is reliable, highly chemosele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,494 Views
8 Pages

23 February 2010

Ten novel 4-(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yloxy)phenoxy acetates and 4-(4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-yloxy)phenoxy acetates were synthesized with hydroquinone, 2-methylsulfonyl-4,6-disubstituted-pyrimidine and chloroacetic ester as starting materials. The pro...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
42 Citations
10,160 Views
7 Pages

Remarkable Iodine-Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Pyrrole- Bearing N-Polyaromatic β-Lactams

  • Debasish Bandyopadhyay,
  • Gildardo Rivera,
  • Isabel Salinas,
  • Hector Aguilar and
  • Bimal K. Banik

23 February 2010

Because of their interesting biological properties various methods for the synthesis of substituted pyrroles are described in the literature. However, synthesis of pyrroles fused with a β-lactam ring has not been reported. Our group has demonstrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,464 Views
8 Pages

23 February 2010

Two new polyynes, named oplopantriol A (5) and oplopantriol B (6), were isolated from the root bark of Oplopanax horridus (Smith) Miq, an ethnic medicinal plant of North America, along with four known polyynes: (3S,8S)-falcarindiol (1), oplopandiol (...

  • Review
  • Open Access
165 Citations
18,025 Views
42 Pages

11 February 2010

Organocatalytic asymmetric α-oxidation and amination reactions of carbonyl compounds are highly useful synthetic methodologies, especially in generating chiral building blocks that previously have not been easily accessible by traditional methods. Th...

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