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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,566 Views
13 Pages

Novel Fused Core Chromophore Incorporating Spirofluorene and Anthracene Groups for Sky-Blue Emission and Solution-Processed White Devices

  • Sangwook Park,
  • Seokwoo Kang,
  • Sunwoo Park,
  • Hyukmin Kwon,
  • Hayoon Lee,
  • Kiho Lee and
  • Jongwook Park

9 September 2023

New blue-light-emitting materials, 2,7-Bis-[1,1′;3′,1″]terphenyl-spiro-fluorene[3,4]naphthalene (TP-AFF-TP) and spiro-fluorene[3,4]-5-terphenylnaphthalene (TP-ASF) were synthesized based on a fused core with anthracene and spirofluo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
238 Views
26 Pages

C–H Annulation in Azines to Obtain 6,5-Fused-Bicyclic Heteroaromatic Cores for Drug Discovery

  • Maria Carolina Theisen,
  • Isis Apolo Silveira de Borba,
  • Angélica Rocha Joaquim and
  • Fernando Fumagalli

10 December 2025

Fused-bicyclic heteroaromatic cores are a common framework in drugs and other biologically active compounds. Those containing azine rings are widely used in drug discovery campaigns. Although these cores are very common, C–H functionalization o...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,687 Views
11 Pages

10 September 2023

Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT), originally discovered and explored in depth in a number of extensive photophysical studies, is more recently rediscovered as a powerful synthetic tool, offering rapid access to complex polyheteroc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,789 Views
27 Pages

Molecular Hybridization-Guided One-Pot Multicomponent Synthesis of Turmerone Motif-Fused 3,3′-Pyrrolidinyl-dispirooxindoles via a 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction

  • Bing Lin,
  • Gen Zhou,
  • Yi Gong,
  • Qi-Di Wei,
  • Min-Yi Tian,
  • Xiong-Li Liu,
  • Ting-Ting Feng,
  • Ying Zhou and
  • Wei-Cheng Yuan

Described herein is the development of a facile and efficient methodology for the synthesis of novel turmerone motif-fused 3,3′-pyrrolidinyl-dispirooxindoles 3–5 via a multicomponent 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of dienones 2 with azomethine ylides (the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,760 Views
55 Pages

Semisynthetic Derivatives of Pentacyclic Triterpenes Bearing Heterocyclic Moieties with Therapeutic Potential

  • Gabriela Nistor,
  • Cristina Trandafirescu,
  • Alexandra Prodea,
  • Andreea Milan,
  • Andreea Cristea,
  • Roxana Ghiulai,
  • Roxana Racoviceanu,
  • Alexandra Mioc,
  • Marius Mioc and
  • Viviana Ivan
  • + 1 author

3 October 2022

Medicinal plants have been used by humans since ancient times for the treatment of various diseases and currently represent the main source of a variety of phytocompounds, such as triterpenes. Pentacyclic triterpenes have been subjected to numerous s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,976 Views
13 Pages

Exploration of Diazaspiro Cores as Piperazine Bioisosteres in the Development of σ2 Receptor Ligands

  • Kuiying Xu,
  • Chia-Ju Hsieh,
  • Ji Youn Lee,
  • Aladdin Riad,
  • Nicholas J. Izzo,
  • Gary Look,
  • Susan Catalano and
  • Robert H. Mach

A series of σ2R compounds containing benzimidazolone and diazacycloalkane cores was synthesized and evaluated in radioligand binding assays. Replacing the piperazine moiety in a lead compound with diazaspiroalkanes and the fused octahydropyrrol...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,573 Views
60 Pages

28 January 2021

Spirocyclic nitroxyl radicals (SNRs) are stable paramagnetics bearing spiro-junction at α-, β-, or γ-carbon atom of the nitroxide fragment, which is part of the heterocyclic system. Despite the fact that the first representatives of SNRs were obtaine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,742 Views
15 Pages

Novel Approach to the Construction of Fused Indolizine Scaffolds: Synthesis of Rosettacin and the Aromathecin Family of Compounds

  • Shohta Mizuno,
  • Takashi Nishiyama,
  • Mai Endo,
  • Koharu Sakoguchi,
  • Takaki Yoshiura,
  • Hana Bessho,
  • Toshio Motoyashiki,
  • Noriyuki Hatae and
  • Tominari Choshi

Camptothecin-like compounds are actively employed as anticancer drugs in clinical treatments. The aromathecin family of compounds, which contains the same indazolidine core structure as the camptothecin family of compounds, is also expected to displa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,532 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2018

We report the synthesis and characterization of synthetic polymer aerogels based on dendritic-type urethane-norbornene monomers. The core of those monomers is based either on an aromatic/rigid (TIPM/Desmodur RE), or an aliphatic/flexible (Desmodur N3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,026 Views
16 Pages

Site-Specific Fluorogenic Protein Labelling Agent for Bioconjugation

  • Kelvin K. Tsao,
  • Ann C. Lee,
  • Karl É. Racine and
  • Jeffrey W. Keillor

28 February 2020

Many clinically relevant therapeutic agents are formed from the conjugation of small molecules to biomolecules through conjugating linkers. In this study, two novel conjugating linkers were prepared, comprising a central coumarin core, functionalized...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,075 Views
9 Pages

Lysosomal enzymes are synthesized as N-glycosylated glycoproteins with mannose-6-phosphate (M6P) moieties, which are responsible for their binding to M6P receptors and transporting to the lysosome. In the M6P biosynthetic pathway, a Man8GlcNAc2 glyco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,500 Views
19 Pages

Synthesis and Evaluation of Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activity of Oxathiine-Fused Quinone-Thioglucoside Conjugates of Substituted 1,4-Naphthoquinones

  • Yuri E. Sabutski,
  • Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya,
  • Ludmila S. Shevchenko,
  • Ekaterina A. Chingizova,
  • Artur R. Chingizov,
  • Roman S. Popov,
  • Vladimir A. Denisenko,
  • Valery V. Mikhailov,
  • Dmitry L. Aminin and
  • Sergey G. Polonik

6 August 2020

A series of new tetracyclic oxathiine-fused quinone-thioglycoside conjugates based on biologically active 1,4-naphthoquinones and 1-mercapto derivatives of per-O-acetyl d-glucose, d-galactose, d-xylose, and l-arabinose have been synthesized, characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,000 Views
18 Pages

Synthesis, Properties, and Biological Activity Evaluation of Some Novel Naphtho[2,1-e]pyrazolo[5,1-c][1,2,4]triazines

  • Ion Burcă,
  • Vasile-Nicolae Bercean,
  • Gerlinde-Iuliana Rusu,
  • Raluca Pop,
  • Alexandra-Mihaela Diaconescu,
  • Valentin Badea and
  • Francisc Péter

This paper explores a synthetic pathway for naphtopyrazolotriazines utilizing amines as versatile starting materials. The approach leverages the reactivity of amines to construct the triazine core, fused with naphtho and pyrazolo cycles, through a se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,356 Views
17 Pages

13 September 2019

New 3D conformers were synthesized to show a nanomolecular configuration with geometrically branched 2-diphenylaminofluorene (DPAF-C2M) chromophores using a symmetrical 1,3,5-triaminobenzene ring as the center core for the connection of three fused D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,020 Views
9 Pages

Organic Thin Film Transistors Incorporating Solution Processable Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene Thienoacenes

  • Nicole A. Rice,
  • François Magnan,
  • Owen A. Melville,
  • Jaclyn L. Brusso and
  • Benoît H. Lessard

22 December 2017

Bottom-gate bottom-contact organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) were prepared with four novel star-shaped conjugated molecules containing a fused thieno[3,2-b]thiophene moiety incorporated either in the core and/or at the periphery of the molecular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,817 Views
20 Pages

Protic Processes in an Extended Pyrazinacene: The Case of Dihydrotetradecaazaheptacene

  • Aël Cador,
  • Samia Kahlal,
  • Gary J. Richards,
  • Jean-François Halet and
  • Jonathan P. Hill

Pyrazinacenes are linearly fused heteroaromatic rings, with N atoms replacing all apical CH moieties. Component rings may exist in a reduced state, having NH groups instead of N, causing cross-conjugation. These compounds have interesting optical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,836 Views
15 Pages

Chemistry of CS2 and CS3 Bridged Decaborane Analogues: Regular Coordination Versus Cluster Expansion

  • Ketaki Kar,
  • Suvam Saha,
  • Rahul Maganbhai Parmar,
  • Arindam Roy,
  • Marie Cordier,
  • Thierry Roisnel and
  • Sundargopal Ghosh

19 January 2023

In an effort to synthesize metallaheteroborane clusters of higher nuclearity, the reactivity of metallaheteroboranes, nido-[(Cp*M)2B6S2H4(CS3)] (Cp* = C5Me5) (1: M = Co; 2: M = Rh) with various metal carbonyls have been investigated. Photolysis of ni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,939 Views
25 Pages

Exploring the Synthetic Potential of γ-Lactam Derivatives Obtained from a Multicomponent Reaction—Applications as Antiproliferative Agents

  • Adrián López-Francés,
  • Xabier del Corte,
  • Zuriñe Serna-Burgos,
  • Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
  • Francisco Palacios and
  • Javier Vicario

A study on the reactivity of 3-amino α,β-unsaturated γ-lactam derivatives obtained from a multicomponent reaction is presented. Key features of the substrates are the presence of an endocyclic α,β-unsaturated amide moiety...