The colchicine site inhibitors (CSIs) showed promising prospects as antitumor agents due to their vascular disrupting activities besides antimitotic activities. 1-Phenyl-dihydrobenzoindazole was found as a novel scaffold of CSI without the cis−trans isomerization problem. The X-ray co-crystal st...

Both enantiomerically pure antipodes of GABA analogues were prepared as hydrochloride salts, by enzymatic kinetic resolution of their precursors ethyl 2-(nitromethyl)alkanoates. These latter compounds can be easily transformed into enantiomerically pure 2-alkylsuccinic acids by a Nef reaction fo...

A mild and highly efficient deoxygenation of variety of N-oxides using an inexpensive CuX, or a CuX–Zn or CuX–Al couple is described.

13C- and 1H-NMR spectroscopy was used to obtain njHH, nJCH and δC-13 for a series of substituted 2-hydroxypyridines (3-hydroxy; 4-hydroxy; 5-chloro; 3-methyl-5-chloro; 6-chloro; 6-amino; 6-hydroxy). It is shown that the additivity of δC-13 and 1JCH values provides a valuable criterion for diff...

The electrochemical oxidation of 1-methyluric acid was studied at a pyrolytic graphite electrode (PGE) in the pH range 2.1–10.0. One well-defined, 2e, 2H+, pH-dependent oxidation peak was observed in linear and cyclic sweep voltammetry. The decay of the UV-absorbing intermediate and the pseudo-...

In an effort to develop highly porous silicon carbide for high temperature air filtration, an alternative approach to forming silicon carbide nanowires (SCNW) was developed by blending carbon containing materials with silicon powder and heating these precursors to 1400 °C. The mixing ratio of p...

Impact resistance from foreign debris is a critical requirement for brittle ceramic and ceramic composite materials intended for use in the hot-section of gas turbine engines. A design to mitigate against such impact failures necessitates a detailed understanding of the driving failure mechanism...

The Y3Si2C2 coating on the surface of the silicon carbide powders can play as an important additive to improve the sintering process of silicon carbide ceramics. A detailed thermodynamic description for the Y-Si-C system is desired to study the sintering and densification mechanisms. Coupling th...

Silicon carbide ceramics have found widespread use due to their high corrosion stability. Both solid state-sintered silicon carbide, which has an extremely high corrosion resistance, and silicon-infiltrated silicon carbide are used for various applications. The latter material contains SiC as we...

This study reports the preparation of silicon carbide ceramic membranes with pure silicon carbide particles without sintering aids. The effects of sintering temperature on the microstructure, mechanical and filtration properties were investigated. The porosity of the substrate layer increased fr...

High temperature annealing reduces the residual microstress in the silicon phase and silicon carbide phase in monolithic reaction bonded silicon carbide and in the matrix of melt-infitrated composites of silicon carbide reinforced with silicon carbide fibers. Stress relaxation is related to cree...

Silicon Carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum, has been found to be widely useful as a substrate and wide band gap semiconductor in radiation resistant optoelectronic devices. The aim of this study is to discuss the thermoluminescence (TL) properties of silicon carbide (SiC) used in industria...

A novel shaping method for the fabrication of reaction bonded silicon carbide structures was investigated in this work. A paste consisting of silicon carbide as inert filler and carbon powder was developed and printed by robocasting technology. Layer by layer deposition of the ceramic paste faci...

Comparative studies (nanoindentation and micro-scratch tests) of the mechanical properties of composite diamond/silicon carbide and diamond layers deposited by a microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition system with linear antennas, show that composite layers have significantly superi...

Silicon carbide ceramic is a promising membrane material because of the high corrosive and high temperature resistance, and the excellent hydrophility. Here, a silicon carbide ceramic membrane with both substrate layer and separate layer composed of pure silicon carbide phase was successfully pr...

The retrovirus encoded proteinase (PR) is required for the proper maturation of viral particles into infectious virus. The PR had been considered highly substrate specific, cleaving exclusively the viral gag and gag-pol protein precursor. It has recently been reported, however, that cytoskeleton...

The melting of human plasma fibronectin and its proteolytic fragments has been studied by scanning microcalorimetry to reveal co-operative structural domains in the molecule. It has been established that each of the two similar polypeptide chains of fibronectin has at least 12 structural domains...

The gelatin-binding region of fibronectin is isolated easily as a stable and functional 42 kDa fragment containing four type I “finger” modules and two type II “kringle-like” modules arranged in the order I6-II1-II2-I7-I8-I9. This fragment exhibits a single reversible melting transition near...

Significant progress has been made recently in the determination of the structure and assembly of the important matrix protein fibronectin, a molecule mainly constructed from three modular units denoted Fn1 and Fn3. Atomic resolution structures are now available for all three single modules, for...

Previously, two fibronectin mRNAs, generated by alternative splicing of the extra domain (ED) and type III connecting segments (IIICS) sequences, have been described in a human transformed cell line and in human liver, respectively. We now report on a family of fibronectin mRNAs identified by No...