In the present work, the spectral fluorescent properties of N-R-12-N-methylcytisine-3-amines (R = 2-furylmethyl, 2-hydroxybenzyl, 2-thienylmethyl and 2-phenylprop-2-en-1-yl) have been studied and their relative quantum yields and lifetimes in the electronically excited states have been defined. ...

Varenicline, the most successful smoking cessation aid, is a selective partial agonists at α4β2* nicotinic receptors. Its efficacy is likely to be shared by other drugs with similar receptor action, including cytisine. The present study aimed to characterize behavioral effects of cytisine comp...

SummaryDifferentiating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) to target the high-affinity nicotine α4β2 subtype is a major challenge in developing effective addiction therapies. Although cytisine 1 and varenicline 2 (current smoking-cessation agents) are partial agonists of α4β2, these dr...

A series of new cytisine derivatives with a unique endocyclic scaffold were synthesized and evaluated for their inhibitory effect on collagen α1 (I) (COL1A1) promotor in human LX2 cells, taking cytisine as the lead. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) revealed that introducing a 12N-benzyl su...

The azido-Ugi reaction with natural alkaloid cytisine was investigated. It was demonstrated that the reaction could be performed with various carbonyls (both aldehydes and ketones) and isocyanides. The transformation proceeded under mild conditions in methanol using TMSN3 as a source of hydrazoi...

Spectral and photophysical properties of (−)-cytisine that is used as a smoking cessation aid, and which derivatives are promising tools in a treatment of neurological diseases, were investigated in acetonitrile, non-specifically interacting solvent with a polarity similar to water. The two chai...

Aedes aegypti is the principal vector of arboviral pathogens that may cause diseases as dengue fever, chikungunya and zika. The harmful environmental effects of commercial pesticides coalesced with the development of insecticide-resistant populations encourage the discovery and generation of new...

A simple and general method has been developed for the synthesis of α-aminonitriles by a one-pot three-component condensation of aldehydes or ketones, amines and potassium cyanide in THF in presence of a catalytic amount of indium trichloride.

A straightforward and general method has been developed for the synthesis of α-aminonitriles from the reaction of aldehydes or ketones with amines and trimethylsilyl cyanides in the presence of a catalytic amount of promoted zirconia solid acid catalyst at room temperature. This simple experime...

A mild, efficient and environmentally friendly method has been developed for the synthesis of α-aminonitriles via a three-component condensation of aldehyde, amine and TMSCN in the presence of a catalytic amount of indium(III) iodide in water. The reactions proceeded smoothly at room temperatur...

The high surface area three-dimensional porous catalyst has been prepared and characterized by TEM, BET S.A, low angle XRD, 29Si MAS NMR, NH3 TPD techniques. A simple, efficient and rapid method for the green synthesis of α-aminonitriles has been demonstrated over a new mesoporous gallosilicate...

A simple and efficient method has been developed for the synthesis of α-aminonitriles by simply mixing aldehydes, amines, and trimethylsilyl cyanides in the presence of a catalytic amount of NiCl2 at room temperature.

Various forms of α-amino nitrile molecules are found to exert strong impacts on the synthesis of multiple organic compounds such as pharmaceuticals, amino acids, agrochemical agents, and pesticides. Spherical ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by a simple co-precipitation method are an efficient ...

In this study, tetrachloroaurate as an electron acceptor of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) has been studied to discover the parameters that affect the cost-effective recovery of gold. The modeling and equations for calculating the maximum actual efficiency and electrochemical impedance spectroscopi...

The guanidine ligand attached to vinylbenzyl chloride matrix as well as its sorption ability to tetrachloroaurate and dicyanoaurate ions were investigated upon using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The form of metallic gold, Au(0), was not observed on gold loaded resin surface when solutions o...

Gold is a nonessential element with a variety of applications in medicine. A few gold(I) compounds are used in the clinics for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and of discoid lupus. Some novel gold(III) compounds are under evaluation as anticancer agents. It is known that gold compounds general...

The phthalonitrile compounds 4-(3-(piperidin-1-ylmethyl)phenoxy)phthalonitrile (3a) and 3-(3-(piperidin-1-ylmethyl)phenoxy)phthalonitrile (3b), peripherally tetra substituted zinc(II) (4a) and copper(II) (5a) phthalocyanines and their quaternized water soluble derivatives (6a) and (7a), non-peri...

Organic phototransistors (OPTs) have captured a growing attention over the years due to their advantages of lightweight, flexibility, low cost and large area fabrication. Especially, how to improve the single-layer device performance is an essential issue. Here, we report that the performance of...

This work reports on the synthesis and photophysical parameters of tetra-and octa-substituted new lead phthalocyanines. The complexes synthesized are: 1,4-(tetraphenoxyphthalocyaninato)lead (7a), 1,4-(tetra-tert-butylphenoxyphthalocyaninato)lead (7b), 2,3-(tetraphenoxyphthalocyaninato)lead (8a),...

A hybrid composite of non-aggregated lead sulfide (PbS) nanoparticles of average size 5.8 ± 1 nm embedded within a film of an octaalkyl substituted metal-free phthalocyanine (Compound 2) was prepared on interdigitated gold electrodes by mild acidic treatment of newly synthesised octasubstituted...