A copper-catalyzed decarboxylation/cycloaddition cascade of alkynyl carboxylic acids with azide has been developed. This reaction exhibits good functional group tolerance and wide substrate scope, provides an efficient way to construct 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles.

5-Methyl-2-phenyl-2H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxylic acid (MPTC), a newly synthesized compound, was explored to study the structural properties and theoretical spectra by using GaussView5.0 program package and the time dependent density functional theory (TD DFT). The calculated quantum chemical val...

Phenolphthalein induces tumors in rodents but because it is negative in assays for mutation in Salmonella and in mammalian cells, for DNA adducts and for DNA strand breaks, its primary mechanism does not seem to be DNA damage. Chromosome aberration (Ab) induction by phenolphthalein in vitro is a...

Summary1.The use of phenolphthalein monophosphate in a 12-channel automated system (SMA-12 Auto-AnalyzerTM), as a substrate, in a simplified determination of the alkaline phosphatase enzymatic activity in blood serum, is described. After the incubation, the addition of a 0.1 M phosphate buffer (...

The coupling of 125I to phenolphthalein monophosphate is described. Hydrolytic cleavage of the phosphate group by alkaline phosphatases (EC 3.1.-3.1) releases labelled phenolphthalein which is extracted into ethyl acetate at pH 10. This forms the basis of a sensitive assay for the enzyme with th...

A chymotrypsin-like esterase was purified from beef lung. This lysosomal enzyme, not previously characterized, seemed to be composed of two or more forms with molecular weights of about 52 000. It hydrolysed N-benzoyl-dl-phenylalanine β-naphthol ester at acid and neutral pH; it polymerized l-ph...

Recent studies suggest that phytochemicals, as part of the food matrix, might alter the toxicity of nanoparticles (NPs); however, relatively few studies have investigated the impact of anthocyanidins on the toxicity of NPs to cells lining the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, this study used cy...

The intermolecular copigmentation of cyanidin-3-O-glucoside (C3G) with three colorless phenolic compounds and its thermal stability were investigated. The influence of the copigment (ferulic acid, dopamine, or (+)-catechin), the pigment-to-copigment molar ratio (1 : 1, 1 : 10, and 1 : 100), the ...

Fall-seeded rye improve their frost resistance during a cold acclimation period in the fall, which is often associated with an accumulation of red/purple-colored anthocyanins in plant tissues. The pigments provide antioxidant activity and are proposed to scavenge excess reactive oxygen species (...

Cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) and cyanidin 3-rutinoside (C3R), two anthocyanin compounds isolated from mulberry fruit, have beneficial effects in regards to reducing obesity. Their molecular targets have yet to be elucidated, however. Improving the function or increasing the quantity of mitochondri...

We have investigated whether dextran sodium sulphate (DSS)-induced inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in rats can be ameliorated by intervention with cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G). Rats were given either normal water (C) or 0.5% DSS (D) in drinking water for 12 weeks. C3G 8 mg/kg/day as Queen Garnet ...

Anthocyanins can condense with compounds having enolizable groups to form pyranoanthocyanins. These pigments are less susceptible to degradation and color changes associated with nucleophilic addition common to anthocyanins. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of glycosylation patterns of an...

Cyanidin-3-O-glucoside, also known as kuromanin, is one of the most important anthocyanins in nature. The scope of this paper is to discuss the potential role of this anthocyanin as therapeutic agent to prevent or treat chronic diseases in which oxidative stress may be involved through a modulat...

The impact of glycosylation on anthocyanin stability has largely been associated with sugar type, site, and size, with glycosyl stereochemistry being under-explored. Seven cyanidin-3-glycosides were isolated by HPLC, diluted in pH 1–9, mixed with bisulfite or ascorbic acid at pH 3, and stored f...

Aronia melanocarpa has beneficial effects on lifestyle-related diseases. Our previous studies showed that dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV) activity was inhibited by cyanidin 3,5-diglucoside from aronia juice and the weight of adipose tissues of mice given aronia juice was also reduced. The aim o...

The structural forms of cyanidin and cyanidin 3-O-β-glucopyranoside (Cy3Glc) were investigated in the pH range from 0.4 to 13.5 for cyanidin and 0.4 to 13.2 for Cy3Glc. The 3-glucosidic substitution in cyanidin 3-O-β-glucopyranoside at pH values lower than 4.0 was manifested in a large hyperch...

Poly (dl-lactic-co-glycolic) acid [PLGA] copolymers with different ratios (78/22, 68/32 and 61/39) and molecular weight (15,400, 11,000 and 10,000 Da) were synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR, FTIR, GPC and TGA-DTA studies. Curcumin loaded PLGA with the size of 100–300 nm were obtained by e...

Palladium-catalyzed ortho-iodination of 2, 4-diarylquinazolines via C-H activation is described. These palladium catalytic quinazoline-directed mono-iodination reactions are very efficient, highly selective and with a broad substrate scope, producing the corresponding 2-(2-iodoaryl)-4-arylquinaz...

Cu(II), Mn(II), Ni(II), and Zn(II) metal complexes with novel heterocyclic Schiff base derived from 5-phenyl azo-salicyladehyde and o-amino benzoic acid have been synthesized and characterized on the basis of elemental analyses, electronic, IR, and 1H NMR spectra, and also by aid of scanning ele...

In this study, oxytetracycline (OTC) as a target pollutant in swine wastewater was removed by aerobic granular sludge (AGS). The removal rate of 300 μg/L OTC in aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactor (AGSBR) increased to 88.00% in 33 days and maintained stable. The chemical oxygen dem...