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A facile synthetic route for the preparation of N-protected γ-amino β-keto esters from amino aldehydes and ethyl diazoacetate is described. The two component coupling is facilitated by tin(II) chloride followed by semipinacol rearrangement leading to the product in quantitative yield. The reaction...
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PMID: 20734011
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We demonstrate how the size of the nanocrystallites influences and stabilizes the mesostructure at temperatures as low as 100 C and thereby in the case of titania or tin dioxide even prevents it from deterioration at higher temperatures up to 400–600 C....
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PMID: 20945539
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Strong electrochemiluminescence signals caused by the highly effective electron transfer process between SnO nanoparticles-deposited multiwall carbon nanotubes (SnO NPs@MWCNTs) composite and Ru(bpy)(3)(3+) were observed.
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PMID: 20589285
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A highly sensitive and selective photoelectrochemical sensor for Cu(2+) was developed based on the selective interaction between CdS quantum dots (QDs) immobilized on an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode surface and Cu(2+) in a triethanolamine (TEA) solution to form Cu(x)S-doped CdS QDs, which disrup...
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PMID: 20648335
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New tin(II) complexes of general formula Sn(L)(2) (L=monoanion of 3-methyl-4-fluoro-acetophenone phenylalanine L(1)H, 3-methyl-4-fluoro-acetophenone alanine L(2)H, 3-methyl-4-fluoro acetophenone tryptophan L(3)H, 3-methyl-4-fluoro-acetophenone valine L(4)H, 3-methyl-4-fluoro-acetophenone isoleucine...
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PMID: 20381414
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Different compositions of Eu doped electrodes were prepared by a pyrolysis method in order to investigate the effect of Eu on the electro-catalytic behavior of Ti-based SnO(2)/Sb electrodes. The electrodes were characterized by SEM, EDS, XRD and their degradation abilities were evaluated using pheno...
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PMID: 20167422
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We compared the results between subareolar injection of (99m)Tc-tin colloid and injection of (99m)Tc-phytate. This study included 516 breast cancer patients who underwent surgery between 2001 and 2010. Among the 516 patients, (99m)Tc-tin colloid (37-185 MBq) was administered to 412 patients by subar...
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PMID: 20532977
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Neurotoxicities of dibutyltin (DBT), tin(II) octylate (OT), poly-L-lactides (PLLA, molecular weight [MW]=5000, PLLA 5000), PLLA without tin (MW=3000, PLLA 3000), PLLA with a large amount (590 ppm) of tin (S3), poly(glycolic acid-co-epsilon-caprolactone) oligomer (MW=6200, PGC oligomer), and poly(L-l...
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PMID: 20519863
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SnO(2) nanoparticle coated single wall nanotube (SWNT) network sensors were fabricated by forming a SWNT network on the Pt patterned SiO(2)/Si substrate using a dip coating method and subsequently depositing SnO(2) nanoparticles on the SWNT network by rf magnetron sputtering. Their H(2) gas sensing...
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PMID: 20431207
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This study reports a transparent indium tin oxide (ITO)-based microheater chip and its applicability for perfusion cell culture outside a cell incubator. The attempt of the proposed ITO microheater is to take the role of conventional bulky incubator for cell culture in order to improve integratabili...
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PMID: 20107907
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A cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry method (CV-AFS) has been developed for the determination of Hg in rice samples at a few ngg(-1) concentration level. The method is based on the previous digestion of samples in a microwave oven with HNO(3) and H(2)O(2) followed by dilution with water con...
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PMID: 20441864
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We used an ester-protected compound, C(60)(C(6)H(4)CO(2)Et)(5)(C(6)H(4)Fc)(5)Me(2) (2), and 4 was probed by performing femtosecond flash photolysis experiments in a variety of organic solvents. Importantly, the formation of a radical ion pair state was corroborated with lifetimes of up to 333 ps in...
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PMID: 20397654
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Intermolecular radical amination reactions of various primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl radicals by using trimethylstannylated benzophenone imine A as a novel radical acceptor to provide imines of type B are described. These imines are readily reduced with NaBH(4) to the corresponding secondary...
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PMID: 20361746
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We demonstrate that poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers are capable of supporting heavy meromyosin dependent actin motility of similar quality to that observed using nitrocellulose, and that microcontact printing of PAMAM dendrimers can be exploited to produce tracks of active myosin motors leading...
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PMID: 20355744
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We present an ultrasensitive electrochemical DNA sensor using (i) single DNA hybridization with peptide nucleic acid (PNA), (ii) selective binding of [Ru(NH(3))(6)](3+) to hybridized DNA, (iii) fast NaBH(4) electrooxidation mediated by [Ru(NH(3))(6)](3+), and (iv) low background currents of NaBH(4)...
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PMID: 20085331
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Novel tin-oxide (SnO(2))-coated single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles supporting platinum (Pt) electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation were developed for direct ethanol fuel cells. SnO(2)-coated SWNT (SnO(2)-SWNT) bundles were synthesized by a simple chemical-solution route. SnO(2)-SWNT bundle...
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PMID: 20351403
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A novel method was developed for the in situ trapping of stannane on an iridium-coated tungsten coil. Coating the tungsten coil with iridium has significantly improved the sensitivity. The tungsten coil can either be used as an on-line atomizer or as a trapping surface. The interference effect of so...
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PMID: 20188956
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We investigated the abiotic reduction of inorganic Hg(II) by dissolved organic matter (DOM) and stannous(II) chloride (SnCl(2)) in the absence of light and quantified fractionation of Hg isotopes during these processes. The kinetics of reduction by DOM was characterized using multiple parallel pseud...
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PMID: 20192261
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Metal oxides present oxygen defects that induce different chemical and physical properties. Experiments performed in SnO(2-x) sensors show that the dynamics of these vacancies are strongly affected by the presence of different gases in the environment. Experimentally, the electrical resistance of in...
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PMID: 20449353
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Amalgam or its components may cause type IV hypersensitivity reactions on the oral mucosa. Majority of the reported cases involved a delayed hypersensitivity to mercury. A case of bilateral oral lichenoid reaction is presented, which was present in relation to amalgam restorations. Histopathological...
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PMID: 20098082
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The effect of the organometallic compounds containing lead, (C6H5)3PbCl , and tin, (C6H5)3SnCl, on Chlorella green algae photosystem II was studied. Suspension of the algae treated with (C6H5)3SnCl at concentrations of 1.0 and 4.0 micromol dm(-3) for 22 h revealed a decrease in most...
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PMID: 19784804
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Nickel and antimony doped tin dioxide is a novel anodic material for its good performance of electrochemical ozone generation and direct electro-catalytic oxidation. Electro-catalytic oxidation of phenol on this novel nickel-antimony doped tin dioxide electrode is presented here. The morphology and...
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PMID: 21045336
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In vitro antioxidant activity for 12 stannoxanes derived from Ph(3)SnCl (compounds 1-3), Ph(2)SnCl(2) (compounds 4-6), Bu(3)SnCl (compounds 7-9), and Bu(2)SnCl(2) (compounds 10-12), was assayed qualitatively by the chromatographic profile with 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazil (DPPH) method and by two q...
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PMID: 20714307
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Stannous chloride (SnCl(2)) and UVA induce DNA lesions through ROS. The aim of this work was to study the toxicity induced by UVA preillumination, followed by SnCl(2) treatment. E. coli BER mutants were used to identify genes which could play a role in DNA lesion repair generated by these agents. Th...
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PMID: 20300433
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To measure the desensitizing benefits of an experimental stannous-containing sodium fluoride dentifrice versus a regular sodium fluoride negative control.
This study was a randomized, double-blind, parallel group, four-week clinical trial. Subjects reporting dentinal...
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PMID: 20098960
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This paper describes a novel surface engineering approach that combines oxygen plasma treatment and electrochemical activation to create micropatterned cocultures on indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates. In this approach, photoresist was patterned onto an ITO substrate modified with pol...
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PMID: 20356132
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This paper presents a novel and mass-producible technique to fabricate indium-tin-oxide (ITO) nanorods which serve as an omnidirectional transparent conductive layer (TCL) for InGaN/GaN light emitting diodes (LEDs). The characteristic nanorods, prepared by oblique electron-beam evaporation in a nitr...
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PMID: 19997364
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We demonstrate a dual-operation-mode liquid crystal (LC) lens, which is fabricated with the silica nanoparticle-doped (SND) hybrid-aligned nematic (HAN) LC cell. With AC voltage, the cell behaves as a conventional LC lens. The response time of the SND HAN LC lens is faster than that of the conventio...
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PMID: 19997321
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The goal of the present communication was to develop a strategy for detachment of cells and biomaterial constructs from indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes.
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PMID: 19787123
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The acid-base properties of cassiterite (alpha-SnO2) surfaces at 10-50 degrees C were studied using potentiometric titrations of powder suspensions in aqueous NaCl and RbCl media. The proton sorption isotherms exhibited common intersection points in the pH range of 4.0-4.5 under all conditions, and...
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PMID: 19673509
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A quaternary tin(IV) antimony(III) sulfide decorated by lanthanum(III) ethylenediamine complexes, namely, [La(en)(4)SbSnS(5)](2) x 0.5 H(2)O (1; en = ethylenediamine), has been solvothermally synthesized and structurally, thermally, and optically characterized. Its structure features an isolated hex...
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PMID: 19642620
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Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is widely used in biosensors and immunoassays thanks to the high sensitivity and specificity of the electrochemically triggered luminescence signal. So far, no applications have been reported on the use of ECL as a probe for ultrasensitive low-light microscope imaging....
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PMID: 19555079
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SnO(2) nanotubes with controlled diameter and length were synthesized using an electrochemical method at room temperature. The length and wall thickness of the nanotubes increased monotonically with the deposition time and the diameter of the nanotubes was altered by varying the pore size of the sca...
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PMID: 19420618
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The effect of localized electric fields on the photocurrent responses of phthalocyanine that was self-assembled on a gold nanoparticle film was investigated by comparing the conventional and the total internal reflection (TIR) experimental systems. In the case of photocurrent measurements, self-asse...
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PMID: 19708159
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We illustrate kinetic and mechanistic insights that may be afforded by working with such electrodes through studies of Escherichia coli NrfA, a pentahaem cytochrome with nitrite and nitric oxide reductase activities. In addition, we demonstrate that the ability to characterize electrocatalytically a...
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PMID: 19290864
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In the presence of O(3), the oxidative decolorization reaction on molasses fermentation wastewater with SnO(2) as a catalyst was studied. The results showed that SnO(2) accelerated the ozone oxidation reaction and the oxidative decolorization of molasses fermentation wastewater was accelerated. Infl...
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PMID: 18586390
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Single-crystalline indium tin oxide (ITO) nanowires (NWs) were grown by the standard thermal evaporation method. The as-grown NWs were typically 100-300 nm in diameter and a few microm long. Four-probe submicron Ti/Au electrodes on individual NWs were fabricated by the electron-beam lithography tech...
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PMID: 19417513
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These results reveal that such a sensor fulfills the selectivity, sensitivity, speed and simplicity requirements for imipramine detection, and provides possibilities of clinical application in physiological fluids....
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PMID: 19174198
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A novel Sb-doped SnO2 electrode featuring high oxygen evolution potential, excellent electrocatalytic performance, and long stabilitytoward electrochemical degradation of refractory organic pollutants was constructed by designing and regenerating the microstructure of the Ti substrate. Highly ordere...
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PMID: 19350923
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We show that by growing cells on indium-tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass slides, secondary electron (SE) and backscatter electron (BSE) images of uncoated cells can be obtained in high-vacuum SEM without charging artefacts. Interestingly, we observed that BSE imaging is influenced by both accelerating v...
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PMID: 19250456
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Growing interests in nitrogen-containing molecules involving bioactive and functional materials have stimulated the recent development of synthetic methodologies where nucleophilic addition reactions to imino carbons are utilized in crucial steps. This article summarizes double nucleophilic addition...
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PMID: 19214305
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A facile and versatile method for the large-scale synthesis of sensitive mesoporous ZnO-SnO(2) (m-Z-S) nanofibers through a combination of surfactant-directed assembly and an electrospinning approach is reported. The morphology and the structure were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM...
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PMID: 19417420
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This study outlines the quantification of low levels of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris in pure cultures, since this bacterium is not inactivated by pasteurization and may remain in industrialized foods and beverages. Electroconductive polymer-modified fluorine tin oxide (FTO) electrodes and multip...
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PMID: 19173055
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We investigate the possibility of recovering spectral information using a multilayer structure realized through microelectronics technologies and compatible with a matrix arrangement. The structure is made of photoabsorbing layers, acting as local photodetectors, alternating with transparent layers....
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PMID: 19151837
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Isotope ratio measurements characterizing (202)Hg/(200)Hg in NIST SRM 3133 Mercury Standard Solution were undertaken by multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry employing NIST SRM 997 Tl for mass bias correction by use of the slope and the intercept obtained from a natural logarit...
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PMID: 18784919
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We demonstrated (99m)Tc-Tin colloid uptake within the lungs and liver in healthy, mature, miniature pigs. Our observations may be explained by the presence of pulmonary intravascular macrophages (PIMs) closely apposed to the endothelium of the pulmonary capillaries in several animal species, such as...
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PMID: 19567389
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Stannous chloride (SnC12) is used in nuclear medicine as a reducing agent to obtain technetium-99m-radiopharmaceuticals. It have been reported that natural products might reduce the genotoxic and cytotoxic effects related to SnC12. This work evaluated the biological effects of an aqueous extract of...
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PMID: 19746265
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A seed-mediated growth method for surface modification was applied to the attachment of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to glassy carbon (GC) surfaces. By simply immersing a GC plate at first into a seed solution containing 4 nm Au nano-seed particles and then into a growth solution containing HAuCl(4),...
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PMID: 19212061
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Synthesis of poly(L-lactic acid) typically requires a long process time with the use of tin octoate as a catalyst. In this study microwave-assisted polymerization of lactic acid has been studied both with the aid and without the aid of tin octoate catalyst. While the presence of tin octoate assists...
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PMID: 19105899
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Rice bran (Oryza sativa) oil is known for containing higher amount of free fatty acid (FFA) generated by hydrolytic enzyme. This FFA causes heavy neutral oil losses due to saponification and emulsification since it produces large amount of soap in the conventional alkali refining process. In the pre...
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PMID: 19145058
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The best MSR and image contrast for the first and the consecutive axillary SLNs were found at the AO projection. The longest distance between the injection site and the SLNs and between the two SLNs were observed at the AO views. Although the AO view gave the best results for intramammary SLNs the d...
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PMID: 19650175
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Low-molecular weight poly(epsilon-caprolactone), polylactides and copolymers of epsilon-caprolactone and lactides were obtained by the polymerization of cyclic esters in the presence of a carnitine/SnOct(2) system. Their structures were proven by means of MALDI-TOF, IR and NMR studies. Effects of te...
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PMID: 19214152
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The exceptional leaving group ability of the trimethylstannyl group in electrophilic aromatic substitutions makes possible the synthesis, in a single step, of bi- and triaroylarenes through the catalyst-free, regioselective reaction of bi- and tristannylarenes with different aroyl halides in o-dichl...
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PMID: 18950227
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We show the successful transfer of a sophisticated electroactive immobilization and release strategy to an indium tin oxide (ITO) surface to generate (1) optically transparent, robust, and renewable surfaces, (2) inert surfaces that resist nonspecific protein adsorption and cell attachment, and (3)...
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PMID: 18928305
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A novel ferroceneylazobenzene self-assembled monolayer (SAM) has been constructed on an indium-tin oxide (ITO) electrode via the covalent attachment of 4-(4'-11-ferrocenyl-undecanoxyphenylazo)benzoic acid ( FcAzCOOH) onto a silanized ITO substrate surface and verified by reflectance infrared spectro...
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PMID: 18928307
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Zincke aldehydes, which are readily available from the ring-opening reaction of pyridinium salts, are easily converted into delta-tributylstannyl-alpha,beta,gamma,delta-unsaturated aldehydes (stannyldienals) by the action of tributylstannyllithium. This reaction appears to proceed via 1,6-stannyllit...
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PMID: 18817407
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Time-resolved surface photovoltage (SPV) is an important method for studying charge separation, for example, in nanostructured semiconductors. High precision differential measurement of SPV transients was realized with two identical measurement capacitors and high-impedance buffers. In addition, log...
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PMID: 19045899
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A second generation formal synthesis of the alkaloid (-)-cephalotaxine has been achieved using an alkylidene carbene 1,5-CH insertion reaction to establish a key quaternary stereocenter. The carbene precursor was readily derived from L-proline, and the 1,5-CH insertion reaction was performed under O...
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PMID: 18785776
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Mintlactone is synthesized in a concise and efficient way by using a highly diastereoselective intramolecular propargylic Barbier reaction, followed by an allenol cyclocarbonylation. Tin(II) chloride is found to be the most effective reagent for the Barbier reaction.
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PMID: 18811204
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