- NOVEL AMPHIPHILIC COMPOUND HAVING DENDRONIC HYDROPHOBIC GROUP AND APPLICATION THEREOF
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The present invention relates to an amphiphilic compound having a dendronic hydrophobic group, a method for preparing the same, and a method for extraction, solubilization, stabilization, or crystallization of a membrane protein by using the same. The use of the compound according to the present invention leads to an excellent membrane protein solubilization effect and a stable storage of a membrane protein in an aqueous solution for a long time, and thus can be utilized for functional analysis and structural analysis of the membrane protein. Especially, the amphiphilic compound having a dendronic hydrophobic group showed very remarkable characteristics in the visualization of protein composites through an electronic microscope. The membrane protein structural and functional analysis is one of the fields of greatest interest in current biology and chemistry, and more than half of the new drugs that are currently being developed are targeted at membrane proteins, and thus the amphiphilic compound of the present invention can be applied to membrane protein structure studies closely related to the development of new drugs.
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Paragraph 0104; 0110; 0111; 0117; 0118
(2020/08/20)
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- Lamellar Liquid Crystals of In-Plane Lying Rod-Like Mesogens with Designer Side-Chains: The Case of Sliding versus Locked Layers
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The dimensionality of self-assembled nanostructures plays an essential role for their properties and applications. Herein, an understanding of the transition from weakly to strongly coupled layers in soft matter systems is provided involving in-plane organized π-conjugated rods. For this purpose, bolaamphiphilic triblock molecules consisting of a rigid biphenyl core, polar glycerol groups at the ends, and a branched (swallow-tail) or linear alkyl or semiperfluoroalkyl chain in lateral position have been synthesized and investigated. Besides weakly coupled lamellar isotropic (LamIso), lamellar nematic (LamN) and sliding lamellar smectic phases (LamSm), a sequence of three distinct types of strongly coupled (correlated) lamellar smectic phases with either centered (c2mm) or non-centered rectangular (p2mm) lattice and an intermediate oblique lattices (p2) were observed depending on chain length, chain branching and degree of chain fluorination. This new sequence is explained by the strengthening of the layer coupling and the competition between energetic packing constraints and the entropic contribution of either longitudinal or tangential fluctuations. This example of directed side chain engineering of small generic model compounds provides general clues for morphological design of two-dimensional and three-dimensionally coupled lamellar systems involving larger π-conjugated molecular rods and molecular or supramolecular polymers, being of actual interest in organic electronics and nanotechnology.
- Prehm, Marko,Enders, Claudia,Mang, Xiaobin,Zeng, Xiangbing,Liu, Feng,Ungar, Goran,Baumeister, Ute,Tschierske, Carsten
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p. 16072 - 16084
(2018/10/15)
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- GUERBET CONDENSATION REACTION
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The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a Guerbet alcohol, comprising the steps of: (a) providing at least one alcohol, wherein said at least one alcohol has a carbon atom bearing at least one hydrogen atom adjacent to the hydroxyl group; (b) providing a catalyst composition, wherein said catalyst composition comprises an alkaline catalyst and a copper-nickel catalyst comprised in a hydrotalcite; (c) mixing alcohol (a) with catalyst composition (b), thereby obtaining a mixture; and, (d) heating said mixture; thereby obtaining a Guerbet alcohol.
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(2017/07/08)
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- Production of liquid hydrocarbon fuels with acetoin and platform molecules derived from lignocellulose
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Acetoin, a novel C4 platform molecule derived from new ABE (acetoin-butanol-ethanol) type fermentation via metabolic engineering, was used for the first time as a bio-based building block for the production of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. A series of diesel or jet fuel range C9-C14 straight, branched, or cyclic alkanes were produced in excellent yields by means of C-C coupling followed by hydrodeoxygenation reactions. Hydroxyalkylation/alkylation of acetoin with 2-methylfuran was investigated over a series of solid acid catalysts. Among the investigated candidates, zirconia supported trifluoromethanesulfonic acid showed the highest activity and stability. In the aldol condensation step, a basic ionic liquid [H3N+-CH2-CH2-OH][CH3COO-] was identified as an efficient and recyclable catalyst for the reactions of acetoin with furan based aldehydes. The scope of the process has also been studied by reacting acetoin with other aldehydes, and it was found that abnormal condensation products were formed from the reactions of acetoin with aromatic aldehydes through an aldol condensation-pinacol rearrangement route when amorphous aluminium phosphate was used as a catalyst. And the final hydrodeoxygenation step could be achieved by using a simple and handy Pd/C + H-beta zeolite system, and no or a negligible amount of oxygenates was observed after the reaction. Excellent selectivity was also observed using the present system, and the clean formation of hydrocarbons with a narrow distribution of alkanes occurred in most cases.
- Zhu, Chenjie,Shen, Tao,Liu, Dong,Wu, Jinglan,Chen, Yong,Wang, Linfeng,Guo, Kai,Ying, Hanjie,Ouyang, Pingkai
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p. 2165 - 2174
(2016/04/19)
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- Functional group tolerance in organocatalytic regioselective acylation of carbohydrates
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(Chemical Equation Presented) Organocatalytic regioselective acylation of mono- and disaccaharides with various functionalized acid anhydrides has been developed. Acylation of octyl β-D-glucopyranoside with acid anhydrides derived from R-amino acids, cinnamic acid, and gallic acid took place at C(4)-OH with 67-94% regioselectivity in the presence of catalyst 1. Regioselective acylation of disaccharides with functionalized acid anhydrides was also achieved with 78-94% selectivity. Especially, a disaccharide with seven free hydroxy groups (X = OH, R′ = H) underwent acylation at C(4)-OH with 78% regioselectivity in the presence of 1. Thus, functional group tolerance in the regioselective acylation catalyzed by 1 was found to be high.
- Ueda, Yoshihiro,Muramatsu, Wataru,Mishiro, Kenji,Furuta, Takumi,Kawabata, Takeo
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p. 8802 - 8805
(2015/05/06)
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- Pyrrole butyric acid derivatives as inhibitors of steroid 5α- reductase
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A series of pyrrole butyric acid derivatives was synthesized and evaluated for inhibitory activity on human and rat steroid 5α-reductase in vitro and ex vivo. 3-Benzoyl-4-alkylpyrrole-1-butyric acids and 1-methyl- 2-alkyl-3-benzoylpyrrole-5-butyric acid derivatives were effective inhibitors. Structure activity relationships were evaluated among the 37 compounds synthesized. Compound 37 (HQL-1069) shows potent inhibitory activities against both rat and human 5α-reductase.
- Kato, Masaya,Komoda, Keiko,Namera, Akira,Sarai, Yusuke,Okada, Satoshi,Yamada, Akira,Yokoyama, Kouichi,Migita, Emiko,Minobe, Yasushi,Tani, Tadato
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p. 1767 - 1776
(2007/10/03)
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