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01 and 0.02 μmol·L-1. Therefore, this technology may conveniently promote a novel magnetic controlled release of the herbicide ATZ (with the potential to be collected from a watercourse) and act as a nutrient boost to the nontarget plant, with good herbicidal activity and reduced risk to the environment.Food-derived angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides could potentially be used as safe supportive therapeutic products for high blood pressure. Theoretical approaches are promising methods with the advantage through exploring the relationships between peptide structures and their bioactivities. In this study, peptides with ACE inhibitory activity were collected and curated. Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models were developed by using the combination of various machine learning approaches and chemical descriptors. The resultant models have revealed several structure features accounting for the ACE inhibitions. 14 new dipeptides predicted to lower blood pressure by inhibiting ACE were selected. Molecular docking indicated that these dipeptides formed hydrogen bonds with ACE. Five of these dipeptides were synthesized for experimental testing. The QSAR models developed were proofed to design and propose novel ACE inhibitory peptides. Machine learning algorithms and properly selected chemical descriptors can be promising modeling approaches for rational design of natural functional food components.Only 15% of human kinases carry a bulky residue at the DFG-1 position, providing an opportunity for the design of selective ATP-site inhibitors without the typical hinge-binding interactions. The low sequence homology among unrelated kinases with bulky DFG-1 residues provides a new paradigm for selective kinase inhibitor development.The contrasting geometrical features between organic and inorganic counterparts of amines and oxanes are explained in terms of an offset between attractive (donor-acceptor) and repulsive (donor-donor) interactions. Natural bond orbital (NBO) calculations carried out at the density functional theory level of theory reveal that hyperconjugative effects in the organic amines and ethers are overcome by repulsive interactions occurring between the lone pair on the nitrogen/oxygen atom and the adjacent σ(C-R) bond orbitals. Although displaying lower energies than in the corresponding organic derivatives, the LP(X) → σ*(E-R) (X = N, O; E = Si, Ge, Sn) interactions in heavier counterparts overcome the LP(X)···σ(E-R) repulsions, impacting thus their structural behavior. In addition, NBO deletion optimizations emphasize that among hyperconjugations, back-bonding effects of the LP(X) → d(E) type dictate to a lesser extent the anomalous structures of the inorganic amines and oxanes.Millipedes (Diplopoda) are well known for their toxic or repellent defensive secretions. Here we describe gosodesmine (1), 7-(4-methylpent-3-en-1-yl)-1,2,3,5,8,8a-hexahydroindolizine, a unique alkaloid with some terpene character found in the chemical defense secretions of the millipede Gosodesmus claremontus Chamberlin (Colobognatha, Platydesmida, Andrognathidae). The structure of 1 was suggested by its mass spectra and GC-FTIR spectra and established from its 1H, 13C, and 2D NMR spectra and 1D NOE studies. The 7-substituted indolizidine carbon skeleton of 1 was confirmed by unambiguous synthesis. This is the first report of an alkaloid from a platydesmid millipede and the first report of a 7-substituted indolizidine from an arthropod.Recently synthesized porphyrin-cycloparaphenylene (ZnP-[10]CPP) junction is a powerful platform to develop useful organic photovoltaic devices. In this work, we computationally study photoinduced electron transfer processes in the supramolecular complex ZnP-[10]CPP⊃C60 and its Li+-doped derivative. The most striking finding is charge-separated (CS) bands in ZnP-[10]CPP⊃Li+@C60 with opposite response to solvent polarity. Besides CS bands that demonstrate a bathochromic shift, there exist CS transitions showing a rarely observed hypsochromic shift. The rates of energy transfer, charge separation, and charge recombination in the supramolecular complexes are computed by using the semiclassical approach. These estimates suggest that the both types of CS states can be efficiently populated in polar media by decay of locally excited states.High-level theoretical CCSD/cc-pVTZ computations have been carried out to calculate the structures and ring-puckering potential energy functions (PEFs) for 1,1-difluorosilacyclopent-2-ene (2SiCPF2) and 1,1-dichlorosilacyclopent-2-ene (2SiCPCl2). The structure and PEF for 1,1-dibromosilacyclopent-2-ene (2SiCPBr2) were obtained by ab initio MP2/cc-pVTZ computations. The parent silacyclopent-2-ene (2SiCP) is puckered with a 49 cm-1 barrier to planarity, 2SiCPF2 has a planar ring system, 2SiCPCl2 has a calculated tiny 4 cm-1 barrier but is essentially planar, and the dibromide has a calculated barrier of 36 cm-1. Microwave spectra of seven isotopic species of 2SiCPF2 were recorded on a chirped pulse, Fourier transform microwave (CP-FTMW) spectrometer in the 6-18 GHz region. The a-type and b-type transitions were observed. The rotational constants and three quartic centrifugal distortion constants were determined for the parent, 29Si, 30Si, and all singly substituted 13C isotopologues in natural abundance. This allowed for the determination of the heavy-atom structure of the ring and showed the ring to be planar. The experimentally determined rotational constants and geometrical parameters agree very well with the theoretical values and confirm the planarity of the five-membered ring. A comparison of the PEFs for the silane and the three dihalides shows the silane to have the stiffest puckering motion and the dibromide to be the least rigid.Applications of quantum simulation algorithms to obtain electronic energies of molecules on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices require careful consideration of resources describing the complex electron correlation effects. In modeling second-quantized problems, the biggest challenge confronted is that the number of qubits scales linearly with the size of the molecular basis. This poses a significant limitation on the size of the basis sets and the number of correlated electrons included in quantum simulations of chemical processes. To address this issue and enable more realistic simulations on NISQ computers, we employ the double unitary coupled-cluster (DUCC) method to effectively downfold correlation effects into the reduced-size orbital space, commonly referred to as the active space. Using downfolding techniques, we demonstrate that properly constructed effective Hamiltonians can capture the effect of the whole orbital space in small-size active spaces. Combining the downfolding preprocessing technique with the variational quantum eigensolver, we solve for the ground-state energy of H2, Li2, and BeH2 in the cc-pVTZ basis using the DUCC-reduced active spaces. We compare these results to full configuration-interaction and high-level coupled-cluster reference calculations.Triflumezopyrim exemplifies a new class of mesoionic insecticides and has attracted increasing attention as a result of its unique structure, high level of insecticidal activity, new mechanisms of action, low toxicity toward non-target organisms, and environmental friendliness. It inhibits the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and has high potency against sucking pests, including the brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens), which has developed serious resistance to conventional neonicotinoids and low cross-resistance to some newly developed neonicotinoids. This review focuses on the discovery, synthesis, structure-activity relationships, and mechanism of action of mesoionic insecticides. Finally, potential directions for the development of mesoionic insecticides are discussed.A versatile one-pot procedure for the preparation of 2-alkyl-substituted N-arylindoles is described. The method combines a visible light-mediated Ni/Ir-photoredox dual catalytic N-arylation of alkynyl anilines under continuous flow conditions with a subsequent base-mediated cyclization to afford the desired substituted indoles. The initial Ni/Ir photoredox-promoted N-arylation of alkynylanilines proceeds efficiently in a continuous flow to afford the desired products in moderate to excellent yields with a short residence time (20 min) and mild conditions at ambient temperature and without the exclusion of air. The methodology was amenable for a multi-gram scale-up to deliver 2-alkyl-N-arylindoles in high yields followed with only a single purification step.The calculation of electron correlation is vital for the description of atomistic phenomena in physics, chemistry, and biology. However, accurate wavefunction-based methods exhibit steep scaling and often sluggish convergence with respect to the basis set at hand. Because of their delocalization and ease of extrapolation to the basis-set limit, plane waves would be ideally suited for the calculation of basis-set limit correlation energies. However, the routine use of correlated wavefunction approaches in a plane-wave basis set is hampered by prohibitive scaling due to a large number of virtual continuum states and has not been feasible for all but the smallest systems, even if substantial computational resources are available and methods with comparably beneficial scaling, such as the Møller-Plesset perturbation theory to second order (MP2), are used. Here, we introduce a stochastic sampling of the MP2 integrand based on Monte Carlo summation over continuum orbitals, which allows for speedups of up to a factor of 1000. Given a fixed number of sampling points, the resulting algorithm is dominated by a flat scaling of ∼ O ( N 2 ) . Absolute correlation energies are accurate to less then 0.1 kcal/mol with respect to conventional calculations for several hundreds of electrons. This allows for the calculation of unbiased basis-set limit correlation energies for systems containing hundreds of electrons with unprecedented efficiency gains based on a straightforward treatment of continuum contributions.Synthetic phenolic antioxidants (SPAs) are widely used in various industrial and commercial products to retard oxidative reactions and lengthen product shelf life. see more In recent years, numerous studies have been conducted on the environmental occurrence, human exposure, and toxicity of SPAs. Here, we summarize the current understanding of these issues and provide recommendations for future research directions. SPAs have been detected in various environmental matrices including indoor dust, outdoor air particulates, sea sediment, and river water. Recent studies have also observed the occurrence of SPAs, such as 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT) and 2,4-di-tert-butyl-phenol (DBP), in humans (fat tissues, serum, urine, breast milk, and fingernails). In addition to these parent compounds, some transformation products have also been detected both in the environment and in humans. Human exposure pathways include food intake, dust ingestion, and use of personal care products. For breastfeeding infants, breast milk may be an important exposure pathway. Toxicity studies suggest some SPAs may cause hepatic toxicity, have endocrine disrupting effects, or even be carcinogenic. The toxicity effects of some transformation products are likely worse than those of the parent compound. For example, 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-benzoquinone (BHT-Q) can cause DNA damage at low concentrations. Future studies should investigate the contamination and environmental behaviors of novel high molecular weight SPAs, toxicity effects of coexposure to several SPAs, and toxicity effects on infants. Future studies should also develop novel SPAs with low toxicity and low migration ability, decreasing the potential for environmental pollution.