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Furthermore, water evaporation in aldol condensation is found to be a double-edged sword, as it can accelerate the hydrogenation stage to prevent α,β-unsaturated ketones from being the main products but decrease the selectivity therein from thermodynamics overall.N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are well-known as ligands and organocatalysts, but there is no recognition for their catalytic role as a stabilizer through electrostatic interaction rather than electron donation. By utilizing the electrostatic interaction, we herein describe the success of a visible-light-triggered radical-radical cross-coupling of N-alkenoxypyridinium salts and NaI, giving a variety of α-iodo ketones. Computational studies characterize the stabilization role of NHCs.An ideal DNA carrier is one that is capable of effectively condensing DNA into complexes of optimum size and shape, preventing premature decomplexation in the bloodstream and efficiently releasing the DNA into affected cells. In this context, we have developed a novel β-cyclodextrin (β-CD)-based four-arm star-shaped polymer inclusion complex (IC) with arms made of a poly(l-histidine)-based cationic polymer. The polymer was well characterized by gel permeation chromatography, NMR, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. We have also investigated its DNA complexation and release properties. Bisadamantane containing a disulfide bond was synthesized that linked two such poly(l-histidine)-containing β-CD units via guest-host interactions to prepare the presented IC. Besides using the conventional steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy, the ability of this IC to condense DNA to form polyplexes and their release behavior have been established by using the time-resolved fluorpolycation and DNA using TO as a DNA-intercalating dye.Ionic liquids composed of a thiocyanate complex of Ce(III) exhibit bright cyan photoluminescence with a quantum yield close to 40% in addition to paramagnetism. The morphology of a droplet of ionic liquid changes in response to solvent vapor as a stimulus. The emission lifetime and thermal property are characterized. The Weiss temperature is evaluated from the magnetic property measurements, which indicates that antiferromagnetic exchange interaction exists between Ce(III) ions. Insight into the characteristics of the electronic transitions in the Ce(III) complex is obtained using quantum chemical calculations. Thiocyanate complexes of Ce(III) are demonstrated as promising building blocks to produce solvent-free luminescent functional materials.The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build materials from stable cage clusters as "artificial atoms" or "superatoms" instead of atoms. However, cage clusters of other elements are generally not stable. In 2001, ab initio calculations showed that endohedral doping of Zr and Ti atoms leads to highly stable Zr@Si16 fullerene and Ti@Si16 Frank-Kasper polyhedral clusters with large HOMO-LUMO gaps. In 2002, Zr@Ge16 was shown to form a Frank-Kasper polyhedron, suggesting the possibility of designing novel clusters by tuning endohedral and cage atoms. These results were subsequently confirmed from experiments. In the past nearly two decades, many experimental and theoretical studies have been carried out on different clusters, and many very stable cage clusters with possibly high abundance have been found by endohedral doping. Indeed in 2017, Ta@Si16 and Ti@Si16 cage clusters have been synthesized in bulk quantity of about 100 mg using a dry-chemistry method, giving rise to present updated results of the most stable atomic structures and fundamental electronic properties of the endohedrally doped cage clusters. We discuss electronic, magnetic, optical, and catalytic properties in order to shed light on their potential applications. The stability of the doped cage clusters has been correlated to the concept of filling the electronic shells for superatoms such as within a spherical potential model and also using various electron counting rules including Wade-Mingos rules, systems with 18 and 32 electrons, and the spherical aromaticity rule. SR-18292 manufacturer We also discuss cluster-cluster interaction in cluster dimers and assemblies of some of the promising doped cage clusters in different dimensions. Finally, we give a perspective of this field with a bright future.Over the past several years, hyphenation of native (nondenaturing) liquid chromatography (nLC) methods, such as size exclusion chromatography (SEC), ion exchange chromatography (IEX), and hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) with mass spectrometry (MS) have become increasingly popular to study the size, charge, and structural heterogeneity of protein drug products. Despite the availability of a wide variety of nLC-MS methods, an integrated platform that can accommodate different applications is still lacking. In this study, we described the development of a versatile, sensitive, and robust nLC-MS platform that can support various nLC-MS applications. In particular, the developed platform can tolerate a wide range of LC flow rates and high salt concentrations, which are critical for accommodating different nLC methods. In addition, a dopant-modified desolvation gas can be readily applied on this platform to achieve online charge-reduction native MS, which improves the characterization of both heterogeneous and labile biomolecules. Finally, we demonstrated that this nLC-MS platform is highly sensitive and robust and can be routinely applied in protein drug characterization.The mechanism of the organocatalytic Cope rearrangement is elucidated through a combined computational and experimental approach. As reported previously, hydrazides catalyze the Cope rearrangement of 1,5-hexadiene-2-carboxaldehydes via iminium ion formation, and seven- and eight-membered ring catalysts are more active than smaller ring sizes. In the present work, quantum mechanical computations and kinetic isotope effect experiments demonstrate that the Cope rearrangement step, rather than iminium formation, is rate-limiting. The computations further explain how the hydrazide catalyst lowers the free-energy barrier of the Cope rearrangement via an associative transition state that is stabilized by enehydrazine character. The computations also explain the catalyst ring size effect, as larger hydrazide rings are able to accommodate optimal transition-state geometries that minimize the unfavorable lone-pair repulsion between neighboring nitrogen atoms and maximize the favorable hyperconjugative donation from each nitrogen atom into neighboring electron-poor sigma bonds, with the seven-membered catalyst achieving a nearly ideal transition-state geometry that is comparable to that of an unconstrained acyclic catalyst. Experimental kinetics studies support the computations, showing that the seven-membered and acyclic hydrazide catalysts react 10 times faster than the six-membered catalyst. Unraveling the mechanism of this reaction is an important step in understanding other reactions catalyzed by hydrazides, and explaining the ring size effect is critical because cyclic catalysts provide a constrained scaffold, enabling the development of asymmetric variants of these reactions.Docking is one of the most important steps in virtual screening pipelines, and it is an established method for examining potential interactions between ligands and receptors. However, this method is computationally expensive, and it is often among the last steps of the process of compound libraries evaluation. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of learning a deep neural network to predict the docking output directly from a two-dimensional compound structure. The developed protocol is orders of magnitude faster than typical docking software, and it returns ligand-receptor complexes encoded in the form of the interaction fingerprint. Its speed and efficiency unlock the application possibilities, such as screening compound libraries of vast size on the basis of contact patterns or docking score (derived on the basis of predicted interaction schemes). We tested our approach on several G protein-coupled receptor targets and 4 CYP enzymes in retrospective virtual screening experiments, and a variant of graph convolutional network appeared to be most effective in emulating docking results. The method can be easily used by the community based on the code available in the Supporting Information.Rhodium(III)-catalyzed enantioselective oxidative C-H/C-H cross-coupling reaction between two arenes is disclosed. With the combination of a chiral CpRh(III) complex and a chiral carboxylic acid additive, the direct coupling reactions between 1-aryl isoquinoline derivatives and electron-rich heteroarenes such as thiophenes, furans, benzothiophenes, and benzofurans are realized via a double C-H functionalization process. A series of axially chiral compounds are obtained in excellent yields and enantioselectivities (up to 99% yield and 99% ee). Mechanistic studies suggest that both C-H bond cleavages may not be the turnover-limiting step.A density functional theory study is presented here to offer mechanistic insights and explications of experimentally intriguing observations in the Au(I)-catalyzed cyclization of cyclic and acyclic acetals of alkynylaldehydes that leads to indenone formation. The reactivity of catalytic cycles with and without methoxy migration is clearly defined when the alkyne terminus is phenylated. The reaction mechanism of indenone formation proceeds first with the coordination of Au(I) to alkyne to initiate the reaction with 1,5-H shift as a rate-determining step (RDS), and the fastest 1,5-H shift is achieved when one phenyl ring carries an electron-donating group and the other one is substituted with an electron-withdrawing group. Following the 1,5-H shift, the reaction undergoes feasible steps that are cyclization and 1,2-H shift before elimination to persist the iterative cycle, but the reactivity of both steps is highly affected by the existence of the phenyl group on the alkyne terminus. The unreactivity of the alkyne terminus not bearing a phenyl ring is because the cyclization is thermodynamically disfavorable, subsequently deactivating the 1,2-H shift kinetically and thermodynamically. The absence of a tether in the acetal unit considerably outpaces any 1,5-H shift and instead activates 1,5-methoxy migration, giving methoxy-migrated indenone, with the 1,2-OMe shift being an RDS.The adenosinergic pathway represents an attractive new therapeutic approach in cancer immunotherapy. In this pathway, ecto-5-nucleotidase CD73 has the unique function of regulating production of immunosuppressive adenosine (ADO) through the hydrolysis of AMP. CD73 is overexpressed in many cancers, resulting in elevated levels of ADO that correspond to poor patient prognosis. Therefore, reducing the level of ADO via inhibition of CD73 is a potential strategy for treating cancers. Based on the binding mode of adenosine 5'-(α,β-methylene)diphosphate (AOPCP) with human CD73, we designed a series of novel monophosphonate small-molecule CD73 inhibitors. Among them, OP-5244 (35) proved to be a highly potent and orally bioavailable CD73 inhibitor. link2 In preclinical studies, 35 completely inhibited ADO production in both human cancer cells and CD8+ T cells. link3 Furthermore, 35 lowered the ratio of ADO/AMP significantly and reversed immunosuppression in mouse models, indicating its potential as an in vivo tool compound for further development.