Improvement in aqueous solubility in small molecule drug discovery programs by disruption of molecular planarity and symmetry

M Ishikawa, Y Hashimoto - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
Aqueous solubility is essential for drug candidates. Poor aqueous solubility is likely to result
in poor absorption, even if the permeation rate is high, since the flux of a drug across the …

Alternative synthetic methods through new developments in catalysis by gold

A Arcadi - Chemical Reviews, 2008‏ - ACS Publications
Synthetic chemists are constantly challenged to consider more environmentally benign
methods for generation of the desired target molecules. 1 Recently, there has been an …

Efficient selenium-integrated TADF OLEDs with reduced roll-off

YX Hu, J Miao, T Hua, Z Huang, Y Qi, Y Zou, Y Qiu… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Organic light emitters based on multiresonance-induced thermally activated delayed
fluorescent materials have great potential for realizing efficient, narrowband organic light …

Easy and fast prediction of green solvents for small molecule donor-based organic solar cells through machine learning

A Mahmood, Y Sandali, JL Wang - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Solubility plays a critical role in many aspects of research (drugs to materials). Solubility
parameters are very useful for selecting appropriate solvents/non-solvents for various …

Synthesis, DFT studies, molecular docking and biological activity evaluation of thiazole-sulfonamide derivatives as potent Alzheimer's inhibitors

S Khan, H Ullah, M Taha, F Rahim, M Sarfraz, R Iqbal… - Molecules, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease is a major public brain condition that has resulted in many deaths, as
revealed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Conventional Alzheimer's treatments …

Solvent-induced sign inversion of circularly polarized luminescence: control of excimer chirality by hydrogen bonding

K Takaishi, K Iwachido, T Ema - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
A series of pyrenes sandwiched by axially chiral 1, 1′-binaphthyls were synthesized.
Among them,(R, R)-3 possessing 2-hydroxy-3, 3′-dimethylbinaphthyls exhibited solvent …

Practical and General Alcohol Deoxygenation Protocol

OP Williams, AF Chmiel, M Mikhael… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we describe a practical protocol for the removal of alcohol functional groups through
reductive cleavage of their benzoate ester analogs. This transformation requires a strong …

Binaphthyl–bipyridyl cyclic dyads as a chiroptical switch

K Takaishi, M Yasui, T Ema - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
A series of chiral cyclic dyads, axially chiral binaphthyls linked to a 3, 3′-bipyridyl, was
synthesized. The dyad 2 bearing methoxy groups exhibited ON/OFF properties in circularly …

Organocalcium-mediated nucleophilic alkylation of benzene

ASS Wilson, MS Hill, MF Mahon, C Dinoi, L Maron - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
The electrophilic aromatic substitution of a C–H bond of benzene is one of the archetypal
transformations of organic chemistry. In contrast, the electron-rich π-system of benzene is …

Catalytic N2-to-NH3 Conversion by Fe at Lower Driving Force: A Proposed Role for Metallocene-Mediated PCET

MJ Chalkley, TJ Del Castillo, BD Matson… - ACS central …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
We have recently reported on several Fe catalysts for N2-to-NH3 conversion that operate at
low temperature (− 78° C) and atmospheric pressure while relying on a very strong …