Thorpe, Madelaine P Smith, Abigail N Blackwell, Daniel J Hopkins, Corey R Knollmann, Bjorn C Akers, Wendell S Johnston, Jeffrey N
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The number of peptide-like scaffolds found in late-stage drug development is increasing, but a critical unanswered question in the field is whether substituents (side chains) or the backbone drive passive permeability. The backbone is scrutinized in this study. Five series of macrocyclic peptidic compounds were prepared, and their passive permeabil...
King-Smith, Emma
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Data-driven chemistry has garnered much interest concurrent with improvements in hardware and the development of new machine learning models. However, obtaining sufficiently large, accurate datasets of a desired chemical outcome for data-driven chemistry remains a challenge. The community has made significant efforts to democratize and curate avail...
Bowen, James I Zhong, Xiaotong Gao, Kaining Reed, Benjamin Crump, Matthew P Wang, Luoyi Willis, Christine L
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The ambruticins are a family of potent antifungal polyketide derived natural products isolated from the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum. Their unusual structures include a trisubstituted cyclopropyl group and two oxygen heterocycles, a tetrahydropyran (THP) and dihydropyran (DHP). Herein we report a flexible modular approach for the total synthe...
Kondo, Keisuke Kubota, Koji Ito, Hajime
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In this study, a mechanochemical protocol for highly efficient and ammonia-free sodium-based Birch reduction was developed, leveraging the use of cheap and easy-to-handle sodium lumps. The key to achieving this transformation is the use of d-(+)-glucose as a proton source, which solidifies the reaction mixture in bulk state, enhancing the efficienc...
Chen, Jiayun Chu, Zheng Zhang, Qian Wang, Chen Luo, Piao Zhang, Ying Xia, Fei Gu, Liwei Wong, Yin Kwan Shi, Qiaoli
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Identifying the cellular targets of bioactive small molecules within tissues has been a major concern in drug discovery and chemical biology research. Compared to cell line models, tissues consist of multiple cell types and complicated microenvironments. Therefore, elucidating the distribution and heterogeneity of targets across various cells in ti...
Wu, Yingtao Guan, Xin Zhao, Huaqiu Li, Mingrui Liang, Tianlong Sun, Jiaqiong Zheng, Guangfan Zhang, Qian
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Axially chiral diaryl ethers bearing two potential axes find unique applications in bioactive molecules and catalysis. However, only very few catalytic methods have been developed to construct structurally diverse diaryl ethers. We herein describe an NHC-catalyzed atroposelective esterification of prochiral dialdehydes, leading to the construction ...
Li, Hongbao Cao, Mengge Fu, Zhenli Ma, Quanwei Zhang, Longhai Wang, Rui Liang, Fei Zhou, Tengfei Zhang, Chaofeng
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Organic electrode materials have shown significant potential for aqueous Zn ion batteries (AZIBs) due to their flexible structure designability and cost advantage. However, sluggish ionic diffusion, high solubility, and low capacities limit their practical application. Here, we designed a covalent organic framework (TA-PTO-COF) generated by covalen...
Voloshkin, Vladislav A Villa, Marco Martynova, Ekaterina A Beliš, Marek Van Hecke, Kristof Ceroni, Paola Nolan, Steven P
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Energy transfer (EnT) photocatalysis has emerged as a valuable tool for constructing complex organic scaffolds via [2 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions. Herein, we present the use of [Au(SIPr)(Cbz)] as a sensitizer for the [2 + 2]-cycloaddition of coumarins and unactivated alkenes. Widely used in EnT catalysis, iridium and organic sensitizers proved les...
Thomas, Marjolaine Varlas, Spyridon Wilks, Thomas R Fielden, Stephen D P O'Reilly, Rachel K
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Incorporating nucleobases into synthetic polymers has proven to be a versatile method for controlling self-assembly. The formation of strong directional hydrogen bonds between complementary nucleobases provides a driving force that permits access to complex particle morphologies. Here, nucleobase pairing was used to direct the formation and lengthe...
Ruan, Digen Cui, Zhuangzhuang Fan, Jiajia Wang, Dazhuang Wu, Yiying Ren, Xiaodi
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In response to societal developments and the growing demand for high-energy-density battery systems, alkali metal batteries (AMBs) have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation energy storage. Despite their high theoretical specific capacity and output voltage, AMBs face critical challenges related to high reactivity with electrolytes an...
