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Tripodal O-N-O bis-Phenolato Amine Titanium(IV) Complexes Show High In Vitro Anti-Cancer Activity (2019)
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Abid, M., Nouch, R., Bradshaw, T. D., Lewis, W., & Woodward, S. (2019). Tripodal O-N-O bis-Phenolato Amine Titanium(IV) Complexes Show High In Vitro Anti-Cancer Activity. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2019(22), 2774-2780. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900510

The octahedral titanium(IV) complexes trans,mer‐[Ti{R3N(CH2C6H2‐2‐O‐4‐R2‐6‐R1)2}2] (R1 = Me, OMe, Cl; R2 = Me, OMe, F, Cl; R3 = Me, Et; not all combinations) are synthesised in two steps from simple phenols in 36‐53% overall yield. The highly crystal... Read More about Tripodal O-N-O bis-Phenolato Amine Titanium(IV) Complexes Show High In Vitro Anti-Cancer Activity.

PdII-Mediated Oxidative Amination for Access to a 9-Azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane Compound Library and Anatoxin-a (2018)
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Dawood, R. S., Chidipudi, S. R., O'Connor, D. C., Lewis, W., Hamza, D., Pearce, C. A., Jones, G., Wilkie, R. P., Georgiou, I., Storr, T. E., Moore, J. C., & Stockman, R. A. (2018). PdII-Mediated Oxidative Amination for Access to a 9-Azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane Compound Library and Anatoxin-a. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018(40), 5558-5561. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201801209

© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Intramolecular oxidative amination of readily accessible aminocyclooct-4-enes provides rapid and regioselective access to the 9-azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane framework characteristic of the natural produc... Read More about PdII-Mediated Oxidative Amination for Access to a 9-Azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane Compound Library and Anatoxin-a.

Development of lipopolyplexes for gene delivery: a comparison of the effects of differing modes of targeting peptide display on the structure and transfection activities of lipopolyplexes (2018)
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Bofinger, R., Zaw-Thin, M., Mitchell, N. J., Patrick, P. S., Stowe, C., Gomez-Ramirez, A., Hailes, H. C., Kalber, T. L., & Tabor, A. B. (2018). Development of lipopolyplexes for gene delivery: a comparison of the effects of differing modes of targeting peptide display on the structure and transfection activities of lipopolyplexes. Journal of Peptide Science, e3131. https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3131

The design, synthesis and formulation of non‐viral gene delivery vectors is an area of renewed research interest. Amongst the most efficient non‐viral gene delivery systems are lipopolyplexes, in which cationic peptides are co‐formulated with plasmid... Read More about Development of lipopolyplexes for gene delivery: a comparison of the effects of differing modes of targeting peptide display on the structure and transfection activities of lipopolyplexes.

Nickel-catalyzed, ligand-free, diastereoselective synthesis of 3-methyleneindan-1-ols (2018)
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Panchal, H., Clarke, C., Bell, C., Karad, S. N., Lewis, W., & Lam, H. W. (2018). Nickel-catalyzed, ligand-free, diastereoselective synthesis of 3-methyleneindan-1-ols. Chemical Communications, 54(87), 12389-12392. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc06388e

Nickel-catalyzed, highly diastereoselective annulations between activated allenes and 2-acetylarylboronic acid or 2-formylarylboronic acids are reported. No ligand for nickel is required, and the reactions proceed efficiently at room temperature to g... Read More about Nickel-catalyzed, ligand-free, diastereoselective synthesis of 3-methyleneindan-1-ols.

Biocatalytic N-acylation of amines in water using an acyltransferase from Mycobacterium smegmatis (2018)
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Contente, M., Pinto, A., Molinari, F., & Paradisi, F. (2018). Biocatalytic N-acylation of amines in water using an acyltransferase from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 360(24), 4814-4819. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201801061

A straightforward one-step biocatalyzed synthesis of different N-acyl amides in water was accomplished using the versatile and chemoselective acyltransferase from Mycobacterium smegmatis (MsAcT). Acetylation of primary arylalkyl amines was achieved w... Read More about Biocatalytic N-acylation of amines in water using an acyltransferase from Mycobacterium smegmatis.

Ion - reagent interactions contributing to ionic liquid solvent effects on a condensation reaction (2018)
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Keaveney, S. T., Harper, J. B., & Croft, A. K. (2018). Ion - reagent interactions contributing to ionic liquid solvent effects on a condensation reaction. ChemPhysChem, 19(23), 3279-3287. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201800695

Molecular dynamics simulations of solutions of hexan-1-amine or 4-methoxybenzaldehyde in acetonitrile, an ionic liquid/ acetonitrile mixture (XIL = 0.2), and a number of different (neat) ionic liquids were performed, to further understand the solvent... Read More about Ion - reagent interactions contributing to ionic liquid solvent effects on a condensation reaction.

The catalytic Mitsunobu reaction: a critical analysis of the current state-of-the-art (2018)
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Beddoe, R. H., Sneddon, H. F., & Denton, R. M. (2018). The catalytic Mitsunobu reaction: a critical analysis of the current state-of-the-art. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 42(16), 7774-7781. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ob01929k

The Mitsunobu reaction is widely regarded as the pre-eminent method for performing nucleophilic substitutions of alcohols with inversion of configuration. However, its applicability to large-scale synthesis is undermined by the fact that alcohol acti... Read More about The catalytic Mitsunobu reaction: a critical analysis of the current state-of-the-art.

Synthesis of multisubstituted pyrroles by nickel-catalyzed arylative cyclizations of N-tosyl alkynamides (2018)
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Gillbard, S. M., Chung, C.-H., Karad, S. N., Panchal, H., Lewis, W., & Lam, H. W. (2018). Synthesis of multisubstituted pyrroles by nickel-catalyzed arylative cyclizations of N-tosyl alkynamides. Chemical Communications, 54(83), 11769-11772. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc06649c

The synthesis of multisubstituted pyrroles by the nickel-catalyzed reaction of N-tosylalkynamides with arylboronic acids is reported. These reactions are triggered by alkyne arylnickelation, followed by cyclization of the resulting alkenylnickel spec... Read More about Synthesis of multisubstituted pyrroles by nickel-catalyzed arylative cyclizations of N-tosyl alkynamides.

Construction of challenging proline–proline junctions via diselenide–selenoester ligation chemistry (2018)
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Sayers, J., Karpati, P. M. T., Mitchell, N. J., Goldys, A. M., Kwong, S. M., Firth, N., Chan, B., & Payne, R. J. (2018). Construction of challenging proline–proline junctions via diselenide–selenoester ligation chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(41), 13327-13334. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b07877

Polyproline sequences are highly abundant in prokaryotic 10 and eukaryotic proteins, where they serve as key components of 11 secondary structure. To date, construction of the proline−proline motif 12 has not been possible owing to steric congestion... Read More about Construction of challenging proline–proline junctions via diselenide–selenoester ligation chemistry.