Benzene ring crosslinking of sulfonated polystyrene-grafted SEBS (S-SEBS-g-PSt) membrane by Friedel-Crafts reaction for superior desalination performance by pervaporation

Sulfonated aromatic polymer (SAP) features highly-hydrophilic active functional groups and inherent ionic nano-channels that make it a potential membrane material for desalination. High content of sulfonic groups favors water transport...

Adamantane-Functionalized Phthalimide Scaffold: Pathways to Supramolecular Interactions and Drug Discovery

Herein, the synthesis of a novel adamantanyl-functionalized phthalimide scaffold is demonstrated. The novel compound could be used as a precursor for various synthetic pathways owing to the generic use of adamantane substituents as the driving force for supramolecular interactions with macrocycles and N-substituted phthalimide derivatives as a core structure in numerous drugs. The adamantanyl-functionalized phthalimide scaffold contains bromide groups on the C4 and C5 positions of the benzene ring, effectively allowing further facile modifications of the scaffold. The structure was fully characterized including single-crystal X-ray crystallography. The crystal structure shows an adamantane moiety at an angle of 115.57(7)° to the phthalimide core, hence sterically freeing the adamantane unit for host–guest interactions.

Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Purine-Phenoxazine and Purine-Phenothiazine Conjugates

Electron donating phenoxazine and phenothiazine groups were introduced in an electron deficient purine structure through a benzene ring bridge to facilitate thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Mitsunobu and Suzuki-Miyaura reactions were used to synthesize the target compounds. Photophysical properties of target compounds were explored and quantum yields in the thin layer film reached up to 8 % and in the PMMA doped thin layer film up to 15 %.

Effects of Constant Electric Field on Biodegradation of Phenol by Free and Immobilized Cells of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 273

It is shown that bacteria Bradyrhizobium japonicum 273 were capable of degrading phenol at moderate concentrations either in a free cell culture or by immobilized cells on granulated activated carbon particles. The amount of degraded phenol was greater in an immobilized cell preparation than in a free culture. The application of a constant electric field during cultivation led to enhanced phenol biodegradation in a free culture and in immobilized cells on granulated activated carbon. The highest phenol removal efficiency was observed for an anode potential of 1.0 V/S.H.E. The effect was better pronounced in a free culture. The enzyme activities of free cells for phenol oxidation and benzene ring cleavage were very sensitive to the anode potential in the first two steps of the metabolic pathway of phenol biodegradation catalyzed by phenol hydroxylase—catechol-1,2-dioxygenase and catechol-2,3-dioxygenase. It was observed that at an anode potential of 0.8 V/S.H.E., the meta-pathway of cleavage of the benzene ring catalyzed by catechol-2,3-dioxygenase became competitive with the ortho-pathway, catalyzed by catechol-1,2-dioxygenase. The obtained results showed that the positive effect of constant electric field on phenol biodegradation was rather due to electric stimulation of enzyme activity than electrochemical anode oxidation.

An Algebraic Approach to Find Some Topological Indices of Derived Graphs of the Benzene Ring

Topological indices play a vital role in understanding the chemical and structural properties of the chemical compounds and nanostructures. By finding the M-polynomial of a graph representing a chemical compound, one can obtain the closed forms of some of the commonly known degree-based topological indices of the compound, such as the Zagreb index, general Randic ́ Index and harmonic index. In this article, we obtain the expression for the M-polynomial of the derived graphs of the Benzene ring embedded in the P-type surface network in 2D, namely the line graph, the subdivision graph, and the line graph of its subdivision. Furthermore, some of the degree-based topological indices are obtained for these graphs using their M-polynomials.