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Butyrolactones Derivatives from the Fermentation Products of an Endophytic Fungus Aspergillus versicolor

  • Ye, Yan-Qing;Xia, Cong-Fang;Yang, Juan-Xia;Yang, Yu-Chun;Qin, Ying;Gao, Xue-Mei;Du, Gang;Li, Xue-Mei;Hu, Qiu-Fen
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.10
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    • pp.3059-3062
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    • 2014
  • Two new butyrolactones, asperphenol A (1) and B (2), together with four known butyrolactones (3-6) were isolated from the fermentation products of an endophytic fungus Aspergillus versicolor. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods including extensive 1D- and 2D-NMR techniques. Compounds 1-6 were also tested for their anti-tobacco mosaic virus (anti-TMV) activities. The results showed that compound 2 exhibited high anti-TMV activity with inhibition rate of 46.7%. The other compounds also exhibited potential anti-TMV activities with inhibition rates in the range of 21.8-28.4%.

Photovoltaic Properties of Poly[(9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-vinylene )-co-{2-(3'-dimethyldodecylsilylphenyl)-1,4-phenylenevinylene}] for Electro-Active Devices

  • Jin Sung-Ho;Shim Jong-Min;Jung, Seung-Jin;Kim, Sung-Chul;Naidu B. Vijaya Kumar;Shin, Won-Suk;Gal Yeong-Soon;Lee, Jae-Wook;Kim, Ji-Hyeon;Lee, Jin-Kook
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.524-529
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    • 2006
  • New, thermally robust, arylenevinylene conjugated polymers, including poly(9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-vinylene) [poly(FV)] and poly[2-(3'-dimethyldodecylsilylphenyl)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] [poly(m-SiPhPV)], were synthesized and used for the fabrication of efficient photovoltaic cells. Bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells fabricated by blending one of the polymers, [poly(FV)], [poly(m-SiPhPV)], and poly(FV-co-m-SiPhPV), with the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-$C_{61}$-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) were found to have a power conversion efficiency of up to 0.038%..

The Effects of Formative Assessment-based Teaching and Learning Strategy on the Students' Science Concept Understanding, Motivation and Metacognitive Ability in Middle School (형성평가를 이용한 교수-학습 전략이 중학교 학생들의 과학개념 이해, 학습동기, 메타인지 능력에 미치는 영향)

Crystal Structure and Tautomerism Study of the Mono-protonated Metformin Salt

  • Wei, Xiaodan;Fan, Yuhua;Bi, Caifeng;Yan, Xingchen;Zhang, Xia;Li, Xin
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.3495-3501
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    • 2014
  • A novel crystal, the mono-protonated metformin acetate (1), was obtained and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. It was found that one of the imino group in the metformin cation was protonated along with the proton transfer from the secondary amino group to the other imino group. Its crystal structure was then compared with the previously reported diprotonated metformin oxalate (2). The difference between them is that the mono-protonated metformin cations can be linked by hydrogen bonding to form dimers while the diprotonated metformin cations cannot. Both of them are stabilized by intermolecular hydrogen bonds to assemble a 3-D supermolecular structure. The four potential tautomer of the mono-protonated metformin cation (tautomers 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d) were optimized and their single point energies were calculated by Density Functional Theory (DFT) B3LYP method based on the Polarized Continuum Model (PCM) in water, which shows that the most likely existed tautomer in human cells is the same in the crystal structure. Based on the optimized structure, their Wiberg bond orders, Natural Population Analysis (NPA) atomic charges, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) maps were calculated to analyze their electronic structures, which were then compared with the corresponding values of the diprotonated metformin cation (cation 2) and the neutral metformin (compound 3). Finally, the possible tautomeric mechanism of the mono-protonated metformin cation was discussed based on the observed phenomena.