Application Progress of Recent Advances in Some Copper Catalyzed Coupling Reactions

Author(s): Sunil U. Tekale, Vivekanand B. Jadhav, Vijay P. Pagore, Sushma S. Kauthale, Digambar D. Gaikwad and Rajendra P. PawarPages 281-301 (21) Abstract: Different cross-coupling reactions for the formation of biologically important motifs and intermediates in organic synthesis using various suitable copper catalysts are reviewed. These include C-C, C-N, C-O, C-S heteroatom bond forming, cyclization and other miscellaneous reactions catalyzed by elemental copper, copper salts, CuI, Cu (OTf)2, CuBr, Cu2O etc. The use of copper reagents instead...

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Morphine as a Potential Oxidative Stress-Causing Agent

Author(s): Jitka Skrabalova, Zdenka Drastichova and Jiri NovotnyPages 367-372 (6) Abstract: Morphine exhibits important pharmacological effects for which it has been used in medical practice for quite a long time. However, it has a high addictive potential and can be abused. Long-term use of this drug can be connected with some pathological consequences including neurotoxicity and neuronal dysfunction, hepatotoxicity, kidney dysfunction, oxidative stress and apoptosis. Therefore, most studies examining the impact of morphine have been aimed...

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Molecularly Imprinted Polymers’ Applications: A Short Review

Author(s): Paulina Szatkowska, Marcin Koba, Piotr Koslinski and Michal SzablewskiPages 400-408 (9) Abstract: Linus Pauling has assumed that certain molecules such as functional monomers make self-organized structures around another particle called a molecular template or stamp. Although this theory has proved to be wrong in terms suggested by Pauling, it became the basis for the synthesis of entirely new materials named molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) which entered with great dynamics in the world of science in the early 90s of the last...

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Cycloaddition Reactions of Some Tricyclic Imides

Author(s): Irem Kulu, Melek Gul, Omer Tahir Gunkara and Nuket OcalPages 409-418 (10) Abstract: Our research group has published numerous papers over the last three years on the reaction of nitrile oxides and azomethine ylide with unsaturated tricyclic N-substituted dicarboximides selected according to the importance of possible biological activities. These reactions cover full range of mechanistic pathways and timings of bond-forming processes to give five-membered ring closure by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. Keywords: Azomethine ylide, biological...

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M13 Bacteriophage-Based Self-Assembly Structures and Their Functional Capabilities

Author(s): Jong-Sik Moon, Won-Geun Kim, Chuntae Kim, Geun-Tae Park, Jeong Heo, So Y. Yoo and Jin-Woo OhPages 271-281 (11) Abstract: Controlling the assembly of basic structural building blocks in a systematic and orderly fashion is an emerging issue in various areas of science and engineering such as physics, chemistry, material science, biological engineering, and electrical engineering. The self-assembly technique, among many other kinds of...

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