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Copper(ii) complexes with tridentate halogen-substituted Schiff base ligands: synthesis, crystal structures and investigating the effect of halogenation, leaving groups and ligand flexibility on antiproliferative activities

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To investigate the effect of different halogen substituents and leaving groups and the flexibility of ligands on the anticancer activity of copper complexes, sixteen copper(ii) complexes with eight different tridentate Schiff-base ligands containing pyridi ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides

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EPFL2021

Load-bearing hydrogels ionically reinforced through competitive ligand exchanges

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Fast advances in soft robotics and tissue engineering demand for new soft materials whose mechanical properties can be interchangeably and locally varied, thereby enabling, for example, the design of soft joints within an integral material. Inspired by nat ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Tuning SAS-6 architecture with monobodies impairs distinct steps of centriole assembly

Pierre Gönczy, Georg Fantner, Oliver Hantschel, Santiago Harald Andany, Niccolo Banterle, Virginie Hamel, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Tatiana Favez

Centrioles are evolutionarily conserved multi-protein organelles essential for forming cilia and centrosomes. Centriole biogenesis begins with self-assembly of SAS-6 proteins into 9-fold symmetrical ring polymers, which then stack into a cartwheel that sca ...

Nature Research2021

Schiff base ligands derived from 1,2-bis(2 '-nitro-/amino-phenoxy)-3-R-benzene and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde and their Cu/Zn(II) complexes: synthesis, characterization, X-ray structures and computational studies

Rosario Scopelliti

1,2-Bis(2'-nitrophenoxy)-3-R-benzenes {R = H (1), CH3 (2) and OCH3 (3)} have been prepared from the S-N-Ar reaction between 1-fluoro-2-nitrobenzene and 3-R-catechol (aromatic diol), and are then reduced to the corresponding diamines 1,2-bis(2'-aminophenoxy ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Structure:function relationships for thermal and light-induced spin-crossover in isomorphous molecular materials

Sergio Vela Llausi

Isomorphous [FeL2]BF4center dot solv and [FeL2]ClO4center dot solv (L = 4-{isopropylsulfanyl}-2,6-di{pyrazol-1-yl}pyridine; solv = MeNO2, MeCN, 0.67Me(2)CO or H2O) exhibit a variety of thermal spin-crossover (SCO) behaviours. This complexity exte ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Stabilization of the Oxidation State plus IV in Siloxide-Supported Terbium Compounds

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Aurélien René Willauer, Chad Thomas Palumbo

The synthesis of lanthanides other than cerium in the oxidation state +IV has remained a desirable but unmet target until recently, when two examples of Tb-IV with saturated coordination spheres were isolated. Here we report the third example of an isolate ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020