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Ru(II)-Arene Complexes of Curcumin and Bisdesmethoxycurcumin Metabolites

Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji

Curcuminoids and their complexes continue to attract attention in medicinal chemistry, but little attention has been given to their metabolic derivatives. Here, the first examples of (arene)Ru(II) complexes with curcuminoid metabolites, tetrahydrocurcumin ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Steric and Electronic Effects Responsible for N,O- or N,N-Chelating Coordination of Pyrazolones Containing a Pyridine Ring in Ruthenium Arene Systems

Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji

Structural and electronic factors are crucial to rationalizethedifferent N,O or N,N chelating coordination of pyrazolones containinga pyridine ring. The reactivity of proligand 3-phenyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-5-pyrazolone(HLpy,ph) with the (arene)Ru(II) fragment ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

NMR Crystallography in the Big Data Era: New Methods and Applications Powered by Machine Learning

Manuel Cordova

Structure determination of materials is key to understanding their physical properties. While single-crystal X-ray diffraction is the gold standard for structures displaying long-range order, many materials of interest are polycrystalline and/or disordered ...

EPFL2023

Anticancer ruthenium(II) tris(pyrazolyl)methane complexes with bioactive co-ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson

In comparison with Ru-II-arene compounds, the medicinal potential of homologous Ru-II-tpm compounds [tpm = tris(pyrazolyl)methane] is underexplored. Pyridine, 4-pyridinemethanol and four functionalized pyridines, synthesized from the esterification of 4-py ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Potent and selective anticancer activity of half-sandwich ruthenium and osmium complexes with modified curcuminoid ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mouna Hadiji

We have recently reported a series of half-sandwich ruthenium(ii) complexes with curcuminoid ligands showing excellent cytotoxic activities (particularly ionic derivatives containing PTA (PTA = 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane). In the present study, new m ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Insights on chemical and physical chloride binding in blended cement pastes

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson

This study investigates chloride binding in blended cement pastes exposed to 0.5 M NaCl solutions (with and without pH adjustment) using X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy image analysis (edxia). The aim is to better understand the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Assessing the persistence of chalcogen bonds in solution with neural network potentials

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Veronika Juraskova, Frédéric Célerse

Non-covalent bonding patterns are commonly harvested as a design principle in the field of catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, and functional materials to name a few. Yet, their computational description generally neglects finite temperature and environme ...

2022

Arene-ruthenium(II) complexes with pyrazole-based ligands bearing a pyridine moiety: Synthesis, structure, DFT calculations, and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji

Two pyrazole-based ligands bearing a pyridine moiety, 3-methyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-5-pyrazolone (HLpy), and 3methyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-4-trifluoroacetyl-5-pyrazolone (HQpy,CF3), were prepared and fully characterized in the solid-state and the tautomerism of bot ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Synthesis, Characterisation and Crystal structure of a New Cu(II)-carboxamide Complex and CuO nanoparticles as New Catalysts in the CuAAC reaction and Investigation of their Antibacterial activity

Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Kurt Schenk

The bidentate carboxamide ligand N-(thiazole-2-yl) picolinamide (LH) was synthesized in the environmentally friendly ionic liquid TBAB, and the five-coordinated Cu-II-complex, [Cu(L)(2)(H2O)]center dot CHCl3 (1) was synthesized from LH and copper(II)acetat ...

2020

Diiron Complexes with a Bridging Functionalized Allylidene Ligand: Synthesis, Structural Aspects, and Cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Regio- and stereoselective nucleophilic attack of cyanide (from NBu4CN) to cationic diiron vinyliminium compounds [Fe2Cp2(CO)(mu-CO){mu-eta(1):eta(3)-C-(R')C(R '')-CNMe2}]CF3SO3 ([1a-f]CF3SO3) affords the nitrile-aminoallylidene derivatives 2a-f in good to ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Ruthenium on phosphorous-modified alumina as an effective and stable catalyst for catalytic transfer hydrogenation of furfural

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Gaël Peng, Thibault Xavier Florian Fovanna

Supported ruthenium was used in the liquid phase catalytic transfer hydrogenation of furfural. To improve the stability of Ru against leaching, phosphorous was introduced on a Ru/Al2O3 based catalyst upon impregnation with ammonium hypophosphite followed b ...

2020

Novel osmium(II)-cymene complexes containing curcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

The first examples of (arene)Os(II) curcuminoid derivatives have been prepared and characterized. The neutral complexes [(p-cym)Os(curc)Cl] (1) and [( p-cym)Os(bdcurc)Cl] ( 2), together with the cationic derivatives [( p-cym)Os(curc)(PTA)][SO3CF3] (3) and ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Synthesis, characterisation and cytotoxicity studies of ruthenium arene complexes bearing trichlorogermyl ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

The synthesis of five half sandwich ruthenium(II) trichlorogermyl complexes of the type [(η6-Arene)Ru(PR3)Cl(GeCl3)] (PR3 = Phosphane and phosphite ligands; Arene = p-cymene or C6H5-OC2H4OH) is reported: [(η6-p-cymene)Ru(P(OMe)3)Cl(GeCl3)] (1), [(η6-p-cyme ...

2019

Heterobimetallic Ru(mu-dppm)Fe and homobimetallic Ru(mu-dppm)Ru complexes as potential anti-cancer agents

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Two heterobimetallic mu-dppm bridged Fe,Ru complexes, [(eta(6)-Arene)RuCl2(mu-dppm)Fe(CO)I(eta(5)-C5H5)] (Ar - C6H6 (1) and p-cymene (2), dppm-1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)methane) were obtained in a facile reaction between [Fe(eta(5)-C5H5)I(CO)(kappa(1)-dppm ...

2019

Crosslinking Allosteric Sites on the Nucleosome Core Particle

Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Designing compounds that bind to the acidic patch of the nucleosome core particle (NCP) is an emerging therapeutic approach that can inhibit the binding of key chromatin factors. Pretreatment of human ovarian carcinoma, A2780, cells with RAPTA-T, an antime ...

EPFL2019

Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity of arene-ruthenium(II) complexes with acylpyrazolones functionalized with aromatic groups in the acyl moiety

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Tina Riedel

A series of neutral ruthenium(II)-arene complexes, [(arene) Ru(Q(R))Cl] (arene = p-cymene or hexamethylbenzene), containing 4-acyl-5-pyrazolonate (Q(R)) ligands with aromatic substituents in the acyl moiety (a phenyl in Q(Ph) and a 1-naphthyl in Q(naph)) a ...

2018

Organotin(IV) 4-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-ylmethyl)piperazine-1-carbodithioates: Synthesis, characterization and biological activities

Paul Joseph Dyson

A series of organotin(IV) derivatives R3SnL (1-3), R2SnLCl (4-6) and R2SnL2 (7-9) (where R = Me, Bu, Ph and L = 4-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-ylmethyl)piperazine-1-carbodithioate) were prepared from the reaction of 4-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-ylmethyl)piperazine-1 ...

2018

Water soluble derivatives of platinum carbonyl Chini clusters: synthesis, molecular structures and cytotoxicity of [Pt-12(CO)(20)(PTA)(4)](2-) and [Pt-15(CO)(25)(PTA)(5)](2-)

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

The reactions of Pt-3n(CO)(6n) (n = 2-5) homoleptic Chini-type clusters with increasing amounts of 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA) result in the stepwise substitution of one terminal CO ligand per Pt-3 triangular unit up to the formation of [P ...

2018

In Situ Electric Field Skyrmion Creation in Magnetoelectric Cu2OSeO3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Arnaud Magrez, Fabrizio Carbone, Marco Cantoni, Ping Huang, Oleksandr Kriuchkov, Rajeswari Jayaraman

Exploiting additional degrees of freedom in solid-state materials may be the most-promising solution when approaching the quantum limit of Moore's law for the conventional electronic industry. Recently discovered topologically nontrivial spin textures, sky ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Combination of ruthenium(II)-arene complex [Ru(eta(6)-p-cymene)Cl-2(pta)] (RAPTA-C) and the epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor erlotinib results in efficient angiostatic and antitumor activity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Andrea Brett Gasser

Ruthenium-based compounds show strong potential as anti-cancer drugs and are being investigated as alternatives to other well-established metal-based chemotherapeutics. The organometallic compound [Ru(eta(6)-p-cymene) Cl-2(pta)], where pta = 1,3,5-triaza-7 ...

Nature Research2017