Search results for "Gate"

Synthesis and molecular properties of donor–π-spacer–acceptor ynamides with up to four conjugated alkyne units

2010

A set of push-pull ynamides with up to four conjugated triple bonds has been synthesized and the molecular properties of these new carbon rods have been characterised showing effective intramolecular charge transfers and high values for the change of the electrical dipole moment after transition from the ground to the Franck-Condon excited state.

Enantioselective zinc-mediated conjugate alkynylation of saccharin-derived 1-aza-butadienes

2020

The enantioselective 1,4-alkynylation of conjugated imines derived from saccharin with aryl- and alkyl-substituted terminal alkynes has been achieved. The reaction mediated by diethylzinc in the presence of a catalytic amount of a bis(hydroxy)malonamide chiral ligand provides the corresponding imines bearing a propargylic stereocenter with moderate yields and fair to excellent enantioselectivities.

Electronic excited states of conjugated cyclic ketones and thioketones : A theoretical study

2002

Absorption spectra of a series of cyclic conjugated ketones and thioketones have been computed at the multiconfigurational second-order multistate perturbation level of theory, the CASSCF/MS-CASPT2 method. Excitation energies, transition dipole moments, oscillator strengths, and static dipole moments are reported and discussed for excited states with energies lower than ≈ 7–8 eV. The main bands of the spectra have been assigned and characterized in most cases for the first time. The spectroscopy of the different systems is compared in detail. Thioketones in particular have low-energy and intense ππ∗ transitions which suggest corresponding enhanced nonlinear molecular optical properties. Add…

Site-specific incorporation of perylene into an N-terminally modified light-harvesting complex II.

2010

Employing the utility of the native chemical ligation, site-specific attachment of an ultrastable perylene dye to a derivative of the major light-harvesting complex (LHCII) was demonstrated. Biochemical analysis of the conjugate indicated that the structure and function of LHCII remain largely unaffected by the N-terminal modification.

Quantum Chemical Parametrization and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Frenkel Exciton Hamiltonian for a J-Aggregate Forming Perylene Bisimide Dye

2012

Quantum chemical and quantum dynamical calculations are performed for a bay-substituted perylene bisimide dye up to its hexameric aggregate. The aggregate structure is determined by employing the self-consistent charge density functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) approach including dispersion corrections. It is characterized by a stabilization via two chains of hydrogen bonds facilitated by amide functionalities. Focusing on the central embedded dimer, the Coulomb coupling for this J-aggregate is determined by means of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to be -514 cm(-1). Exciton vibrational coupling is treated within the shifted oscillator model from which five strongly co…

Microwave-Assisted Tandem Organocatalytic Peptide-Coupling Intramolecular aza-Michael Reaction: α,β-UnsaturatedN-Acyl Pyrazoles as Michael Acceptors

2014

Conjugated N-acyl pyrazoles have been successfully employed in the organocatalytic enantioselective intramolecular aza-Michael reaction as ester surrogates. Bifunctional squaramides under microwave irradiation provided the best results in this transformation. Furthermore, this protocol has been combined with a peptide-coupling reaction in a tandem sequence. The final products were easily converted into the corresponding ethyl esters.

Boolean operations mediated by an ion-pair receptor of a multi-readout molecular logic gate

2013

A heteroditopic BODIPY dye that performs all basic Boolean operations with a cation (K+) and an anion (F-) as inputs and absorption, transmission and fluorescence as outputs is described. The molecular logic gate can also act as a digital comparator between the inputs.

Synthesis and characterization of novel bile-acid – heteroaryl conjugates with N-(2-aminoethyl)amido linker

2008

Abstract Four novel bile acid conjugates N-[2-([2,2′]-bithiophen-5-ylmethyl)aminoethyl]-3α-hydroxy-5β-cholan-24-amide (1), N-[2-([2,2′]-bithiophen-5-ylmethyl)aminoethyl]-3α,7α,12α-trihydroxy-5β-cholan-24-amide (2), N-[2-(1H-pyrrol-2-ylmethyl)aminoethyl]-3α-hydroxy-5β-cholan-24-amide (3), N-[2-(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)aminoethyl]-3α-hydroxy-5β-cholan-24-amide (4) have been synthesized in moderate to good yields, and their structures have been characterized by 1H, 13C, 13C DEPT-135, PFG 1H,13C HMQC, and PFG 1H,13C HMBC NMR spectra. Their molecular weights and elemental compositions have been determined by ESI-TOF mass spectrometry and elemental analyses. Crystal structure of 1 characterized with o…

Molecular modeling studies on dopamine-amino acid conjugates as potential dopaminergic modulators

2015

Molecular Switching, Logics, and Memories

2013

The concepts of molecular switch, molecular logics and memories are intimately related. In this work a review of these three topics is given. While the main examples concern the field of inorganic chemistry, in a few cases organic systems are presented to better illustrate the concepts. The basic notions of the logics gates usually used by the nowadays computers is presented and the modus operandi to transpose these concepts to the molecular level is discussed. Examples of switches driven by external stimuli such as light-induced, metal-ion, redox, photobistable, and complexation–decomplexation are described in this chapter. The extension of switches working in solution to solid devices are…