Search results for "Transfer agent"

Cell Culture Characterization of Prooxidative Chain-Transfer Agents as Novel Cytostatic Drugs

2021

Prooxidative therapy is a well-established concept in infectiology and parasitology, in which prooxidative drugs like artemisinin and metronidazole play a pivotal clinical role. Theoretical considerations and earlier studies have indicated that prooxidative therapy might also represent a promising strategy in oncology. Here, we have investigated a novel class of prooxidative drugs, namely chain-transfer agents, as cytostatic agents in a series of human tumor cell lines in vitro. We have found that different chain-transfer agents of the lipophilic thiol class (like dodecane-1-thiol) elicited half-maximal effective concentrations in the low micromolar range in SY5Y cells (human neuroblastoma)…

Incorporation of Pd nanoparticles in mesostructured silica

2009

Monodisperse Pd nanoparticles were prepared by controlled reduction in organic phase and subsequent transfer to aqueous phase. A systematic study was carried out to finely tune nanoparticle size and optimize particle size distribution. The use of 4-dimethylaminopyridine as a transfer agent allowed for the easy and quantitative extraction of the Pd to the aqueous phase. The quaternary amine-functionalized metal nanoparticles were then used as metallic micelle replicas to grow silica around them. This novel and facile metal incorporation method provided an excellent dispersion and homogeneity of Pd nanoparticles on silica supports. In addition, cationic surfactants, such as cetyltrimethylammo…

A Bis‐Acridinium Macrocycle as Multi‐Responsive Receptor and Selective Phase‐Transfer Agent of Perylene

2020

A bis‐acridinium cyclophane incorporating switchable acridinium moieties linked by a 3,5‐dipyridylanisole spacer was studied as a multi‐responsive host for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon guests. Complexation of perylene was proven to be the most effective and was characterized in particular by a charge transfer band as signal output. Effective catch and release of the guest was triggered by both chemical (proton/hydroxide) and redox stimuli. Moreover, the dicationic host was also easily switched between organic and perfluorocarbon phases for application related to the enrichment of perylene from a mixture of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. peerReviewed

Polymeric mesoions, 4. Synthesis of polymerizable mesoionic 4,6-dioxo-1,3-diazines derived from vinylbenzylmalonic acid

2000

Vinylbenzylmalonic acid (4) was condensed with N,N'-diphenylformamidine (5a), N,N'-diphenylacetamidene (5b), S-propyl-1,3-diphenylisothiourea (6) and anilinopyridine (7) in the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DDC). The resulting new mesoionic monomers 8a-d were polymerized with 2,2'-azoisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as an initiator and dodecanethiol as a chain transfer agent. The low molecular weight model compounds 5-benzyl-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidine-2,4-dione (9a) and 5-hexadecyl-4,6-dioxo-1,3-diphenyl-2-hexadecylthio-1,3-diazine (9b) were prepared for X-ray diffraction analysis and comparison of spectrospical data.

The diels-alder intermediate as a chain-transfer agent in spontaneous styrene polymerization. II. Evidence from the comparison of the chain-length di…

1977

Versatile Synthesis of Functional Gold Nanoparticles: Grafting Polymers From and Onto

2008

Functionalized gold nanoparticles have been prepared in an organic solvent by a two-phase reduction method in ethyl acetate and water using bis(6-hydroxyhexyl) disulfide bis(2-bromoisobutyl) ester, bis(6-acetyloxyhexyl) disulfide, and bis(5-carboxypentyl) disulfide bis(pentafluorophenyl) ester as stabilizing ligands. This procedure features the advantages that no phase transfer agent was necessary during the preparation of the gold nanoparticles and that the reducing conditions were mild enough to utilize functional disulfide ligands. The obtained gold nanoparticles with typical sizes between 2 and 5 nm could be precipitated and redispersed without any irreversible aggregation. Using these nanop…

Synthesis, Characterization and Preliminary Biological Evaluation of P(HPMA)-b-P(LLA) Copolymers: A New Type of Functional Biocompatible Block Copoly…

2010

We describe a synthetic pathway to functional P(HPMA)-b-P(LLA) block copolymers. The synthesis relies on a combination of ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide, conversion into a chain transfer agent (CTA) for the RAFT polymerization of pentafluorophenyl methacrylate. A series of block copolymers was prepared that exhibited molecular weights $\overline M _{\rm n}$ ranging from 7 600 to 34 300 g · mol(-1) , with moderate PDI between 1.3 and 1.45. These reactive precursor polymers have been transformed into biocompatible P(HPMA)-b-P(LLA) copolymers and their fluorescently labeled derivatives by facile replacement of the pentafluorophenyl groups. The fluorescence label attached to this new …

1965

Bei der Polymerisation von Trioxan bei 70°C in der Schmelze mit HClO4 · H2O als Initiator nimmt die Bruttopolymerisationsgeschwindigkeit exponentiell mit steigender Wasserkonzentration ab; gleichzeitig nimmt die Lange der Induktionszeit entsprechend zu. Die Retardierung durch Wasser wird auf eine Hydratation aktiver Zentren zuruckgefuhrt. Wasser ist ein wirkungsvoller Polymerisationsubertrager; seine relative Ubertragungskonstante betragt bei 25°C in Methylenchlorid ca. 2,6. Jedoch werden die Verhaltnisse durch die Bildung von Methylenglykol aus Wasser und Formaldehyd kompliziert. In polymerization of trioxane in the melt at 70°C. with HClO4 · H2O as initiator the rate of polymerization dec…