The synthesis of some chiral 5-aryl-4-(1-phenylpropyl)-2H-1,2,4-triazole-3(4H)-thiones (6a-i) was carried out by cyclodehydration of 1-aroyl-4-(1-phenylpropyl)thiosemicarbazides (5a-i) obtained by the condensation of isomeric halo benzoic acid hydrazides (3a-i) and (R)-(+)-1phenylpropyl isothiocyanate (4). The hydrazides (3a-i) were synthesized from the corresponding halo benzoic acids (1a-i) via esterification. The synthesis was confirmed by spectroanalytical techniques. The compounds 6d and 6e were found to be more potent urease inhibitors than the standard thiourea, depicting the IC 50 values of 7.8 ± 0.2 and 12.4 ± 0.2 µM, respectively (IC 50 of thiourea = 21.0 ± 0.1 µM). Compounds 6c and 6h also exhibited very good urease inhibition activity with the IC 50 values of 35.9 ± 0.7 and 31.1 ± 0.5 µM, respectively. In addition the antimicrobial activities of the synthesized compounds are also being reported.
The present study describes a template-free single step carbonization route to prepare hierarchically structured nitrogen-doped carbon materials (NCMs) by using an organic ionic dye (OID), ammonium purpurate (murexide). These NCMs exhibited moderate specific surface area (307 m 2 g À1 for NCM (MDE) -900) and hierarchical macro/meso/microporous structures with abundant nitrogenous functionalities that contributed towards the high specific capacitance displayed by pseudocapacitive contribution. In particular, the NCM (MDE) -800 displayed superior specific capacitance (222 F g À1 at 3 A g
a Recognizing the superior electrocatalytic properties of Nickel oxide (NiO), we prepared cathodically electrodeposited Nickel Oxide (NiO) on Fluorine doped Tin oxide (FTO) glass substrate as binder free electrocatalysts for water oxidation.The electrodeposited Nickel oxide film (NiO(ED)) showed remarkable improvement for electrocatalytic water oxidation after heat treatment. In particular, the NiO(ED)−400 catalyst (electrodeposited nickel oxide film heat treated at 400°C) achieved appreciable current density ~ 5mA cm −2 for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the overpotential of 0.45 V vs RHE. These catalyst films were characterized for structural, morphological, thermal and electrochemical properties, where the results reveal that the dehydration during heat treatment permanently removes the structural water with a concomitant amorphous→crystalline transformation in NiO(ED) films, thereby making them more active catalyst for OER. In parallel investigations, nickel metal was electrodepoplated on stainless steel (SS) substrate, and was subsequently annealed in hot air to produce NiO(HA) films at different temperatures. The NiO(HA) films prepared by this method showed relatively high value of Tafel slopes and corresponding high overpotentials and low currents for OER, when compared to the NiO(ED) films.Hence, simple heat treatment of the cathodically electrodeposited nickel oxide (NiO(ED)) films showed remarkable improvements in their catalytic performances for oxygen evolution reaction, thereby making them efficient electrocatalysts for water oxidation.
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