Steric control over supramolecular aggregation is demonstrated for a series of adducts formed between Zn(S 2 COR) 2 and trans-1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene, whereby supramolecular zigzag polymers are found when R is small, that is, Et (1) and n-Bu (2), but only bimetallic aggregates could be formed when R = Cy (3). This results in different coordination geometries: fourcoordinate N 2 S 2 zinc in 1 and 2, and five-coordinate NS 4 zinc in 3, a feature which greatly influences photophysical responses in the solid state. When excited in the UV region, {Zn(S 2 COEt) 2 L} ¥ (1) and {[Zn(S 2 COCy) 2 ] 2 L} (3) produce broad luminescence in the visible region. Five-coordinate 3 produces more broad and intense luminescence than four-coordinate 1. The configuration interaction singles (CIS) and post-Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations for 1 and 3 indicate the A-band excited state is responsible for the observed luminescence which is strongly associated with charge transfer from S and Zn.
A novel androgen receptor (AR) degradation enhancer ASC-J9® has displayed beneficial effects during the in vitro and in vivo studies for treatment of prostate cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). It works mainly by inducing the degradation of AR with minimal side effects on the tested mice. Here we developed a fast, robust and more sensitive method for the quantification of ASC-J9® in 100 μL of mouse serum by using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The limit of quantification (LOQ) was found to be 5nM for ASCJ9®. This method was successfully applied to investigate the pharmacokinetics of ASC-J9® in mice serum samples and also the distribution of the drug in various mice organs after single dose injection with results showing that ASC-J9® could be quickly absorbed in vivo and had a relatively slow elimination half-life of 5.45 h. The ASC-J9® also exhibited a higher tendency to accumulate in organs such as liver, testes and prostate.
Two new types of methylcalix[4]resorcinarene-bonded stationary phases, (3-(C-methylcalix[4]resorcinarene)-2-hydroxypropoxy)-propylsilyl-appended silica particles (MCR-HPS) and bromoacetate-substituted MCR-HPS particles (BAMCR-HPS), have been synthesized and used as chiral stationary phases for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for the first time. The synthetic stationary phases are characterized by means of elemental analysis and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The chromatographic behavior of MCR-HPS and BAMCR-HPS was studied with several disubstituted benzenes and some chiral drug compounds under both normal phase and reversed-phase conditions. The results show that MCR-HPS has excellent selectivity for the separation of aromatic positional isomers and BAMCR-HPS exhibits excellent performance for separation of enantiomers of chiral compounds.
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