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

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Low-energy Electron Holography Microscope for Imaging of Single Molecules

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Mechanical Immunoengineering of T Cells for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

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New methods for structure determination and speciation by NMR crystallography

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Copper(ii) complexes with tridentate halogen-substituted Schiff base ligands: synthesis, crystal structures and investigating the effect of halogenation, leaving groups and ligand flexibility on antiproliferative activities

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

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

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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 ...

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Stabilization of high-spin Mn ions in tetra-pyrrolic configuration on copper

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By means of Mn-Cu transmetalation, we incorporated Mn atoms in an array of TCNQ (7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane) grown on Cu(100), forming a long range ordered and commensurate metal-organic coordination network (MOCN). Preliminary Sn alloying of the Cu( ...

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A Strategy to Conjugate Bioactive Fragments to Cytotoxic Diiron Bis(cyclopentadienyl) Complexes

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A series of bioactive molecules were synthesized from the condensation of aspirin or chlorambucil with terminal alkynes bearing alcohol or amine substituents. Insertion of the resulting alkynes into the iron-carbyne bond of readily accessible diiron bis(cy ...

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

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Liquid phase in situ spectroscopic investigations of heterogeneous catalysts

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EPFL2020

The Effect of Thiol Structure on Allyl Sulfide Photodegradable Hydrogels and their Application as a Degradable Scaffold for Organoid Passaging

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Intestinal organoids are useful in vitro models for basic and translational studies aimed at understanding and treating disease. However, their routine culture relies on animal-derived matrices that limit translation to clinical applications. In fact, ther ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2020

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

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

Cellular responses of BRCA1-defective HCC1937 breast cancer cells induced by the antimetastasis ruthenium(II) arene compound RAPTA-T

Paul Joseph Dyson

An organometallic ruthenium(II) arene compound, Ru((6)-toluene)(PTA)Cl-2 (PTA=1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane), termed RAPTA-T, exerts promising antimetastatic properties. In this study, the effects of RAPTA-T on BRCA1-defective HCC1937 breast cancer cell ...

SPRINGER2019