Synthesis and reactions of [1]benzofuro[3,2-c]pyridine

(E)-3-(1-Benzofuran-2-yl)propenoic acid (I) was prepared from 1-benzofuran-2-carbaldehyde under the Doebner’s conditions. The obtained acid was converted to the corresponding azide II, which was cyclized by heating in diphenyl ether to [1]benzofuro[3,2-c]pyridin-1(2H)-one (III). This compound was aromatized with phosphorus oxychloride to chloroderivative IV which was reduced with zinc and acetic acid to the title compound V. [1]Benzofuro[3,2-c]pyridin-2-oxide (VI) was synthesized by reaction of V with 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid in dichloromethane. Treatment VI with benzoyl chloride and potassium cyanide (Reissert-Henze reaction) was shown to produce the corresponding [1]benzofuro[3,2-c]pyridin-1-carbonitrile (VII). The title compound was used for preparation of complex compounds VIII, IX

Dietary Organosulfur-Containing Compounds and Their Health-Promotion Mechanisms

Dietary organosulfur-containing compounds (DOSCs) in fruits, vegetables, and edible mushrooms may hold the key to the health-promotion benefits of these foods. Yet their action mechanisms are not clear, partially due to their high reactivity, which leads to the formation of complex compounds during postharvest processing. Among postharvest processing methods, thermal treatment is the most common way to process these edible plants rich in DOSCs, which undergo complex degradation pathways with the generation of numerous derivatives over a short time. At low temperatures, DOSCs are biotransformed slowly during fermentation to different metabolites (e.g., thiols, sulfides, peptides), whose distinctive biological activity remains largely unexplored. In this review, we discuss the bioavailability of DOSCs in human digestion before illustrating their potential mechanisms for health promotion related to cardiovascular health, cancer chemoprevention, and anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activities. In particular, it is interesting that different DOSCs react with glutathione or cysteine, leading to the slow release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which has broad bioactivity in chronic disease prevention. In addition, DOSCs may interact with protein thiol groups of different protein targets of importance related to inflammation and phase II enzyme upregulation, among other action pathways critical for health promotion. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Food Science and Technology, Volume 13 is March 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Potential of germanium-based compounds in coronavirus infection

The first germanium compounds which exhibited immunomodulatory and antiviral effects were sesquioxane-type germanates. To date, more than a dozen compounds containing germanium have been synthesized and are being actively studied. They include germanium carboxylates and citrates, complexes of germanium with resveratrol, daphnetin, mangiferin, chrysin, quercetin, ascorbic and nicotinic acids, amino acids, gamma-lactones, germanium-containing spirulina, yeast and others. Germanium-based compounds have shown the ability to influence the replication of various DNA/RNA viruses, stimulate the body’s natural resistance, prevent the development of metabolic intoxication of various origin, increase the efficacy of vaccines, and prevent the development of excessive accumulation of reactive oxygen species, which plays a decisive role in the development of inflammatory response caused by a viral infection. It seems reasonable to say that germanium-based complex compounds effectively contribute to the preservation of high--energy bonds in the form of ATP, optimize the activity of metabolic processes by re-oxygenation, and exhibit antimicrobial activity. The purpose of this review is to summarize the pharmacological potential of various germanium-based compounds studied nowadays, taking into account their mechanisms of action, and to analyze their prospects in the development of integrated approaches in the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Chemical Composition and Polyphenolic Compounds of Red Wines: Their Antioxidant Activities and Effects on Human Health—A Review

Red wine, an alcoholic beverage is composed of a spectrum of complex compounds such as water, alcohol, glycerol, organic acid, carbohydrates, polyphenols, and minerals as well as volatile compounds. Major factors that affect the levels of phenolic compounds in red wines are the variety of grapes and the storage of the wines. Among the constituents of red wine, phenolic compounds play a crucial role in attributes including color and mouthfeel and confer beneficial properties on health. Most importantly, phenolic compounds such as flavanols, flavonols, flavanones, flavones, tannins, anthocyanins, hydroxycinnamic acids, hydroxybenzoic acids, and resveratrol can prevent the development of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, inflammation, and some other chronic diseases.

Iron chelates in the anticancer therapy

Iron plays a significant role in the metabolism of cancer cells. In comparison with normal cells, neoplastic ones exhibit enhanced vulnerability to iron. Ferric ions target tumor via the ferroptotic death pathway—a process involving the iron-mediated lipid oxidation. Ferric ion occurs in complex forms in the physiological conditions. Apart from iron, ligands are the other factors to affect the biological activity of the iron complexes. In recent decades the role of iron chelates in targeting the growth of the tumor was extensively examined. The ligand may possess a standalone activity to restrict cancer’s growth. However, a wrong choice of the ligand might lead to the enhanced cancer cell’s growth in in vitro studies. The paper aims to review the role of iron complex compounds in the anticancer therapy both in the experimental and clinical applications. The anticancer properties of the iron complex rely both on the stability constant of the complex and the ligand composition. When the stability constant is high, the properties of the drug are unique. However, when the stability constant remains low, both components—ferric ions and ligands, act separately on the cells. In the paper we show how the difference in complex stability implies the action of ligand and ferric ions in the cancer cell. Iron complexation strategy is an interesting attempt to transport the anticancer Fe2+/3+ ions throughout the cell membrane and release it when the pH of the microenvironment changes. Last part of the paper summarizes the results of clinical trials and in vitro studies of novel iron chelates such as: PRLX 93,936, Ferumoxytol, Talactoferrin, DPC, Triapine, VLX600, Tachypyridine, Ciclopiroxamine, Thiosemicarbazone, Deferoxamine and Deferasirox.

The Conversion of Calcium-Containing Phases and Their Separation with NaCl in Molten Salt Chlorinated Slags at High Temperature

The titanium resources in Panxi reign, China, have a high-impurities content of Ca and Mg, which is usually processed by the molten salt chlorination process. This process allows higher Ca and Mg content in its furnace burdens. However, there is a huge amount of molten salt chlorinated slag produced by this process, consisting of complex compounds and waste NaCl/KCl salts. These slags are always stockpiled without efficient utilization, causing serious environmental pollutions. To recycle the NaCl in the slag back to the molten salt chlorination process, a novel process to deal with those molten salt chlorinated slags with phase conversion at high temperature is presented in this paper. The calcium-containing solid phase was generated when Na2SiO3 was added to the molten salt chlorinated slags at high temperature, while NaCl was kept as a liquid. Thus, liquid NaCl was easily separated from the calcium-containing solid phase, and it could be reused in the molten salt chlorination process. The conversion of calcium-containing phases and their separation of NaCl are the key parts of this work, and they have been systematically studied in this paper; thermodynamic analysis, phase transformation behavior, and calcium removal behavior have all been investigated. The calcium removal rate is 78.69% when the molar ratio of CaCl2:Na2SiO3 is 1:1.5 at 1173 K and N2 atmosphere.

DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH OF CHEMISTRY OF COORDINATION COMPOUNDS IN V.I. VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY NAS OF UKRAINE: FROM THE 30'S TWENTIETH CENTURY(part1)

The review considers the main stages of development of the chemistry of coordination compounds at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry. VI Vernadsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of its founding. An overview of complex compounds of p, d, f-me­tals with different classes of ligands (inorganic and organic), features of their synthesis, study of the structure and properties of the obtained compounds, contains current material on the use of synthesized complexes to create functional materials for different purposes. Me­thods of synthesis have been developed, do­zens of new coordination compounds with derivatives of hydrazones, amines, azomethanes, and thiosemicarbazones have been synthesized and isolated in the individual state. Their composition, structure and physicochemical pro­perties are determined. The general regularities that take place in the process of comple­xation of metals with ligands, as well as factors influencing the composition, structure and physico­chemical properties of the obtained coordination compounds are established. For the long history of the Institute has accumulated a huge amount of material on the problems of modern coordination chemistry. Significant research in this area belongs to Ukrainian scientists who have worked long and fruitfully at the Institute: A.K. Babko, K.B. Yatsimirsky, Ya.A. Fialkov, I.A. Sheka, S.V. Volkov, N.A. Kostromina, and who created scientific schools, known not only in Ukraine but also abroad. To date, the attention of scientists of the Institute has shifted from classical monomeric to bigeteronuclear, polynuclear, multiligand complexes, which is primarily due to intensive research of new functional materials: optical and magnetic, biologically active substances, as well as effective adsorbents, chemical sensors, catalysts, catalysts, catalysts and biochemical processes.

SYNTHESIS AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF COMPLEX COMPOUNDS MN (II), CO (II), CU (II) AND ZN WITH 5-AMINO-2-MERCAPTOBENZIMIDAZOLE

The aim of this work is to study the effect of the nature of electron-donor and electron-withdrawing substituents in the molecules of heterocyclic ligands, the nature of acidoligands and transition metal ions on the properties of the synthesized coordination compounds. A method for the synthesis of new complex compounds of Mn (II), Cо (II), Cu (II) and Zn with 5-amino-2-mercaptobenzimidazole has been developed and the composition and structure of the synthesized complex compounds have been studied using modern physicochemical methods, such as elemental, thermogravimetric, X-ray phase analysis and IR spectroscopy. Coordination competing donor centers, electronic and geometric structures of the ligand molecule were studied using quantum-chemical calculations in the Gaussian09 LanL2DZ software package. It was shown that during the formation of a metal complex, the ligand 5-amino-2-mercaptobenzimidazole is coordinated through the localized nitrogen atom of the imidazole ring.

DETERMINATION OF THE STABILITY OF COMPLEX COMPOUNDS OF COPPER (II), ZINC (II), CADMIUM (II) AND SILVER (I) WITH COVALENTLY IMMOBILIZED SULFUR CONTAIN LIGANDS

"The purpose of this study is to determine the stability of the obtained coordination compounds of some d-metals with covalent immobilized sulfur-containing ligands. To achieve this goal, coordination compounds of copper (II), zinc (II), cadmium (II) and silver (I) ions with covalent immobilized sulfur-containing ligands - О,О-di- (2-aminoethyl) -dithiophosphate potassium - polyester matrix (KD2AEDTP-PEM), O,O-di- (2-aminoethyl) -dithiophosphate potassium - carbamide-formaldehyde matrix (KD2AEDTP-KFM). Studies were carried out to determine the acid-base properties of covalent-immobilized sulfur-containing ligands - KD2AEDTP-PEM, KD2AEDTP-KFM and the concentration stability of the obtained coordination compounds with ions of copper (II), zinc (II), cadmium (II), and silver (I). Based on the results of integral and differential potentiometric titrations, it was established that the ionization constants (pK) of the dithiophosphoric group in KD2AEDTP-PEM and KD2AEDTP-KFM are 3.23 and 3.35, and the ionization constants of the amino group are 9.76 and 9.63, respectively. As a result of studies of polymer ligands by potentiometric titration via the method of individual weighed portions, it was shown that polyfunctional polymer ligands have the ability to form stable coordination compounds with metal ions of copper (II), zinc (II), cadmium (II) and silver (I). "