• N‑Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Reaction of Cinnamils Leading to the Formation of 2,3,8-Triaryl Vinyl Fulvenes: An Uncommon Transformation 

  Sinu, C R; Eringathodi, Suresh; Vijay Nair (American Chemical Society, 2012-02-12)

  In the general context of organocatalysis,1 N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) occupy a prominent position. NHC catalysis2 originated as early as 1958 with Breslow’s demonstration3 that thiazolylidene was involved in ...
• Effect of precursor particle size distribution on the morphology and low wetting behavior of photocatalytic nanocoatings on glass surfaces 

  Venu Sreekala, Smitha; Petit, Francois; Hareesh, Unnikrishnan Nair Saraswathy; Warrier, Krishna Gopakumar (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013-08-07)

  The effect of particle size distribution of coating precursor on the morphology and low wetting character of photocatalytic nanocoatings is investigated in the present work. TiO2–SiO2–Al2O3 nanocomposite coatings containing ...
• Preparation and Characterization of Selenium Incorporated Guar Gum Nanoparticle and Its Interaction with H9c2 Cells 

  Rema Sreenivasan, Soumya; Vadavanath Prabhakaran, Vineetha; Premachandran Latha, Reshma; Kozhiparambil Gopalan, Raghu (PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org, 2013-09-30)

  This study deals with the preparation and characterization of selenium incorporated guar gum nanoparticle (SGG), and its effect on H9c2 cardiomyoblast. Herein, nanoprecipitation techniques had been employed for the ...
• Fluorine interaction controlled AIEE phenomenon in an expanded calixbenzophyrin and its vapoluminescent response: turn on emission with volatile ketones and esters 

  Salini, P.S; Holaday, M. G. Derry; Reddy, M. L. P; Suresh, C. H.; Srinivasan, A (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013-01-23)

  Fluorine interaction assisted AIEE characteristic in an expanded calixbenzophyrin is presented by single-crystal X-ray-diffraction analysis and molecular modelling approaches. Selective exposure to volatile organic ...
• Azadirone, a Limonoid Tetranortriterpene, Induces Death Receptors and Sensitizes Human Cancer Cells to Tumor Necrosis Factor-related Apoptosis-inducing Ligand (TRAIL) through a p53 Protein-independent Mechanism EVIDENCE FOR THE ROLE OF THE ROS-ERK-CHOP-DEATH RECEPTOR PATHWAY 

  Subash, C. Gupta; Sajin, K. Francis; Mangalam, S. Nair; Yin-Yuan, Mo; Bharat, B. Aggarwal (The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc, 2013-11-08)

  Although tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) has shown efficacy in a phase 2 clinical trial, development of resistance to TRAIL by tumor cells is a major roadblock. We investigated whether ...
• MicroRNA–mRNA interaction network using TSK-type recurrent neural fuzzy network 

  Vineetha, S; Chandra Shekara Bhat, C; Sumam Mary, Idicula (Elsevier, 2012-12-20)

  MicroRNAs are short non-coding RNAs that can regulate gene expression during various crucial cell processes such as differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis. Changes in expression profiles of miRNA play an important role ...
• Effect of Ba(Zn1/3Ta2/3)O3 and SiO2 ceramic fillers on the microwave dielectric properties of butyl rubber composites 

  Chameswary, J; Sebastian, M T (Springer, 2012-08-02)

  Butyl rubber–Ba(Zn1/3Ta2/3)O3 (BR–BZT) composites and butyl rubber–silica (BRS) composites were prepared by sigma mixing. The dielectric properties at 1 MHz and 5 GHz of BR–BZT and BRS composites were investigated as ...
• Effect of isovalent substitutions on the microwave dielectric properties of Ca4La6(SiO4)4(PO4)2O2 apatite 

  Dhanesh Thomas; Pulanchiyodan, Abhilash; Sebastian, Mailadil T (Elsevier, 2012-08-21)

  The isovalent substitutions of Sr2+, Pr3+, (GeO4)4 and (VO4)3 in the respective cationic and anionic sites of Ca4La6(SiO4)4(PO4)2O2 have been accomplished. The substitution of Sr2+ for Ca2+ decreases er and Qu f but ...
• Identification and characterization of a highly alkaline and thermotolerant novel xylanase from Streptomyces sp 

  Leya Thomas; Sindhu, Raveendran; Pandey, Ashok (VERSITA, 2013)

  Xylanases constitute an important industrial enzyme, which hydrolyzes the polysaccharide xylan. In this work, a novel Streptomyces strain producing cellulase-free xylanase was isolated from the soil samples collected from ...
• Essential oil composition of fresh ginger cultivars from North-East India 

  Ravi Kiran, Challa; Ashok Kumar, Chakka; Padmakumari Amma, K P; Nirmala Menon, A; Sree Kumar, M M; Venugopalan, V V (Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-25)

  Essential oils of seventeen cultivars of fresh ginger from North-East India were isolated by hydrodistillation and chemoprofiled by gas chromatograph (GC) and GC–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis. Among all the constituents ...
• Effect of ion-implantation on surface characteristics of nickel titanium and titanium molybdenum alloy arch wires 

  Krishnan, Manu; Sukumaran, Kalathil; Seema, Saraswathy; Abraham, Kurian Mathew (Original Research, 2013-03-05)

  Aim: To evaluate the changes in surface roughness and frictional features of ‘ion-implanted nickel titanium (NiTi) and titanium molybdenum alloy (TMA) arch wires’ from its conventional types in an in-vitro laboratory set ...
• Effect of Ca2+ Substitution on the Structure, Microstructure, and Microwave Dielectric Properties of Sr2Al2SiO7 Ceramic 

  Kurusaroor Mana, Manu; Karthik, Chinnathambi; Rick Ubic; Sebastian, Mailadil Thomas (2013)

  The effect of Ca2+ substitution on the structure, microstructure, and microwave dielectric properties of Sr–gehlenite (Sr2Al2SiO7) ceramic has been investigated. The structure and microstructure of Sr2 xCaxAl2SiO7 ...
• Antagonistic Potential of Some Isolated Soil Fungi Against Brown Root Rot Disease of Tea in Barak Valley of Assam 

  Morang, Pranjal; Dutta, B K; Ranjita, I; Dileep Kumar, B S (2012-08-10)

  As tea is a long duration perennial crop it is very much prone to attack by several pathogens. Brown root rot disease (Fomeslamoensis (Murr.) Sacc. and Trott) is the one of the important primary root disease of teawhich, ...
• p-Conjugated polymer–Eu3+ complexes: versatile luminescent molecular probes for temperature sensing† 

  Balamurugan, A; Reddy, M.L.P; Jayakannan, M (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-12-04)

  We report p-conjugated polymer–Eu3+ ion complexes as new potential luminescent thermo-sensitive molecular probes. Carboxylic acid functionalized segmented p-conjugated polymers having oligophenylenevinylene (OPV) ...
• Design and Development of a Programmable Meta Search Engine 

  Manoj, M; Elizabeth Jacob (Elsevier, 2012-07)

  To the web user, a Meta Search Engine (MSE) appears much like a regular search engine (SE). MSE, unlike an SE does not have an index. Instead, it dynamically queries multiple search engines; extracts, fuses and re-ranks ...
• Re-entrant spin glass behaviour and magneto-dielectric effect in insulating Sm2NiMnO6 double perovskite 

  Neenu Lekshmi, P; Raji, G R; Vasundhara, M; Manoj Raama Verma; Savitha Pillai, S; Valant, M (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013-07-29)

  The structure and magneto-dielectric properties of Sm2NiMnO6 double perovskite have been investigated. The pure monoclinic bulk phase of Sm2NiMnO6 is an intrinsic B-site disordered ferromagnet showing a second order ...
• Dimer radical cation of 4-thiouracil: a pulse radiolysis and theoretical study 

  Prasanthkumar, K P; Suresh, Cherumuttathu H; Aravindakumar, C T (wiley onlinelibrary.com, 2013-04-30)

  Pulse radiolysis with optical absorption detection has been used to study the reactions of hydroxyl radical (OH•) with 4-thiouracil (4TU) in aqueous medium. The transient absorption spectrum for the reaction of OH• with ...
• Novel multifunctional titania–silica–lanthanum phosphate nanocomposite coatings through an all aqueous sol–gel process 

  Venu Sreekala, Smitha; Chembolli Kunhatta, Jyothi; Peer Mohamed, A; Saju Pillai; Krishna Gopakumar Warrier (R .S .C. Publishing, 2013-01-05)

  A novel nanocomposite coating containing titania, silica and lanthanum phosphate prepared through an all aqueous sol–gel route exhibits excellent self-cleaning ability arising from the synergistic effect of the constituents ...
• Molecular electrostatics for probing lone pair–p interactions 

  Neetha Mohan; Suresh, Cherumuttathu H; Anmol Kumar; Gadre, Shridhar R (R .S .C. Publishing, 2013-09-10)

  An electrostatics-based approach has been proposed for probing the weak interactions between lone pair containing molecules and p deficient molecular systems. For electron-rich molecules, the negative minima in molecular ...
• meso-Tetrakis(3,5-dihydroxyphenyl)N-confused porphyrin: Influence of polar protic and aprotic solvents in tautomeric existence, exchange and morphology 

  Thomas, Ajesh P; Gowri Sreedevi, K C; Adinarayana, B; Ramakrishnan, S; Srinivasan, A (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013-07)

  A hitherto unknown meso-tetrakis(3,5-dihydroxyphenyl)N-confused porphyrin (NCPH) was synthesized and characterized. The typical 3H and 2H tautomeric existence of the N-confused derivative was controlled exclusively by ...

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