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Using the cyclometallation reaction, Pt(II) complexes of diarylbipyridynic ligands bearing alkoxy-groups were prepared and then modified with phenylаcetylene derivatives. The target compounds were characterised by absorption and emission spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, small angle X-ray scattering, polarisation microscopy, and DTF calculations. The mesomorphic properties of the obtained compounds were investigated and their liquid crystallinity was confirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivation High plasticity of bacterial genomes is provided by numerous mechanisms including horizontal gene transfer and recombination via numerous flanking repeats. Genome rearrangements such as inversions, deletions, insertions and duplications may independently occur in different strains, providing parallel adaptation or phenotypic diversity. Specifically, such rearrangements might be responsible for virulence, antibiotic resistance and antigenic variation. However, identification of such events requires laborious manual inspection and verification of phyletic pattern consistency. Results Here, we define the term 'parallel rearrangements' as events that occur independently in phylogenetically distant bacterial strains and present a formalization of the problem of parallel rearrangements calling. We implement an algorithmic solution for the identification of parallel rearrangements in bacterial populations as a tool PaReBrick. The tool takes a collection of strains represented as a sequence of oriented synteny blocks and a phylogenetic tree as input data. It identifies rearrangements, tests them for consistency with a tree, and sorts the events by their parallelism score. The tool provides diagrams of the neighbors for each block of interest, allowing the detection of horizontally transferred blocks or their extra copies and the inversions in which copied blocks are involved. We demonstrated PaReBrick's efficiency and accuracy and showed its potential to detect genome rearrangements responsible for pathogenicity and adaptation in bacterial genomes. Availability and implementation PaReBrick is written in Python and is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ctlab/parallel-rearrangements. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A series of six tridentate cyclometallated N^N^C Pt(II) complexes with different halide auxiliary ligands and different aliphatic side chains have been prepared. All complexes show concentration‐dependent NMR spectra. Their self‐association was studied by a dilution method monitoring both the 1H as well as 195Pt nuclei. Both techniques show similar results validating that 195Pt NMR is an important methodology to study self‐association of potentially any Pt complex regardless of the nature of the ligands. Experimental data allowed to predict the most probable geometry of the dimers and to get insight into the structural and thermodynamic specificity of the aggregation. The in‐depth analysis of the data suggests that the halide auxiliary ligand has no significant influence on self‐association while the effect of the aliphatic side chain depends on the length and the structure of the chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Benzophenone-type unsymmetrical substituted aromatic diamines of general formula This character cannot be represented in ASCII code were prepared starting with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride and substituted benzenes. Interaction of the diamines obtained with aromatic tetracarboxylic acids dianhydrides under the conditions of high-temperature solution polycyclocondensation in m-cresol led to the formation of new high molecular weight organosoluble polyimides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]