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    Diversity oriented combinatorial synthesis of multivalent glycomimetics through a multicomponent domino process

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    Both multicomponent reactions and diversity oriented synthesis are indispensable tools for the modern medicinal chemist. However, their employment for the synthesis of multivalent glycomimetics has not been exploited so far although the importance that such compounds play in exploring multivalency on glycoside inhibition. Herein, we report the combinatorial synthesis of diversity oriented hetero di- and trivalent glycomimetics through a multicomponent domino process. The process is high yielding and very general, working efficiently with easily accessible sugar starting materials such as glycosylamines, glycosylazides, and glycosylisothiocyanates, having the reactive functional groups tethered either directly to the anomeric carbon, through a suitable linker, or to the primary 6 position of hexoses (or 5 position of pentoses), leading, in the latter case, to glycomimetics with artificial enzymatically stable backbone. The process has been also exploited for the multicomponent synthesis of aminoglycoside (neomycin) conjugates

    Facile and Stereoselective Synthesis of Non-Racemic 3,3,3-Trifluoroalanine

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    A highly stereoselective enantiodivergent synthesis of non-racemic 3,3,3-trifluoroalanine 7 is reported. The methodology is based on the reduction, by 9-BBN or DIBAH, of the chiral sulfinimine 3 derived from ethyl trifluoropyruvate, followed by acidic hydrolysis of the resulting diastereomeric sulfinamides 4 and 5

    Carbodiimides-Mediated Multi Component Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Structures

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    Multi-component reactions are very popular because they offer a wealth of products, while requiring only a minimum effort combining many elements of an ideal synthesis, such as operational simplicity, atom economy, bond-forming efficiency, and the access to molecular complexity from simple starting materials. As such, multi-component reactions have become the cornerstones of both combinatorial chemistry and diversity-oriented synthesis and thus playing a central role in the development of modern synthetic methodology for pharmaceutical and drug discovery research. In this Insight we will highlight the development of novel multi-component reactions based on the reactivity of carbodiimides, paying particular attention on their mechanistic features. We will address our attention on the process developed by us and others groups, in these last years, for the synthesis of biologically relevant structures such as, for example, heterocycles and glyco-conjugates

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Multicomponent synthesis of peptide-sugar conjugates incorporating hexafluorovaline

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    The development of new methods for linking sugars to peptides or proteins is an active area of research because natural glycopeptides or neoglycoconjugates play important roles in biology and medicine and are indispensable tools for probing several biological processes. Herein we report a novel one-pot, three-component process for the synthesis of peptide-urea conjugates incorporating a hexafluorovaline residue under very mild conditions and high yields using commercially available starting materials such as carbodiimides, a-amino acid derivatives and 4,4,4-trifluoro-3-trifluoromethylcrotonic acid. The reaction has been exploited for the synthesis of a library of structurally diverse peptidesugar conjugates incorporating hexafluorovaline through a four-component, one-pot sequential process by generating the carbodiimides in situ from easily accessible sugar containing azides and commercial available isocyanates through the Staudinger (aza-Wittig) reaction

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Three-component sequential synthesis of N,N'-disubstituted 5-arylidenedihydropyrimidine-2,4-dione

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    A three-component sequential process consisting in (1) in situ formation of carbodiimides by Staudinger reaction, (2) reaction with 2-(bromomethyl)-3-aryl-2-propenoic acids, and (3) final cyclization of the resulting N-acylurea intermediates in order to obtain the synthesis of an array of N,N0-disubstituted 5- arylidenedihydropyrimidine-2,4-dione under mild conditions is presented

    Synthesis ofN-Glycosyl Conjugates through a Multicomponent Domino Process

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    The development of efficient methods for the combinatorial synthesis of N-glycosyl conjugates is vital for many fields of modern synthetic organic chemistry. Herein, we report a multicomponent domino process for the regioselective synthesis of a large array N-glycosyl-Asp-urea conjugates, which could be further functionalized in a chemoselective way, starting from easily accessible reactants such as N-glycosylamines, fumaric acid monoesters, azides, and isocyanates. The process occurs under very mild conditions, does not require the use of strong bases/acids or high temperature, and is highly versatile, working efficiently with a range of protecting groups and substituents
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