Hence, the established methodology not only provides valuable information to find glycan-based biomarkers of CIA, but also leaves the door open to evaluate, in the future, glycosylation changes of many other inflammatory diseases, in which transferrin has been described to be altered.High surface area activated graphene has 3D porous structure which makes it difficult for preparation of dispersions. Here we report a general approach allowing to prepare stable water-based dispersions/inks with concentration up to ~20 mg/ml based on activated graphene using environmentally friendly formulations. Simple drying of the dispersion on substrate allows to prepare electrodes which maintain high specific surface area of the precursor material (~1700 m2/g). LY686017 The electrodes are flexible thanks to the structure consisting of micrometer sized activated graphene grains interconnected by carbon nanotubes. The electrodes prepared using activated graphene demonstrate performance superior to rGO in supercapacitors with KOH and TEA BF4/acetonitrile electrolytes providing specific capacitance values of 180F/g and 137 F/g at 1A/g specific current respectively. High surface area of activated graphene in combination with good conductivity of CNT allow achieving energy density of 35.6 Wh/kg and power density of 42.2 kW/kg. The activated graphene dispersions were prepared in liter amounts and are compatible with most of the industrial deposition methods.Quinolines undergo catalyst-free double CH-functionalization upon treatment with secondary phosphine oxides (70-75 °C, 20-48 h) followed by oxidation of the intermediate 2,4-bisphosphoryltetrahydroquinolines with chloranil. The yields of the target 2,4-bisphosphorylated quinolines are up to 77%. Thus, a double-SNHAr reaction sequence in the same molecule of quinoline has been realized. In the case of 2,4-bisphenylphosphoryltetrahydroquinolines, the aromatization occurs with elimination of one molecule of diphenylphosphine oxide to afford the products of monofunctionalization, 4-diphenylphosphorylquinolines, in 40-45% yields.Lithium titanium oxide Li4Ti5O12 is an intriguing anode material promising particularly long-life batteries, due to its remarkable phase stability during (dis)charging of the cell. However, its usage is limited by its low intrinsic electronic conductivity. Introducing oxygen vacancies can be one method for overcoming this drawback, possibly by altering the charge carrier transport mechanism. We use Hubbard corrected density functional theory to show that polaronic states in combination with a possible hopping mechanism can play a crucial role in the experimentally observed increase in electronic conductivity. To gauge polaronic charge mobility, we compute the relative stabilities of different localization patterns and estimate polaron hopping barrier heights.A highly regioselective approach to access amide enol carbamates and carbonates 5a-5c’, 7a-7h, and 9 was developed through Cu(OTf)2-catalyzed reactions of ynamides 4 with t-butyl carbamates 2 and 8 and t-butyl carbonates 6. Moreover, this strategy was successfully applied to generate amide enol carbamates 11a-11s and 14a-14f from imides 10 and 13 with ynamides through an N-Boc cleavage-addition ring-opening process. A range of substituents was amenable to this transformation, and the desired amide enol carbamates and carbonates were obtained in moderate to good yields.Activation of the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel TRPA1 by cinnamaldehyde has been shown to stimulate serotonin release in enterochromaffin QGP-1 cells. However, the impact of cinnamaldehyde on serotonin release in enterocytes is less well understood. In addition, since the neurotransmitter serotonin plays a regulatory role in a large variety of gastrointestinal and metabolic functions, it is of interest to study which structural characteristics determine cinnamaldehyde-induced serotonin release by enterocytes. Thus, the present study analyzed serotonin release in differentiated Caco-2 cells as a model for enterocytes in comparison to enterochromaffin QGP-1 cells after stimulation with cinnamaldehyde and 17 naturally occurring structurally related compounds by means of a serotonin ELISA. Stimulation with cinnamaldehyde induced a dose-dependent increase in serotonin release starting from 0.5 mM in both cell lines, with a larger effect size in Caco-2 enterocytes compared to that in QGP-1 enterochromaffin cells. Serotonin release in Caco-2 cells induced by additional 17 structurally related compounds correlated with serotonin release in QGP-1 cells, showing the highest effects for coniferylaldehyde with a 15.84 ± 3.23-fold increase in Caco-2 cells, followed by the parent compound cinnamaldehyde (13.45 ± 2.15), cinnamyl alcohol (6.68 ± 1.08), and α-methyl-cinnamaldehyde (6.59 ± 0.93). Analysis of structural and molecular characteristics that modulate serotonin release in Caco-2 enterocytes revealed that the ability of a compound to activate TRPA1, demonstrated by means of HEK293 cells transiently expressing hTRPA1, is a decisive factor to stimulate serotonin release in Caco-2 enterocytes, preferring small, electrophilic compounds with a lower polar surface area. In addition, blocking of TRPA1 using 30 μM AP-18 significantly reduced the cinnamaldehyde-induced serotonin release by 30.0 ± 5.24%, confirming a TRPA1-dependent component in serotonin release by Caco-2 cells.Herein, we report the asymmetric total syntheses of inthomycin antibiotics containing a methylene-interrupted oxazolyl-triene motif. Utilizing the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde as a common intermediate, all three inthomycins A-C were divergently synthesized. The asymmetric ynone reduction provided an R-configured secondary alcohol as in the natural products with high enantioselectivity. The geometrically different triene units for each inthomycin were stereoselectively established via methyl cuprate conjugate addition, isomerization of the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde intermediate, and stereoretentive cross-coupling reactions.Biomass burning (BB) emits organic gases that, with chemical aging, can form secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in both the gas and aqueous phases. One class of biomass-burning emissions, phenols, are of interest because they react rapidly in the aqueous phase to efficiently form SOA, which might affect climate and human health. However, while measurements exist for the air-water partitioning constants of some simple phenols, Henry’s law constants (KH) are unknown for more complex BB phenols. In this work, we use a custom-built apparatus to measure KH for a suite of biomass-burning phenols that span a wide range of air-water partitioning coefficients. Comparing our measurements to predicted values from EPI Suite shows that this model consistently overestimates KH unless a suitable measured phenol KH value is included to adjust the calculations. In addition, we determine the effect of five salts on phenol partitioning by measuring the Setschenow coefficients (KS). Across the eight phenols we examined, values of KS depend primarily on salt identity and descend in the order (NH4)2SO4 > NaCl > NH4Cl ≥ KNO3 > NH4NO3.