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Mosquitocidal Activity of the Methanolic Extract of Annickiachlorantha and Its Isolated Compounds against Culex pipiens, and Their Impact on the Non-Target Organism Zebrafish, Danio rerio. INSECTS 2022; 13:insects13080676. [PMID: 36005300 PMCID: PMC9409109 DOI: 10.3390/insects13080676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In this study, the crude extract and its isolated compounds from the stem bark of Annickia chlorantha were tested for their larvicidal, developmental, and repellent activity against the mosquito vector, Culex pipiens, besides their toxicity to the non-target aquatic organism, the zebrafish (Danio rerio). The acute larvicidal activity of isolated compounds; namely, palmatine, jatrorrhizine, columbamine, β-sitosterol, and Annickia chlorantha methanolic extract (AC), was observed. Developmentally, the larval duration was significantly prolonged when palmatine and β-sitosterol were applied, whereas the pupal duration was significantly prolonged for almost all treatments except palmatine and jatrorrhizine, where it shortened from those in the control. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme showed different activity patterns, where it significantly increased in columbamine and β-sitosterol, and decreased in (AC), palmatine, and jatrorrhizine treatments, whereas glutathione S-transferase (GST) enzyme was significantly increased when AC methanolic extract/isolated compounds were applied, compared to the control. The adult emergence percentages were significantly decreased in all treatments, whereas tested compounds revealed non-significant (p > 0.05) changes in the sex ratio percentages, with a slight female-to-male preference presented in the AC-treated group. Additionally, the tested materials revealed repellence action; interestingly, palmatine and jatrorrhizine recorded higher levels of protection, followed by AC, columbamine, and β-sitosterol for 7 consecutive hours compared to the negative and positive control groups. The non-target assay confirms that the tested materials have very low toxic activity compared to the reported toxicity against mosquito larvae. A docking simulation was employed to better understand the interaction of the isolated compounds with the enzymes, AChE and GST. Additionally, DFT calculations revealed that the reported larvicidal activity may be due to the differing electron distributions among tested compounds. Overall, this study highlights the potential of A. chlorantha extract and its isolated compounds as effective mosquitocidal agents with a very low toxic effect on non-target organisms.
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Bets KV, Penev ES, Yakobson BI. Janus Segregation at the Carbon Nanotube-Catalyst Interface. ACS NANO 2019; 13:8836-8841. [PMID: 31323179 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b02061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The contact between a carbon nanotube (CNT) edge and a catalyst is a curvilinear interface of fundamental and practical importance. Here, the first-principles evidence shows that on a rigid/solid catalyst the faceted CNT edge is significantly lower in energy compared to the minimal-length circle, with the interface energy difference decreasing on more compliant surfaces. This universal trend, found for typical monometallic (Ni, Co), bimetallic (Co7W6), and metal carbide (WC) catalysts, results in a peculiar edge segregation into one-dimensional Janus (armchair-zigzag) interface. Its lowered energy greatly enhances the nucleation probability of chiral tubes, dramatically affecting their growth kinetics. This offers a richer basis for understanding, modeling, and control of catalytic CNT synthesis.
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- Ksenia V Bets
- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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Kimura R, Hijikata Y, Eveleens CA, Page AJ, Irle S. Chiral-selective etching effects on carbon nanotube growth at edge carbon atoms. J Comput Chem 2019; 40:375-380. [PMID: 30548651 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) utilizing metal cluster nanoparticle catalysts is commonly used to synthesize carbon nanotubes (CNT), with oxygen-containing species such as water or alcohol included in the feedstock for enhanced yield. However, the etching effect of these additives on the growth mechanism has rarely been investigated, despite evidence suggesting that etching potentially affects the chirality distribution of product CNTs. We used quantum chemical methods to study how water-based etchant radicals (OH and H) may enhance the chiral selectivity during CVD growth using CNT cap models. Chemical reactivities of the caps with the etchant radicals were evaluated using density functional theory (DFT). It was found that the reactivities on the cap edges correlate with the chirality of the caps. These results suggest that proper selection of etchant species can provide opportunities for selective chirality control of the product CNTs. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Ryuto Kimura
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- The institute names serve in place of Department information, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules and Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- The institute names serve in place of Department information, Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, 2308, Australia
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- The institute names serve in place of Department information, Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, 2308, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.,Computational Sciences and Engineering Division & Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831-6493
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Synthesis, fungicidal activity, structure-activity relationships (SARs) and density functional theory (DFT) studies of novel strobilurin analogues containing arylpyrazole rings. Sci Rep 2018; 8:7822. [PMID: 29777123 PMCID: PMC5959921 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26154-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A series of novel strobilurin analogues (1a-1f, 2a-2e, 3a-3e) containing arylpyrazole rings were synthesized and characterized by NMR spectroscopy. The structures of 1f, 2b and 3b were also determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. These analogues were collected together with other twenty-eight similar compounds 4a-4f, 5a-5h, 6a-6h and 7a-7f from our previous studies, for in vitro bioassays and thorough structure-activity relationships (SARs) studies. Most compounds exhibited excellent-to-good fungicidal activity against Rhizoctonia solani, especially 5c, 7a, 6c, and 3b with 98.94%, 83.40%, 71.40% and 65.87% inhibition rates at 0.1 μg mL−1, respectively, better than commercial pyraclostrobin. Comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) was employed to study three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationships (3D-QSARs). Density functional theory (DFT) calculation was also carried out to provide more information regarding SARs. The present work provided some hints for developing novel strobilurin fungicides.
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Yang Z, Wang Q, Shan X, Li WQ, Chen GH, Zhu H. DFT study of Fe-Ni core-shell nanoparticles: stability, catalytic activity, and interaction with carbon atom for single-walled carbon nanotube growth. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:074306. [PMID: 25702014 DOI: 10.1063/1.4907897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Metal catalysts play an important role in the nucleation and growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). It is essential for probing the nucleation and growth mechanism of SWCNTs to fundamentally understand the properties of the metal catalysts and their interaction with carbon species. In this study, we systematically studied the stability of 13- and 55-atom Fe and Fe-Ni core-shell particles as well as these particles interaction with the carbon atoms using the density functional theory calculations. Icosahedral 13- and 55-atom Fe-Ni core-shell bimetallic particles have higher stability than the corresponding monometallic Fe and Ni particles. Opposite charge transfer (or distribution) in these particles leads to the Fe surface-shell displays a positive charge, while the Ni surface-shell exhibits a negative charge. The opposite charge transfer would induce different chemical activities. Compared with the monometallic Fe and Ni particles, the core-shell bimetallic particles have weaker interaction with C atoms. More importantly, C atoms only prefer staying on the surface of the bimetallic particles. In contrast, C atoms prefer locating into the subsurface of the monometallic particles, which is more likely to form stable metal carbides. The difference of the mono- and bimetallic particles on this issue may result in different nucleation and growth mechanism of SWCNTs. Our findings provide useful insights for the design of bimetallic catalysts and a better understanding nucleation and growth mechanism of SWCNTs.
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- Zhimin Yang
- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, People's Republic of China
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Chen J, Xu X, Zhang L, Huang S. Controlling the Diameter of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Improving the Dispersion of the Uniform Catalyst Nanoparticles on Substrate. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2015; 7:353-359. [PMID: 30464982 PMCID: PMC6223915 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-015-0050-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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To have uniform nanoparticles individually dispersed on substrate before single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) growth at high temperature is the key for controlling the diameter of the SWNTs. In this letter, a facile approach to control the diameter and distribution of the SWNTs by improving the dispersion of the uniform Fe/Mo nanoparticles on silicon wafers with silica layer chemically modified by 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexamethyldisilazane under different conditions is reported. It is found that the dispersion of the catalyst nanoparticles on Si wafer surface can be improved greatly from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, and the diameter and distribution of the SWNTs depend strongly on the dispersion of the catalyst on the substrate surface. Well dispersion of the catalyst results in relatively smaller diameter and narrower distribution of the SWNTs due to the decrease of aggregation and enhancement of dispersion of the catalyst nanoparticles before growth. It is also found that the diameter of the superlong aligned SWNTs is smaller with more narrow distribution than that of random nanotubes.
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- Junjun Chen
- Nanomaterials and Chemistry Key Laboratory, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325027 People’s Republic of China
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- Nanomaterials and Chemistry Key Laboratory, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325027 People’s Republic of China
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- Nanomaterials and Chemistry Key Laboratory, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325027 People’s Republic of China
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- Nanomaterials and Chemistry Key Laboratory, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325027 People’s Republic of China
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Penev ES, Artyukhov VI, Yakobson BI. Extensive energy landscape sampling of nanotube end-caps reveals no chiral-angle bias for their nucleation. ACS NANO 2014; 8:1899-1906. [PMID: 24456193 DOI: 10.1021/nn406462e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In the formation of a carbon nanotube (CNT) nucleus, a hemispherical fullerene end-cap, a specific pattern of six pentagons encodes what unique (n,m) chirality a nascent CNT would inherit, with many possible pentagon patterns corresponding to a single chirality. This configurational variety and its potential role in the initial stages of CNT catalytic growth remain essentially unexplored. Here we present large-scale calculations designed to evaluate the intrinsic energies of all possible CNT caps for selected chiralities corresponding to tube diameters d ≲ 1 nm. Our quantitative analysis reveals that for all chiral angles χ the energy scale variability associated with the CNT caps is small, compared to that of the CNT/catalyst interface. Such a flat energy landscape cannot therefore be a dominant factor for chiral distribution and lends further credibility to interface-controlled scenarios for selective growth of single-walled CNT of desired chirality.
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- Evgeni S Penev
- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Department of Chemistry, Rice University , Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Yang Z, Wang Q, Shan X, Yang SW, Zhu H. Theoretical investigation on carbon nucleation on nickel carbides at initial stages of single-walled carbon nanotube formation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:19654-60. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp02837f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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A first-principles study shows that metal carbide clusters do exist during the initial stage of single-walled carbon nanotube nucleation.
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- Zhimin Yang
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Institute of High Performance Computing
- , Singapore 138632
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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Liu Q, Chen K, Wang Q, Ni J, Li Y, Zhu H, Ding Y. Synthesis, insecticidal activity, structure–activity relationship (SAR) and density functional theory (DFT) of novel anthranilic diamides analogs containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole rings. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra06356b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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A series of anthranilic diamides analogs (5a–x) containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole rings were synthesized, and their insecticidal activities were evaluated. The density functional theory (DFT) studies was used to understand the various insecticidal activities.
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- Qi Liu
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institute Co Ltd
- Nanjing 210047, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- College of Science
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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Song W, Jiao M, Li K, Wang Y, Wu Z. Theoretical study on the interaction of pristine, defective and strained graphene with Fen and Nin (n=13, 38, 55) clusters. Chem Phys Lett 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.10.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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