Fungal pigments: Potential coloring compounds for wide ranging applications in textile dyeing

CK Venil, P Velmurugan, L Dufossé, P Renuka Devi… - Journal of fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
Synthetic pigments/non-renewable coloring sources used normally in the textile industry
release toxic substances into the environment, causing perilous ecological challenges. To …

[HTML][HTML] The antifungal activity of naphthoquinones: An integrative review

PG FERREIRA, CD NICOLETTI… - Anais da Academia …, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
Naphthoquinones are the most commonly occurring type of quinones in nature. They are a
diverse family of secondary metabolites that occur naturally in plants, lichens and various …

Exploring bio-inspired quinone-based organic redox flow batteries: a combined experimental and computational study

Y Ding, Y Li, G Yu - Chem, 2016 - cell.com
Modern society requires sustainable energy-storage systems to complement the fast-
growing implementation of renewable sources. However, conventional batteries are based …

Respiratory quinones in Archaea: phylogenetic distribution and application as biomarkers in the marine environment

FJ Elling, KW Becker, M Könneke… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of respiratory quinone electron carriers among cultivated organisms
provides clues on both the taxonomy of their producers and the redox processes these are …

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

AS de Souza, RCB Ribeiro, DCS Costa… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2022 - beilstein-journals.org
Naphthoquinones are important natural or synthetic compounds belonging to the general
class of quinones. Many compounds in this class have become drugs that are on the …

Synthesis of amino acid–naphthoquinones and in vitro studies on cervical and breast cell lines

E Rivera-Ávalos, D De Loera, JG Araujo-Huitrado… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
We performed an extensive analysis about the reaction conditions of the 1, 4-Michael
addition of amino acids to 1, 4-naphthoquinone and substitution to 2, 3 …

Quinone-based drugs: An important class of molecules in medicinal chemistry

VF Ferreira, AS de Carvalho, PG Ferreira… - Medicinal …, 2021 - benthamdirect.com
Background: Several quinones are on the pharmaceutical market as drugs for the treatment
of several diseases. Objective: The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the …

Effects of hydrogen bonding interactions on the redox potential and molecular vibrations of plastoquinone as studied using density functional theory calculations

R Ashizawa, T Noguchi - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The effects of H-bonding on the redox potential and molecular vibrations of plastoquinone
(PQ) that functions as a primary and a secondary quinone electron acceptor (QA and QB …

Analysis of catechol, 4-methylcatechol and dopamine electrochemical reactions on different substrate materials and pH conditions

S Chumillas, T Palomäki, M Zhang, T Laurila… - Electrochimica …, 2018 - Elsevier
The electrochemical behavior of several structurally related catecholamine molecules has
been investigated on different electrode materials with cyclic voltammetry, infrared …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence that histidine forms a coordination bond to the A0A and A0B chlorophylls and a second H-bond to the A1A and A1B phylloquinones in M688HPsaA …

J Sun, S Hao, M Radle, W Xu, I Shelaev… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2014 - Elsevier
The axial ligands of the acceptor chlorophylls, A 0A and A 0B, in Photosystem I are the Met
sulfur atoms of M688 PsaA and M668 PsaB. To determine the role of the Met, His variants …