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Supporting this hypothesis, certain vascular features, which are characteristically enhanced in normal pregnancy allowing a healthy vascular adaptation, are absent in preeclampsia and comparable to the nonpregnant population. However, arterial biomechanics in preeclampsia may only not cope with hemodynamic demands of pregnancy but also impose additional detrimental loads to the maternal heart ("impaired left-ventricle-aorta coupling") and transmit pressure and flow disturbances into the fetoplacental circulation ("impaired large arteries-microcirculation coupling"). In this review, we analyze the major role of the arterial dysfunction in the cardiovascular maladaptation hypothesis of preeclampsia, shed light on its potential etiopathogenic link, and discuss the complementary nature of the placental and cardiovascular theories.A link between heart failure (HF) and low thyroid hormone (TH) function has been known for over a century. Nonetheless, there is a general belief that TH treatment of patients with HF may not be worth the risk. This is largely based on two clinical trials where heart patients were treated with excessive doses of TH analogs, not actual THs. CID755673 Further complicating the matter is the fact that normalization of THs in noncardiac patients can often be challenging. This issue is not going away as noted by a steady increase in TH-HF citations in recent years. In this article, we discuss what we know and how we may move the field forward.A novel and convenient method has been developed for the facile synthesis of functionalized succinimide derivatives via intramolecular Alder-ene reaction of 1,6-enynes. This reaction features mild and metal-free reaction conditions, which offers a green and efficient entry to synthetically important succinimide scaffolds. Preliminary mechanistic studies suggest that a diradical intermediate might be involved in this transformation.Unsymmetrical disulfides have been effectively prepared through thiol exchange with symmetrical disulfides employing a simple PdCl2/DMSO catalytic system. The given method features excellent functional group tolerance, a broad substrate scope, and operational simplicity. This reaction is especially useful for late-stage functionalization of bioactive scaffolds such as peptides and pharmaceuticals. Disulfide-containing organic dyes have also been prepared. This transformation could be extended to thiol-diselenide or thiol-ditelluride exchange affording RS-SeR' or RS-TeR'.o-Carboryne undergoes at room temperature an efficient ene reaction with a large variety of alkynes and alkenes possessing an α-CH proton to give a series of o-carboranyl allenes and alkenes in good to high isolated yields. This reaction has a broad substrate scope from alkyl and aryl to silyl substituents. This protocol provides a facile synthetic method for accessing cage C-substituted carboranyl allenes and alkenes, which may be utilized as useful starting materials to synthesize multifunctionalized carboranes.A new bacterial carboxylesterase (CarEst3) was identified by genome mining and found to efficiently hydrolyze racemic methyl 3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate (rac-CHCM) with a nearly symmetric structure for the synthesis of (S)-CHCM. CarEst3 displayed a high substrate tolerance and a stable catalytic performance. The enantioselective hydrolysis of 4.0 M (560 g·L-1) rac-CHCM was accomplished, yielding (S)-CHCM with a >99% ee, a substrate to catalyst ratio of 1400 g·g-1, and a space-time yield of 538 g·L-1·d-1.We report a promoter-assisted glycosidation approach for the stereoselective synthesis of the 6-deoxy-β-d-manno-heptopyranose oligosaccharides. SphosAuNTf2-promoted glycosidation of 6-deoxy-d-manno-heptopyranosyl o-hexynylbenzoate with common alcohols afforded a range of 6-deoxy-d-manno-heptosides with good to excellent β-selectivities. The counterion and the ligand of SPhosAuNTf2 were found to have a dramatic effect on the formation of the 1,2-cis-β-linked 6-deoxy-d-manno-heptosides. This approach was effectively applied to the stereocontrolled synthesis of the 6-deoxy-β-d-manno-heptopyranose oligosaccharides relevant to Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei.We explore the tunability of the phonon polarization in suspended uniaxially strained graphene by magneto-phonon resonances. The uniaxial strain lifts the degeneracy of the LO and TO phonons, yielding two cross-linearly polarized phonon modes and a splitting of the Raman G peak. We utilize the strong electron-phonon coupling in graphene and the off-resonant coupling to a magneto-phonon resonance to induce a gate-tunable circular phonon dichroism. This, together with the strain-induced splitting of the G peak, allows us to controllably tune the two linearly polarized G mode phonons into circular phonon modes. We are able to achieve a circular phonon polarization of up to 40% purely by electrostatic fields and can reverse its sign by tuning from electron to hole doping. This provides unprecedented electrostatic control over the angular momentum of phonons, which paves the way toward phononic applications.This report investigates the influence of microstructure topography on the restitution coefficient, maximum spreading diameter, and contact time of oblique drop impacts on superhydrophobic surfaces. The five surfaces tested allow for comparison of open- versus closed-cell structures, feature size and spacing, and hierarchical versus nanoscale-only surface structures. By decoupling the restitution coefficient into a normal (εn) and tangential component (εt), it is demonstrated that both εn and εt are largely independent of the microstructure topography. Instead, the restitution coefficient is governed almost exclusively by the normal Weber number. Next, a new model is presented that relates the maximum spreading diameter to an adhesion coefficient that characterizes the overall adhesive properties of the superhydrophobic microstructure during drop rebounding. Through this analysis, we discovered that surface geometries with greater microstructure roughness (i.e., overall surface area) promote a higher maximum spreading diameter than flatter geometries.
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