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Urban construction generates significant amounts of construction residue soil. This paper introduces a novel soil stabilizer based on industrial waste to improve its utilization. This stabilizer is primarily composed of blast furnace slag (BFS), steel slag (SS), phosphogypsum (PG), and other additives, which enhance soil strength through physical and chemical processes. This study investigated the mechanical properties of construction residue soil cured with this stabilizer, focusing on the effects of organic matter content (Oo), stabilizer dosage (Oc), and curing age (T) on unconfined compressive strength (UCS). Additionally, water stability and wet-dry cycle tests of the stabilized soil were conducted to assess long-term performance. According to the findings, the UCS increased with the higher stabilizer dosage and longer curing periods but reduced with the higher organic matter content. A stabilizer content of 15-20% is recommended for optimal stabilization efficacy and cost-efficiency in engineering applications. The samples lost their strength when immersed in water. However, adding more stabilizers to the soil can effectively enhance its water stability. Under wet-dry cycle conditions, the UCS initially increased and then decreased, remaining lower than that of samples cured under standard conditions. The findings can provide valuable data for the practical application in construction residual soil stabilization.
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Herein we report a Pd-catalyzed regio- and diastereoselective hydro(hetero)arylation of inactivated alkylidenecyclobutanes. This protocol provides a rapid and atom-economical route to access 3-cyclobutyl (hetero)arenes with good functionalities toleration. With the assistance of the directing group, nucleophilic attack happened on the bulkier γ-position to form the quaternary carbon center. Furthermore, the selected products exhibited antitumor bioactivities.
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8-Arylnaphthyl substituents are privileged motifs frequently integrated into late-transition-metal catalysts, endowing them with an ability to retard chain transfer in ethylene polymerization. In this contribution, we disclose a sort of novel α-diiminenickel and -palladium complexes containing flexible 8-alkylnaphthyl in lieu of rigid 8-arylnaphthyl and their catalytic performance in ethylene polymerization. An interesting feature of these 8-alkylnaphthyl-substituted α-(diimine)PdMeCl complexes is that they present as a mixture of syn and anti isomers (syn:anti = ca. 1:1 ratio, determined by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy). In ethylene polymerization, these nickel complexes displayed high activity (up to 3.37 × 106 g mol-1 h-1) and generated branched polyethylenes with broad or bimodal molecular weight distributions (4.6-29.3), while the corresponding palladium complexes exhibited moderate activity, producing highly branched polyethylenes with unimodal and narrow molecular weight distributions (<1.8). In ethylene (E)/methyl acrylate (MA) copolymerization, highly branched E-MA copolymers with considerable MA incorporations were achieved by these palladium complexes. Most interestingly, compared to rigid 8-arylnaphthyl-substituted α-diiminenickel and -palladium complexes, the flexible 8-alkylnaphthyl ones showed significantly improved activity and generated lower or comparable molecular weight polyethylenes or E-MA copolymers.
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Juglone (JL), as one of the major bioactive components present in the bark of Juglans mandshruica Maxim, exhibits versatile bioactivities, especially anti-cancer activity. To better understand the pharmacokinetic properties of juglone, the protein binding rate of juglone was determined by ultrafiltration method, and the binding affinity and mechanism between JL and human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated in vitro through multi-spectroscopic, thermodynamic, and molecular modeling methods. The binding degree of JL was measured more than 99.0% which suggested that JL had high binding ability to serum albumin. Fluorescence data showed that juglone quench the intrinsic fluorescence of HSA upon forming the JL-HSA nonfluorescent complex at 1:1 stoichiometric proportion, and the complex formation had a high affinity of 104 L·mol-1. Meanwhile, the site marker competitive experiments and the thermodynamic parameters (ΔG=-26.08 kJ·mol-1, ΔH=-16.34 kJ·mol-1, ΔS=32.69 J·mol-1·K-1) indicated that juglone could spontaneously bound to the site I (subdomain IIA) of HAS through hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding interactions. As further revealed by the synchronous fluorescence, three-dimensional fluorescence, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, JL could cause conformational and structural alterations of HSA. Additionally, molecular docking was employed to further define the specific binding site and the result was in accordance with the conclusion of experimental analysis. The present work provided reasonable models helping us further understand the pharmacokinetics, pharmacological and toxic effects of JL in vivo and supplied an important insight for the applications of JL in the clinical research.
