Liquid Profiling of Circulating Tumor DNA in Plasma of Melanoma Patients for Companion Diagnostics and Monitoring of BRAF Inhibitor Therapy.

Background: The current standard for determining eligibility of patients with metastatic melanoma for BRAF-targeted therapy is tissue-based testing of mutations. As patients are rarely rebiopsied, detection in blood might be advantageous by enabling a comprehensive assessment of tumor mutational status in real time and thereby representing a noninvasive biomarker for monitoring BRAF therapy.

Methods: In all, 634 stage I to IV melanoma patients were enrolled at 2 centers, and 1406 plasma samples were prospectively collected.

Intricacies of ligand coordination in tricarbonylchromium(0) complexes with ortho- and para-fluorobiphenyls.

The steric and electronic factors that influence which of the two rings of a substituted biphenyl ligand coordinates to chromium are of interest and it has been suggested that haptotropic rearrangements within these molecules may be limited if the arene-arene dihedral angle is too large. Two tricarbonylchromium(0) complexes and their respective free ligands have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In the solid state, tricarbonyl[(1',2',3',4',5',6'-η)-2-fluoro-1,1'-biphenyl]chromium(0), [Cr(CHF)(CO)], (I), exists as the more stable isomer with the nonhalogenated arene ring ligated to the metal center.

DFT study of intramolecular interring η6,η6-haptotropic rearrangements in tricarbonylchromium complexes of 2-aminobiphenyl and 4-aminobiphenyl.

DFT studies have been carried out to investigate the role of nitrogen participation in the interring haptotropic rearrangements of [(η(6)-C6H5)(C6H4-4-NH2)]Cr(CO)3 and [(η(6)-C6H5)(C6H4-2-NH2)]Cr(CO)3. For the para-substituted case, where intramolecular coordination of nitrogen to chromium is not possible, DFT modeling predicts an activation barrier of 32.5 kcal mol(-1), which is in very close agreement with the experimentally determined value of 32.

Haptotropic rearrangement in tricarbonylchromium complexes of 2-aminobiphenyl and 4-aminobiphenyl.

The para-aminobiphenyl compound [(η(6)-C(6)H(5))(C(6)H(4)-4-NH(2))]Cr(CO)(3) (1) has an arene-phenyl dihedral angle of 38.01(6)°, as determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallography, and 34.7(11)°, as determined by DFT calculations.

Correlation between electrical and mechanical properties of the left ventricle in patients with postinfarction ventricular tachycardia.

Background: Electroanatomical mapping allows differentiation between viable and scarred myocardium. Echocardiography is widely used to assess myocardial contractility. The relationship between electrophysiological and echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function has not yet been well established.