Combination of Roll Grinding and High-Pressure Homogenization Can Prepare Stable Bicelles for Drug Delivery.

To improve the solubility of the drug nifedipine (NI), NI-encapsulated lipid-based nanoparticles (NI-LNs) have been prepared from neutral hydrogenated soybean phosphatidylcholine and negatively charged dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol at a molar ratio of 5/1 using by roll grinding and high-pressure homogenization. The NI-LNs exhibited high entrapment efficiency, long-term stability, and enhanced NI bioavailability. To better understand their structures, cryo transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy were performed in the present study.

Palladium-catalyzed synthesis of heterocycle-containing diarylmethanes through Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling.

The heterocycle-containing diarylmethane synthesis from chloromethyl(hetero)arenes with (hetero)arylboron reagents was attained using the palladium/ether-imidazolium chloride system. This coupling process tolerated a diverse range of heteroaromatic moieties with sufficient catalytic activity to achieve the efficient synthesis of various diheteroarylmethanes in good to excellent yields.

Ether-imidazolium carbenes for Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of heteroaryl chlorides with aryl/heteroarylboron reagents.

Easily accessible and handled ether-imidazolium chlorides were developed as ligand precursors. The coupling reactions of heteroaryl chlorides with aryl/heteroarylboronic acids and esters were catalyzed by the palladium/ether-imidazolium chloride system with high substrate tolerance to give various heterobiaryls in good to excellent yields.