Membrane reactors are attracting increasing interest because of the opportunity they represent in increasing the efficiency of small-scale systems. Their use in gas phase reactions has been proposed for a variety of applications, where they may act either as selective extractors or as distributors. In particular, membrane reactors are generally employed for the selective permeation of hydrogen.
Thermochemical hydrogen production is of great interest due to the potential for significantly reducing the dependence on fossil fuels as energy carriers. In a solar plant, the solar receiver is the unit in which solar energy is absorbed by a fluid and/or solid particles and converted into thermal energy. When the solar energy is used to drive a reaction, the receiver is also a reactor.
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, which initially was endemic only in Africa and Asia, is rapidly spreading throughout Europe, Oceania, and the Americas. Although there have been enormous efforts, there is still no approved drug to treat ZIKV infection. Herein, we report the synthesis and biological evaluation of agents with noncompetitive mechanism of the ZIKV NS2B/NS3 protease inhibition through the binding to an allosteric site. Compounds 1 and 2 showed potent activity in both enzymatic and cellular assays.
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