15). MASEM indicated that autonomous motivation and perceived competence mediated intervention effects on behavior. Metaregression analyses indicated that features of the sample, intervention, or methodology generally did not moderate effect sizes. Conclusion The present review indicates that SDT interventions have a significant but small effect on health behavior change and suggests several directions for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).Objective To remedy the notable gap in evidence-based treatments for sexual minority women, this study tested the efficacy of a minority-stress-focused cognitive-behavioral treatment intended to improve this population's mental and behavioral health. Method The intervention, EQuIP (Empowering Queer Identities in Psychotherapy), was adapted from a transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatment as also recently adapted for sexual minority men. Sexual minority women at risk of mental and behavioral health problems (n = 19) and expert providers with this population (n = 12) shaped the treatment's development, including by supporting its primary focus on universal and minority-stress-focused processes underlying this population's disproportionately poor mental and behavioral health. The resulting treatment was then delivered to young adult sexual minority women (n = 60; M age = 25.58; 41.67% racial/ethnic minority; 43.33% transgender/nonbinary) experiencing depression/anxiety and past 90-day heavy alcohol use. Results Compared to waitlist (n = 30), participants randomized to immediately receive EQuIP (n = 30) experienced significantly reduced depression and anxiety (d = 0.85, 0.86, respectively); effects for alcohol use problems were smaller (d = 0.29) and marginally significant. In pre- to post-intervention pooled analyses, effect sizes for minority stress processes (mean d = .25) and universal risk factors (mean d = .48), through which the treatment was expected to work, were small and moderate, respectively, and in the expected direction. Conclusions This study provides initial support for a minority-stress-focused transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatment for sexual minority women. These first results can launch exploration of other mechanisms and modalities through which to equip this population with evidence-based support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).Collective total synthesis of five tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids including the first total synthesis of (-)-fennebricin A and (-)-renieramycin J has been accomplished. The synthesis features employing a single common amino acid to symmetrically construct the pentacycle of title alkaloids. The palladium-catalyzed arylation of alanine-derived amide developed by Yu was tactically utilized to afford unnatural amino acid building block rapidly and practically. The structure of synthetic (-)-renieramycin M has been confirmed by single crystal X-ray analysis for the first time.Naturally occurring uranium is a widespread contaminant present in the water resources around the abandoned uranium mines in the southwest United States. A novel method for rapid uranium detection has been recently developed that relies on the sequestering of uranium by amidoximated polyacrylonitrile (AO-PAN) polymer mats and uses the Raman-active (ν1) symmetric stretch as the signal. The Raman signals obtained from uranium bearing AO-PAN were challenging to interpret due to an unknown uranyl speciation on the surface of the mats. Herein, we provide the synthesis and structural characterization of six model coordination compounds that contain acetamidoxime/benzamidoxime (AAO/BAO) coordinated to the uranyl cation [UO2(η1-AAO)(NO3)2(H2O)] (1), [UO2(η1-AAO)2(NO3)2] (2), [UO2(η2-BAO)2(CH3OH)2] (3), [(UO2)3(η2-BAO)3(μ2-NO3)3] (4), [(UO2)4(μ3-O)2(μ2-BAO)4(η1-BAO)4(H2O)2](NO3)4 (5), and [(UO2)4(μ3-O)2(μ2-BAO)4(η1-BAO)6Na(NO3)2](NO3)3 (6). Solid-state Raman spectra of 1-6 showed dramatic differences in the uranyl ν1 symmetric stretch depending on the coordination of the amidoxime functional group.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/bgb-8035.html  The assignments made from the solid-state Raman spectra were used to deconvolute the solution-state Raman spectra of uranyl-acetamidoxime/benzamidoxime methanol solutions at different metal to ligand molar ratios. At low molar ratios (1 U1 AAO/BAO and 1 U2 AAO/BAO) the dominant species is the uranyl coordinated via the η1-oxygen atom of the oxime group, while at high molar ratios (1 U3 AAO/BAO and 1 U4 AAO/BAO) the dominant species are a tetrameric uranyl-μ3-O-η1-amidoxime complex similar to compounds 5 and 6 and a uranyl-η2-amidoxime complex similar to compounds 3 and 4. Solid-state Raman spectra showed good agreement with Raman signals obtained from the uranyl-AO-PAN mats, demonstrating that binding motifs between uranyl and amidoxime in compounds 5 and 6 are the most representative of the uranyl species on the surface of the AO-PAN mats.An improved understanding of the contributions of various factors to aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is required to advance the development and application of highly efficient AIE luminogens. Herein, the AIE of diphenyldibenzofulvene (DPDBF), which is nonemissive in dilute solutions but becomes highly emissive in aggregated states, was investigated using molecular simulations. Electronic structure calculations showed that the ground and first singlet excited states of DPDBF were degenerate after rotation of the ethylenic C═C bond, which results in fluorescence quenching via conical intersections (CIs). In this study, free energy (FE) profiles were used to quantify the extent to which the intramolecular motions of DPDBF required to reach the CIs were restricted in condensed phases. In acetonitrile solution, the FE profile showed that the ethylenic C═C bond of DPDBF could easily rotate to reach the CIs, which enabled nonradiative internal conversion. In contrast, in an aggregated state, the FE profile showed that the rotation around the ethylenic C═C bond of DPDBF was markedly restricted, thus preventing quenching through the CIs. These findings provide quantitative insights into the AIE mechanism of DPDBF.