Among the reported two-dimension macrocycles, bi- and tetra-nuclear macrocyclic metallasupramolecules are designed to have novel specific cavities with different shapes and dimensions, and demonstrate good selectivity an...
Controlled growth is the prerequisite for designing and tailoring the chemical and physical properties of inorganic nanocrystals according to practical applications. This article summarizes recent advances in the control...
Strong alkaline microcavities were constructed through the water-induced protonation of dodecylamine for the synthesis of fluorescence-tunable ZnO QDs in neutral bulk reaction solution.
We have demonstrated that cyclodextrin (CD) (a non-polymeric system) can be electrospun into nanofibers by itself; methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (M beta CD) nanofibers were electrospun and it was observed that the success of ...
Uniform carbon-coated MoO2 nanospheres assembled from small primary nanocrystals have been synthesized by a one-pot hydrothermal method followed by thermal annealing. Because of the desirable structural features, these c...
Copper enhances amyloid cytotoxicity and mediates human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) oligomerization; nickel, a redox inactive metal with similar protein binding affinity to copper, also mimics this effect, thereby ...
Herein, we demonstrate that galvanic replacement reaction over aligned Ag nanowire arrays can be employed as a simple and powerful cold-welding technique for large-scale fabrication of highly ordered Au nanochannel monol...
Cytocompatible, co-doped cerium oxide nanoparticles exhibited strong upconversion properties that were found to kill lung cancer cells by inducing apoptosis thereby demonstrating the potential to be used as clinical cont...
A straightforward in situ preparation of new chiral amido alkyl ate yttrium complexes is described. They catalysed the enantioselective cyclisation of 1,2-dialkyl-substituted aminopentenes in up to 77% ee, a significant ...
A general route for the functionalization of P-4 mediated by four-membered phosphorus-nitrogen-metal heterocycles is introduced yielding novel phosphorus-rich clusters.
A method is described that makes use of easily prepared, inexpensive copper synthons as N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) transfer agents to generate catalytically relevant gold and palladium complexes.
The syntheses of alkaloids including indoles, indolines, tetrahydroquinolines, dihydroquinazolinones and quinazolinones have been accomplished in moderate to excellent yields via [Fe(F20TPP)Cl] catalyzed intramolecular C...
A novel long lifetime fluorescence reporter based on 9-aminoacridine was designed, the lifetime of which can be modulated in a defined manner when in proximity to a tryptophan residue enabling fluorescence lifetime based...
A study of the effects of exopericyclic stereocentres on the stereoselectivity of Johnson-Claisen rearrangements of thioether-containing allylic alcohols shows that selectivity is highly dependent upon allylic substituti...
The hydrolysis of cellulose over sulfonated carbons was promoted greatly by elevating the sulfonation temperature. With 250 degrees C-sulfonated CMK-3 as a catalyst, the cellulose was selectively hydrolyzed into glucose ...
Methionine binding converts monofunctional platinum antitumor agents to trans configuration adducts in the reaction with DNA, which suggests the correlation of two classes of platinum complexes in the antitumor mechanism...