This Feature Article gives an account for a host of readily available foldamers and macrocycles with well-defined shapes and non-deformable cavities that appeared over the last decade. Efforts to create porous molecular ...
Under ultrasonication, the production of high quality graphene layers by exfoliation of graphite was achieved via addition of tiopronin as an antioxidant.
A novel semiconducting benzothiadiazole (BTZ)-thiophene (T) co-oligomer having an unprecedented BTZ-T alternated motif has been synthesized and self-assembled into micrometer sized fibers by simple solution processing. T...
The design, synthesis and electrochemical behaviour of an oligomer consisting of linked thymine-functionalised ferrocene units are reported, which, as a so-called form of ferrocene nucleic acid (FcNA), acts as a structur...
An unprecedented three-level hierarchical entangled system was synthesized. The basic helical ribbons of the complex were entangled into 2D layers by self-penetration based on 1D -> 2D polycatenation; a pair of layers in...
Mechanochemical synthesis has been used to obtain two Werner complexes and their solid solution that could not be obtained by conventional "wet'' chemistry; remarkably, despite the structural and chemical similarity, the...
The seventh type of Wells-Dawson isomer, delta-[(WO5)W17Cu(H2O)O-55](10-) (1a) was obtained as a consequence of the formation of the first central square-pyramidal [WO5] moiety that results in a 45 degrees rotation of th...
Directed catalytic asymmetric hydroborations of 1,1-disubstituted alkenes afford gamma-dioxaborato amides and esters in high enantiomeric purity (90-95% ee).
Reaction of an ethylenediamine solution of K3As7 with the low-valent, low-coordinate cobalt(II) complex [Co(mes)(2)(PEt2Ph)(2)] yielded the novel dianionic species [Co(eta(3)-As-3){eta(4)-As-4(mes)(2)}](2-) (1). The [eta...
An amphiphilic calix[4]arene derivative bearing four guanidino moieties at the upper rim and four dodecyl chains at the lower rim was shown to form stable solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) in water. The study of the inter...
Pd(0)-catalyzed cascade reactions of 1,7-diyn-3,6-bis(propargyl carbonate) with organoboronic acids have been developed, which provide one-pot access to functionalized tetracenes or pentacenes.
A new strategy for determining the RNA endonuclease activity of mammalian argonaute2 (Ago2) protein has been developed, which combines the unique cleavage function of Ago2 protein with an RNA molecular beacon (RMB). Thro...
A new selective and sensitive fluorescence turn-on detection of CN- is reported by taking advantage of aggregation induced-emission (AIE) behavior of tetraphenylethylene units and the nucleophilic attack of CN- on the in...
The novel chlorogermyliumylidene complex L[ClGe:](+) (L = 1,8-bis(tri-n-butylphosphanzenyl)naphthalene) with a 'naked' Cl- as a counter anion was synthesized through reaction of L with Cl2Ge: and fully characterized. Its...
A novel SPES-NH2-GA-Nafion (R) composite membrane with higher proton conductivity and lower methanol permeability was fabricated by covalent crosslinking layer-by-layer self-assembly of an unbalanced charged polyampholyt...