Polydentate oxazolines have been employed as highly effective stereodirecting ligands for asymmetric catalysis with metals from across most of the periodic table. Despite their highly versatile coordination chemistry, th...
The title tetrasulfone 1, in common with higher members of the multi-armed aromatic hosts, forms host-guest complexes with polar guest molecules. In the sulfolane and cycloheptanone complexes the host molecule possesses ...
A novel strategy of dual signal amplification was developed using circular strand-replacement DNA polymerization with a molecular beacon as a switch and silver enhancement on magnetic nanoparticles for the specific Raman...
Using dielectric-constant (epsilon) matching of metal-oxide (MO) with Ag film, highly transparent MO/Ag electrodes are demonstrated. At the large-epsilon MO/Ag interface, surface-plasmon was suppressed and the film showe...
The regioselective head-to-head dimerization of alkynes is catalyzed by a dibenzyl tethered bis(ureate) zirconium precatalyst with aniline as an additive. This system also gives outstanding stereoselectivity to furnish Z...
t-BuLi-t-BuOK selectively metalates the benzylic position of 2-phenylethyldimethylamine under mild conditions without occurrence of beta-elimination in the resulting metalated species. Theoretical and structural studies ...
Phosphorylation is an abundant post-translational modification involved in a myriad of cell signaling pathways. Herein, we have engineered the class II lantipeptide synthetase ProcM to generate a variety of peptides cont...
Directional growth of pi-basic oligothiophene stacks on solid substrates is achieved by self-organizing, surface-initiated disulfide exchange polymerization. Successful addition of co-axial pi-acidic stacks by templated ...
Phenolic resin (denoted as PR) was used as an economical sensitizer of titania to achieve efficient visible light photocatalytic activity. Through the surface complexation of PR with TiO2, we demonstrate that the complex...
The biologically and nanotechnologically important heme protein cytochrome b(562) was reconstructed with zinc and copper porphyrins, leading to significant changes in the spectral, redox and electron transfer properties....
Two novel D-pi-A-pi-D structured small molecules composed of benzothiadiazole and triphenylamine were designed and synthesized. BDCTBT with cyano on the pi-bridge exhibited a deep HOMO energy level, resulting in an impre...
Novel Yb/Er(Tm):Na3MF7 (M = Zr, Hf) nanocrystals with intrinsic single-band upconversion emission, in contrast to the routine lanthanide-doped fluoride nanocrystals which show typical multi-band upconversion emissions, a...
Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) is found to induce the aggregation of pristine proteins in aqueous solution. Based on this finding, a new strategy for effective construction of layer-by-layer homo- and hetero-protein stacks was ...
Herein, mesoporous calcite/chondroitin sulfate hybrid microrods are prepared through a one-pot method. Biological assays indicate that the microrods might be used as good active targeted drug delivery carriers to treat t...
The synthesis and characterisation of a three-dimensional lithium-organic framework MIL-145 is described, which upon thermal treatment yields a second open framework, MIL-146, that contains four and three-coordinate lith...
A continuous flow reactor allows the preparation of porous metal-organic framework materials with crystallisation induced by rapid mixing of streams of preheated water and solutions of reagents in organic solvent: this g...