Hydrocarbons are very important energy resources and raw materials for some industrially important products and fine chemicals. There is a need for the discovery of better materials that offer enhanced capacities for saf...
Compartmentalization of the minimal complex of actinorhodin polyketide synthase in coacervate liquid droplets produces enhanced yields of shunt polyketides under conditions of low and high ionic strength.
A novel combination of site-specific isotope labelling, polarised infrared spectroscopy and molecular combing reveals local orientational ordering in the fibril-forming peptide YTIAALL-SPYSGGRADS. Use of C-13-O-18 labell...
Thermally irreversible photochromic 1-tert-butyl-substituted 2,3-bisthiazolylindenol has been synthesized. It showed perfect diastereoselectivity and high ring-closing quantum yield with high conversion ratio to the clos...
A mesostructured Y zeolite was prepared by a surfactant-templated process at the commercial scale and tested in a refinery, showing superior hydrothermal stability and catalytic cracking selectivity, which demonstrates, ...
DNA double helices comprising two neighbouring artificial imidazole-Ag(I)-imidazole base pairs incorporate the Ag(I) ions in a cooperative fashion. Isothermal titration calorimetry data confirm the theoretically predicte...
A novel 3D donor material (SF8TBT) based on spiro-fluorene has been developed. Compared with the corresponding 1D linear molecule, the OPVs of this 3D donor exhibited power conversion efficiencies of 4.82%, much higher t...
The synthesis of deep cavitands with functionalized acetals as a fourth-wall is described. Recognition properties and stabilities of the complexes of two representative cavitands with aliphatic, aromatic, carbocyclic and...
Imines are selectively formed by coupling of nitriles and amines under mild hydrogen pressure. The reaction is catalyzed by a bipyridine-based PNN Ru(II) pincer complex and proceeds under mild, neutral conditions at 4 ba...
A one-step synthesis of two 5-CF3 UDP-sugars is reported. These non-natural sugar-nucleotides are micromolar inhibitors of two different galactosyltransferases.
Supramolecular donor-acceptor hybrids composed of few-layer graphene as an electron acceptor and phthalocyanine or porphyrin bearing four pyrene entities as photosensitizer donors have been synthesized, and occurrence of...
Fluorescent nanoaggregates of pentacenequinone derivative 3 serve as reactors for the preparation of palladium nanoparticles in aqueous medium. Further, the combination of catalytic quantities of palladium nanoparticles ...
A newly-designed network of ternary Pd-2/PtFe nanowires on a three-dimensional graphene framework has been fabricated via a dual solvothermal approach, which presents superior electrocatalytic activity towards the oxidat...
Here we report a highly porous, water stable Co based ZIF [CoNIm (RHO)] and its solution mediated phase transformation to a less porous and water unstable ZIF [CoNIm (SOD)]. CoNIm (RHO) has high Langmuir surface area [20...
A photo-responsive peptide aptamer against microbeads immobilized streptavidin was isolated using in vitro selection combined with photo-manipulation. This is the first example of the introduction of a peptide aptamer in...
A solution method for preparing surface functionalized colloidal silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) is presented. SiQDs prepared by this method are reasonably monodispersed and can be further functionalized via thiol-ene click...