Structures of layered metal hydroxides are not well described by traditional crystallography. Total scattering from a synthesis-controlled subset of these materials, as described here, reveals that different cobalt coord...
The catalytic oxidation of alcohols with molecular oxygen on supported nanometallic catalysts represents one of the green methods in a crucial process for the synthesis of fine chemicals. We have designed an experiment u...
An in-depth spectroscopic EPR investigation of a key intermediate, formally notated as [(PVVMo10O40)-V-IV-Mo-V](6-) and formed in known electron-transfer and electron-transfer/oxygen-transfer reactions catalyzed by H5PV2...
We describe the synthesis of a series of phthalocyanine (Pc)-pery-lenediimide (PDI)(8) "octad" molecules, in which eight PDI moieties are attached to a Pc core through alkyl-chain linkers. There is clear spectroscopic ev...
Fluorine-containing amino acids have been used with great success as mechanism-based inhibitors of pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes, and the influence of fluorine on the conformation of molecules has also been...
The new plasmonic photocatalyst Ag@Ag(Br,I) was synthesized by the ion-exchange process between the silver bromide and potassium iodide, then by reducing some Ag+ ions in the surface region of Ag(Br,I) particles to Ag-0 ...
We report the preparation of a MCM-41 mesoporous material that contains the dye [Ru(bipy)(3)]Cl-2 (bipy = bipyridine) inside the mesopores and functionalised with suitable binding groups at the entrance of the pores. Sol...
High-yield, straightforward synthesis of two- and three-station [2]rotaxane molecular machines based on an anilinium, a triazolium, and a mono- or disubstituted pyridinium amide station is reported. In the case of the pH...
Nickel-porphyrins, with their rigid quadratic planar coordination framework, provide an excellent model to study the coordination-induced spin crossover (CISCO) effect because bonding of one or two axial ligands to the m...