A new methodology has been developed for the synthesis of pyridines from allyl amines and alkynes, which involves sequential Cu(II)-promoted dehydrogenation of the allylamine and Rh(III)-catalyzed N-annulation of the res...
The secondary kinetic isotope effects for the hydride transfer reactions from aliphatic alcohols to two carbocations (NAD(+) models) in acetonitrile were determined. The results suggest that the hydride transfer takes pl...
The formation of diastereomeric cocrystals of malic acid and tartaric acid was investigated by liquid-assisted grinding in the solid state. We demonstrate that racemic malic acid can be converted into two distinct diaste...
A cationic ruthenium(II) catalyst enabled highly efficient oxidative alkenylations of electron-rich arenes bearing removable, weakly coordinating carbamates, and allowed for cross-dehydrogenative C-H bond functionalizati...
In this communication, we describe a polymerizable, heteroditopic salt receptor, based on an amino acid scaffold, which is able to bind sodium salts of chloride, acetate and nitrate. A poly(butyl methacrylate) derivative...
An integrated approach comprising STD NMR screening, pharmacophore based analogue selection and a bioassay is presented for the discovery of a stabilizer of the clinically relevant VWF-GPIb alpha protein-protein interact...
Diketoreductase catalyzes a two-step bioreduction on a dicarbonyl substrate through a novel dual catalysis mode, in which random hydride attack simultaneously forms two mono-carbonyl intermediates, and subsequently disti...
Several difurylperfluorocyclobutenes showing reversible photo-chromism were synthesized. In comparison to their cyclopentene homologues they show enhanced quantum yields for ring opening but reduced quantum yields for ri...
A bioinspired peptide amphiphile nanofiber template for formation of one-dimensional Pd nanostructures is demonstrated. The Pd and peptide nanocatalyst system enabled efficient catalytic activity in Suzuki coupling react...
Invasive binding event of PNA into DNA duplex was clearly observed both by atomic force microscope (AFM) imaging and electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) with the aid of nanomechanical DNA origami devices as 'sing...
We demonstrate that the reaction of amino modified particles with tert-butylnitrite can provide diazonium surface functionality which itself is highly reactive with iron oxide nanoparticles in basic media. Using this str...