A one-pot method was developed to prepare atomic thick nanosheets of metastable TiO2(B), which has a unique open structure owing to the coupling of intrinsic channels and the preferentially exposed (010) facets. They dis...
Attachment of a copolymer of silafluorene and fluorene to 100 nm hollow silica nanoparticles provides a new method to detect aqueous TNT and RDX with a low detection limit using the suspended fluorescent nanoshells.
Novel hierarchically ordered porous magnetic nanocomposites with interconnecting macroporous windows and meso-microporous walls containing well dispersed magnetic nanoparticles have been fabricated and used as a support ...
Ring expansion of symmetrically substituted cyclohexanones with N-alpha-diazoacetyl camphorsultam was devised as a stereo-selective pathway to the functionalized 7-membered cyclic beta-keto carbonyls having a kinetically...
Au fibers with micron-scale lengths have been successfully prepared via a solution-phase synthetic method. Solubilization of salicylate ion into an aqueous CTAB solution forms rod-shaped micelles and becomes a key shape ...
Novel boratabenzene-phosphole complexes have been prepared and structurally characterized. The electronic communication between the two heterocyclic rings linked by a P-B bond and the aromaticity of these systems were pr...
A mild Cu or Ag catalyzed oxidative arylthiation of terminal acetylenes is introduced. The process, featuring metal catalyzed C-H bond activation as a key step, leads to the formation of highly substituted mercaptoacetyl...
A copper-catalyzed addition of arylboronates to isatins has been developed to give 3-aryl-3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles under mild conditions. The catalytic cycle of this process has been examined through a series of stoichiomet...
We designed a synthetic riboswitch containing an OFF and an ON riboswitch units fused in tandem. The resulting complex riboswitch functions as a chemical band-pass filter circuit.
Core-shell TiC/C-QANFAs are produced directly on a Ti6Al4V substrate by a simple thermochemical process that does not require a metal catalyst or template. The nanostructured arrays show Nernstian behavior and fast elect...
An unprecedented remote amide-directed palladium-catalyzed intermolecular highly selective benzylic C-H amination with N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide is developed, which represents the first direct benzylic C-H amination wit...
An efficient tandem cyclization-acetoxylation of o-acyl anilines mediated by the combination of iodobenzene diacetate with tetrabutylammonium iodide provides a new convenient and useful route to 2-acetoxy indolin-3-ones,...
Asymmetric addition of (triisopropylsilyl)acetylene to nitroalkenes took place in the presence of a rhodium/chiral bisphosphine catalyst to give beta-alkynylated nitroalkanes in high yields with high enantioselectivity.
The first asymmetric Michael addition of alpha-aryl cyclopentanones to nitroolefins for construction of adjacent quaternary and tertiary stereocenters has been achieved with excellent diastereo-/enantioselectivity.
The catalytic intramolecular aromatic C-H alkenylation of arenes with non-activated ketone carbonyls has been realized for the first time, leading to the synthesis of antiviral 4-alkylene quinolin-2-ones, where the quate...
The thermal chromium tricarbonyl migration reaction induced axially chiral N-C bonds of N-aryl acridane and related complexes in good yield with outstanding enantiomeric excess.