Feature article: ABPP certification for military psychologists

The important role of π-hole spodium bonding in tri-coordinated planar Hg(II) complexes is highlighted in this feature article. Selected examples of Hg(II)X3 structures (X = any atom) illustrate that this...

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Total synthesis: the structural confirmation of natural products

Chemical Communications ◽

10.1039/d1cc00241d ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 57 (27) ◽

pp. 3307-3322

Author(s):

Debobrata Paul ◽

Ashis Kundu ◽

Sanu Saha ◽

Rajib Kumar Goswami

Keyword(s):

Natural Products ◽

Total Synthesis ◽

Feature Article

This feature article highlights total synthesis as one of the reliable tools for the structural confirmation of natural products.

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Asymmetric synthesis to chiral organosilicon compounds via transition metal-catalyzed stereoselective C-H activation and silylation

Chemical Communications ◽

10.1039/d1cc02839a ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ming Zhang ◽

Shan Gao ◽

Juan Tang ◽

Ling Chen ◽

Aihua Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Transition Metal ◽

Asymmetric Synthesis ◽

Organosilicon Compounds ◽

Feature Article ◽

Transition Metal Catalyzed ◽

Metal Catalyzed

This feature article introduces the progress of transition metal-catalyzed stereoselective sp2 and sp3 C-H activation and silylation to synthesize chiral organosilicon compounds, the asymmetric C-H silylation includes intramolecular cyclizing silylation...

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Tuning metal–metal interactions for cooperative small molecule activation

Chemical Communications ◽

10.1039/d0cc07721f ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Qiuran Wang ◽

Sam H. Brooks ◽

Tianchang Liu ◽

Neil C. Tomson

Keyword(s):

Small Molecule ◽

Small Molecule Activation ◽

Feature Article ◽

Metal Interactions ◽

Recent Advances ◽

Metal Metal

This Feature Article describes recent advances in the design of multinucleating ligands that support small molecule activation chemistry.

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Brief Overview of Ice Nucleation

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26020392 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 392

Author(s):

Nobuo Maeda

Keyword(s):

Molecular Level ◽

Ice Nucleation ◽

Nucleation Theory ◽

Classical Nucleation Theory ◽

Radiation Balance ◽

Feature Article ◽

Aircraft Wings ◽

Food Engineering ◽

Research Activities ◽

Important Field

The nucleation of ice is vital in cloud physics and impacts on a broad range of matters from the cryopreservation of food, tissues, organs, and stem cells to the prevention of icing on aircraft wings, bridge cables, wind turbines, and other structures. Ice nucleation thus has broad implications in medicine, food engineering, mineralogy, biology, and other fields. Nowadays, the growing threat of global warming has led to intense research activities on the feasibility of artificially modifying clouds to shift the Earth’s radiation balance. For these reasons, nucleation of ice has been extensively studied over many decades and rightfully so. It is thus not quite possible to cover the whole subject of ice nucleation in a single review. Rather, this feature article provides a brief overview of ice nucleation that focuses on several major outstanding fundamental issues. The author’s wish is to aid early researchers in ice nucleation and those who wish to get into the field of ice nucleation from other disciplines by concisely summarizing the outstanding issues in this important field. Two unresolved challenges stood out from the review, namely the lack of a molecular-level picture of ice nucleation at an interface and the limitations of classical nucleation theory.

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Directed adenine functionalization for creating complex architectures for material and biological applications

Chemical Communications ◽

10.1039/c7cc00222j ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 53 (35) ◽

pp. 4748-4758 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Balaram Mohapatra ◽

Pratibha Pratibha ◽

Sandeep Verma

Keyword(s):

Metal Complexes ◽

Coordination Polymers ◽

Gas Adsorption ◽

Bioactive Molecules ◽

Biological Applications ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Feature Article ◽

Complex Architectures ◽

Adenine Derivatives

This feature article outlines design strategies for modified adenine derivatives to construct discrete metal complexes, ring-expanded skeletons, coordination polymers, MOFs, and capped nanoparticles, for applications in gas adsorption, as bioimaging agents and as bioactive molecules.

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