Articles from Wiley

Print it! Different inks containing intermetallic GaPd2 nanoparticles were formulated and applied by inkjet printing into micro-structured reaction channels resulting in thin and homogeneous layers. GaPd2/α-Al2O3 showed excellent activity and selectivity for the semi-hydrogenation of acetylene.

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Martin Siebert, René R. Zimmermann, Marc Armbrüster, Roland Dittmeyer
ChemCatChem, August 04, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201700288 Read article

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Akihiro Ninomiya, Yohei Katsuyama, Takefumi Kuranaga, Masayuki Miyazaki, Yuichi Nogi, Shigeru Okada, Toshiyuki Wakimoto, Yasuo Ohnishi, Shigeki Matsunaga, Kentaro Takada
ChemBioChem, August 04, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201700401 Read article

“We demonstrate how this couple shows promise as a MOST candidate in flow systems…” This and more about the story behind the research that inspired the Cover image is presented in the Cover Profile. Read the full text of the corresponding research at 10.1002/cssc.201700679. View the Front Cover here: 10.1002/cssc.201701336.

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Zhihang Wang, Jonas Udmark, Karl Börjesson, Rita Rodrigues, Anna Roffey, Maria Abrahamsson, Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen, Kasper Moth-Poulsen
ChemSusChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201701337 Read article

Golden star: Plasmonic gold nanostars are incorporated into mesoporous TiO2 photoelectrodes to fabricate high efficiency perovskite solar cells. A power conversion efficiency of 17.72 % is achieved using TiO2-AuNSs photoelectrode-based device.

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Munkhbayar Batmunkh, Thomas J. Macdonald, William J. Peveler, Abdulaziz S. R. Bati, Claire J. Carmalt, Ivan P. Parkin, Joseph G. Shapter
ChemSusChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201701056 Read article

Bridge to success: We report the synthesis of three new hole transport materials (HTMs) using a cost-effective procedure and the impact of different atoms in heteromerous bistricyclic aromatic ene scaffolds. S-bridged KR374 shows a a significantly improved hole-drift mobility leading to enhanced photovoltaic performance in mixed-ion perovskite solar cells and reduced hysteresis owing to the improved interface between the perovskite and HTM caused by stronger Pb–S interaction.

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Kasparas Rakstys, Sanghyun Paek, Giulia Grancini, Peng Gao, Vygintas Jankauskas, Abdullah M. Asiri, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
ChemSusChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700974 Read article

Let the sun shine: A metal-free and inexpensive catalyst, sulfur-doped graphene oxide quantum dots, is developed for efficient photocatalytic H2 production in pure water. Under direct sunlight irradiation, high initial H2 production rates in pure water and in 80 % ethanol aqueous solution indicate great potential in the development of sustainable and environmentally friendly photocatalysts for efficient H2 generation from water splitting.

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Jacek Gliniak, Jia-Hoa Lin, Yi-Ting Chen, Chuen-Ru Li, Efat Jokar, Chin-Hao Chang, Chun-Sheng Peng, Jui-Nien Lin, Wan-Hsiang Lien, Hui-Min Tsai, Tung-Kung Wu
ChemSusChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700910 Read article

A modified photoanode: An iridium complex is immobilized on a WO3 electrode to construct a composite photoanode for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. The photoanode shows a significant improvement both in photocurrent and faradaic efficiency. Kinetic studies reveal that the molecular iridium catalyst exhibits a different interfacial charge-transfer mechanism on the WO3 photoanode for PEC water oxidation compared to iridium oxide.

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Haili Tong, Yi Jiang, Qian Zhang, Jialing Li, Wenchao Jiang, Donghui Zhang, Na Li, Lixin Xia
ChemSusChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700721 Read article

Probing the heart of the complex: The interaction between horse heart myoglobin and zirconium(IV)-substituted polyoxometalates (POMs) is revealed through spectroscopic techniques including circular dichroism, UV/Vis, tryptophan fluorescence, 1H NMR, and 31P NMR spectroscopy (see figure).

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Hong Giang T. Ly, Tatjana N. Parac-Vogt
ChemPhysChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201700680 Read article

Gas capture: The determination of molar absorption coefficients of the CH3 bending mode at =1380 cm−1 (ϵ1380) of n-hexane adsorbed on high-silica zeolite Y (HSZ-Y) and ZSM-5 is derived herein by means of a combined IR spectroscopy and microgravimetric analysis procedure (see figure).

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Giorgio Gatti, Diana F. Olivas Olivera, Vittoria Sacchetto, Maurizio Cossi, Ilaria Braschi, Leonardo Marchese, Chiara Bisio
ChemPhysChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201700481 Read article

Connected or not? Scanning electrochemical microscopy is introduced as a tool to investigate molybdenum disulfide in a straightforward fashion, providing localized information regarding the electronic transport within CVD-grown crystalline MoS2 single layers having micrometric sizes. The investigations show that there is a very large diversity of electrical connections between flakes.

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Olivier Henrotte, Thomas Bottein, Hugo Casademont, Kevin Jaouen, Tiphaine Bourgeteau, Stephane Campidelli, Vincent Derycke, Bruno Jousselme, Renaud Cornut
ChemPhysChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201700343 Read article

Stopping the cell cycle: The screening of a small library of trimethoxybenzoic and nicotinic acid anilides, previously studied as P-gp modulators, allowed us to identify some N-biphenyl nicotinoyl anilides that show very interesting antiproliferative activities. The next hit refinement by a bioisosteric approach led us to observe potent antiproliferative activity of the cyano derivative 36 against MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines.

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Maria Majellaro, Angela Stefanachi, Piero Tardia, Chiara Vicenti, Angelina Boccarelli, Alessandra Pannunzio, Federica Campanella, Mauro Coluccia, Nunzio Denora, Francesco Leonetti, Modesto de Candia, Cosimo Damiano Altomare, Saverio Cellamare
ChemMedChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201700365 Read article

Ligand logistics: Compounds with high affinity and selectivity for the 18-kDa mitochondrial translocator protein (TSPO) are useful for intracellular drug and nanoparticle targeting. The number of identified structurally distinct TSPO ligands has increased in recent years, highlighting our growing understanding of the roles of TSPO in normal and pathological conditions. This review summarizes some examples of drug delivery systems characterized by TSPO-targeting compounds.

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Rosa Maria Iacobazzi, Antonio Lopalco, Annalisa Cutrignelli, Valentino Laquintana, Angela Lopedota, Massimo Franco, Nunzio Denora
ChemMedChem, August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201700322 Read article

“The friendship is illustrated by the convivial atmosphere that surrounds the science on our plates.” Read more about the story behind the cover in the Cover Profile and about the research itself on page ▪▪ ff. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702553).

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Yuta Miyazaki, Christophe Kahlfuss, Ayumu Ogawa, Takashi Matsumoto, Jennifer A. Wytko, Koji Oohora, Takashi Hayashi, Jean Weiss
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703337 Read article

A new member of the π-expanded TTF family, dinaphthotetrathiafulvalene bisimide, is proven to be an air-stable p-type semiconductor. The hole-carrier mobility of the organic field-effect transistor of the film was improved from 3.7×10−3 cm2 V−1 s−1 to 0.30 cm2 V−1 s−1 under ambient conditions by raising the substrate temperature from 25 to 200 °C during sublimation, because of the acceleration of end-on packing from a mixture of face-on, edge-on and end-on packing. More information can be found in the Communication by H. Yamada et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702657).

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Masataka Yamashita, Koki Kawano, Akinobu Matsumoto, Naoki Aratani, Hironobu Hayashi, Mitsuharu Suzuki, Lei Zhang, Alejandro L. Briseno, Hiroko Yamada
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703243 Read article

It does get in: A thin layer of a highly porous metal–organic framework material, ZIF-8, is fabricated uniformly on the surface of nanostructured ZnO nanoflakes and MnO2 nanorods to boost the transfer of lithium ions.

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Yuzhen Han, Danni Yu, Junwen Zhou, Peiyu Xu, Pengfei Qi, Qianyou Wang, Siwu Li, Xiaotao Fu, Xing Gao, Chenghao Jiang, Xiao Feng, Bo Wang
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703016 Read article

Nickel squares up: Low-valent nickel(0) is shown to isomerize styrenyl epoxides to aldehydes in high yields. Mechanistic studies indicate that these isomerizations occur via 2-nickelaoxetane intermediates. Catalytic hydroboration of styrene oxide with HBpin was also demonstrated to be facile.

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Addison N. Desnoyer, Jialing Geng, Marcus W. Drover, Brian O. Patrick, Jennifer A. Love
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201702824 Read article

Porous organic frameworks are synthesized with a high concentration of Co(salen) in the network and having high flexibility. This system efficiently promotes the cooperation between the nearby Co(salen) moieties in the epoxide hydration reaction.

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Mingmei Zhong, He Li, Jian Chen, Lin Tao, Can Li, Qihua Yang
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201702810 Read article

Amorphous layer: A core-shell NiFe-LDH@NiFe-Bi nanoarray on carbon cloth (NiFe-LDH@NiFe-Bi/CC) behaves as a superior OER electrocatalyst with strong durability in alkaline media. It only requires an overpotential of 294 mV to drive 50 mA cm−2; 116 mV less than that needed by NiFe-LDH/CC.

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Ling Zhang, Rong Zhang, Ruixiang Ge, Xiang Ren, Shuai Hao, Fengyu Xie, Fengli Qu, Zhiang Liu, Gu Du, Abdullah M. Asiri, Baozhan Zheng, Xuping Sun
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201702745 Read article

Let there be light: Excited state relaxation in the sub-picosecond timescales of unnatural nucleobases—d5SICS and dNaM—arise from the strong spin-orbit couplings between the singlet and triplet states (see figure).

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Kalishankar Bhattacharyya, Ayan Datta
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201702583 Read article

Base Jump: Under strongly basic conditions ynamides gave highly reactive ketenimines that could be trapped with imines in a [2+2] cycloaddition. This imino-Staudinger synthesis led to a variety of imino analogues of β-lactams, namely azetidinimines (20 examples), that could be further functionalized through a broad range of transformations.

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Eugénie Romero, Corinne Minard, Mohamed Benchekroun, Sandrine Ventre, Pascal Retailleau, Robert H. Dodd, Kevin Cariou
Chem. Eur. J., August 03, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201702545 Read article