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Catalytic Decarboxylative Fluorination for the Synthesis of Tri- and Difluoromethyl Arenes (2013)
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Mizuta, S., S. R. Stenhagen, I., O’Duill, M., Wolstenhulme, J., K. Kirjavainen, A., J. Forsback, S., Tredwell, M., Sandford, G., R. Moore, P., Huiban, M., K. Luthra, S., Passchier, J., Solin, O., & Gouverneur, V. (2013). Catalytic Decarboxylative Fluorination for the Synthesis of Tri- and Difluoromethyl Arenes. Organic Letters, 15(11), 2648-2651. https://doi.org/10.1021/ol4009377

Treatment of readily available α,α-difluoro- and α-fluoroarylacetic acids with Selectfluor under Ag(I) catalysis led to decarboxylative fluorination. This operationally simple reaction gave access to tri- and difluoromethylarenes applying a late-stag... Read More about Catalytic Decarboxylative Fluorination for the Synthesis of Tri- and Difluoromethyl Arenes.

Cuprate addition to a 6-substituted pentafulvene: preparation of sec-alkyl substituted titanocene dichlorides and their biological activity (2013)
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Cini, M., Bradshaw, T. D., Lewis, W., & Woodward, S. (2013). Cuprate addition to a 6-substituted pentafulvene: preparation of sec-alkyl substituted titanocene dichlorides and their biological activity. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013(19),

The copper-catalysed (10 mol-% CuBr·SMe2, CuCN·LiCl or CuI/PPh3) addition of RMgBr to the pentafulvene 1-(cyclopenta-2,4-dien-1-ylidenemethyl)-2-methoxybenzene allows the formation of cyclopentadienyl derivatives with α-CHR(2-MeOPh) sidechains (R = M... Read More about Cuprate addition to a 6-substituted pentafulvene: preparation of sec-alkyl substituted titanocene dichlorides and their biological activity.

Insights into the structure and assembly of the Bacillus subtilis clamp-loader complex and its interaction with the replicative helicase. (2013)
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Afonso, J. P., Chintakayala, K., Suwannachart, C., Sedelnikova, S., Giles, K., Hoyes, J. B., Soultanas, P., Rafferty, J. B., & Oldham, N. J. (2013). Insights into the structure and assembly of the Bacillus subtilis clamp-loader complex and its interaction with the replicative helicase. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(9), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt173

The clamp-loader complex plays a crucial role in DNA replication by loading the β-clamp onto primed
DNA to be used by the replicative polymerase. Relatively little is known about the stoichiometry,
structure and assembly pathway of this complex, an... Read More about Insights into the structure and assembly of the Bacillus subtilis clamp-loader complex and its interaction with the replicative helicase..

Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis (2013)
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Rannou, O., Le Chatelier, E., Larson, M. A., Nouri, H., Dalmais, B., Laughton, C., Laurent, J., & Soultanas, P. (2013). Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(10), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt207

Bacillus subtilis has two replicative DNA polymerases.
PolC is a processive high-fidelity replicative
polymerase, while the error-prone DnaEBs extends
RNA primers before hand-off to PolC at the lagging
strand. We show that DnaEBs interacts with t... Read More about Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis.

Bowing to the Pressure of π⋯π interactions: Bending of phenyl rings in a palladium(II) thioether crown complex (2013)
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Wong, H. L., Allan, D. R., Champness, N. R., McMaster, J., Schröder, M., & Blake, A. J. (2013). Bowing to the Pressure of π⋯π interactions: Bending of phenyl rings in a palladium(II) thioether crown complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52(19), 5093-5095. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201209845

Compression of a parallel four-fold phenyl embrace involving two cations in [Pd([9]aneS3)(PPh3)2](PF6) 2 ([9]aneS3=1,4,7-trithiacyclononane) leads to π⋯π stacking interactions and concomitant pyramidalization at the ipso carbon atom of one of the phe... Read More about Bowing to the Pressure of π⋯π interactions: Bending of phenyl rings in a palladium(II) thioether crown complex.

Vibrations of the low energy states of toluene ( X(1-A-1) and A(1-B-2) and the toluene cation (X+(2-B-1) (2013)
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Gardner, A. M., Green, A. M., Tamé-Reyes, V. M., Wilton, V. H., & Wright, T. G. (2013). Vibrations of the low energy states of toluene ( X(1-A-1) and A(1-B-2) and the toluene cation (X+(2-B-1). Journal of Chemical Physics, 138(13), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4796204

We commence by presenting an overview of the assignment of the vibrational frequencies of the toluene molecule in its ground (S0) state. The assignment given is in terms of a recently-proposed nomenclature, which allows the ring-localized vibrations... Read More about Vibrations of the low energy states of toluene ( X(1-A-1) and A(1-B-2) and the toluene cation (X+(2-B-1).

Copper(II)-mediated synthesis of indolequinones from bromoquinones and enamines (2013)
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Inman, M., & Moody, C. J. (2013). Copper(II)-mediated synthesis of indolequinones from bromoquinones and enamines. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013(11), https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201201597

The reaction of enamines and bromoquinones in the presence of copper(II) acetate and potassium carbonate results in a regiospecific synthesis of indolequinones. The reaction is broad in scope and scalable and provides a route to the core structure th... Read More about Copper(II)-mediated synthesis of indolequinones from bromoquinones and enamines.

Bis-thioether-substituted perylene diimides: Structural, electrochemical, and spectroelectrochemical properties (2013)
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Slater, A. G., Davies, E. S., Argent, S. P., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J., McMaster, J., & Champness, N. R. (2013). Bis-thioether-substituted perylene diimides: Structural, electrochemical, and spectroelectrochemical properties. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 78(7), 2853-2862. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo400026r

The synthesis and separation of the 1,6- and 1,7- isomers of N,N′-bis(alkyl)diadamantylthio-3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimide are reported. Investigations of the structural, electrochemical, spectroscopic, and spectroelectrochemical prope... Read More about Bis-thioether-substituted perylene diimides: Structural, electrochemical, and spectroelectrochemical properties.

Trifluoromethylation of Allylsilanes under Photoredox Catalysis (2013)
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Mizuta, S., Engle, K. M., Verhoog, S., Galicia-López, O., O’Duill, M., Médebielle, M., Wheelhouse, K., Rassias, G., Thompson, A. L., & Gouverneur, V. (2013). Trifluoromethylation of Allylsilanes under Photoredox Catalysis. Organic Letters, 15(6), 1250–1253. https://doi.org/10.1021/ol400184t

A new catalytic method to access allylic secondary CF3 products is described. These reactions use the visible light excited Ru(bpy)3Cl2·6H2O catalyst and the Togni or Umemoto reagent as the CF3 source. The photoredox catalytic manifold delivers enant... Read More about Trifluoromethylation of Allylsilanes under Photoredox Catalysis.

Gold Nanoparticles with Self-Assembled Cysteine Monolayer Coupled to Nitrate Reductase in Polypyrrole Matrix Enhanced Nitrate Biosensor (2013)
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Madasamy, T., Pandiaraj, M., Kanugula, A. K., Rajesh, S., Bhargava, K., Sethy, N. K., Kotamraju, S., & Karunakaran, C. (2013). Gold Nanoparticles with Self-Assembled Cysteine Monolayer Coupled to Nitrate Reductase in Polypyrrole Matrix Enhanced Nitrate Biosensor. Advanced Chemistry Letters, 1(1), 2-9. https://doi.org/10.1166/acl.2013.1005

Calculating excited state properties using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (2013)
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Hanson-Heine, M. W., George, M. W., & Besley, N. A. (2013). Calculating excited state properties using Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Journal of Chemical Physics, 138(6), Article 064101. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789813

The accuracy of excited states calculated with Kohn-Sham density functional theory using the maximum overlap method has been assessed for the calculation of adiabatic excitation energies, excited state structures, and excited state harmonic and anhar... Read More about Calculating excited state properties using Kohn-Sham density functional theory.

A catalytic and tert-butoxide ion-mediated amidation of aldehydes with para-nitro azides (2013)
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Carbone, G., Burnley, J., & Moses, J. E. (2013). A catalytic and tert-butoxide ion-mediated amidation of aldehydes with para-nitro azides. Chemical Communications, 49(27), https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc40452h

We report here a new catalytic reaction in which, p-nitro azides are acylated by aldehydes to produce amides and molecular nitrogen in a single step. The transformation is believed to proceed via an electron transfer process mediated by the tert-buto... Read More about A catalytic and tert-butoxide ion-mediated amidation of aldehydes with para-nitro azides.

Catalytic Hydrotrifluoromethylation of Unactivated Alkenes (2013)
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Mizuta, S., Verhoog, S., Engle, K. M., Khotavivattana, T., O’Duill, M., Wheelhouse, K., Rassias, G., Médebielle, M., & Gouverneur, V. (2013). Catalytic Hydrotrifluoromethylation of Unactivated Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(7), 2505–2508. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja401022x

A visible-light-mediated hydrotrifluoromethylation of unactivated alkenes that uses the Umemoto reagent as the CF3 source and MeOH as the reductant is disclosed. This effective transformation operates at room temperature in the presence of 5 mol % Ru... Read More about Catalytic Hydrotrifluoromethylation of Unactivated Alkenes.

The lipidome and proteome of oil bodies from Helianthus annuus (common sunflower) (2013)
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Furse, S., Liddell, S., Ortori, C. A., Williams, H., Neylon, D. C., Scott, D. J., Barrett, D. A., & Gray, D. A. (2013). The lipidome and proteome of oil bodies from Helianthus annuus (common sunflower). Journal of Chemical Biology, 6(2), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12154-012-0090-1

In this paper we report the molecular profiling, lipidome and proteome, of the plant organelle known as an oil body (OB). The OB is remarkable in that it is able to perform its biological role (storage of triglycerides) whilst resisting the physical... Read More about The lipidome and proteome of oil bodies from Helianthus annuus (common sunflower).

On DABAL-Me₃ promoted formation of amides (2013)
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Dubois, N., Glynn, D., Mcinally, T., Rhodes, B., Woodward, S., Irvine, D., & Dodds, C. (2013). On DABAL-Me₃ promoted formation of amides. Tetrahedron, 69(46), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2013.08.062

The range and utility of DABAL-Me3 couplings of methyl esters and free carboxylic acids with primary and secondary amines under a variety of conditions (reflux, sealed tube, microwave) has been compared for a significant range of coupling partners of... Read More about On DABAL-Me₃ promoted formation of amides.

Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation (2013)
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Powell, A. S., Stoeva, Z., Lord, J. S., Smith, R. I., Gregory, D. H., & Titman, J. J. (2013). Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp43318d

Muon spin relaxation and powder neutron diffraction have been combined to study three lithium cobalt nitride battery materials. Neutron diffraction shows that these retain the P6/mmm space group of Li3N with Co located only on Li(1) sites. The lattic... Read More about Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation.

Catalytic reduction of ortho- and para-azidonitrobenzenes via tert-butoxide ion mediated electron transfer (2013)
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Carbone, G., Burnley, J., & Moses, J. E. (2013). Catalytic reduction of ortho- and para-azidonitrobenzenes via tert-butoxide ion mediated electron transfer. SYNLETT, 24(5), https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0032-1318216

The reduction of a range of substituted azidonitrobenzene derivatives to the corresponding aniline is described. The chemoselective reaction proceeds cleanly and in good yield, generating minimal waste products. The process involves a thiazolium salt... Read More about Catalytic reduction of ortho- and para-azidonitrobenzenes via tert-butoxide ion mediated electron transfer.