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Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzenesulfonamide-Based Inhibitors towards Carbonic Anhydrase Isoform Specificity (2016)
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Bhatt, A., Mahon, B. P., Cruzeiro, V. W. D., Cornelio, B., Laronze-Cochard, M., Ceruso, M., Sapi, J., Rance, G. A., Khlobystov, A. N., Fontana, A., Roitberg, A., Supuran, C. T., & McKenna, R. (2017). Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzenesulfonamide-Based Inhibitors towards Carbonic Anhydrase Isoform Specificity. ChemBioChem, 18(2), 213-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201600513

Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are implicated in a wide range of diseases, including the upregulation of isoforms CA IX and XII in many aggressive cancers. However, effective inhibition of disease-implicated CAs should minimally affect the ubiquitously ex... Read More about Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzenesulfonamide-Based Inhibitors towards Carbonic Anhydrase Isoform Specificity.

Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes (2016)
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Miners, S. A., Rance, G. A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes. Chemical Society Reviews, 45(17), 4727-4746. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cs00090h

In this critical review, we survey the wide range of chemical reactions that have been confined within carbon nanotubes, particularly emphasising how the pairwise interactions between the catalysts, reactants, transition states and products of a part... Read More about Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes.

Interactions of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles: the effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on controlled assembly of superstructures (2014)
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A. Rance, G., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2014). Interactions of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles: the effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on controlled assembly of superstructures. Dalton Transactions, 43(20), 7400-7406. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3dt53372g

The effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on the non-covalent interactions between gold nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes have been explored. Our experiments have shown that fewer nanoparticles are adsorbed onto nanotubes in high di... Read More about Interactions of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles: the effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on controlled assembly of superstructures.

Controlled oxidative cutting of carbon nanotubes catalysed by silver nanoparticles (2014)
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A. Miners, S., A. Rance, G., La Torre, A., M. Kenny, S., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2014). Controlled oxidative cutting of carbon nanotubes catalysed by silver nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(39), 8357-8363. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01334d

A systematic comparison of different methods for the cutting of carbon nanotubes has shown that oxidation catalysed by silver nanoparticles is a superior method for the efficient procurement of short carbon nanotubes with minimal introduction of side... Read More about Controlled oxidative cutting of carbon nanotubes catalysed by silver nanoparticles.

Competitive hydrosilylation in carbon nanoreactors: probing the effect of nanoscale confinement on selectivity (2013)
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A. Solomonsz, W., A. Rance, G., J. Harris, B., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2013). Competitive hydrosilylation in carbon nanoreactors: probing the effect of nanoscale confinement on selectivity. Nanoscale, 5(24), 12200-12205. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3nr03966h

Platinum nanoparticles (PtNP) either imbedded within (PtNP@GNF) or adsorbed on the surface (PtNP/GNF) of hollow graphitised carbon nanofibres catalyse hydrosilylation reactions inside or outside the nanoreactor respectively. Comparison of the product... Read More about Competitive hydrosilylation in carbon nanoreactors: probing the effect of nanoscale confinement on selectivity.

Regioselective control of aromatic halogenation reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors (2013)
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Miners, S. A., A. Rance, G., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2013). Regioselective control of aromatic halogenation reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors. Chemical Communications, 5586-5588. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc42414f

The use of single-walled carbon nanotubes as effective nanoreactors for preparative chemical reactions has been demonstrated for the first time. Extreme spatial confinement of reactant molecules inside nanotubes has been shown to drastically affect b... Read More about Regioselective control of aromatic halogenation reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors.

The effect of carbon nanotubes on chiral chemical reactions (2012)
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A. Rance, G., A. Miners, S., W. Chamberlain, T., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2013). The effect of carbon nanotubes on chiral chemical reactions. Chemical Physics Letters, 557, 10-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2012.12.037

The intrinsic helicity of carbon nanotubes influences the formation of chiral molecules in chemical reactions. A racemic mixture of P and M enantiomers of nanotubes affects the enantiomeric excess of the products of the autocatalytic Soai reaction pr... Read More about The effect of carbon nanotubes on chiral chemical reactions.

Assembly, growth, and catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanofibers (2012)
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La Torre, A., Giménez-López, M. D. C., Fay, M. W., Rance, G. A., Solomonsz, W. A., Chamberlain, T. W., Brown, P. D., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2012). Assembly, growth, and catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanofibers. ACS Nano, 6(3), 2000-2007. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn300400z

Graphitized carbon nanofibers (GNFs) act as efficient templates for the growth of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) adsorbed on the interior (and exterior) of the tubular nanostructures. Encapsulated AuNPs are stabilized by interactions with the step-edges... Read More about Assembly, growth, and catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanofibers.

Interactions of gold nanoparticles with the interior of hollow graphitized carbon nanofibers (2012)
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La Torre, A., Fay, M. W., Rance, G. A., Del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez, M., Solomonsz, W. A., Brown, P. D., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2012). Interactions of gold nanoparticles with the interior of hollow graphitized carbon nanofibers. Small, 8(8), 1222-1228. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201102007

Interactions of free-standing gold nanoparticles and hollow graphitized nanofibers in colloidal suspension are investigated, revealing the first example of the controlled arrangement of nanoparticles inside nano-containers, as directed by their inter... Read More about Interactions of gold nanoparticles with the interior of hollow graphitized carbon nanofibers.