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Imidazolylidene Cu(II) complexes: synthesis using imidazolium carboxylate precursors and structure rearrangement pathways (2019)
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Ségaud, N., McMaster, J., van Koten, G., & Albrecht, M. (2019). Imidazolylidene Cu(II) complexes: synthesis using imidazolium carboxylate precursors and structure rearrangement pathways. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(23), 16047-16058. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02568

Copper(II) complexes of type (NHC)CuX2 (X = OAc, Cl, Br, BF4, NO3) bearing monodentate N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) were prepared by in situ decarboxylation of imidazolium carboxylates as a new synthetic methodology for Cu(II)-NHC complexes. In con... Read More about Imidazolylidene Cu(II) complexes: synthesis using imidazolium carboxylate precursors and structure rearrangement pathways.

Continuous preparation of flavour‐active acetate esters by direct biocatalytic esterification (2019)
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Perdomo, I. C., Contente, M. L., Pinto, A., Romano, D., Fernandes, P., & Molinari, F. (2020). Continuous preparation of flavour‐active acetate esters by direct biocatalytic esterification. Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 35(2), 190-196. https://doi.org/10.1002/ffj.3552

Mycelium-bound lipase(s) from Aspergillus oryzae catalysed direct esterification of isoamyl alcohol and cinnamyl alcohol with acetic acid in organic solvent, showing high stability towards substrates and products. Water produced during the esterifica... Read More about Continuous preparation of flavour‐active acetate esters by direct biocatalytic esterification.

Photochemical Dehalogenation of Aryl Halides: Importance of Halogen Bonding (2019)
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Elhage, A., Costa, P., Nasim, A., Lanterna, A. E., & Scaiano, J. C. (2019). Photochemical Dehalogenation of Aryl Halides: Importance of Halogen Bonding. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123(47), 10224-10229. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06716

Upon UVA irradiation, aryl halides can undergo dehalogenation in the presence of bases and methanol as a hydrogen donor. This catalyst-free photochemical dehalogenation is furnished through a facile radical chain reaction under mild conditions. The c... Read More about Photochemical Dehalogenation of Aryl Halides: Importance of Halogen Bonding.

Let’s stick together for continuous flow biocatalysis (2019)
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Contente, M. L., & Molinari, F. (2019). Let’s stick together for continuous flow biocatalysis. Nature Catalysis, 2(11), 951-952. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0363-y

Fusion systems have been designed linking enzymes to cofactors and immobilization modules through appropriate synthetic spacers. These modular biocatalysts (assembling catalysis, cofactor provision/regeneration, and assisted immobilization) are suite... Read More about Let’s stick together for continuous flow biocatalysis.

AIRBED: a simplified density functional theory model for physisorption on surfaces (2019)
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Mason, S. E., Beton, P. H., & Besley, N. A. (2019). AIRBED: a simplified density functional theory model for physisorption on surfaces. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15(10), 5628-5634. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00576

Dispersion interactions are commonly included in density functional theory (DFT) calculations through the addition of an empirical correction. In this study, a modification is made to the damping function in DFT-D2 calculations, to describe repulsion... Read More about AIRBED: a simplified density functional theory model for physisorption on surfaces.

Developing a sustainable route to environmentally relevant metal-organic frameworks: ultra-rapid synthesis of MFM-300(Al) using microwave heating (2019)
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Thomas-Hillman, I., Stevens, L. A., Lange, M., Möllmer, J., Lewis, W., Dodds, C., …Laybourn, A. (2019). Developing a sustainable route to environmentally relevant metal-organic frameworks: ultra-rapid synthesis of MFM-300(Al) using microwave heating. Green Chemistry, 21(18), 5039-5045. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9gc02375e

NO2, SO2 and CO2 are major air pollutants causing significant environmental and health problems. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), in particular [Al2(OH)2(C16O8H6)](H2O)6 (trivial names: NOTT-300/MFM-300(Al)), have shown great promise for capturing th... Read More about Developing a sustainable route to environmentally relevant metal-organic frameworks: ultra-rapid synthesis of MFM-300(Al) using microwave heating.

Epoxy–amine oligomers from terpenes with applications in synergistic antifungal treatments (2019)
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O’Brien, D. M., Vallieres, C., Alexander, C., Howdle, S. M., Stockman, R. A., & Avery, S. V. (2019). Epoxy–amine oligomers from terpenes with applications in synergistic antifungal treatments. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 7(34), 5222-5229. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tb00878k

A bis-epoxide monomer was synthesised in two steps from (R)-carvone, a terpenoid renewable feedstock derived from spearmint oil, and used to prepare β-aminoalcohol oligomers in polyaddition reactions with bis-amines without requiring solvent or catal... Read More about Epoxy–amine oligomers from terpenes with applications in synergistic antifungal treatments.

A green road map for heterogeneous photocatalysis (2019)
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Scaiano, J. C., & Lanterna, A. E. (2020). A green road map for heterogeneous photocatalysis. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(1), 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0207

In the new millennium the well-established paradigms of organic photochemistry have come alive as the basis for a wide range of synthetic methodologies that take advantage of the enhanced redox properties of excited states. While many strategies have... Read More about A green road map for heterogeneous photocatalysis.

Radical Addition to Strained σ-Bonds Enables the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters (2019)
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Silvi, M., & Aggarwal, V. K. (2019). Radical Addition to Strained σ-Bonds Enables the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(24), 9511-9515. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b03653

While radical additions to π-bonds are well established, additions to σ-bonds are far less explored. We have found that electron deficient radicals derived from alkyl iodides under visible light irradiation add to the central strained bond of bicyclo... Read More about Radical Addition to Strained σ-Bonds Enables the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters.

PepFoot: a software package for semiautomated processing of protein footprinting data (2019)
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Bellamy-Carter, J., & Oldham, N. J. (2019). PepFoot: a software package for semiautomated processing of protein footprinting data. Journal of Proteome Research, 18(7), 2925-2930. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00238

Covalent footprinting of proteins using reactive intermediates such as radicals and carbenes is emerging as a valuable tool for mapping surface accessibility, and hence binding sites of proteins. The approach generates a significant amount of mass sp... Read More about PepFoot: a software package for semiautomated processing of protein footprinting data.