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Catalytic farming: reaction rotation extends catalyst performance (2019)
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Elhage, A., Lanterna, A. E., & Scaiano, J. C. (in press). Catalytic farming: reaction rotation extends catalyst performance. Chemical Science, 10(5), 1419-1425. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sc04188a

The use of heterogeneous catalysis has key advantages compared to its homogeneous counterpart, such as easy catalyst separation and reusability. However, one of the main challenges is to ensure good performance after the first catalytic cycles. Activ... Read More about Catalytic farming: reaction rotation extends catalyst performance.

Enhancing doxorubicin anticancer activity with a novel polymeric platform photoreleasing nitric oxide (2019)
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Sodano, F., Cavanagh, R., Pearce, A. K., Lazzarato, L., Rolando, B., Fraix, A., …Sortino, S. (2020). Enhancing doxorubicin anticancer activity with a novel polymeric platform photoreleasing nitric oxide. Biomaterials Science, 8(5), 1329-1344. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9bm01644a

© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Combinations of conventional chemotherapeutics with unconventional anticancer agents such as reactive oxygen and nitrogen species may offer treatment benefits for cancer therapies. Here we report a novel polymer... Read More about Enhancing doxorubicin anticancer activity with a novel polymeric platform photoreleasing nitric oxide.

A simple and efficient method for polymer coating of iron oxide nanoparticles (2019)
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Abushrida, A., Elhuni, I., Taresco, V., Marciani, L., Stolnik, S., & Garnett, M. C. (2020). A simple and efficient method for polymer coating of iron oxide nanoparticles. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 55, Article 101460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2019.101460

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONP) have many possible uses including as MRI contrast agents, for drug delivery and cell labelling, but need to be stabilised and to be rendered biocompatible through appropriate coatings. Many current coatings are subopti... Read More about A simple and efficient method for polymer coating of iron oxide nanoparticles.

Probing the electronic structure of ether functionalised ionic liquids using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (2019)
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Dick, E., Fouda, A., Besley, N. A., & Licence, P. (2020). Probing the electronic structure of ether functionalised ionic liquids using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(3), 1624-1631. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp01297d

The charge distribution associated with individual components in functionalised ionic liquids (ILs) can be tuned by careful manipulation of the substituent groups incorporated into the ions. Here we use X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to investigate... Read More about Probing the electronic structure of ether functionalised ionic liquids using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

The ‘dark matter’ of ubiquitin-mediated processes: opportunities and challenges in the identification of ubiquitin-binding domains (2019)
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Radley, E., Long, J., Gough, K., & Layfield, R. (2019). The ‘dark matter’ of ubiquitin-mediated processes: opportunities and challenges in the identification of ubiquitin-binding domains. Biochemical Society Transactions, 47(6), 1949-1962. https://doi.org/10.1042/bst20190869

Ubiquitin modifications of target proteins act to localise, direct and specify a diverse range of cellular processes, many of which are biomedically relevant. To allow this diversity, ubiquitin modifications exhibit remarkable complexity, determined... Read More about The ‘dark matter’ of ubiquitin-mediated processes: opportunities and challenges in the identification of ubiquitin-binding domains.

Symmetry in Multiple Self-Consistent-Field Solutions of Transition-Metal Complexes (2019)
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Huynh, B. C., & Thom, A. J. W. (2020). Symmetry in Multiple Self-Consistent-Field Solutions of Transition-Metal Complexes. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16(2), 904-930. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00900

We use a method based on metadynamics to locate multiple low-energy Unrestricted Hartree–Fock (UHF) self-consistent-field (SCF) solutions of two model octahedral d1 and d2 transition-metal complexes, [MF6]3– (M = Ti, V). By giving a group-theoretical... Read More about Symmetry in Multiple Self-Consistent-Field Solutions of Transition-Metal Complexes.

Triplet Excitation and Electroluminescence from a Supramolecular Monolayer Embedded in a Boron Nitride Tunnel Barrier (2019)
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Svatek, S. A., Kerfoot, J., Summerfield, A., Nizovtsev, A. S., Korolkov, V. V., Taniguchi, T., …Beton, P. H. (2020). Triplet Excitation and Electroluminescence from a Supramolecular Monolayer Embedded in a Boron Nitride Tunnel Barrier. Nano Letters, 20(1), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03787

© 2019 American Chemical Society. We show that ordered monolayers of organic molecules stabilized by hydrogen bonding on the surface of exfoliated few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) flakes may be incorporated into van der Waals heterostructures... Read More about Triplet Excitation and Electroluminescence from a Supramolecular Monolayer Embedded in a Boron Nitride Tunnel Barrier.

Protein Encapsulation of Experimental Anticancer Agents 5F 203 and Phortress: Towards Precision Drug Delivery (2019)
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Breen, A. F., Scurr, D., Cassioli, M. L., Wells, G., Thomas, N. R., Zhang, J., …Bradshaw, T. D. (2019). Protein Encapsulation of Experimental Anticancer Agents 5F 203 and Phortress: Towards Precision Drug Delivery. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 14, 9525-9534. https://doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S226293

Introduction: Advancment of novel anticancer drugs into clinic is frequently halted by their lack of solubility, reduced stability under physiological conditions, and non-specific uptake by normal tissues, causing systemic toxicity. Their progress to... Read More about Protein Encapsulation of Experimental Anticancer Agents 5F 203 and Phortress: Towards Precision Drug Delivery.

Indigo Formation and Rapid NADPH Consumption Provide Robust Prediction of Raspberry Ketone Synthesis by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM3 (2019)
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Pelletier, J. N., Rousseau, O., Ebert, M. C. C. J. C., Quaglia, D., Fendri, A., Parisien, A. H., …Iyathurai, S. (2020). Indigo Formation and Rapid NADPH Consumption Provide Robust Prediction of Raspberry Ketone Synthesis by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM3. ChemCatChem, 12(3), 837-845. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201901974

Natural raspberry ketone has a high value in the flavor, fragrance and pharmaceutical industries. Its extraction is costly, justifying the search for biosynthetic routes. We hypothesized that cytochrome P450 BM3 (P450 BM3) could be engineered to cata... Read More about Indigo Formation and Rapid NADPH Consumption Provide Robust Prediction of Raspberry Ketone Synthesis by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM3.

Conjugate Addition Routes to 2-alkyl-2,3-dihydroquinolin-4(1H)-ones and 2-alkyl-4-hydroxy-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylates (2019)
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Kingsbury, A., Brough, S., Pedrina McCarthy, A., Lewis, W., & Woodward, S. (2020). Conjugate Addition Routes to 2-alkyl-2,3-dihydroquinolin-4(1H)-ones and 2-alkyl-4-hydroxy-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylates. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2020(11-12), 1011-1017. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201901036

Under CuBr·SMe2/PPh3 catalysis (5/10 mol-%) RMgCl (R = Me, Et, nPr, CH=CH2, nBu, iBu, nC5H11, cC6H11, Bn, CH2Bn, nC11H23) readily (-78 oC) undergo 1,4-addition to Cbz or Boc protected quinolin-4(1H)-ones to provide 2-alkyl-2,3-dihydroquinolin-4(1H)-o... Read More about Conjugate Addition Routes to 2-alkyl-2,3-dihydroquinolin-4(1H)-ones and 2-alkyl-4-hydroxy-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylates.