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High Yielding Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Norketamine (2022)
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Hernando, M. V., Moore, J. C., Howie, R. A., Castledine, R. A., Bourne, S. L., Jenkins, G. N., Licence, P., Poliakoff, M., & George, M. W. (2022). High Yielding Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Norketamine. Organic Process Research and Development, 26(4), 1145-1151. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00407

A new continuous-flow process is presented for synthesis of the pharmaceutical intermediate norketamine (5). Our approach has been to take the well-established and industrially applied batch synthetic route to this promising antidepressant precursor... Read More about High Yielding Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Norketamine.

Comparative Hydrodynamic Study on Non-Aqueous Soluble Archaeological Wood Consolidants: Butvar B-98 and PDMS-OH Siloxanes (2022)
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Cutajar, M., Stockman, R. A., Braovac, S., Steindal, C. C., Zisi, A., & Harding, S. E. (2022). Comparative Hydrodynamic Study on Non-Aqueous Soluble Archaeological Wood Consolidants: Butvar B-98 and PDMS-OH Siloxanes. Molecules, 27(7), Article 2133. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27072133

Butvar B-98 and PDMS-OH both have a demonstrable ability as consolidants for archaeological wood. This makes them both potential treatment options for the Oseberg collection, which is one of the most important archaeological finds from the Viking era... Read More about Comparative Hydrodynamic Study on Non-Aqueous Soluble Archaeological Wood Consolidants: Butvar B-98 and PDMS-OH Siloxanes.

Greener extraction-chemical modification-polymerization pipeline of vernolic acid from Ethiopian ironweed plant (2022)
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d'Almeida Gameiro, M., Jacob, P. L., Kortsen, K., Ward, T., Taresco, V., Stockman, R. A., Chebude, Y., & Howdle, S. M. (2022). Greener extraction-chemical modification-polymerization pipeline of vernolic acid from Ethiopian ironweed plant. Journal of Polymer Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.20220050

Epoxidized oils are commonly used in the plastics industry as additives in the formulation of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and as monomers in the coating industry. They are produced from petrochemical feedstocks or by chemical epoxidation of natural oils... Read More about Greener extraction-chemical modification-polymerization pipeline of vernolic acid from Ethiopian ironweed plant.

Gold(I)-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Allylation of Azinium Ions with Allylboronates (2022)
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O'Brien, L., Argent, S. P., Ermanis, K., & Lam, H. W. (2022). Gold(I)-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Allylation of Azinium Ions with Allylboronates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(22), Article e202202305. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202202305

Gold(I)-catalyzed nucleophilic allylations of pyridinium and quinolinium ions with allylboronates are reported. Transmetalation of the allylboronate with gold produces nucleophilic allylgold(I) species that add to the 4-position of the azinium ion wi... Read More about Gold(I)-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Allylation of Azinium Ions with Allylboronates.

Euglenatides, Potent Antiproliferative Cyclic Peptides Isolated from the Freshwater Photosynthetic Microalga Euglena gracilis (2022)
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Aldholmi, M., Ahmad, R., Carretero-Molina, D., Pérez-Victoria, I., Martín, J., Reyes, F., Genilloud, O., Gourbeyre, L., Gefflaut, T., Carlsson, H., Maklakov, A., Field, R. A., O'Neill, E., Wilkinson, B., O'Connell, M., & Ganesan, A. (2022). Euglenatides, Potent Antiproliferative Cyclic Peptides Isolated from the Freshwater Photosynthetic Microalga Euglena gracilis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(23), Article e202203175. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202203175

By limiting the nitrogen source to glutamic acid, we isolated cyclic peptides from Euglena gracilis containing asparagine and non-proteinogenic amino acids. Structure elucidation was accomplished through spectroscopic methods, mass spectrometry and c... Read More about Euglenatides, Potent Antiproliferative Cyclic Peptides Isolated from the Freshwater Photosynthetic Microalga Euglena gracilis.

Direct and mild non-hydroxide activation of biomass to carbons with enhanced CO2 storage capacity (2022)
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Altwala, A., & Mokaya, R. (2022). Direct and mild non-hydroxide activation of biomass to carbons with enhanced CO2 storage capacity. Energy Advances, 1(4), 216-224. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ya00085c

Potassium oxalate (PO) was trialled as a non-corrosive and less toxic activating agent for the direct activation of biomass (sawdust, SD). The PO + SD mixtures were activated either in powder form or after compaction into pellets. The resulting activ... Read More about Direct and mild non-hydroxide activation of biomass to carbons with enhanced CO2 storage capacity.

Review - Origin and Promotional Effects of Plasmonics in Photocatalysis (2022)
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Thangamuthu, M., Raziman, T., Martin, O. J. F., & Tang, J. (2022). Review - Origin and Promotional Effects of Plasmonics in Photocatalysis. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 169(3), Article 036512. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac5c97

Plasmonic effects including near-field coupling, light scattering, guided mode through surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), F rster resonant energy transfer (FRET), and thermoplasmonics are extensively used for harnessing inexhaustible solar energy for... Read More about Review - Origin and Promotional Effects of Plasmonics in Photocatalysis.

Mechanically interlocked molecular handcuffs (2022)
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Pearce, N., Tarnowska, M., Andersen, N. J., Wahrhaftig-Lewis, A., Pilgrim, B. S., & Champness, N. R. (2022). Mechanically interlocked molecular handcuffs. Chemical Science, 13(14), 3915-3941. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc00568a

The field of mechanically interlocked molecules that employ a handcuff component are reviewed. The variety of rotaxane and catenane structures that use the handcuff motif to interlock different components are discussed and a new nomenclature, distill... Read More about Mechanically interlocked molecular handcuffs.

Ni composite electrodes for hydrogen generation: Activation of Nb-based semiconductors (2022)
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Franceschini, E. A., Benavente Llorente, V., & Lanterna, A. E. (2022). Ni composite electrodes for hydrogen generation: Activation of Nb-based semiconductors. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 47(36), 15992-16004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.03.085

The hydrogen evolution reaction depends on the accumulation of electrons on the catalytic center to enable the two-electron processes involved in water reduction. This work reports on the modification of inexpensive nickel (Ni) composite electrodes w... Read More about Ni composite electrodes for hydrogen generation: Activation of Nb-based semiconductors.

A Mixed‐Addenda Mo/W Organofunctionalised Hybrid Polyoxometalate (2022)
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Amin, S. S., Cameron, J. M., Winslow, M., Davies, E. S., Argent, S. P., Robinson, D., & Newton, G. N. (2022). A Mixed‐Addenda Mo/W Organofunctionalised Hybrid Polyoxometalate. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2022(10), Article e202200019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202200019

Substitution of metal addenda was explored as a method to modulate the electronic structure of organofunctionalised hybrid polyoxometalate clusters. Here we study the effects of Mo substitution into a W-based cluster. Through a range of spectroscopic... Read More about A Mixed‐Addenda Mo/W Organofunctionalised Hybrid Polyoxometalate.