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Click Chemistry: Mechanistic Insights into the Role of Amines Using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy (2017)
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Single-molecule spectroscopy is used to gain insights into the click chemistry reaction photocatalyzed by copper. We show that CuxO@Nb2O5 catalysts can act as truly heterogeneous photocatalysts and that the amine plays an important role in the comple... Read More about Click Chemistry: Mechanistic Insights into the Role of Amines Using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy.

Thiol-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles: New Ways To Displace Thiol Layers Using Yttrium or Lanthanide Chlorides (2017)
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We use the aurophilic interactions shown by lanthanides to overcome the sulfur–gold interaction. UV–vis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirm that yttrium or lanthanide chlorides easily displace sulfur ligands from the surface of thiol-stabili... Read More about Thiol-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles: New Ways To Displace Thiol Layers Using Yttrium or Lanthanide Chlorides.

Visible Light Production of Hydrogen by Ablated Graphene: Water Splitting or Carbon Gasification? (2017)
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Reduced graphene oxide modified by pulsed laser ablation causes water splitting under visible light illumination (532 nm). When the light source is a pulsed laser, water splitting is accompanied by carbon gasification (CO formation); however, convent... Read More about Visible Light Production of Hydrogen by Ablated Graphene: Water Splitting or Carbon Gasification?.

Photophysics of 7-mercapto-4-methylcoumarin and derivatives: complementary fluorescence behaviour to 7-hydroxycoumarins (2017)
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The photophysical behaviour of 7-mercapto-4-methylcoumarin (C-SH) and derivatives has been studied in different solvents. In contrast to 7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin, C-SH shows poor emission, but high fluorescence when the thiol is alkylated. The orig... Read More about Photophysics of 7-mercapto-4-methylcoumarin and derivatives: complementary fluorescence behaviour to 7-hydroxycoumarins.

Is Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy Ready To Join the Organic Chemistry Toolkit? A Test Case Involving Click Chemistry (2017)
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Single molecule spectroscopy (SMS) has matured to a point where it can be used as a convenient tool to guide organic synthesis and drug discovery, particularly applicable to catalytic systems where questions related to homogeneous vs heterogeneous pa... Read More about Is Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy Ready To Join the Organic Chemistry Toolkit? A Test Case Involving Click Chemistry.