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Multi-component Copolymerized Donors enable Frozen Nano-morphology and Superior Ductility for Efficient Binary Organic Solar Cells Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Congqi Lin, Ruixiang Peng, Wei Song, Zhenyu Chen, Tingting Feng, Dinghong Sun, Yongqi Bai, Ziyi Ge
Multi-component copolymerized donors (MCDs) have gained significant interest and have been rapidly developed in flexible organic solar cells (f-OSCs) in recent years. However, ensuring the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of f-OSCs while retaining ideal mechanical properties remains an enormous challenge. The fracture strain (FS) value of typical high-efficiency blend films is generally less than
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Rare Earth Single-Atom Catalysis for High-Performance Li−S Full Battery with Ultrahigh Capacity Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Rong Zhou, Yongqiang Ren, Weixin Li, Meng Guo, Yinan Wang, Haixin Chang, Xin Zhao, Wei Hu, Guowei Zhou, Shaonan Gu
Lithium-sulfur (Li−S) batteries have many advantages but still face problems such as retarded polysulfides redox kinetics and Li dendrite growth. Most reported single atom catalysts (SACs) for Li−S batteries are based on d-band transition metals whose d orbital constitutes active valence band, which is inclined to occur catalyst passivation. SACs based on 4f inner valence orbital of rare earth metals
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Improved Synthesis of Hollow Fiber SSZ-13 Zeolite Membranes for High-Pressure CO2/CH4 Separation Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Xingyu Peng, Lingjie Chen, Lekai You, Yang Jin, Chun Zhang, Shengyuan Ren, Freek Kapteijn, Xuerui Wang, Xuehong Gu
High-silica CHA zeolite membranes are highly desired for natural gas upgrading because of their separation performance in combination with superior mechanical and chemical stability. However, the narrow synthesis conditions range significantly constrains scale-up preparation. Herein, we proposed a facile interzeolite conversion approach using FAU zeolite to prepare SSZ-13 zeolite seeds, featuring a
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Asymmetric 1,n-Remote Aminoacetoxylation of Unactivated Internal Alkenes Enabled by Palladium Catalysis** Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Guosheng Liu, Xintuo Yang, Pinhong Chen
A palladium -catalyzed asymmetric 1,n-remote aminoacetoxylation of cis-alkenes has been developed using PhI(OAc)2 as oxidant, providing the acetoxylated lactams with excellent enantioselectivities under mild reaction conditions. The sterically hindered pyridine-oxazoline (Pyox) L3 with a tert-butyl group in oxazoline ring and propyl group in C6 position of pyridinyl is vital for the reaction, where
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Boosting Solar-Driven CO2 Conversion to Ethanol via Single-Atom Catalyst with Defected Low-Coordination Cu-N2 Motif Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Hainan Shi, Yan Liang, Jungang Hou, Haozhi Wang, Zhenghao Jia, Jiaming Wu, Fei Song, Hong Yang, Xinwen Guo
In this paper, we report a high-performance carbon nitride supported Cu single-atom catalyst featuring defected low-coordination Cu-N2 motif (Cu-N2-V). Lead many recently reported photocatalysts and its Cu-N3 and Cu-N4 counterparts, Cu-N2-V exhibits superior photocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction to ethanol, delivering 69.8 μmol g-1 h-1 ethanol production rate, 97.8% electron-based ethanol selectivity
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Orthogonal Radical and Cationic Single-Unit Monomer Insertions for Engineering Polymer Architectures Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Ze Wei, Wei He, Zhihua Liu, Yating Lin, Maolin Wang, Liang Li, Chunxiao Wu, Sheng Yang, Guhuan Liu, Ronghua Yang
The single-unit monomer insertion (SUMI), derived from living/controlled polymerization, can be directly functionalized at the end or within the chain of polymers prepared by living/controlled polymerization, offering potential applications in the preparation of polymers with complex architectures. Many scenarios demand the simultaneous incorporation of monomers suitable for different polymerization
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Opening and Constructing Stable Lithium-ion Channels within Polymer Electrolytes Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yangmingyue Zhao, Libo Li, Da Zhou, Yue Ma, Yonghong Zhang, Hang Yang, Shubo Fan, Hao Tong, Suo Li, Wenhua Qu
Lithium-ion batteries play an integral role in various aspects of daily life, yet there is a pressing need to enhance their safety and cycling stability. In this study, we have successfully developed a highly secure and flexible solid-state polymer electrolyte (SPE) through the in-situ polymerization of allyl acetoacetate (AAA) monomers. This SPE constructed an efficient Li+ transport channel inside
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Time-Resolved Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry to Solve Conformational Changes in a Cryptochrome J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Rene Zangl, Sejla Soravia, Martin Saft, Jan Gerrit Löffler, Jonathan Schulte, Christian Joshua Rosner, Jens Bredenbeck, Lars-Oliver Essen, Nina Morgner
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Merging Flow Synthesis and Enzymatic Maturation to Expand the Chemical Space of Lasso Peptides J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Kevin Schiefelbein, Jakob Lang, Matthias Schuster, Claire E. Grigglestone, Robin Striga, Laurent Bigler, Meredith C. Schuman, Oliver Zerbe, Yanyan Li, Nina Hartrampf
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Cocrystalline Matrices for Hyperpolarization at Room Temperature Using Photoexcited Electrons J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Munehiro Inukai, Haruki Sato, Koichiro Miyanishi, Makoto Negoro, Akinori Kagawa, Yuta Hori, Yasuteru Shigeta, Takuya Kurihara, Koichi Nakamura
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Non-Persistent Nano-Architectures Enhance Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy in an Immunocompetent Orthotopic Model of HPV+ Head/Neck Carcinoma Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Alessandra Gonnelli, Marine Gerbé de Thoré, Maria Laura Ermini, Valentina Frusca, Agata Zamborlin, Nicolas Signolle, Olivia Bawa, Céline Clémenson, Lydia Meziani, Paul Bergeron, Ismail El-Azrak, Patrizia Sarogni, Enrico Mugnaioli, Noemi Giannini, Giuliana Drava, Eric Deutsch, Fabiola Paiar, Michele Mondini, Valerio Voliani
Cisplatin chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is the established standard of care for managing HPV+ head/neck carcinoma. The typically young patients may suffer serious and long-time side effects caused by the treatment, such as dysphagia, and hearing loss. Thus, ensuring a satisfactory post-treatment quality of life is paramount. One potential replacing approach to the classical CRT involves the combination of
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Full-Space Electric Field in Mo-Decorated Zn2In2S5 Polarization Photocatalyst for Oriented Charge Flow and Efficient Hydrogen Production Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Jun Wan, Yu Wang, Jiaqing Liu, Ru Song, Lin Liu, Yaping Li, Jiayi Li, Jingxiang Low, Feng Fu, Yujie Xiong
Integration of photocatalytic hydrogen (H2) evolution with oxidative organic synthesis presents a highly attractive strategy for the simultaneous production of clean H2 fuel and high-value chemicals. However, the sluggish dynamics of photogenerated charge carriers across the photocatalysts result in low photoconversion efficiency, hindering the wide applications of such a technology. Herein, we overcome
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Thickness of Nano-Scale Poly(Dimethylsiloxane) Layers Determines the Motion of Sliding Water Drops Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Xiaoteng Zhou, Yongkang Wang, Xiaomei Li, Pranav Sudersan, Katrin Amann-Winkel, Kaloian Koynov, Yuki Nagata, Rüdiger Berger, Hans-Jürgen Butt
Layers of nanometer thick polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) are applied as hydrophobic coatings because of their environmentally-friendly and chemically-inert properties. In applications such as heat exchangers or fog harvesting, low water drop friction on surfaces is required. While the onset of motion (static friction) has been studied, our knowledge of dynamic friction needs to be improved. Which processes
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Tunable and Reversible Adhesive of Liquid Metal Ferrofluid Pillars for Magnetically Actuated Non-Contact Transfer Printing Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Jing Jiang, Chenglong Li, Chenhong Chen, Chuanqian Shi, Jizhou Song
Transfer printing techniques based on tunable and reversible adhesives enable the heterogeneous integration of materials in desired layouts and are essential for developing both existing and envisioned electronic systems. Here, w e report a novel tunable and reversible adhesive of liquid metal ferrofluid pillars for developing an efficient magnetically actuated non-contact transfer printing. The liquid
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Revealing the Nature of Binary-Phase on Structural Stability of Sodium Layered Oxide Cathodes Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Renbin Liu, Weiyuan Huang, Jie Liu, Yuhao Li, Jing Wang, Qingshan Liu, Lu Ma, Gihan Kwon, Steven N. Ehrlich, Yangyang Wu, Tongchao Liu, Khalil Amine, Hongsen Li
The emergence of layered sodium transition metal oxides featuring a multiphase structure presents a promising approach for cathode materials in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), showcasing notably improved energy storage capacity. However, the advancement of cathodes with multiphase structures faces obstacles due to the limited understanding of the integrated structural effects. Herein, we comprehend the
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Novel Palladium Hydride Surface Enabling Simultaneous Bacterial Killing and Osteogenic Formation through Proton Capturing and Activation of Antioxidant System in Immune Microenvironments Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Dongdong Zhang, Mei Li, Shuhan Chen, Huihui Du, Hua Zhong, Jun Wu, Feihong Liu, Qian Zhang, Feng Peng, Xuanyong Liu, Kelvin W.K. Yeung
Achieving bacterial killing and osteogenic formation on an implant surface rarely occurs. In this study, we introduce a novel surface design–a palladium hydride (PdHx) film that enables these two distinct features to coexist. The PdHx lattice captures protons in the extracellular microenvironment of bacteria, disrupting their normal metabolic activities, such as ATP synthesis, nutrient co-transport
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Photoacoustic: A Versatile Nongenetic Method for High-Precision Neuromodulation Acc. Chem. Res. (IF 18.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Zhiyi Du, Guo Chen, Yueming Li, Nan Zheng, Ji-Xin Cheng, Chen Yang
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Author Correction: A small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Roberto Maiolino, Jan Scholtz, Joris Witstok, Stefano Carniani, Francesco D’Eugenio, Anna de Graaff, Hannah Übler, Sandro Tacchella, Emma Curtis-Lake, Santiago Arribas, Andrew Bunker, Stéphane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Mirko Curti, Tobias J. Looser, Michael V. Maseda, Timothy D. Rawle, Bruno Rodríguez del Pino, Chris J. Willott, Eiichi Egami, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kevin N. Hainline, Brant Robertson
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How cheesemaking could cook up an antidote for alcohol excess Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17
A gel made from a milk protein reduces alcohol levels in the blood of intoxicated mice.
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Pig-organ transplants: what three human recipients have taught scientists Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17
As researchers mark the loss of the first living recipient of a pig kidney, they share what they’ve learnt about xenotransplantation.
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mRNA therapy is safe for treating the inherited metabolic condition propionic acidaemia Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17
First-in-human clinical trial shows safety and promising signs of efficacy of mRNA therapy for rare but deadly genetic disease.
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Daniel Dennett obituary: ‘New atheism’ philosopher who sparked debate on consciousness Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17
Cognitive scientist who boldly explored free will, the human mind and AI, and rejected the existence of God.
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A thermo-responsive hydrogel for body temperature-induced spontaneous information decryption and self-encryption Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Ting-Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Xiao-Jie Ju, Zhuang Liu, Da-Wei Pan, Rui Xie, Liang-Yin Chu
Smart hydrogels have great potentials in the field of information encryption. However, developing a smart hydrogel with spontaneous decryption and self-encryption is still a challenge. A thermo-responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) hydrogel exhibits an interesting phenomenon of opaque-transparent-opaque change in the succesive process of heating and cooling. It is fabricated by virtue of
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Selective ion migration in polyelectrolyte driving high-performance flexible moisture-electric generator Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yongxiang Han, Yanlei Wang, Mi Wang, Zhaoyang Lv, Ziqi Zhang, Hongyan He
We propose a novel moisture-electric generator that utilizes the unique properties of a blended poly(4-styrene sulfonic acid) and poly(vinyl alcohol) with phytic acid by screen printing and scrape coating, achieving an impressive open-circuit voltage of 0.88 V from ambient humidity. This innovative design significantly enhances ion transport, moisture adsorption, and flexibility, making a marked improvement
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Demethylenative Cyclization of 1,7-Enynes Using α-Amino Radical as a Traceless Initiator Enabled by Cu(I)-Photosensitizers Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Qinfang Jiang, Hanyang Bao, Yun Peng, Yan Zhou, Lang Chen, Yunkui Liu
A rare type of demethylenative intramolecular cyclization of 1,7-enynes to access quinoline-2-(1H)-ones has been successfully developed under the catalysis of P/N-heteroleptic Cu(I)-photosensitizers. Preliminary mechanistic experiments revealed that the key to the success of this protocol lay in the α-amino radical addition-triggered tandem process of intramolecular radical cyclization/1,5-HAT/β-fragmentation
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Synthesis of Quinazolinone Scaffolds via Zinc(II) Stabilized Amidyl Radical Promoted Deaminative Approach Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Arnab Rit, Subarna Manna, Sangita Sahoo
Herein, we report a solely ligand centered redox controlled effective protocol for the coupling of o-amino amides/esters and nitriles to afford diverse medicinally relevant scaffolds, quinazolin-4(3H)-ones, in high yields utilizing a bench stable C2-amidated imidazolium salt supported zinc compound. Importantly, detailed mechanistic probes established the reaction pathway that proceeds via aminyl radical
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An activated near-infrared mitochondrion-targetable fluorescent probe for rapid detection of NADH Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yaxin Sun, Yanyun Mao, Tianwen Bai, Tianqing Ye, Yanfei Lin, Fang Wang, Lei Li, Longhua Guo, Haiying Liu, Jianbo Wang
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Hydrogen Bond Types Which Do Not Fit Accepted Definitions Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Slawomir J Grabowski
There are various interactions which are hardly fited or even are not fited to the current accepted definitions of the hydrogen bond. However they possess characteristics of this interaction. It seems that it is partly connected with the fact these definitions are not precise. The typical 3c-4e (three centres – four electrons) A-H...B hydrogen bond is characterized by the single-atom A and B centres
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Synthesis of sterically congested double helicene by alkyne cycloisomerization Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Junichiro Hirano, Sayaka Miyoshi, Eiji Yashima, Tomoyuki Ikai, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Norihito Fukui
Alkyne cycloisomerization of 2,7,10,15-tetra(ortho-alkynylphenyl)benzo[g,p]chrysene containing bulky 4-alkoxy-2,6-dimethylphenyl groups at the alkyne terminals selectively proceeded at the sterically crowded bay-region. The obtained double helicene adopts a distorted structure with a high racemization barrier due to the intramolecular steric repulsion.
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Electrochemical Quinuclidine-mediated Minisci-type Acylation of N-Heterocycles with Aldehydes Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yongmei Li, Liangbo Sun, Shengyang Huang, Kun Xu, Cheng-Chu Zeng
The electro-generation of acyl radicals from both aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes remains an unmet challenge. We provide a solution to this challenge by merging electro-oxidation and quinuclidine-mediated hydrogen atom transfer strategy. The generation of acyl radicals at decreased applied potentials than that of formyl oxidation exhibits excellent functional group compatibility.
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Mechanochemical Reduction of Alkyl and Aryl Halides Using Mesoporous Zinc Oxide Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Zhengheng Li, Longfei Zhang, Ran Ding, Jian Wang, Du Chen, Ziye Ren, Chengqiang Ding, Kai Chen, Jialin Wang, Zhao Wang
In this study, we proposed a mechanochemical approach that combined mesoporous ZnO (m-ZnO) as mechanoredox catalyst and silane-mediated atom transfer chemistry to achieve efficient hydrodehalogenation of organic halides. The reaction can be conducted under mild conditions without the use of a large amount of organic solvent. Substrates ranging from activated alkyl halides to unactivated aryl halides
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Chemoselective Oxidation of Aromatic Aldehydes to Carboxylic Acids: Potassium tert-butoxide as an Anomalous Source of Oxygen Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Waseem Igbal Lone, Auqib Rashid, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Showkat Rashid
A chemoselective oxidation of aromatic and heteroaromatic aldehydes (> 45 examples) to their corresponding carboxylic acids has been developed. Potassium tert-butoxide acts as an oxygen source during this transformation that delivers the corresponding acids without chromatographic purifications. Use of bench-top reagents, operational simplicity and high level of chemo-selectivity with respect to the
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Understanding Cascade Heterojunction of CuPc/Bi-MOF for Photoelectrochemical Nitrate Reduction Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yajie Bai, Zhenyuan Fang, Meiqi Zhai, Xianlei Jiang, Jianming Li, Hongye Bai, Weiqiang Fan
Herein, a CuPc/Bi-MOF cascade heterojunction is synthesized exhibiting excellent NH3 yield (7.13 μg h⁻¹ cm⁻²) and stability. Characterizations show that the cascade heterostructure with unique morphology and oxygen vacancies offers new insights for future photoelectrocatalytic material design.
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Platelike carbon-encapsulated nickel nanocrystals for efficient electrooxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Ting Sang, Hui Xu, Wenke Wang, Dongfang Ji, Jingcheng Hao, Zhonghao Li
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Thermo-temporal physisorption in metal–organic frameworks probed by cyclic thermo-ellipsometry Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Hajar Amyar, Civan Avci, Cédric Boissière, Andrea Cattoni, Mondher Besbes, Marco Faustini
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Visualizing Dynamic Single Atom Catalysis Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Edward D. Boyes, Pratibha L. Gai
Many industrial chemical processes, including for producing fuels, foods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and environmental controls, employ heterogeneous solid state catalysts at elevated temperatures in gas or liquid environments. Dynamic reactions at the atomic level play a critical role in catalyst stability and functionality. In-situ visualization and analysis of atomic-scale processes in real time
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Dipole Moment Influences the Reversibility and Corrosion of Lithium Metal Anodes Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Peng-Cheng Li, Zhi-Qing Zhang, Zi-Wei Zhao, Jing-Qiao Li, Zhi-Xiao Xu, Hao Zhang, Ge Li
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) must have both long cycle life and calendar life to be commercially viable. However, “trial and error” methodologies remains prevalent in contemporary research endeavors to identify favorable electrolytes. Here, we propose a guiding principle for the selection of solvents for LMBs, which aims to achieve high coulombic efficiency while minimizing the corrosion. For the
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Directional Formation of Reactive Oxygen Species via a Non-Redox Catalysis Strategy that Bypasses Electron Transfer Process Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Junsheng Song, Nannan Hou, Xiaocheng Liu, Guangyu Bi, Yang Wang, Yang Mu
A broad range of chemical transformations driven by catalytic processes necessitate the electron transfer between catalyst and substrate. The redox cycle limitation arising from the inequivalent electron donation and acceptance of the involved catalysts, however, generally leads to their deactivation, causing substantial economic losses and environmental risks. Here we provide a “non-redox catalysis”
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Bioinspired Adaptive Microdrugs Enhance the Chemotherapy of Malignant Glioma: Beyond Their Nanodrugs Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Xuejiao Wang, Xiangrong Hao, Yangning Zhang, Qun Wu, Jiajia Zhou, Zhongman Cheng, Jianping Chen, Sijia Liu, Jiahao Pan, Ying Wang, Jun-Bing Fan
Solid nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery systems are usually confined to nanoscale due to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. However, they remain a great challenge for malignant glioma chemotherapy because of poor drug delivery efficiency and insufficient tumor penetration resulting from the blood-brain barrier/blood-brain tumor barrier (BBB/BBTB). Inspired by biological microparticles
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Bio-Inspired Magnetic-Responsive Supramolecular-Covalent Semi-Convertible Hydrogel Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Feng Gao, Hongyue Jiang, Dayang Wang, Shutao Wang, Wenlong Song
Bio-inspired magnetic-responsive hydrogel is confined in exceedingly narrow spaces for soft robots and biomedicine in either gel state or magnetofluidic sol state. However, the motion of the gel state magnetic hydrogel will be inhibited in various irregular spaces due to the fixed shape and size and the sol-state magnetofluid gel might bring unpredictable residues in the confined narrow space. Inspired
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Spectrally Resolved Exciton Polarizability for Understanding Charge Generation in Organic Bulk Hetero-Junction Diodes J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Enoch Go, Hyunjung Jin, Seongwon Yoon, Hyungju Ahn, Joonsoo Kim, Chanwoo Lim, Ji-Hee Kim, Haleem Ud Din, Jung-Hoon Lee, Yongseok Jun, Hyeonggeun Yu, Hae Jung Son
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Visible-Light Photocatalytic C–H Amination of Arenes Utilizing Acridine–Lewis Acid Complexes J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Matthew R. Lasky, En-Chih Liu, Matthew S. Remy, Melanie S. Sanford
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Robust Homochiral Polycrystalline Metal–Organic Framework Membranes for High-Performance Enantioselective Separation J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Ting Chen, He Li, Xiansong Shi, Joseph Imbrogno, Dan Zhao
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Hydrophobic Mismatch in the Thylakoid Membrane Regulates Photosynthetic Light Harvesting J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Sam Wilson, Charlea D. Clarke, M. Alejandra Carbajal, Roberto Buccafusca, Roland A. Fleck, Vangelis Daskalakis, Alexander V. Ruban
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Single-Pore Nanofluidic Logic Memristor with Reconfigurable Synaptic Functions and Designable Combinations J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Yixin Ling, Lejian Yu, Ziwen Guo, Fazhou Bian, Yanqiong Wang, Xin Wang, Yaqi Hou, Xu Hou
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Induced Huge Optical Activity in Nanoplatelet Superlattice J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Xiaoqing Gao, Xuekang Yang, Jiawei Lv, Luyang Zhao, Xinyu Sui, Xueyan Zhang, Yuyu Xie, Zhiyong Tang
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Kinetic Evaluation on Lithium Polysulfide in Weakly Solvating Electrolyte toward Practical Lithium–Sulfur Batteries J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Xi-Yao Li, Shuai Feng, Yun-Wei Song, Chang-Xin Zhao, Zheng Li, Zi-Xian Chen, Qian Cheng, Xiang Chen, Xue-Qiang Zhang, Bo-Quan Li, Jia-Qi Huang, Qiang Zhang
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Silicon Nitride Surface Enabled Propane Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by Supported Organozirconium J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Joshua C. DeMuth, Yu Lim Kim, Jacklyn N. Hall, Zoha H. Syed, Kaixi Deng, Frédéric A. Perras, Magali S. Ferrandon, A. Jeremy Kropf, Cong Liu, David M. Kaphan, Massimiliano Delferro
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Isolable Spirocyclic Silylone: π-Delocalized Spiro[3.3]heptasila-2,6-diylidone J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Meldon Yi-Shuo Wee, Shina Quek, Chi-Shiun Wu, Ming-Der Su, Cheuk-Wai So
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Hydrosulfonylation of Alkynes for Stereodivergent Synthesis of Vinyl Sulfones: Synthetic Strategy and Mechanistic Insights J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Sujith K P, Steiny Russelisaac Premakumari, Kyung-Bin Cho, Anna Lee
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Enantioselective Nickel-Electrocatalyzed Reductive Propargylic Carboxylation with CO2 J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Qingdong Hu, Boyuan Wei, Mingxu Wang, Minghao Liu, Xiao-Wang Chen, Chuan-Kun Ran, Gefei Wang, Ziting Chen, Haoze Li, Jin Song, Da-Gang Yu, Chang Guo
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Synthesis and Characterization of an All-Germanium Analogue of Cyclobutane-1,3-diyl J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jiazhong Li, Kai Li, Linlin Wu, Hao Wang
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Graphdiyne Enabled Nitrogen Vacancy Formation in Copper Nitride for Efficient Ammonia Synthesis J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Zixuan Zhang, Xueting Feng, Zedong Zhang, Long Chen, Wen Liu, Lianming Tong, Xin Gao, Jin Zhang
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Dynamic Covalent Bonds Regulate Zinc Plating/Stripping Behaviors for High-Performance Zinc Ion Batteries Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yafei Guo, Chong Luo, Mingfang Yang, Huirong Wang, Wenwen Ma, Kaikai Hu, Li Li, Feng Wu, Renjie Chen
Artificial interfaces provide a comprehensive approach to controlling zinc dendrite and surface corrosion in zinc-based aqueous batteries (ZABs). However, due to consistent volume changes during zinc plating/stripping, traditional interfacial layers cannot consistently adapt to the dendrite surface, resulting in uncontrolled dendrite growth and hydrogen evolution. Herein, dynamic covalent bonds exhibit
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Self-Assembled Pure Covalent Tubes Exhibiting Circularly Polarized Luminescence Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Chenqi Ge, Weili Shang, Zhong Chen, Jiyong Liu, Hua Tang, Yating Wu, Siyu He, Minghua Liu, Hao Li
Here, we successfully synthesized four structurally analogous, self-assembled chiral molecular tubes with relatively high yields. This achievement involved the condensation of six equivalents of enantiomerically pure trans-cyclohexane-1,2-diamine (trans-CHDA) and three equivalents of the corresponding tetraformyl precursor. Each precursor was equipped with a luminescent linker terminated by two m-phthalaldehyde
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Orchestrated Octuple C–H Activation: A Bottom-Up Topology Engineering Approach toward Stimuli-Responsive Double-Heptagon-Embedded Wavy Polycyclic Heteroaromatics Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Samim Sohel Rana, Joyanta Choudhury
Curiosity-driven innovations on the design and synthesis of nonplanar polycyclic aromatic/heteroaromatic compounds with new molecular topologies unfold exciting opportunities for harnessing their intriguing supramolecular properties and thereby the development of novel functional organic materials. This work presents such an innovative synthetic concept of a bottom-up molecular topology engineering
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Dearomative Intramolecular (4+3) Cycloadditions of Thiophenes Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yufen Zheng, Yueyao Chen, Yuxuan He, Antonio Rizzo, Yuchen Zhou, Kam-Hung Low, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Pauline Chiu
Unexpectedly facile dearomative intramolecular (4+3) cycloadditions of thiophenes with epoxy enolsilanes, providing sulfur-bridged cycloadducts, are reported. A total of fifteen thiophene substrates have been found to undergo (4+3) cycloaddition smoothly to produce endo and exo (4+3) adducts in yields of up to 83% with moderate to good diastereoselectivity. Complete conservation of enantiomeric purity
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Unimolecular Chemiexcited Oxygenation of Pathogenic Amyloids Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Hiroki Umeda, Kayo Suda, Daisuke Yokogawa, Yuto Azumaya, Nobuo Kitada, Shojiro A. Maki, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Harunobu Mitsunuma, Yuki Yamanashi, Motomu Kanai
Pathogenic protein aggregates, called amyloids, are etiologically relevant to various diseases, including neurodegenerative Alzheimer disease. Catalytic photooxygenation of amyloids, such as amyloid-β (Aβ), reduces their toxicity; however, the requirement for light irradiation may limit its utility in large animals, including humans, due to the low tissue permeability of light. Here, we report that
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Core-Alkynylated Fluorescent Flippers: Altered Ultrafast Photophysics to Track Thick Membranes Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Khurnia Krisna Puji Pamungka, Ina Fureraj, Lea Assies, Naomi Sakai, Vincent Mercier, Xiao-Xiao Chen, Eric Vauthey, Stefan Matile
Fluorescent flippers have been introduced as small-molecule probes to image membrane tension in living systems. This study describes the design, synthesis, spectroscopic and imaging properties of flippers that are elongated by one and two alkynes inserted between the push and the pull dithienothiophene domains. The resulting mechanophores combine characteristics of flippers, reporting on physical compression
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Electrocatalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of 1-Octene with [(tBuPCP)Ir(H)(Cl)] and Water Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Patrick Mollik, Markus Drees, Alexander Markus Frantz, Dominik P. Halter
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of 1-octene as non-activated model substrate with neutral water as H-donor is reported, using [(tBuPCP)Ir(H)(Cl)] (1) as the catalyst, to form octane with high faradaic efficiency (FE) of 96% and a kobs of 87 s–1. Cyclic voltammetry with 1 revealed that two subsequent reductions trigger the elimination of Cl– and afford the highly reactive anionic Ir(I) hydride complex