Chemistry, Volume 4, Issue 2

Electrochemical synthesis suggested a mild, green and atom-efficient route to interesting and useful molecules, thus avoiding harsh chemical oxidizing and reducing agents used in traditional synthetic methods. Organic electrochemistry offers an excel...

In the present work, the interaction strength of Carbon Monoxide (CO) with a set of forty-two, strategically selected, functionalized benzenes was calculated. Our ab initio calculations at the MP2/6-311++G** level of theory reveal that phenyl hydroge...

Mechanochemistry is a method that can cover the energy demand of reaction pathways between solid materials. This requires enough energy to maintain the reactions between the starting materials. This is called “high-energy milling”. In our...

We investigated the adsorption properties and the dielectric behavior of a very well-known metal-organic framework (MOF), namely Cu₃(BTC)₂ (known as HKUST-1; BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate), before and after protection with some amines. This treat...

Arylboronic acids are commonly used in modern organic chemistry to form new C–C and C–heteroatom bonds. These activated organic synthons show reactivity with heteroatoms in a range of substrates under ambient oxidative conditions. This br...

In this work, we study the kinetics of thermal decomposition of MgCO₃ in the form of particles of known size. In the experiments, the material is heated to a known temperature in a vacuum oven, and it is characterized, both before and after heating,...

Polynuclear heterobimetallic coordination cages in which different metal cations are connected within a ligand scaffold are known to adopt a variety of polyhedral architectures, many of which display interesting functions. Within the extensive array...

Lithium oligo-α-pyridylamides are useful intermediates in coordination chemistry. Upon trans-metalation they have afforded a variety of extended metal atom chains (EMACs), which are currently investigated as molecular wires and single-molecule...

Supramolecular metal–organic cages, a class of molecular containers formed via coordination-driven self-assembly, have attracted sustained attention for their applications in catalysis, due to their structural aesthetics and unique properties....

Recently, catalysts with hydrotalcites and hydrotalcite-derived compounds have attracted particular interest due to their specific properties, mostly well-developed texture, high thermal stability, and favorable acid–base properties. In this wo...

Converting solar energy to chemical energy through a photocatalytic reaction is an efficient technique for obtaining a clean and affordable source of energy. The main problem with solar photocatalysts is the recombination of charge carriers and the l...

Structural preferences of (1,3,5-cyclooctatriene) hexacarbonyl diiron [(C₈H₁₀)Fe₂(CO)₆] and cycloheptatriene hexacarbonyl diiron [(C₇H₈)Fe₂(CO)₆] were explored using density functional theory (DFT) computations. DFT computations together with experim...

The study on the synthesis of zeolites, including both the development of novel techniques of synthesis and the discovery of new zeolitic frameworks, has a background of several decades. In this context, the application of organic structure-directing...

The binding energies of 121 complexes between anions and bis(cyclopeptides) differing in the structure and the number of linking units between the two cyclopeptide rings were analyzed. These Gibbs free energies were obtained in earlier work for diffe...

Different extraction pH values obtain polysaccharides with tailored structures and novel functionalities. This study investigated the influence of different extraction pH values (4.2, 6.8, and 9.2) on the physicochemical compositions and structural a...

A ditopic nitrogen ligand (E)-N′-(pyridin-4-ylmethylene)isonicotinohydrazide (L) containing both divergent pyridyl coordination sites and a hydrogen-bonding hydrazide–hydrazone moiety was synthesized. The Co(NCS)₂-mediated self-assembly o...

This work reports the in situ instrumentation from manufacturing to loading of a henequen fiber woven-bioepoxy composite. Continuous monitoring was performed by means of fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) with the aim of tracking the curing behavior of the b...

Oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) reaction has emerged as a promising route for converting 1-butene to value-added 1,3-butadiene (BD). However, the low BD selectivity of the current catalysts (≤40%) and high steam input are now the challenge of this...

By virtue of their unique physicochemical properties, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have gained significant interest in a broad range of biomedical applications such as sensors, diagnosis, and therapy. AuNPs are generally synthesized via different conve...

Quinoidal oligothiophenes have received considerable attention as interesting platforms with remarkable amphoteric redox behavior associated with their diradical character increasing with the conjugation lengths. In this work, we considered a family...

The study showed that the interaction of the product of centrifugal thermal activation of gibbsite with an aqueous solution of magnesium nitrate at a cationic ratio Mg:Al = 1:2 leads to the formation of mixed double hydroxides both under hydrothermal...

Zeolites have been successfully applied as catalysts in the pyrolysis of plastics to obtain valuable lower molecular weight hydrocarbon compounds. In the present work, mordenite was directly synthesized and chemically modified from commercial mordeni...

Visible-light-driven heterostructure Ag/Bi₂WO₆ nanocomposites were prepared using a hydrothermal method followed by the photodeposition of Ag on Bi₂WO₆. A photocatalyst with a different molar ratio of Ag to Bi₂WO₆ (1:1, 1:2 and 2:1) was prepared. The...

This Special Issue of Chemistry is dedicated to Professor Josef Michl [...]

The development of widely applicable methods for the synthesis of C-C-bonded nanostructures on inert and insulating surfaces is a challenging yet rewarding milestone in the field of on-surface synthesis. This would enable studies of nearly unperturbe...

Viruses, and in particular, RNA viruses, dominate the WHO’s current list of ten global health threats. Of these, we review the widespread and most common HIV, influenza virus, and SARS-CoV-2 infections, as well as their possible prevention by v...