Thiourea and its derivatives have become a significant focal point within the organic synthesis field, garnering attention for their diverse biological applications, including antibacterial, antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-Alzheimer,...
Applied electrochemistry (AE) plays today an important role in a wide range of fields, including energy conversion and storage, processes, environment, (bio)analytical chemistry, and many others. Electrochemical synthesis is now proven as a promising...
Polyamides (PAs) undergo local environmental degradation, leading to a decline in their mechanical properties over time. PAs can experience various forms of degradation, such as thermal degradation, oxidation, hydrothermal oxidation, UV oxidation, an...
The bio-based solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene) is a green and sustainable alternative to petroleum-based dipolar aprotic solvents. Cyrene can be prepared from cellulose in a simple two-step process and can be produced in a variety of yields. C...
In recent years, transdermal drug delivery systems have gained considerable attention for their ability to enhance patient compliance and provide consistent drug release. However, the barrier function of the skin’s outermost layer remains the f...
MXene materials have found emerging applications as catalysts for chemical reactions due to their intriguing physical and chemical applications. In particular, their broad light response and strong photothermal conversion capabilities are likely to r...
Biomaterials and biomembranes play a crucial role in a variety of applications, particularly in the medical field due to their ability to mimic natural biological structures and functions. Crosslinkers play also an important role in enhancing the str...
Quinoxaline is a fused heterocycle system of a benzene ring and pyrazine ring. It has earned considerable attention due to its importance in the field of medicinal chemistry. The system is of extensive importance due to its comprehensive array of bio...
Benzothiazole derivatives have emerged as being highly significant in drug discovery due to their versatile biological activities and structural adaptability. Incorporating nitrogen and sulfur, this fused heterocyclic scaffold exhibits wide-ranging p...
This study presents a critical review of the experimental vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data for the quaternary acetic acid-ethanol-ethyl acetate-water system and its subsystems that are reported in the literature. The thermodynamic consistency of t...
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have garnered significant attention in the photovoltaic field owing to their exceptional photoelectric properties, including high light absorption, extensive carrier diffusion distance, and an adjustable band gap. Temper...
Keggin-type heteropolyacid cesium salts have been regarded as potential candidates for heterogeneous catalytic reactions. This review describes the success of Keggin-type heteropolyacids cesium salts (Cs-HPA salts) as efficient catalysts in various s...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been observed to exclusively eliminate dyes confined within their respective pores. In this investigation, the synthesis of a breathable MOF structure, MIL-88B(Fe), was pursued with the objective of circumve...
MIL-101(Cr), a widely studied chromium-based metal–organic framework material consisting of chromium metal ions and terephthalic acid ligands, has attracted much attention due to its ultra-high specific surface area, large pore size, and excell...
The dn number or configuration is a very useful parameter in transition metal chemistry because it conveys information about the expected properties of a d-block metal complex, including its shape, magnetism, thermodynamic stability, kinetic lability...
Gene therapy is the ultimate therapeutic technology for diseases related to gene abnormality. However, the use of DNA alone has serious problems, such as poor stability and difficulty in entering target cells. The development of a safe and efficient...
Heterocycles, compounds featuring heteroatoms like nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen, are integral in fields such as synthesis, pharmacology, and medicine. Among these, benzothiazoles, formed by fusing thiazole with benzene, hold significant prominence. T...
As talk grows about billions or even trillions of dollars being directed toward potential “Net Zero” activities, it is imperative that the chemistry inherent in or driving those actions make scientific sense. The challenge is to close the...
The excessive utilization of petroleum diesel has led to the depletion of fossil resources and severe environmental pollution. Biodiesel produced from renewable triglycerides (TGs) or waste lipids is a low-emission fuel substitute for diesel. Biodies...
Sodium-ion batteries are a promising class of secondary power sources that can replace some of the lithium-ion, lead–acid, and other types of batteries in large-scale applications. One of the critical parameters for their potential use is high...
Sulfated polysaccharides have a variety of important biologically active properties, such as anticoagulant, hypolipidemic, antiviral activity, the ability to be a means of targeted drug delivery and to improve the water solubility of certain drugs. I...
A single-step method for aniline formation was examined. Using a vanadate catalyst with an iron oxide co-catalyst and hydroxylamine hydrochloride as the amine source, an up to 90% yield of aniline was obtained with high selectivity. Further study sho...
C3–N1′ bond formation of bisindoles has been a great challenge due to the intrinsic reactivity of indoles as both C3 and N1-nucleophilic character. Herein, we demonstrate an C3–N1′ cross-coupling reaction of indoles using N-me...
The performance of a series of cobalt-based composites in catalytic amination of aromatic aldehydes by amines in the presence of hydrogen as well as hydrogenation of quinoline was studied. The composites were prepared by pyrolysis of CoII acetate, or...
“Are we asking the right questions?” seems cliché, but for ChatGPT, it is a pivotal tool to ensure the accuracy of responses. While ChatGPT-3.5’s training on the vast database promises to revolutionize STEM education and rese...
Microreactor technology is seen as a promising approach to achieve green and sustainable synthesis in chemical fields because of the significant process intensification and fine control over reaction parameters caused by the miniaturization of reacto...
Aptamers are artificial oligonucleotides with excellent molecule-targeting ability. Compared with monoclonal antibodies, aptamers have the advantages of low cost, no batch effect, and negligible immunogenicity, making them promising candidates for ca...
This is a short overview of the life and achievements of Justus von Liebig. Clearly, this can only be an incomplete and somewhat personal view of the author, who has been a professor of inorganic chemistry at Justus Liebig University since 2002. Havi...
In this study, Melia azedarach fruit extract was used as a reducing agent and copper chloride dihydrate (CuCl2·2H2O) was used as a precursor in the synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs). The UV–visible spectrum showed a chara...
Aromaticity and antiaromaticity are concepts that are often used to explain and predict the physical and chemical properties of cyclic conjugated compounds. They are associated with 4n + 2 and 4n cyclically arranged electrons that are delocalized and...
Microorganisms remain in water from various sources after desalination and other treatments, posing health risks. We explored alternative natural disinfection agents, focusing on grape seed extract (GSE). We collected local grape seeds in Saudi Arabi...
Resource shortage is a major problem in our world. Nuclear energy is a green energy and because of this and its high energy density, it has been attracting more and more attention during the last few decades. Uranium is a valuable nuclear fuel used i...
The use of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as templates or precursors in the manufacture of heterogeneous catalysts is highly attractive due to the transfer of MOFs’ inherent porosity and homogeneous metallic distribution to the derived s...
Antioxidants are very beneficial for health as they protect the body from the effects of free radicals on various degenerative diseases caused by food contamination, air pollution, sunlight, etc. In general, methods for measuring the capacity of anti...
This review summarizes the applications of vinyl sulfonate and vinyl acetate as green alternatives for vinyl bromide in cross-coupling reactions. In the first part, the preparation of vinyl sulfonates and their cross-coupling reactions are briefly di...
A silica-supported copper (Cu/SiO2) catalyst containing highly dispersed Cu nanoparticles was prepared via a crown-ether-assisted impregnation method. A 12-crown-4-ether-assisted Cu/SiO2 catalyst outperformed several Cu/SiO2 catalysts prepared with v...
Oxygen evolution reactions (OER) are often the decisive step in determining the water electrolysis rate. The first row of transition metals and their derivatives, represented by Ni and Fe, have attracted much attention due to their excellent OER perf...
The potential of pretreated sugarcane bagasse (SCB) as a low-cost and renewable source to yield activated carbon (AC) for chromate CrO42− removal from an aqueous solution has been investigated. Raw sugarcane bagasse was pretreated with H2SO4, H...
As examples of “Click Chemistry”, the reaction of 1-(oxiran-2-ylmethyl)piperidine with several 1,2,4-triazoles derivatives was studied. As a result, the reaction shows that the oxirane ring opens regiospecifically, according to Krasusky&r...
In recent years, transition metal-catalyzed C–H activation and site-selective functionalization have been considered to be valuable synthetic tactics to functionalize organic compounds containing multiple C–H bonds. Pyrene is one of the p...
The metal–organic framework (MOF) is a kind of porous material with lattice materials. Due to its large surface area and structural diversity, it has made great progress in the fields of batteries, capacitors, electrocatalysis, etc. Conductive...
Gold nanoparticles are easily obtained by a range of room temperature processes. In particular, polyols-based syntheses performed in alkaline conditions without the need for surfactants lead to small size nanoparticles around 10 nm in diameter. While...
Self-assembled DNA nanospheres, as versatile and ideal vehicles, have offered new opportunities to create intelligent delivery systems for precise bioimaging and cancer therapy, due to their good biostability and cell permeability, large loading capa...
The demand for synthetic bone grafts has increased in recent years. Hydroxyapatite (HA) is one of the highly suitable candidates as a bone graft material due to its excellent biocompatibility and high osteoconductive properties with low toxicity. HA...
Here, five bonds to carbon through tri-coordination are theoretically established in the global minimum energy isomers of
We hereby report a simple and efficient method for the preparation of 4-methylcoumarins series, including Coumarin 120 (7-amino-4-methylcoumarin) from phenols (or naphthols) and ethyl acetoacetate in the presence of 3 mol% InCl3. Coumarins were obtai...
Prof. George Whitesides’ pioneering contributions to the field of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have profoundly influenced biointerface science and beyond. This review explores the development of SAMs as highly organized molecular structures...
While fluorescent sensors have been developed for monitoring metal ions in health and diseases, they are limited by the requirement of an excitation light source that can lead to photobleaching and a high autofluorescence background. To address these...
A molten-metal catalyst exhibits strong resistance to carbon encapsulation and deactivation, due to its unique physical and chemical properties, demonstrating excellent catalytic activity and stability. This paper overviews recent developments in mol...
This review focuses on photocyclization reactions involving alkenes and arenes. Photochemistry opens up synthetic opportunities difficult for thermal methods, using light as a versatile tool to convert stable ground-state molecules into their reactiv...
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