by anicolellis | Apr 2, 2019 | Science Highlight
Reproduced from Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 4068 with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry. The intrinsic overexpression of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) in various pro-inflammatory diseases and cancers has the potential to be exploited as a therapeutic...
by anicolellis | Feb 8, 2019 | Science Highlight
Solvent extraction technique has been widely used in mining and refinement of rare earths. Although all rare earths are chemically similar, the extraction efficiency increases as a function of atomic number. Combining MC simulation and X-ray fluorescence measurements...
by anicolellis | Jan 16, 2019 | Science Highlight
Hydrophobic interactions govern specificity for natural antimicrobial peptides. No such relationship has been established for synthetic peptoids that mimic antimicrobial peptides. Peptoid macrocycles synthesized with five different aromatic groups are investigated...
by anicolellis | Nov 7, 2018 | Science Highlight
Chemical oxidation and reduction of the all-ferrous (HL)2Fe6 in THF affords isostructural, coordinatively unsaturated clusters of the type [(HL)2Fe6]n: [(HL)2Fe6][BArF24] (1, n = +1; where [BArF24]− = tetrakis[(3,5-trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate), [Bu4N][(HL)2Fe6]...
by anicolellis | May 28, 2018 | Science Highlight
We report a topology-guided, precise insertion of three distinct secondary linkers into a zirconium-based metal–organic framework, NPF-300. Constructed from a tetratopic linker L and Zr6 cluster, NPP-300 exhibits a unique scu topology and certain flexibility along the...
by anicolellis | Apr 18, 2018 | Science Highlight
Tunable Rh2(II,II) Light Absorbers as Excited-State Electron Donors and Acceptors Accessible with Red/Near-Infrared Irradiation A series of dirhodium(II,II) paddlewheeel complexes of the type cis-[Rh2(μ-DTolF)2(μ-L)2][BF4]2, where DTolF = N,N′-di(p-tolyl)formamidinate...
