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• Visible light and nanoparticle catalysts produce desirable bioactive molecules
  

  Northwestern University chemists have used visible light and extremely tiny nanoparticles to quickly and simply make molecules that are of the same class as many lead compounds for drug development. Driven by light, the nanoparticle catalysts perform chemical reactions with very specific chemical pr more

• Chemists give chance a helping hand
  

  Whether they are synthetic materials such as PET and Teflon, medicines or flavourings, life without synthetically produced compounds is barely conceivable in our everyday lives today. The chemical industry depends on efficient, long-term methods of producing synthetically derived molecules. For this more

• Using DNA, nanoparticles and lithography to make optically active structures
  

  Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could lead to light bending and cloaking devices -- news to make the ears of Star Trek's Spock perk up. Using DNA as a key tool, the interdisciplin more

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Chemical Reactions Posters II

Here’s the second part of the Chemical Reactions posters, this time featuring condensation, hydrolysis, displacement, oxidation, and reduction reactions. Click the image above to enlarge and read the text. more

Publications Addition

• Incorporation of Sb5+ into CeO2: Local Structural Distortion of the Fluorite Structure From a Pentavalent Substituent

  Hydrothermal crystallisation of CeO2 from aqueous sodium hydroxide solution at 240 ○C using CeCl3·7H2O in the presence of hydrogen peroxide with addition of either SbCl3 or SbCl5 yields polycrystalline samples of antimony-containing ceria directly from solution. Powder X-ray diffraction shows a cont more

• A dual pH-responsive supramolecular gelator with aggregation-induced emission properties

  Functionalising AIE-active aromatic thioethers with self-complementary zwitterionic binding sites leads to a dual pH-responsive supramolecular organogelator with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties. The self-assembled fibrillar gel network is highly fluorescent (λem = 490 nm), whereas the more

• Asymmetric Organocatalytic Synthesis of Chiral 3,3-Disubstituted Oxindoles via 1,6-Conjugate Addition Reaction

  A highly efficient synthesis of chiral 3,3-disubstituted oxindoles was developed by using a chiral spirocyclic phosphoric acid catalyzed 1,6-conjugate addition reaction of para-quinone methoids derived from N-unprotected isatins with indoles. The reaction proceeds under mild reaction conditions to p more