The use of CO2 as a C1 building block for the synthesis of useful chemicals is of great significance, and has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The transition metal catalyzed or mediated addition of CO2 to unsaturated chemical bonds has proved to be a powerful and versatile protocol for the incorporation of CO2 into various unsaturated organic substrates such as alkynes, alkenes, allenes, aldehydes, and 1,3-dienes. The hydrogenative, alkylative and arylative carboxylation, heterocarboxylation, and carboxylative cyclization with CO2 have led to efficient and selective formation of various functionalized carboxylic acids and derivatives. This review focuses on recent advances in this area with emphasis on conceptual reaction design. 相似文献
Tin (Sn) has been considered as an attractive anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) due to its high theoretical capacity (847 mAh g?1). Nevertheless, its low conductivity and large volume change during cycling essentially prevent the possibility of high capacity and long-term cycle for SIBs. In this work, Sn nanoparticles are well embedded into the highly ordered mesoporous carbon (CMK-3) matrix (Sn@CMK-3) using a facile sonochemical method combined with heat treatment. The resultant Sn@CMK-3 nanohybrid electrode delivers an initial charge capacity of 412 mAh g?1 at 100 mA g?1. A reversible capacity of 337 mAh g?1 is obtained after 200 cycles, indicating the good cycle stability of the nanohybrid structure. The electrode also shows a potential rate capability, which maintains a capacity of 228 mAh g?1 at 1000 mA g?1. When the current density returns to 50 mA g?1, the capacity goes back to 381 mAh g?1, with a capacity retention of 86.9%. The enhanced sodium storage performance of Sn@CMK-3 nanohybrid can be related to the synergistic effect between CMK-3 and Sn.
A fully reversible photothermal isomerization between carborane-fused trigonal-planar azaborole (dark-purple) and tetrahedral borirane (pale-yellow) has been observed, leading to the isolation and structural characterization of the first example of carborane-fused borirane. DFT calculations indicate that the azaborole is thermodynamically more stable than the borirane by 11.2 kcal mol−1, and the energy barrier for the thermal conversion from azaborole to borirane is 35.5 kcal mol−1. The reactivity studies show that the B−C(cage) bond in borirane can be broken in the reaction with CuCl, HCl, or elemental sulfur. 相似文献
Tumor hypoxia greatly suppresses the therapeutic efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT), mainly because the generation of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) in PDT is highly oxygen-dependent. In contrast to ROS, the generation of oxygen-irrelevant free radicals is oxygen-independent. A new therapeutic strategy based on the light-induced generation of free radicals for cancer therapy is reported. Initiator-loaded gold nanocages (AuNCs) as the free-radical generator were synthesized. Under near-infrared light (NIR) irradiation, the plasmonic heating effect of AuNCs can induce the decomposition of the initiator to generate alkyl radicals (R.), which can elevate oxidative-stress (OS) and cause DNA damages in cancer cells, and finally lead to apoptotic cell death under different oxygen tensions. As a proof of concept, this research opens up a new field to use various free radicals for cancer therapy. 相似文献
Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) offer unique features, including the precisely controlled distribution of compositions, surface charges, dipole moments, modular and combined functionalities, which enable excellent applications that are unavailable to their symmetrical counterparts. Assemblies of NPs exhibit coupled optical, electronic and magnetic properties that are different from single NPs. Herein, we report a new class of double-layered plasmonic–magnetic vesicle assembled from Janus amphiphilic Au-Fe3O4 NPs grafted with polymer brushes of different hydrophilicity on Au and Fe3O4 surfaces separately. Like liposomes, the vesicle shell is composed of two layers of Au-Fe3O4 NPs in opposite direction, and the orientation of Au or Fe3O4 in the shell can be well controlled by exploiting the amphiphilic property of the two types of polymers. 相似文献
Nine nucleating agents, calcium pimelate (CaPi), bicyclic [1, 2, 2]heptane di-carboxylate (HPN-68), a commercially obtained aryl amide nucleating agent (TMB-5), calcium salt of hexahydrophthalic acid (HPN-20E), 1,3:2,4-di-p-methylbenzylidene sorbitol (MDBS) and sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium salt of benzene-1, 3, 5-tricarboxylic acid (Na3BTC, K3BTC, Mg3BTC2 and Ca3BTC2, respectively), were applied to reduce the supercooling of erythritol, and their effects were investigated by cyclic differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results revealed that Na3BTC and K3BTC could not induce erythritol to crystallize under the experiment condition. MDBS could only make erythritol to crystallize at a temperature slightly higher than that of pure erythritol, and the effect was unstable. Mg3BTC2, Ca3BTC2 and HPN-68 could induce erythritol to crystallize at relatively high temperature, but the peak temperature of crystallizing (Tp, cr) and the phase change enthalpy of crystallizing (ΔcrH) decreased greatly as the melting–crystallizing cycles increased. HPN-20E-doped erythritol crystallized at a high temperature with the Tp, cr of 69.3 °C at the first cycle, but the Tp, cr and ΔcrH varied greatly during the melting–crystallizing cycles. CaPi and TMB-5 could induce erythritol to crystallize at a stable temperature with the Tp, cr of about 69 °C and 64 °C, respectively, and with a stable ΔcrH of about 204 and 185 J g?1, respectively, in all melting–crystallizing cycles. Hence, CaPi- and TMB-5-doped erythritol could be used as PCMs and applied in thermal energy storage in which the energy was absorbed at a high temperature and released at a lower but stable temperature. 相似文献
The title complex [(C12H8N2)2Bi(O2NO)3] was synthesized by reaction of 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and Bi(NO3)3·5H2O. The structure of the complex was characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy, and elemental analysis. An advanced solution-reaction isoperibol microcalorimeter was applied to determine the standard molar enthalpies of formation at 298.15 K of the complex and Bi(NO3)3·5H2O, giving –(798.92 ± 5.99) and –(1986.87 ± 0.20) kJ mol−1, respectively. The biological effect of the complex was evaluated by microcalorimetry on the growth of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe). According to thermogenic curves, the corresponding thermokinetics and thermodynamic parameters were derived. The complex had good bioactivity on the growth metabolism of S. pombe, with the value of IC50 being 2.8 × 10−5 mol L−1.