Bright polymers : Fluorescent coordination polymers made up of versatile functionalized bodipy (boron‐dipyrrin) chromophore building blocks, such as that depicted, are described. Polymerization is signaled by changes in fluorescence emission intensity and shifts in peak emission wavelengths.
Now you bind it—now you don't! Chemical degradation of a dendritic scaffold allows multivalent interactions with DNA to be “switched off” as the multivalent array of ligands breaks down into smaller fragments, offering an approach by which a molecule can be temporarily endowed with high affinity for a biological target—an important concept in the development of new synthetic systems to intervene in biological pathways.
Round and round : Covalently bound spokes induce an efficient template‐directed cyclization towards a rigid molecular wheel (see figure) and afford dramatically increased shape‐persistence properties compared with non‐strutted macrocycles.
Phosphine‐assisted C? H activation of the methyl group of 2‐methylimidazolium compounds led to a series of iridium, rhodium, and palladium complexes of 2‐methyleneimidazolines. Experimental results confirmed that the product of methyl C? H activation is the kinetic product, whereas the aryl C? H activation product is the thermodynamic product (see scheme).
Click to view : Glycopolymers can be used to display glycans on microarrays in native‐like architectures. The structurally uniform alkyne‐terminated mucin mimetic glycopolymers (see picture; TR=fluorophore) were printed on azide‐functionalized chips by microcontact printing in the presence of a copper catalyst. The surface‐bound glycopolymers bind lectins in a ligand‐specific manner.
This review article includes a recent development in the chemistry of 4‐thiazolidinones. Structure, basicity, synthetic aspects, reactions, and applications were also reported. 相似文献
A general solution : In situ synchrotron X‐ray scattering in a high‐pressure pulsed injection reactor (see picture) shows that magnetite nucleation and growth are temporally separated. Gram‐scale crystalline, pure phase, superparamagnetic magnetite nanoparticles were synthesized without surfactants in supercritical water in less than one hour using a laboratory‐scale continuous‐flow reactor.
Change happens : Acridine–carbon nanotube nanohybrids were built (see figure) and their photoinduced electron‐transfer properties investigated, showing variable behaviour depending on the acridine partner.
On the tube : The coupling of diazonium ions onto single‐walled carbon nanotubes is shown to proceed through a radical chain reaction by kinetic analysis of the absorption peak drop (see picture). Radical species are also revealed by ESR. Metallic (m) nanotubes play a special catalytic role in the functionalization of semiconducting (sc) nanotubes.
Easy and direct : Regioselective Mizoroki–Heck‐coupling reactions using heteroaromatic tosylates as electrophiles were achieved, thus providing direct and easy access to highly functionalized α‐heteroarylvinyl amides and ethers.
The center of it all : An antitumor‐active trinuclear platinum complex forms unprecedented interstrand cross‐linked triadducts with 18‐mer DNA duplexes (see figure; complex in yellow with the platinum centers in red) and behaves differently from its dinuclear analogue.
