Heterogeneous reaction of SO2 on TiO2 particles

The heterogeneous reaction of SO₂ on TiO₂ particles was studied using in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS). The influences of the oxygen concentration, relative humidity (RH), and ultraviolet (UV) light illumination (λ ≈ 365 nm) intensity on the reaction were investigated. The main product of the heterogeneous reaction of SO₂ on TiO₂ particles was sulfate with UV illumination and sulfite without it. The production of sulfate was promoted significantly with UV illumination or water, and there was a synergistic effect when both were present. In the dry system without UV, the heterogeneous reaction of SO₂ on TiO₂ particles was found to be second-order for SO₂ and the initial uptake coefficient, γ_BET, was determined to be 1.94 × 10^?6. With UV and RH = 40%, the reaction order was first-order and the initial uptake coefficient was 1.35 × 10^?5.     

Tetraphenylpyrazine-based AIEgens: facile preparation and tunable light emission

Research on aggregation-induced emission (AIE) has been a hot topic. Due to enthusiastic efforts by many researchers, hundreds of AIE luminogens (AIEgens) have been generated which were mainly based on archetypal silole, tetraphenylethene, distyrylanthracene, triphenylethene, and tetraphenyl-1,4-butadiene, etc. To enlarge the family of AIEgens and to enrich their functions, new AIEgens are in high demand. In this work, we report a new kind of AIEgen based on tetraphenylpyrazine (TPP), which could be readily prepared under mild reaction conditions. Furthermore, we show that the TPP derivatives possess a good thermal stability and their emission could be fine-tuned by varying the substituents on their phenyl rings. It is anticipated that TPP derivatives could serve as a new type of widely utilized AIEgen, based on their facile preparation, good thermo-, photo- and chemostabilities, and efficient emission.     

Two new bromoindoles from red alga Laurencia similis

Two new bromoindole alkaloids have been isolated from the ethanolic extract of the red alga Laurencia similis.On the basis of chemical and spectroscopic methods(including 1D and 2D NMR technique),their structures have been elucidated as 2,2′,5,5′,6,6′-sixibromo -3,3′-bi-1H-indole and 3,5-dibromo-1-methylindole,respectively.     

反应气中活化后的镍酸镧用于二氧化碳加氢生成甲烷

采用柠檬酸法制备了钙钛矿镍酸镧,并将其作为催化剂的前躯体用于二氧化碳甲烷化反应中。催化剂在400℃~700℃温度下反应气中进行活化处理。活化过程中生成了金属镍颗粒和碳酸氧化镧。金属镍呈高度分散状并被碳酸氧化镧包裹,这种现象有助于反应在400℃和500℃的高温下仍保持高活性和稳定性。XRD、XPS、TEM和H₂-TPD等表征测试表明,在活化过程中生成的碳酸氧化镧对反应起到了至关重要的作用。     

聚环氧乙烷-g-聚己内酯两亲性接枝共聚物的合成及药物释放行为

通过环氧丙醇(GL)与环氧乙烷(EO)的阴离子顺序开环聚合制备了水溶性嵌段共聚物PEO-b-PGL, 以PGL嵌段每个重复单元的侧羟基为引发点进一步引发ε-己内酯(CL)的开环聚合, 合成了结构规整的以聚环氧乙烷(PEO)为主链的两亲性接枝共聚物(PEO-b-PGL-g-PCL). 研究了PEO-b-PGL-g-PCL在水相中的自组装行为, 采用稳态荧光探针法测定了胶束的临界胶束浓度(cmc). 以疏水性药物阿霉素(DOX)为模型药物, 研究了两亲性接枝共聚物的化学组成对药物的扩散释放以及降解释放行为的影响.     

Effect of ancillary ligands on the properties of heteroleptic green iridium dendrimers functionalized with carbazole dendrons

A series of heteroleptic green iridium dendrimers functionalized with carbazole dendrons, such as G2(pic) and G2(acac), have been synthesized, in which picolinic acid and acetylacetone are used as the ancillary ligands, respectively. Compared with the corresponding homoleptic iridium dendrimer G2 (8%), these heteroleptic ones can be prepared under mild conditions with total yields as high as 55-67%. Both the dendrimer G2(pic) and G2(acac) display bright green emissions with photoluminescence quantum yields higher than 0.80 in toluene solution. As a result, a maximum external quantum efficiency of 7.1% (21.0 cd/A) for G2(pic) and 7.7% (25.8 cd/A) for G2(acac) has been realized based on non-doped device configuration. The state-of-art performance indicates that the heteroleptic dendrimers can be promising candidates used for non-doped electrophosphorescent devices, especially when the ease of synthesis in a large scale is considered.     

Synthesis of 3-substituted 1,5-aldehyde esters via an organocatalytic highly enantioselective conjugate addition of new carbonylmethyl 2-pyridinylsulfone to enals

A highly enantioselective organocatalytic protocol for conjugate addition of new nucleophilic carbonylmethyl 2-pyridinylsulfone to enals has been developed in good yields and with high enantioselectivities. The resulting Michael adducts are versatile building blocks for a variety of organic transformations.     

Large-scale honeycomb microstructures constructed by platinum-acetylide gelators through supramolecular self-assembly

A series of new platinum-acetylide complexes 4a-4c and 6a-6c were synthesized and characterized. The gelation properties of these compounds were investigated by the "stable-to-inversion-of-test-tube" method. Unlike compounds 4a-4c, amides 6b and 6c can gelate a variety of nonpolar alkyl solvents; this result indicates that the hydrogen bonds between amide groups play an important role in the formation of metallic organogels. Interestingly, compared to the typical morphologies of known organogels or metallic organogels, compounds 6b and 6c exhibited highly ordered honeycomb patterns on a large-scale (determined by SEM analysis). To investigate the driving forces for the self-assembly process, concentration-dependent (1)H NMR spectroscopy and a competitive experiment between hydrogen bonds were used to confirm that intermolecular hydrogen bonding play an essential role during the formation of supramolecular aggregates.     

Solvent effects on isomerization and spectral properties of photochromic-switching diarythene derivatives in polar and apolar solutions

The photocyclization behavior and dynamic conformational transition of photochromic switches of diarythene derivatives in solutions are investigated by using the density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Three possible conformations, antiparallel (anti), parallel (para), and twist, for the open-ring isomers of 1,2-bis(2-methylbenzothiophene-3-yl)maleic anhydride are located. Both PCM-B3LYP/6-31G* calculations and MD simulations demonstrate that anti and twist open-ring isomers can interconvert freely in n-hexane and acetonitrile solutions at room temperature. The statistical ratio of twist to anti isomers from MD simulations is 2.09 in n-hexane and 1.07 in CH(3)CN, in qualitative agreement with those (1.18 in n-hexane and 1.05 in CH(3)CN) estimated from Arrhenius analysis of DFT activation energies. The solvent polarity has little influence on the isomerization of open-ring isomers in the ground state. Due to the evident charge transfer upon excitations, the solvent effects on the electronic structures and absorption spectra of low-lying excited states (S(1) and S(2)) are more significant. For such charge-transfer excited states, the long-range corrected functional CAM-B3LYP gives better agreement with the experimental spectra than B3LYP. The solvent polarity and polarization of the charge-transfer excited states are crucial for fabricating the novel functionalized photochromic molecular switches.