Title: Highly Efficient Aluminum-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Carbonates, Lactones, and Lactides, Including a Unique Crystallographic Snapshot of an Intermediate Authors: Jurgen Koller and Robert Bergman Journal: Organometallics Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley Snapshot of Catalysis: The crystal structures of the pre-catalyst (left),…
Month: May 2011
Stretchable Magnetoelectronics
Title: Stretchable Magnetoelectronics Journal: Nano Letters Authors: Michael Melzer†, Denys Makarov*†, Alfredo Calvimontes‡, Daniil Karnaushenko†, Stefan Baunack†, Rainer Kaltofen†, Yongfeng Mei§, and Oliver G. Schmidt*† Affiliation: † Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, ‡ Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, § Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Material Systems…
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tryptophan: A concerted Mechanism with Water as Proton Acceptor
Paper: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tryptophan: A concerted Mechanism with Water as Proton Acceptor Authors: Ming-Tian Zhang and Leif Hmmarstrӧm Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society PCET (Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer) refers to the transfer of electron thermodynamically coupled to that of proton. The transfer of…
The Crystal Structure of Photosystem II
Title: Crystal Structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 angstroms Authors: *Yasufumi Umena, +Keisuke Kawakami, +Jian-Ren Shen, and *Nobou Kamiya Journal: Nature Affiliation: *Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University. + Division of Bioscience, Graduate School of Natural Science and…