Title: Light-Harvesting Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Efficient Strut-to-Strut Energy Transfer in Bodipy and Porphyrin-Based MOFs Authors: Chang Yeon Lee, Omar K. Farha, Bong Jin Hong, Amy A. Sarjeant, SonBinh T. Nguyen, and Joseph T. Hupp Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145…
My Favorite Reaction – Azide Alkyne Huisgen Cycloaddition
The azide alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition easily qualifies as my favorite reaction and my submission to the Chemistry Carnival. It combines simplicity with efficiency in a way that is unmatched by most other chemistries. From clicking side chains onto polymers to conveniently synthesizing a variety of natural…
Hybrid Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production
Title: Nature-Driven Photochemistry for Catalytic Solar Hydrogen Production: A Photosystem I–Transition Metal Catalyst Hybrid Authors: Lisa M. Utschig, Sunshine C. Silver, Karen L. Mulfort, and David M. Tiede Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: * Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois…
Toward Functional Ni-SOD Biomimetics: Achieving a Structural/Electronic Correlation with Redox Dynamics
Title: Toward Functional Ni-SOD Biomimetics: Achieving a Structural/Electronic Correlation with Redox Dynamics Authors: Eric M. Gale†, Andrew C. Simmonett†, Joshua Telser‡, Henry F. Schaefer, III†, and Todd C. Harrop*† Journal: Inorganic Chemistry Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center for Computational Chemistry, The University of Georgia Department of Biological, Chemical and…
Surface science and electrical properties from a nice, short “reporter” molecule on the surface of a nanocrystal
Title: Thiocyanate-Capped Nanocrystal Colloids: Vibrational Reporter of Surface Chemistry and Solution-Based Route to Enhanced Coupling in Nanocrystal Solids Authors: Aaron T. Fafarman, Weon-kyu Koh, Benjamin T. Diroll, David K. Kim, Dong-Kyun Ko, Soong Ju Oh, Xingchen Ye, Vicky Doan-Nguyen, Michael R. Crump, Danielle C. Reifsnyder, Christopher B. Murray, and Cherie R.…
A Protein-Based Approach for DNA Damage Sensing
Title: Turn-On DNA Damage Sensors for the Direct Detection of 8-Oxoguanine and Photoproducts in Native DNA Authors: Jennifer L. Furman, Pui-Wing Mok, Ahmed H. Badran, and Indraneel Ghosh* Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and…
What chirality can do for your hydrogel
Title: Enhanced Mechanical Rigidity of Hydrogels Formed from Enantiomeric Peptide Assemblies Authors: Katelyn J. Nagy†‡, Michael C. Giano†‡, Albert Jin§, Darrin J. Pochanǁ, and Joel P. Schneider† Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: †National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research; ‡University of Delaware, Department…
A New Way to Make Polymers Click
Title: Additive-Free Clicking for Polymer Functionalization and Coupling by Tetrazine–Norbornene Chemistry Authors: Claire F. Hansell†, Pieter Espeel‡, Milan M. Stamenovi‡, Ian A. Barker†, Andrew P. Dove†, Filip E. Du Prez‡, and Rachel K. O’Reilly† Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: †Department of Chemistry, University of…
Enhanced Fisher-Tropsch Chemistry Inside Carbon Nanotubes Containing Iron Nitride Nanoparticles
Title: FeN nanoparticles confined in carbon nanotubes for CO hydrogenation Authors: Zhiqiang Yang, Shujing Guo, Xiulian Pan, Junhu Wang, and Xinhe Ba Journal: Energy and Environmental Science Affiliation: * State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Above: Cartoon depicting Iron Nitride…
New Hydrogels from Peptide Sequences Found in Nature
Title: Supramolecular hydrogels based on the epitope of potassium ion channels Authors: Yi Kuang, Yuan Gao, Junfeng Shi, Hsin-Chieh Lin and Bing Xu Journal: Chemical Communications Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University Supramolecular hydrogels are a growing field of research due to their biocompatibility and the…
Electrochemical Water Oxidation with Cobalt-Based Electrocatalysts from pH 0–14: The Thermodynamic Basis for Catalyst Structure, Stability and Activity
Title: Electrochemical Water Oxidation with Cobalt-Based Electrocatalysts from pH 0–14: The Thermodynamic Basis for Catalyst Structure, Stability and Activity Authors: James B. Gerken , J. Gregory McAlpin , Jamie Y. C. Chen , Matthew L. Rigsby , William H Casey , R. David Britt , and…
Formate Oxidation on a Ni Electrocatalyst
Title: Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Formate by [Ni(PR2NR)2)2(CH3CN)2+ Complexes Authors: Brandon R. Galan*, Julia Shoffel#, John C. Linehan*, Candace Seu#, Aaron M. Appel*, John A. S. Roberts*, Monte L. Helm **, Uriah J. Kilgore*, Jenny Y. Yang*, Daniel L. Dubois*, and Clifford P. Kubiak# Journal: Journal of the…
Intrinsic Proton-Donating Power of Zinc-Bound Water in a Carbonic Anhydrase Active Site Model Estimated by NMR
Title: Intrinsic Proton-Donating Power of Zinc-Bound Water in a Carbonic Anhydrase Active Site Model Estimated by NMR Authors: Stepan B. Lesnichin†‡, Ilya G. Shenderovich*†‡, Titin Muljati†, David Silverman, and Hans-Heinrich Limbach*† Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: †Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin ‡Department…
Putting the Heat on Hydrogels
Title: Controllable heterogeneity in a supramolecular hydrogel Authors: Atsuomi Shundo*a, Keiko Mizuguchib, Misao Miyamotocd, Masahiro Gotoae and Keiji Tanaka*abe Journal: Chemical Communications Affiliation: aDepartment of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University; bDepartment of Automotive Science, Kyushu University; cNissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.; dArt, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research, Kyushu University; eCenter for…
Synthetic manganese–calcium oxides mimic the water-oxidizing complex of photosynthesis functionally and structurally
Title: Synthetic manganese–calcium oxides mimic the water-oxidizing complex of photosynthesis functionally and structurally Authors: Ivelina Zaharieva, M. Mahdi Najafpour, Mathias Wiechen, Michael Haumann, Philipp Kurz and Holger Dau Journal: Energy and Environmental Science, 2011, 4, 2400-2408 Published: March 3, 2011 Main Affiliations: Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität…
Demetalation of a Single Organometallic Complex
Title: Demetalation of a Single Organometallic Complex Authors: Alexander Sperl, Jorg Kroger, and Richard Berndt Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: Institut for Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Germany, and Institut for Physik, Technische Universitat Ilmenau, Germany Sometimes a scientific article is…
Dinitrogen Complexes of Sulfur-Ligated Iron
Title: Dinitrogen Complexes of Sulfur-Ligated Iron Authors: Ayumi Takaoka, Neal P. Mankad, and Jonas C. Peters Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology One great mystery in bioinorganic chemistry is how the FeMo nitrogenase cofactor,…
Ethane to Ethylene
Title: Room Temperature Dehydrogenation of Ethane to Ethylene Authors: Vincent N. Cavaliere, Marco G. Crestani, Balazs Pinter, Maren Pink, Chun-Hsing Chen, Mu-Hyun Baik, and Daniel J. Mindiola Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Molecular Structure Center, Indiana University Chemists are…
Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries
Title: Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries Authors: Jin Suntivich, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Haruyuki Nakanishi, John B. Goodenough, and Yang Shao-Horn Journal: Nature Chemistry Main Affiliation: Materials Science and Engineering Department and Electrochemical Energy Laboratory,…
CO reduction using Hydrogen and a Uranium complex
Title: Facile Conversion of CO/H2 to Methoxide at a Uranium(III) Center Authors: Alistair S. P. Frey*, F. Geoffrey N. Cloke*, Martyn P. Coles*, Laurent Maron#, and Thomas Davin # Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Affiliation: *Division of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences University of Sussex, Brighton,…
Drug Delivery via Hydrogels
Title: Self-assembling peptide–polysaccharide hybrid hydrogel as a potential carrier for drug delivery Authors: Renliang Huang, Wei Qi, Libin Feng, Rongxin Su and Zhimin He Journal: Soft Matter Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Hydrogels are big networks…
Al catalyst for synthesis of biodegradable polymers
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),…
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…
