New year, new HOT article collection! Every month we will update our 2021 RSC Advances HOT Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as HOT in 2021. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest HOT articles.
We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.
Browse a selection of our January HOT articles below:
β-Cyclodextrin: a supramolecular catalyst for metal-free approach towards the synthesis of 2-amino-4,6-diphenylnicotinonitriles and 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one
Bijeta Mitra, Gyan Chandra Pariyar and Pranab Ghosh
RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 1271-1281
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA09562A
Ligand compatibility of salacinol-type α-glucosidase inhibitors toward the GH31 family
Fumihiro Ishikawa, Aiko Hirano, Yuuto Yoshimori, Kana Nishida, Shinya Nakamura, Katsuki Takashima, Shinsuke Marumoto, Kiyofumi Ninomiya, Isao Nakanishi, Weijia Xie, Toshio Morikawa, Osamu Muraoka and Genzoh Tanabe
RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 3221-3225
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA10038B
Transition metals enhance prebiotic depsipeptide oligomerization reactions involving histidine
Moran Frenkel-Pinter, Alyssa B. Sargon, Jennifer B. Glass, Nicholas V. Hud and Loren Dean Williams
RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 3534-3538
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA07965K
Self-ordered anodic porous alumina with inter-hole spacing over 1.5 μm
Takashi Yanagishita, Ryosuke Moriyasu, Takayuki Ishii and Hideki Masuda
RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 3777-3782
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA10269E
In situ electro-organic synthesis of hydroquinone using anisole on MWCNT/Nafion modified electrode surface and its heterogeneous electrocatalytic reduction of toxic Cr(vi) species
Mansi Gandhi, Desikan Rajagopal and Annamalai Senthil Kumar
RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 4062-4076
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA10370E
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Megan O’Mara grew up in regional Queensland, Australia and is currently an Associate Professor at the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She was awarded her PhD (Physical Sciences) in 2005 from the Australian National University before undertaking postdoctoral training at the University of Calgary (Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral fellow) and at the University of Queensland (University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship).