RSC Advances Blog

2D black phosphorous is an emerging material with a fascinating structure and outstanding electronic properties that holds potential for many applications.

Aleksandra Mitrovic, Gonzalo Abellán and Andreas Hirsch have published an interesting review discussing the structural and mechanistic insights of black phosphorus, while emphasising the current synthetic challenges.

Find out more in the open access article:

Covalent and non-covalent chemistry of 2D black phosphorus

Gonzalo Abellán and Andreas Hirsch et al., RSC Adv., 2021,11, 26093-26101

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Alkaloids are a group of natural products with interesting pharmacological properties and a long history of medicinal application.

E. Cigan et al. from the Elk crew at the University of Graz explore how the chemo-enzymatic strategies for the asymmetric synthesis of alkaloids have developed during recent years.

Find out more in the open access article:

“The role of biocatalysis in the asymmetric synthesis of alkaloids – an update”

E. Cigan et al. RSC Adv., 2021,11, 28223-28270

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Jiangshui Luo et al. at Sichuan University have published an interesting research article investigating the mesophase, usually referred to as the plastic crystalline state.

Phase transitions of the molecular plastic crystal neopentyl glycol were studied using permittivity and conductivity data, via the variable-temperature broadband dielectric spectroscopy.

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“Phase-dependent dielectric properties and proton conduction of neopentyl glycol”

Jiangshui Luo et al. RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 23228-23234 DOI:10.1039/D1RA03366B

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