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A metal–organic framework/polymer derived catalyst containing single-atom nickel species for electrocatalysis
Shuliang Yang, Jie Zhang, Li Peng, Mehrdad Asgari, Dragos Stoian, Ilia Kochetygov, Wen Luo, Emad Oveisi, Olga Trukhina, Adam H. Clark, Daniel T. Sun and Wendy L. Queen
Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 10991-10997
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC04512H, Edge Article
Effect of curvature and placement of donor and acceptor units in cycloparaphenylenes: a computational study
Terri C. Lovell, Kaylin G. Fosnacht, Curtis E. Colwell and Ramesh Jasti
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03923C, Edge Article
Total syntheses of spiroviolene and spirograterpene A: a structural reassignment with biosynthetic implications
Hyung Min Chi, Charles J. F. Cole, Pengfei Hu, Cooper A. Taylor and Scott A. Snyder
Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 10939-10944
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC04686H, Edge Article
Coligand role in the NHC nickel catalyzed C–F bond activation: investigations on the insertion of bis(NHC) nickel into the C–F bond of hexafluorobenzene
Maximilian W. Kuntze-Fechner, Hendrik Verplancke, Lukas Tendera, Martin Diefenbach, Ivo Krummenacher, Holger Braunschweig, Todd B. Marder, Max C. Holthausen and Udo Radius
Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 11009-11023
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC04237D, Edge Article
Multimerized self-assembled caged two-in-one siRNA nanoparticles for photomodulation of RNAi-induced gene silencing
Changmai Chen, Nannan Jing, Zhongyu Wang, Yu Zhang, Wei Chen and Xinjing Tang
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03562A, Edge Article
Selective inhibition of the K+ efflux sensitive NLRP3 pathway by Cl− channel modulation
Tessa Swanton, James A. Beswick, Halah Hammadi, Lucy Morris, Daniel Williams, Stephane de Cesco, Lina El-Sharkawy, Shi Yu, Jack Green, John B. Davis, Catherine B. Lawrence, David Brough and Sally Freeman
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03828H, Edge Article
Controlling ultralong room temperature phosphorescence in organic compounds with sulfur oxidation state
Zhen Xu, Clàudia Climent, Christopher M. Brown, Duane Hean, Christopher J. Bardeen, David Casanova and Michael O. Wolf
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC04715E, Edge Article
Cation recognition on a fullerene-based macrocycle
Yoshifumi Hashikawa and Yasujiro Murata
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC05280A, Edge Article
A critical analysis of electrospray techniques for the determination of accelerated rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions in droplets
Grazia Rovelli, Michael I. Jacobs, Megan D. Willis, Rebecca J. Rapf, Alexander M. Prophet and Kevin R. Wilson
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC04611F, Edge Article
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