Themed collection 2020 Focus and Perspective articles

Haloboration is a mostly overlooked technique, yet it is a powerful way of transforming alkynes stereoselectively into difunctionalised ambiphilic alkenes, which readily undergo a plethora of highly useful subsequent reactions.

gem-Borylsilylalkanes have emerged as powerful reagents and attracted increasing attention in synthetic chemistry. This review summarizes the recent development in the synthesis of gem-borylsilylalkanes and their chemoselective transformation

Metal single-point is a novel and potential design strategy that has been applied for the development of metal organic frameworks.

There has been an upsurge of interest in applying machine learning to chemistry, and impressive predictive accuracies have been achieved, but this has been done without providing any insight into what has been learnt from the training data.

Chymotrypsin is one of the most extensively known proteases participating in the pathogenesis of various diseases, which can be used in drug discovery and clinical diagnosis.

This review starts with the main process of fog collection and then analyzes the influencing factors that affect the efficiency of fog collection.

The use of fuel cells in the transportation sector holds promise as a sustainable option for the generation of cleaner energy along with cumulative lesser GHG emissions.

This work reports the photocatalytic reduction of U(VI) using g-C₃N₄-based materials and discusses the factors affecting the photocatalytic reduction of U(VI).

Owing to unique photophysical and structural features conjugated polymers (CPs) have demonstrated high selectivity, specificity and enhanced imaging ability and are utilized for rapid latent fingerprint development using simple processing methods.

This review highlights the applications of imidazolium based cationic receptors for sensing of biomolecules and catalysis.

This article chronicles the enzyme mimicking chemistry of Ru(edta) complexes (edta⁴⁻ = ethylenediaminetetraacetate) in regard to small molecule activation.

This short review discusses the synthesis of pyrano[3,2-c]coumarins using different strategies including mechanistic illustrations.

A surface alloy is a surface-confined mixture of metals that are immiscible in bulk. It has unique chemical properties that can be utilized in various catalytic and synthetic reactions.

The Beckmann rearrangement is an elegant transformation and has been used to great success in the synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals. In this review, the role of different catalysts as well as different medium for Beckmann rearrangement has been discussed over the last 20 years.

Diverse syntheses of disparlure and its stereoisomers and analogues encompassing various strategies are compiled in this perspective.

A DFT overview on selected issues regarding diiron catalysts related to [FeFe]-hydrogenase biomimetic research, with implications for both energy conversion and storage strategies.

The use of green and inexpensive organic nitrile (MeCN) as a cyano and cyano-methyl source for organo-complexation, cyanation, and cyanomethylation is reviewed.

Stereoselective annulations of 2-arylidene-1,3-indanediones towards spiro-carbocycles as well as spiro/fused heterocycles based on various cycloadditions and tandem annulations are described.

A comprehensive electro-organometallic review has been carried out on C–C bond formation via variety of metals between 1984 and 2019.

This review aims to describe the different strategies developed so far for the synthesis of furopyrazoles and their biological and pharmacological properties.

Taking into account the excellent catalytic performance of halloysite nanotubes, the main focus of this review article is to unveil the research on halloysite nanotubes for the preparation of solid acids and their applications in acid catalysis.

We highlighted the discovery process, preparation techniques, broad-spectrum activities, antiviral mechanism, and future perspectives of GS-5734.

Injectable hydrogels via bio-orthogonal chemistry.

Signaling pathways regulating redox reactions are activated to balance the redox status and maintain the normal function of cells.

In this overview, a summary on the most common intercalation compounds based on saponite clays is reported. The attention is also focused on the one-pot methods for the production of functional saponite clays for different applications.

The recent advances in ternary layered double hydroxide electrocatalysts, including the strategies used for the design, synthesis, and evaluation of their performance for oxygen evolution reaction are reviewed in this account.

The properties and applications of microporous layered silicates, having both intralayer micropores and interlayer spaces, are reviewed.

The advancements of nanotechnology, particularly nanomaterials science, have produced a broad range of nanomaterials including nanofibers, nanorods, nanowires and etc., which have been technically and practically examined over various applications.

After introducing the concept of cyclodextrin polymers, their classification and applications have been summarized.

Molecular engineering of triphenylamine (TPA) units produced multi-stimuli-responsive solid state fluorescent materials.

This critical review proposes an original and pragmatic naphtha reforming process development approach aimed at merging catalyst development with kinetic modelling through the identification of “effective” and “measurable” catalytic descriptors.

Mother Nature produces a perfectly defined architecture that inspires researchers to make polymeric macromolecules for an array of functions. The present article describes recent development in the PISA to synthesize polymeric nano-objects.

Over the years, manganese dioxide (MnO₂) and its different allotropes have gained significant research attention in the field of wastewater treatment because of their exciting physicochemical properties.

We discuss prospects for halloysite nanotubes, vaterite crystals and nanocellulose to enter the market of biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering, and their potential for economically viable production from abundant natural sources.

Replacing anodic oxygen evolution of water splitting or carbon dioxide reduction by electro-organic oxidation increases their product-value and energy efficiency.

Synthesis of enantiomerically pure propargyl alcohols is one of the most important tools in organic synthesis and “base-induced elimination of β-alkoxy chlorides” could offer the enantiomerically pure propargyl alcohols.

This review highlights the recent studies of advanced organic π-conjugated materials that contain 1,4-dithiafulvene (DTF) as a redox-active component.

Since the discovery of the copper catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition in the early 2000s, tremendous efforts have been devoted to enlarging the scope of applications of this relatively simple to handle reaction.

This perspective summarizes various synthetic routes of stannatranes and pseudostannatranes along with their interesting features, such as appearance of satellites in their NMR spectra, cluster formation upon hydrolysis and exchange reactions.

Recent progress in MOF materials for SCs with different spatial dimensions, such as 2D MOFs, including conductive MOFs and nanosheets, and 3D MOFs, categorized as single metallic and multiple metallic MOFs, are reviewed.

The reactivity of N-heterocyclic dichalcogenides and their sodium salts towards group 10 metal phosphine precursors has been investigated.

Machine learning will radically accelerate analysis of complex material networks in environmental chemistry.

The focus article discusses the innovation of hypervalent(III) iodine regarding skeletal rearrangement, cycloaddition and cyclization, and sp³ C–H functionalization in natural product synthesis.

This review covers the use of shell isolated nanoparticle enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS) to investigate heterogeneous electrocatalytic processes.

Recent advances in the development of “dual-key-and-lock” responsive probes for accurate detection of various biomolecules are reviewed.

Coupling of sulfonyl fluorides, fluorosulfates and iminosulfur oxydifluorides with proteins gave the corresponding sulfonamide, sulfamate and sulfamide adducts under mild conditions.

The incorporation of secondary coordination sphere effects to rationally modulate electrochemical CO₂ reduction on heterogeneous catalysts is reviewed.

Post-Li-ion batteries based on Na, Mg, and Al offer substantial electrochemical and economic advantages in comparison with Li-ion batteries.