Themed collection Celebrating the 65th birthdays of Professors Jay Siegel and Kim Baldridge

A new synthesis of pentaphosphorylated magic spot nucleotides and their sensing based on a disassembly approach are presented.

In this study, the design and the synthesis of a thiophene-based phosphoric acid based on a chiral decahydroquinoxaline scaffold derived from enantiopure trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane was reported.

This work developed a chiral triangular macrocycle and achieved tunable circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescence (CP-RTP) from blue-green to deep-red through rigidification and intermolecular charge-transfer interactions.

Here we report a new homoleptic Ir(NHC) photocatalyst, mer-Ir(pmp)₃ which is the first Ir(C^C)₃ photocatalyst to operate effectively using excitation sources peaking in the visible (λ_exc = 427, 440 and 456 nm).

Mass spectrometry evidence of elusive 1 : 2 complexes of peropyrene-linked double nanohoop with C₆₀, [6]CPP and Li⁺@C₆₀ indicates that packing, not intrinsic binding, limits host occupancy in these nanohoops in the solid state.

A dumbbell-shaped amphiphile assembles into a spherical polyaromatic micelle in water. Binding of organic and metal–organic dyes by the micelle yields host–guest composites with very high stability against organic solvent addition (up to 75% v/v).

We report the synthesis and photophysical studies of quadrupolar dyes based on a new core bearing two BF₂ moieties.