Themed collection 2023 Reviews in RSC Advances

This review highlighted recent advancements in the synthesis and biological importance of 1,3-diaryl-2-propen-1-ones. This review summarized the synthesis and biological importance of radiolabelled 1,3-diaryl-2-propen-1-ones as Aβ imaging probes for Alzheimer's disease.

In this review, we have discussed some features of protein aggregation during production, formulation and storage as well as stabilization strategies in protein engineering and computational methods to prevent aggregation.

Cloke–Wilson rearrangement is utilized to process cyclopropyl constituting functional groups and results in stable five-membered heterocycles. This rearrangement is also involved in the total synthesis of various natural products.

The review outlines coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 morphology, life cycle, and essential proteins, focusing on a design strategy for dual-acting inhibitors for PLpro and Mpro proteases.

Gilman reagent (R₂CuLi) is a well-established reagent, having exceptional synthetic profile for the total synthesis of both abundant and scarce medicinally significant natural products.

Nanocomposite hydrogel biomaterials represent an exciting frontier in biomedicine, offering solutions to longstanding challenges.

Self-healing polymers (SHPs) garner significant interest for their nature-inspired ability to regenerate surfaces, enhancing material durability and sustainability. This review highlights recent advances in SHPs, emphasizing scratch-regenerating technology, testing methods, and prospects.

Animal/human-derived biomass has shown a significant potential for the sustainable/green synthesis of luminescent carbon dots with wide applicability in the fields of sensing, bioimaging and many more.

The utilization of NH-1,2,3-triazoles as easily accessible building blocks in denitrogenative ring cleavage transformations with electrophiles to provide multifunctionalized nitrogen heterocycles and N-alkenyl compounds is reviewed.

Important aspects regarding the environmental implications and biosafety of MOFs and MXenes in biomedicine are deliberated, focusing on main challenges and future directions.

Copper overload or depletion is a valuable strategy in oncology: copper nanoparticles carry out copper-dependent apoptosis via oxidative stress; copper chelators induce apoptosis, inhibit angiogenesis and tumor progression.

Access to clean water is increasingly challenging worldwide due to human activities and climate change.

Dopant engineering of lanthanum (La) on zinc oxide (ZnO) electron transport layer for perovskite solar cell application.

Halichlorine and pinnaic acids are structurally related to natural alkaloids isolated from different marine organisms. This review summarizes the asymmetric synthesis strategies of halichlorine and pinnaic acid using a 6-azaspiro[4.5]decane skeleton as the key intermediate.

SSupercapacitors are competitive candidates for novel green energy storage devices. However, their development is impeded by limited energy density, which can be addressed by developing high-capacitance electrode materials with efforts.

The purpose of this review is to summarize the current literature on reductive C–N coupling of nitro compounds and boronic acids, with special emphasis on the mechanistic features of the reactions.

The exploration of the unique physiochemical properties of 2D materials, led by graphene in numerous aspects, the scientific community has been intrigued in excavating a new class of graphene-like 2D materials for next-generation technology.

Mukaiyama aldol reaction results in the highly enantioselective and diastereoselective synthesis of β-hydroxy carbonyls. Here, total syntheses of some natural products via this reaction as a key step have been presented.

Epoxides derived from waste biomass are a promising avenue for the production of bio-based polymers, including polyamides, polyesters, polyurethanes, and polycarbonates.

This review highlights recent developments in the microwave-assisted organic synthesis of N- and O-containing heterocycles with specific examples of pyrazolopyrimidines-, coumarin-, quinoline-, and isatin-based scaffolds and their associated biological activities.

Spiro-heterocycles have received special attention in medicinal chemistry because of their promising biological activity.

This article gives a comprehensive review on the synthesis of benzimidazoles including reaction mechanisms and a brief description of biological application of benzimidazole derivatives by summarizing recent studies.

Catalytic lignin depolymerization pathways for utilization.

This review article demonstrates recent advanced cascade annulation strategies for preparing highly functionalized carbazoles and their related polyaromatic heterocyclic compounds enabled by Lewis acid catalysts.

This review describes recent developments on incorporation of CO₂ into alcohols and some of their derivatives via C–O bond cleavage. Issues pertaining to reagents and mechanisms are discussed.

Nanodiamonds (ND) are chemically inert and stable owing to their sp³ covalent bonding structure, but their surface sp² graphitic carbons can be easily homogenized with diverse functional groups via oxidation, reduction, hydrogenation, amination, and halogenation.

This review brings together almost 200 years of research on the structure of nitrocellulose to give an overview covering its production from cellulose through to application in composite materials such as propellants or biomedical tests.

The optical features of gold nanorods (GNR) may be precisely controlled by manipulating their size, shape, and aspect ratio.

Numerous potential uses for indoor organic photovoltaic cells.

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is considered a worldwide infectious zoonotic disease. Mycobacterium bovis causes bTB disease.

Accurately identifying apoptosis is crucial and luminescence-based detection methods are rapidly advancing. These insights are essential for in vivo analyses, allowing researchers to assess compounds' efficacy and safety within a living organism.

Adsorption is alternative technique for recovery of nutrient resources with no/less secondary pollution. PNC adsorbents are effective for removal and recovery of nutrient resources, and reusing nutrients as fertilizer could prevent eutrophication.

This review summarized detail classified stimuli responsive dynamic dual mode systems for daytime radiative cooling and solar heating.

This review uses documented studies to highlight current difficulties faced by natural product drug discovery scientists using in silico methods. This will provide interested scientists in this field of research an idea of what they can expect.

Graphene has garnered increasing attention for solar energy harvesting owing to its unique features.

This review highlights recent advances in nanotherapeutics altering the tumor microenvironment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) to overcome immunosuppression.

Micronanoplastics (MNPs) interact with blood components, resulting in anemia, cardiovascular diseases, etc. Research gaps include toxic impacts of real-world MNPs, monomers, co-pollutants complex, and so on, emphasizing the need for more research.

Dehydroabietane-type bifunctional organocatalysts derived from rosane-type diterpenes of dehydroabietic acid (DHAA) and dehydroabietylamine (DA) have been utilized in a wide variety of highly enantioselective reactions.

Arsenic (As) speciation is an interesting topic because it is well recognized that the toxicity of this metalloid ultimately depends on its chemical form.

ZnSnO₃ stands out as a captivating ternary oxide, garnering considerable interest in the realm of materials science owing to its distinct features, including remarkable sensitivity, expansive surface area, and excellent compatibility.

In this paper, the research progress of electrochemical biosensors in the last twenty years is summarized using bibliometrics, and the research hotspots and development trends are determined to guide future research.

In this approach, a number of microorganisms that produced biologically derived surfactants are significantly utilized to break down hazardous pollutants.

s-Triazine possesses an auspicious status in the field of drug discovery and development. This review is an effort to summarize and highlight recent biological applications of heterocyclic hybrids containing s-triazine scaffold.

Characteristics of COFs and their proton conducting mechanisms.

This paper focuses on the most recent advances in phosphate-activated geopolymer research, and indicates novel applications for phosphate-activated geopolymer.

Through analysis of X-ray excited luminescent nanoparticles, luminescence principles, and photodynamic therapeutic effects in recent years this review discusses the main issues and challenges regarding the current deep tumor photodynamic therapy, and future directions of development are examined.

Knowledge map of hot corrosion research: six research hotspots of the hot corrosion research field were elucidated.

Fluorinated building blocks as a source of new properties for metal–organic frameworks.

Waste-to-waste technology: application of soda residue in environmental treatment such as wastewater treatment, flue gas desulfurization and soil remediation.

This review provides the recent development of wearable piezoelectric biosensors assisted by machine learning for continuous and real-time health monitoring.

The past decade has witnessed significant progress in synthesizing structurally diverse and biologically relevant pyrano[2,3-c]pyrazole derivatives through the integration of green methodologies.

We discuss the synthesis of ammonia over catalysts using dielectric barrier discharge plasma as a promising alternative approach.

An integrated electrochemical system can simultaneously produce H₂ and FDCA at a lower energy cost than required for electrolytic water splitting with attractive benefits and applications over other production methods.

Hydrogen fuel sources will undoubtedly become the center of the future fuel revolution to replace fossil fuels. As a result, there is an increased demand for research into methods and solutions for producing clean hydrogen.

With the increasing shortage of water resources, people are seeking more innovative ways to collect fog to meet the growing need for production and the demand for livelihood.

To better understand the functions and mechanisms of H₂O₂-responsive nanomaterials, key examples of their diagnosis and therapy strategies are introduced.

This study examines the prevalence and distribution of microplastic polymer types in lentic ecosystems, revealing significant heterogeneity across different geographical regions and ecosystems.

Liquid metals are a type of material with excellent properties and have shown comprehensive development prospects.

Persistent organic pollutants and dyes can be removed by phytoremediation methods for eco-friendly wastewater treatment.

The aim of this review is to encapsulate the synthetic protocols and medicinal aspects of a wide range of heterocyclic compounds using the Vilsmeier–Haack (V. H.) reagent.

In the present day, the incorporation of environmentally conscious practices in the realm of photocatalysis holds a prominent position within the domain of organic synthesis.

LAES design, background, limitations, and the associated techno-economic analysis is reviewed, focusing on the recent modelling, and integration with other systems, which was found to boost the system performance, and increase the profit.

Nucleic acid nanomaterials have shown great performance in anti-cancer drug delivery and tumor gene/immunotherapy.

Graphitic carbon nitride based materials have shown a great potential in photodetectors.

This review shows that biomarkers could be used to establish the sedimentary depositional environments, redox conditions, and organic matter enrichments of shales that are critical to the deep energy exploitation.

Bio-surfactants are produced by hydrocarbon degradation by hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms during their own growth on agro-industrial carbohydrate wastes. The production rate is influenced by the rate of degradation of carbohydrates.

This paper reviews the renewable hydrogen generation pathways, along with purification and storage technologies, and discusses the hydrogen economy and future prospects from an Indian context.

The effects of carbon quantum dots (CQD) as promising nanomaterials in agriculture.

The nuclear industry is rapidly developing and the effective management of nuclear waste and monitoring the nuclear fuel cycle are crucial.

Degradation of cobaltite cathode of solid oxide fuel cell and their durability improvement strategies.