Latest progress in proton-conducting hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,5856-5884
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01473H, Review Article
Jin-Qi Qiao, Shuai-Wu Zuo, Zi-Feng Li, Gang Li
The latest progress of proton-conductive HOFs in terms of preparation, structural characteristics, proton conductivity, and proton-conducting mechanism are presented. The future trends and design ideas are also highlighted and prospected.
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Tailoring photoluminescence and multifunctionalities of lanthanide coordination complexes employing ligand-controlled aggregation states

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,6077-6085
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01071F, Research Article
Jun Wang, Qianbo Zhang, Zhiming Chen, Xin Lan, Wenjing Shi, Zhiqiang Li
Employing controllable monomers or excimers of sensitized ligands, homonuclear (Eu3+) and heteronuclear (Eu3+ and Tb3+) complexes were fabricated and have been applied in white LED lighting and dynamic anti-counterfeiting.
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Confinement engineering for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrate reduction by integrating B-doped graphene with iron catalysts for long-term stability

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,5611-5621
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01474F, Research Article
Hongxia Luo, Chuqi Wang, Yuting Cong, Yuanyuan Ma, Jianping Yang, Jun Chen
Fe@B-Gnc catalyst exhibits excellent electrocatalytic NO3RR performance owing to the protection of nano-chainmail confinement engineering and the regulation of the electronic structure between the Fe–C interface by doping with B.
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Enhanced performance of perovskite solar cells via a bilateral electron-donating passivator as a molecule bridge

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,5734-5744
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01531A, Research Article
Weichun Pan, Pengxu Chen, Sijia Zhu, Ruowei He, Qingshui Zheng, Fengxian Cao, Zhang Lan, Jihuai Wu, Weihai Sun, Yunlong Li
Benefiting from the successful introduction of 6-amino-1-hexanol (HAL), the HAL-modified perovskite solar cell achieves an optimal efficiency of 23.58%.
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Ultra-low loading Pt atomic cluster electrode with Pt–O bond as an active site with high hydrogen evolution reaction performance

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,5937-5949
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01437A, Research Article
Zhandong Ren, Zhiqiang Xie, Li Deng, Chen Dong, Guocan Song, Xiaohui Liu, Juanjuan Han, Lin Zhuang, Yi Liu, Yuchan Zhu
The oxidized Pt atomic cluster-supported Au electrode (PtAC–O–Au) with ultra-low loading exhibits a very high mass activity, and the active site is the oxidized platinum (Pt–O).
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Flexible strontium-based metal–organic framework scintillation screens for high-resolution X-ray imaging

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,5710-5718
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01231J, Research Article
Peng-Kun Wang, Wen-Fei Wang, Bao-Yi Li, Mei-Juan Xie, Hong-Yi Bian, Shuai-Hua Wang, Fa-Kun Zheng, Guo-Cong Guo
Flexible strontium-based metal–organic framework scintillation screens with strong radioluminescence sensitivity and water resistance were applied for high-resolution X-ray imaging.
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Chemoselective C(sp)–H borylation of terminal alkynes catalyzed by a bis(N-heterocyclicsilylene) manganese complex

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,6067-6076
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01033C, Research Article
Himani Ahuja, Harleen Kaur, Rebeca Arevalo
The manganese(II) complex [Mn(SiNSi)Cl2] (SiNSi = 2,6-[EtNSi(NtBu)2CPh]2C5H3N) is an efficient catalyst for the chemoselective C(sp)–H borylation of terminal alkynes.
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Controllable chiral memory in an anion tetrahedral cage

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01336G, Research Article
Wenyao Zhang, Jie Zhao, Dong Yang, Boyang Li, Yang Feng, Yue Wang, Xiaoyan Zheng, Xiao-Juan Yang, Biao Wu
The chiral induction of a series of chiral biomolecules to an anion-coordination-driven tetrahedral cage 1 was presented in this work, followed by chiral memory effect upon replacing the chiral guests with achiral ones.
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A selenium-based “alkahest”: reactive dissolutions of metals and metal compounds with n-alkylammonium polyselenide solutions

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,6032-6044
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01632C, Research Article
Jonathan W. Turnley, Swapnil D. Deshmukh, Victoria M. Boulos, Robert Spilker, Christian J. Breckner, Kevin Ng, Judy Kuan-Yu Liu, Jeffrey T. Miller, Hilkka I. Kenttämaa, Rakesh Agrawal
Solutions containing n-alkylammonium polyselenides constitute a new reactive solvent system. This reactive dissolution chemistry is broadly generalizable and can enable solution processed synthesis of a wide range of metal chalcogenide semiconductors, both as thin films and nanoparticles.
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Deuteration of Pd-activated C(sp2)–H bonds in the solid state

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10,6005-6014
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI00932G, Research Article
Alen Bjelopetrović, Dajana Barišić, Marina Juribašić Kulcsár, Ivan Halasz, Manda Ćurić, Stipe Lukin
A novel approach for deuteration of C–H bonds in a ball mill at ambient temperature using Cys-d4 as D-source is developed. In situ Raman, ex situ spectroscopic and DFT data allowed identification of intermediates and insight into the reaction course.
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