Advances in solar-driven, electro/photoelectrochemical, and microwave-assisted upcycling of waste polyesters

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2828-2838
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05930H, Highlight
Xiangxi Lou, Fangyue Liu, Qingye Li, Mingyu Chu, Guiling Wang, Jinxing Chen, Muhan Cao
This Feature Article systematically elaborates on various emerging technologies for the upcycling of polyesters, while also anticipating future development directions.
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Temperature-dependent hole mobility in pyrene–thiophene-based room-temperature discotic liquid crystals

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2922-2925
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05707K, Communication
Shallu Dhingra, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Asmita Shah, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Santanu Kumar Pal
π-Conjugated pyrene–thiophene-based room-temperature discotic liquid crystals showing temperature-dependent hole mobility measured using the time-of-flight technique.
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Phosphorous nitride dots induced efficient advanced oxidation with intrinsic chemiluminescence for organic pollutant degradation

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2962-2965
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC06081K, Communication
Jing Gou, Tong Sun, Yuxian Zhou, Houjing Liu
In this work, we introduced novel metal-free catalysts, phosphorus nitride dots (PNDs), to generate abundant reactive oxygen species (ROS) with strong intrinsic chemiluminescence (CL).
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Activation of non-polar bonds by an electron-rich gallagermylene

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2902-2905
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC06223F, Communication
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Anna Bücker, Alexander Gehlhaar, Christoph Wölper, Stephan Schulz
The electron-rich acyclic germylene LGa(μ–Cl)GeArMes (1) activates unpolar bonds as is shown in oxidative addition reactions with H2 and P4, yielding L(Cl)GaGe(H)2ArMes (2) and L(Cl)Ga(P4)GeArMes (3).
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Interfacial engineering eliminates energy loss at perovskite/HTL junction

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2938-2941
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05572H, Communication
Yingke Ren, Hongyang Fu, Yun Li, Zhaoqian Li, Cong Li, Xingtao An
Realizing efficient FAPbI3-based devices with high open-circuit voltage (VOC) is still challenging, due to severe energy loss between the n-type perovskite and p-type hole-transporting layer (HTL).
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Reversing the stereoselectivity of intramolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition utilizing cucurbit[8]uril as a molecular flask

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05783F, Communication
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Xujun Qiu, Jasmin Seibert, Olaf Fuhr, Frank Biedermann, Stefan Bräse
Molecular flask cucurbit[8]uril completely reverses the stereoselectivity of intramolecular [2+2] photo-cycloaddition reactions and triggers the unreactive diene to be reactive.
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An allosteric palindromic hairpin probe based dual-mode interactive strand displacement amplification enables robust miRNA biosensing

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2910-2913
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC06265A, Communication
Qi Wang, Tong Zhou, Danni Xue, Haidong Yang, Zhuqi Sui, Xinyue Yuan, Jianguo Xu
An allosteric palindromic hairpin probe enables a dimer-G-triplex-productive dual-mode interactive strand displacement amplification in miRNA biosensing with improved signal preservation and response.
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α-Aryl substituted GdDOTA derivatives, the perfect contrast agents for MRI?

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2898-2901
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05989H, Communication
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Karley B. Maier, Lauren N. Rust, Fabio Carniato, Mauro Botta, Mark Woods
Introducing aryl substituents into the α-position of the well-known GdDOTA affords chelates that have unprecedentedly high relaxivities and robustness.
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Ring-opening-isomerization anionic polymerization via Brook rearrangement

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,2954-2957
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC00144C, Communication
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Asuka Hamaguchi, Masaya Terasaki, Kaoru Adachi
Ring-opening-isomerization polymerization is developed using a combination of ring-opening reaction of epoxides and subsequent Brook rearrangement.
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