High-voltage lithium-metal batteries enabled by ethylene glycol bis(propionitrile) ether-LiNO3 synergetic additives

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10786-10794
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04263D, Edge Article
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Shaopeng Li, Kangsheng Huang, Langyuan Wu, Dewei Xiao, Jiang Long, Chenhui Wang, Hui Dou, Pu Chen, Xiaogang Zhang
This study employs C8H12N2O2–LiNO3 additive in lithium metal batteries. The modified electrolyte shows potential for improving battery performance under anode free and high voltage conditions.
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Record release of tetramethylguanidine using a green light activated photocage for rapid synthesis of soft materials

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10736-10743
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04130A, Edge Article
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Kun-You Chung, Ain Uddin, Zachariah A. Page
Novel boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) photocages release a strong organobase, tetramethylguanidine, with record efficiency upon green light exposure to enable rapid anionic step-growth polymerizations.
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Rh(III)-catalyzed highly site- and regio-selective alkenyl C–H activation/annulation of 4-amino-2-quinolones with alkynes via reversible alkyne insertion

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10971-10978
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03987K, Edge Article
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Naohiro Hirako, Takeshi Yasui, Yoshihiko Yamamoto
A practical approach for preparing 3,4-fused 2-quinolones has been disclosed. The Rh(III)-catalyzed highly selective alkenyl C–H activation/annulation of 4-amino-2-quinolones was achieved via an unprecedented reversible alkyne insertion.
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Greater transferability and accuracy of norm-conserving pseudopotentials using nonlinear core corrections

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10934-10943
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03709F, Edge Article
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Wan-Lu Li, Kaixuan Chen, Elliot Rossomme, Martin Head-Gordon, Teresa Head-Gordon
We investigate the transferability of NLCC pseudopotentials (PPs) using the GTH protocol with various functionals (GGA, meta-GGA, hybrid), exploring their effects on thermochemical and non-thermochemical properties.
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Rapid prediction of full spin systems using uncertainty-aware machine learning

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10902-10913
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC01930F, Edge Article
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Jake Williams, Eric Jonas
FullSSPrUCe is an uncertainty-aware deep learning system which predicts all spin system parameters from 2D structures through rapid estimates of conformational geometries.
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Macroscopic handedness inversion of terbium coordination polymers achieved by doping homochiral ligand analogues

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10892-10901
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03230B, Edge Article
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Chang-Yu Wang, Jia-Ge Jia, Guo-Guo Weng, Ming-Feng Qin, Kui Xu, Li-Min Zheng
Macroscopic chirality of right-handed Tb(R-cyampH)3·3H2O superhelices can be inversed by controlling the doping ratio of homochiral ligand analogue R-XpempH2 (X = H, F, Cl, Br), where pempH2 can introduce new weak interactions into the system.
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Post-synthetic benzylation of the mRNA 5′ cap via enzymatic cascade reactions

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10962-10970
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03822J, Edge Article
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N. V. Cornelissen, R. Mineikaitė, M. Erguven, N. Muthmann, A. Peters, A. Bartels, A. Rentmeister
Novel S-adenosyl-L-methionine analogues were generated enzymatically and used for regioselective benzylation of biomolecules. Applied to the mRNA 5′ cap, protein production in cells can be increased and immunogenicity altered.
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Photo-caged 2-butene-1,4-dial as an efficient, target-specific photo-crosslinker for covalent trapping of DNA-binding proteins

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10884-10891
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03719C, Edge Article
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Jiahui Li, Zenghui Cui, Chaochao Fan, Yifei Zhou, Mengtian Ren, Chuanzheng Zhou
Photo-irradiation of PBDA-modified DNA generates a long-lived intermediate that reacts selectively with Lys residues of DNA-binding proteins, leading to higher crosslink yields than traditional photo-crosslinkers such as benzophenone and diazirine.
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Supramolecular alternating copolymers with highly efficient fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10875-10883
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03056C, Edge Article
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Anwesha Chakraborty, Pradipta Kumar Das, Biman Jana, Suhrit Ghosh
This article reports alternating supramolecular copolymerization of two naphthalene-diimide (NDI)-derived building blocks (NDI-1 and NDI-2) under thermodynamic control.
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Asymmetric Friedel−Crafts reaction of unsaturated carbonyl-tethered heteroarenes via vinylogous activation of Pd0-π-Lewis base catalysis

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14,10867-10874
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03996J, Edge Article
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Bo Jiang, Wu-Tao Gui, Hao-Tian Wang, Ke Xie, Zhi-Chao Chen, Lei Zhu, Qin Ouyang, Wei Du, Ying-Chun Chen
A variety of deactivated heteroarenes tethered to an unsaturated carbonyl motif can participate in asymmetric Friedel–Crafts reactions with diverse electrophilic reagents catalysed by a chiral Pd0-complex.
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