Fiammetta Vitulano, Andrea Solida, Letizia Sorti, Carlo F. Morelli, Alessandro Minguzzi, Alberto Vertova
{"title":"Cover Feature: Alcohol and Carbonyl Redox Reactions in Electrochemical Organic Synthesis (ChemistryEurope 4/2025)","authors":"Fiammetta Vitulano, Andrea Solida, Letizia Sorti, Carlo F. Morelli, Alessandro Minguzzi, Alberto Vertova","doi":"10.1002/ceur.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Cover Feature</b> illustrates the potentialities of electrochemistry for green organic synthesis, which avoids the transport/storage/handling of hazardous reducing and oxidizing chemicals. In their Review (DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500013), A. Minguzzi and co-workers consider electrochemical oxidation and reduction from/to alcohols and carbonyl groups in a reader-friendly format.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magda Křelinová, Michèle Salmain, Petr Štěpnička, Ivana Císařová, Benoît Bertrand, Jiří Schulz
{"title":"Cover Feature: Introduction of a Phosphine Group onto the Ferrocene Moiety in Ferrociphenol Opens Access to New Heterobimetallic Complexes with Anticancer Activity (ChemistryEurope 4/2025)","authors":"Magda Křelinová, Michèle Salmain, Petr Štěpnička, Ivana Císařová, Benoît Bertrand, Jiří Schulz","doi":"10.1002/ceur.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Cover Feature</b> shows a new ferrociphenol derivative that was designed to equip a prominent organometallic anticancer agent with an additional phosphine group capable of coordinating other metal centers. In their Research Article (DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500048), B. Bertrand, J. Schulz and co-workers report the syntheses of this compound, its corresponding phosphonium salt, and transition metal complexes incorporating the functional phosphine, along with their preliminary evaluation as anticancer agents.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front Cover: pH-Controlled Gliding Motions in Pillar[5]arene-Containing Molecular Shuttles (ChemistryEurope 4/2025)","authors":"Nihed Becharguia, Iwona Nierengarten, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Emeric Wasielewski, Rym Abidi, Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot, Jean-François Nierengarten","doi":"10.1002/ceur.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Front Cover</b> shows a space shuttle passing through a pillar[5]arene to illustrate a molecular shuttle combining this macrocyclic component with an axle moiety incorporating a decyl chain station and a protonable triazole subunit. In their research article (DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400115), I. Nierengarten, B. Delavaux-Nicot, J.-F. Nierengarten and co-workers show that the amplitude of the gliding motions of the macrocyclic component along the axle moiety of the molecular shuttle can be controlled by an acid–base or an electrochemical stimulus.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover Feature: Self-Assembly of Silver Nanoclusters by Cooperative Acetylene Bonding with Mutual Pyridyl Coordination (ChemistryEurope 4/2025)","authors":"Tasuki Tsurumi, Takahiro Nakagawa, Takashi Kikuchi, Kiyohiro Adachi, Hironobu Hayashi, Atsuro Takai, Takuma Kaneko, Tomoya Uruga, Daisuke Hashizume, Yosuke Nakamura, Makoto Fujita, Yuya Domoto","doi":"10.1002/ceur.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Cover Feature</b> highlights the self-assembly of alkyne-protected silver nanoclusters networked through silver⋯pyridyl coordination in the crystalline lattice. In their Research Article (DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500069), Y. Domoto and co-workers demonstrate that cooperative acetylene coordination, which is provided by a simple bifunctional ligand equipped with both a terminal alkyne and a pyridyl group, is applicable to the spatial organization of photoluminescent atomically precise clusters into the 3D coordination nanomaterials.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400117
Sabrina Conoci
{"title":"The Frontier of Biosensors: The Polymerase Chain Reaction-Free Approach for Point-of-Care Devices","authors":"Sabrina Conoci","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400117","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The nucleic acids (NA) analysis is spread out by the invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Even though the method has proven to be a disruptively innovation in the medical field, by creating a new of sector of molecular diagnostics, it however remains the prerogative of analysis of laboratories, due to its complexity and cost. To further make progresses in this sector, the development of point-of-care (POC) genetic testing technologies is crucial by offering the advantages to be fast, sensitive and specific, low cost, and, above all, able to be used onsite by nonspecialized people. In this context, the PCR-free approaches are very relevant since they do not need amplification processes and, therefore, they simplify significantly the experimental set up aimed to detect the NA. In this perspective, an overview of most innovative approaches for genetic point care technologies rapid test is presented and discussed particularly appealing to be integrated in portable and easy-to-use POC devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500015
Haruka Moriguchi, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino
{"title":"Supramolecular Aggregates of Amide- and Urea-Functionalized Nanographene","authors":"Haruka Moriguchi, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202500015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202500015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Controlling the morphology of supramolecular nanographene (NG) aggregates is challenging. This study confirms that amide- and urea-functionalized NG undergo self-assembly to form supramolecular aggregates with a morphology that depends on the incorporated functional group. Amide-functionalized NG forms stacked aggregates, whereas urea-functionalized NG organizes into network polymers. These distinct morphologies suggest that amide groups drive NG stacking, whereas urea groups support NG vertically and horizontally, likely owing to differences in the strengths of single and bifurcated N<span></span>H/O hydrogen bonds. Moreover, the functional group incorporated into NG influences the gelation properties of the system. Among the two tested systems, only urea-functionalized NG formed organogels, possibly because urea–urea hydrogen bonds, enable solvent-molecule trapping inside the network polymers formed in these NG systems. Thus, hydrogen bonds can regulate the morphology and function of supramolecular NG aggregates.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202500015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500082
Anusree Sundar, Danica Bajuk-Bogdanović, Gordana Ćirić-Marjanović, Talha Nisar, Veit Wagner, Arnulf Materny, Geoffrey B. Jameson, Bassem S. Bassil, Ulrich Kortz
{"title":"Highly Shielded Peroxo-Cerium(IV)-Containing Polyoxometalate: Synthesis, Structure, and Oxidative Studies","authors":"Anusree Sundar, Danica Bajuk-Bogdanović, Gordana Ćirić-Marjanović, Talha Nisar, Veit Wagner, Arnulf Materny, Geoffrey B. Jameson, Bassem S. Bassil, Ulrich Kortz","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202500082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202500082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The peroxo-bridged di-cerium(IV)-di-lithium-containing polyoxometalate [(Ce<sup>IV</sup><sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>)Li<sub>2</sub>(P<sub>2</sub>W<sub>16</sub>O<sub>59</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]<sup>16−</sup> (<b>Ce</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>Li</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>P</b><sub><b>4</b></sub><b>W</b><sub><b>32</b></sub>) is synthesized in a one-pot aqueous synthetic procedure and isolated as a hydrated mixed alkali salt, K<sub>13.6</sub>Na<sub>1.4</sub>Li[(Ce<sup>IV</sup><sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>)Li<sub>2</sub>(P<sub>2</sub>W<sub>16</sub>O<sub>59</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]·32H<sub>2</sub>O (<b>KNaLi-Ce</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>Li</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>P</b><sub><b>4</b></sub><b>W</b><sub><b>32</b></sub>). The novel polyanion <b>Ce</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>Li</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>P</b><sub><b>4</b></sub><b>W</b><sub><b>32</b></sub> comprises a side-on peroxo-group bridging two cerium(IV) and two lithium ions, which are encapsulated between two dilacunary, face-on {P<sub>2</sub>W<sub>16</sub>} Wells–Dawson units, with a vacant site in each of the two belts. The polyanion <b>Ce</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>Li</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>P</b><sub><b>4</b></sub><b>W</b><sub><b>32</b></sub> is characterized in the solid state by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy and in solution by <sup>31</sup>P NMR and Raman spectroscopy, respectively. <b>Ce</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>Li</b><sub><b>2</b></sub><b>P</b><sub><b>4</b></sub><b>W</b><sub><b>32</b></sub> and the peroxo-group are shown to be highly stable in a large pH range and up to almost boiling temperatures, but at the same time the polyanion is reactive toward oxidation of triphenylphosphine, involving the peroxo group and the cerium(IV) centers.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202500082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500073
Tao Zhou, Junzi Li, Xu Han, Yingyu Song, Menglong Liu, Jialiang Liu, Wen-Wen He, Thamraa AlShahrani, Shengqian Ma
{"title":"Construction of Hollow H-CuS/NiS2@CuS S-Scheme Heterostructure Photocatalyst with an Excellent Hydrogen Evolution Performance","authors":"Tao Zhou, Junzi Li, Xu Han, Yingyu Song, Menglong Liu, Jialiang Liu, Wen-Wen He, Thamraa AlShahrani, Shengqian Ma","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202500073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202500073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heterojunction engineering is regarded as one of the most efficacious means to enhance the hydrogen evolution performance of photocatalysts. In this research, bimetal MOF-74 is grown on hollow Cu<sub>7</sub>S<sub>4</sub>, and after vulcanization, H-CuS/NiS<sub>2</sub>@CuS is obtained to form heterostructures. The experimental results indicate that the synthesized H-CuS/NiS<sub>2</sub>@CuS has an outstanding photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate of 17.66 mmol g<sup>−1</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>, and its photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance is much higher than that of single transition metal sulfide. Within the S-scheme heterojunction, the interfacial electric field causes a significant accumulation of photoelectrons on the conduction band of NiS<sub>2</sub>. Thus, it can maintain a high reducing property in the hydrogen evolution reaction and remarkably boosts the separation efficiency of photoelectrons and holes. This research offers a feasible scheme for the synthesis of highly efficient heterojunction photocatalysts.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202500073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2025-05-29DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500086
Yoshio Ando, Sota Ajima, Ken Ohmori
{"title":"Synthetic Study on Bicyclic Pyranonaphthoquinone Natural Products: Construction of the Dioxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonene Motif","authors":"Yoshio Ando, Sota Ajima, Ken Ohmori","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202500086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202500086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A concise method for the construction of dioxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonene framework has been developed. This structural motif has recently been identified in hybrid-type pyranonaphthoquinone-class natural products. The reaction proceeds in a stereoselective manner under mild conditions. In conjunction with this study, the scalable total syntheses of nanaomycins A and D have been achieved. Based on extensive screening of reaction conditions and nucleophiles, a plausible reaction mechanism is proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202500086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500088
Savannah Rawlings, Steve Scheiner
{"title":"Comparison of the CH and OH Groups as Proton Donors within Hydrogen Bonds","authors":"Savannah Rawlings, Steve Scheiner","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202500088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202500088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ability of the CH group to act as proton donor is now widely accepted, even if the H bonds (HBs), which it forms are typically much weaker than those of the hydroxyl group, particularly for a sp<sup>3</sup>-hybridized C. An NH<sub>3</sub> nucleophile is allowed to approach both the terminal methyl group and the hydroxyl of n-butanol, so as to form either a CH··N or OH··N HB. Density functional theory calculations show that the latter is much stronger than the former. However, the strength of the CH··N HB can be amplified and approach much closer to that of OH··N by appropriate placement of suitable electron-withdrawing and donating substituents on the butanol. The interaction energy of the CH··N HB reaches above 6–8 kcal mol<sup>−1</sup> in several cases, considerably larger than the prototype HB within the water dimer.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202500088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144634989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}