{"title":"Iron-catalyzed CH activation: A sustainable approach to efficient organic synthesis","authors":"Qiao Song , Xue Peng , Zhouyu Wang , Leyong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2025.110869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2025.110869","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 5","pages":"Article 110869"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143550233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “A concise formal stereoselective total synthesis of (–)-swainsonine” [Chin Chem Lett 25 (2014) 193–196]","authors":"Xiao-Gang Wang , Ai-E Wang , Pei-Qiang Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 3","pages":"Article 110597"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143318354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xixian Sun , Shengke Li , Ruibing Wang , Leyong Wang
{"title":"Functional macrocyclic arenes with active binding sites inside cavity for biomimetic molecular recognition","authors":"Xixian Sun , Shengke Li , Ruibing Wang , Leyong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 4","pages":"Article 110806"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonmetallic phosphorus alloying to regulate the oxygen reduction mechanisms of platinum catalyst","authors":"Yizhe Chen , Yuzhou Jiao , Liangyu Sun , Cheng Yuan , Qian Shen , Peng Li , Shiming Zhang , Jiujun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110789","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110789","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Platinum (Pt) nanoparticle catalysts remain the most popular cathode materials for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Non-metallic alloying of Pt has become an emerging strategy to improve electrocatalytic performance, however, the electrocatalytic ORR mechanisms still need to be understood for further improvement toward practical application. Herein, a rapid microwave reduction method is employed for alloying phosphorous (P) into Pt to form a carbon supported phosphorus-alloyed Pt nanoparticle catalyst (P-Pt/C), which demonstrates the ability to replace commercial Pt/C. By a combination of density functional theory calculations and <em>in-situ</em> electrochemical Raman spectroscopy, the regulation role of P-alloying in the electrocatalytic mechanisms is revealed. It is found that the nearby Pt atoms can convert the ORR pathway from associative one to dissociative one, exhibiting a spontaneous dissociation of *OOH intermediate to *OH and *O species as well as a change of potential determining step to *O protonation. Furthermore, the strategy of large-scale economic synthesis of such alloying Pt-based catalyst is also established, demonstrated by a gram-level synthesis per batch. This study puts insight into the electrocatalytic ORR fundamentals of Pt-alloying with non-metals and provides a basis for the reasonable design and synthesis of efficient nonmetals-alloyed Pt catalysts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 4","pages":"Article 110789"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visible light/copper catalysis enabled radial type ring-opening of sulfonium salts","authors":"Rong-Nan Yi , Wei-Min He","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110787","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 4","pages":"Article 110787"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}