Suwon Lee, Seongkoo Kang, Youngju Choi, Jihyun Kim, Junghoon Yang, Daseul Han, Kyung-Wan Nam, Olaf J. Borkiewicz, Jiliang Zhang, Yong-Mook Kang
{"title":"Structural Disorder of a Layered Lithium Manganese Oxide Cathode Paving a Reversible Phase Transition Route toward Its Theoretical Capacity","authors":"Suwon Lee, Seongkoo Kang, Youngju Choi, Jihyun Kim, Junghoon Yang, Daseul Han, Kyung-Wan Nam, Olaf J. Borkiewicz, Jiliang Zhang, Yong-Mook Kang","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c12248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12248","url":null,"abstract":"Layered lithium manganese oxides suffer from irreversible phase transitions induced by Mn migration and/or dissolution associated with the Jahn–Teller effect (JTE) of Mn<sup>3+</sup>, leading to inevitable capacity fading during cycling. The popular doping strategy of oxidizing Mn<sup>3+</sup> to Mn<sup>4+</sup> to relieve the JTE cannot completely eliminate the detrimental structural collapse from the cooperative JTE. Therefore, they are considered to be impractical for commercial use as cathode materials. Here, we demonstrate a layered lithium manganese oxide that can be charged and discharged without any serious structural collapse using metastable Li-birnessite with controlled structural disorder. Although Li-birnessite is thermodynamically unstable under ambient conditions, Li ion exchange into Na-birnessite followed by an optimal dehydration resulted in a disordered Li-birnessite. The control over crystal water in the interlayer provides intriguing short-range order therein, which can help to suppress parasitic Mn migration and dissolution, thereby ensuring a reversible electrochemical cycling. The Mn redox behavior and local structure change of the Li-birnessite were investigated by <i>ex situ</i> soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (sXAS) and X-ray pair distribution function (PDF) analysis. The combined sXAS and PDF with electrochemical analyses disclosed that the reversible Mn redox and suppressed phase transitions in Dh Li-birnessite contribute to dramatically improving its electrochemical reversiblity during cycling. Our findings underscore the substantial effects of controlled static disorder on the structural stability and electrochemical reversibility of a layered lithium manganese oxide, Li-birnessite, which extends the practical capacity of layered oxides close to their theoretical limit.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685118","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":"Enantioselective Synthesis of vic-Aminoalcohol Derivatives by Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Aldehydes with Protected Amino-pentadienoates","authors":"Thilo Bender, Alois Fürstner","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c12002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12002","url":null,"abstract":"A VAPOL-derived phosphoramidite ligand is uniquely effective at reverting the regiochemical course of nickel-catalyzed reactions of aldehydes with carbamate-protected 5-amino-2,4-pentadienoates as “push/pull” dienes; the ensuing carbonyl α-amino-homoallylation reaction affords <i>anti</i>-configured <i>vic</i>-aminoalcohol derivatives in good yields with high optical purity. The reductive coupling is conveniently performed with a bench-stable Ni(0) precatalyst and Et<sub>3</sub>B as the promoter.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685117","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}
Dong Li, Siyong Huang, Jianlin Ge, Ziqi Zhuang, Longyi Zheng, Lai Jiang, Yulun Chen, Chengchao Chu, Yang Zhang, Jie Pan, Bingwei Cheng, Jian-Dong Huang, Huirong Lin, Wei Han, Gang Liu
{"title":"Molecular Design of Phthalocyanine-Based Drug Coassembly with Tailored Function","authors":"Dong Li, Siyong Huang, Jianlin Ge, Ziqi Zhuang, Longyi Zheng, Lai Jiang, Yulun Chen, Chengchao Chu, Yang Zhang, Jie Pan, Bingwei Cheng, Jian-Dong Huang, Huirong Lin, Wei Han, Gang Liu","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c10070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c10070","url":null,"abstract":"Coassemblies with tailored functions, such as drug loading, tissue targeting and releasing, therapeutic and/or imaging purposes, and so on, have been widely studied and applied in biomedicine. <i>De novo</i> design of these coassemblies hinges on an integrated approach involving synergy between various design strategies, ranging from structure screening of combinations of “phthalocyanine-chemotherapeutic drug” molecules for molecular scaffolds, exploration of related fabrication principles to verification of intended activity of specific designs. Here, we propose an integrated approach combining computation and experiments to design from scratch coassembled nanoparticles. This nanocoassembly, termed NanoPC here, consists of phthalocyanine-based scaffolds hosting chemotherapeutic drugs, aimed at hypersensitive chemotherapy guided by photoimaging for targeting tumors. Our design starts from the selection of phthalocyanine derivatives that are not aggregation-prone, followed by computational screening of coassembled molecules covering various categories of chemotherapy drugs. To facilitate an efficient and accurate assessment of coassembly capabilities, we utilize small systems as surrogates to enable free-energy calculations at all-atom levels facilitated with enhanced sampling and statistical mechanics for efficient and accurate evaluation of coassembly ability. The final top NanoPC candidate, comprised of phthalocyanine PcL and cytarabine (CYT), can greatly increase the fluorescence intensity ratio of tumor/liver by 21.5 times and achieve higher antitumor efficiency in a pH-dependent manner. Therefore, the designing approach proposed here has a potential pattern, which can provide ideas and references for the design and development of coassembled nanodrugs with tailored functions and applications in biomedicine.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685111","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":"Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications, Volume 146, Issue 48","authors":"ACS Contributing Correspondents","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c16058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c16058","url":null,"abstract":"This article has not yet been cited by other publications.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685124","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":"Generative Pretrained Transformer for Heterogeneous Catalysts","authors":"Dong Hyeon Mok, Seoin Back","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c11504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c11504","url":null,"abstract":"Discovery of novel and promising materials is a critical challenge in the field of chemistry and material science, traditionally approached through methodologies ranging from trial-and-error to machine-learning-driven inverse design. Recent studies suggest that transformer-based language models can be utilized as material generative models to expand the chemical space and explore materials with desired properties. In this work, we introduce the catalyst generative pretrained transformer (CatGPT), trained to generate string representations of inorganic catalyst structures from a vast chemical space. CatGPT not only demonstrates high performance in generating valid and accurate catalyst structures but also serves as a foundation model for generating the desired types of catalysts by text-conditioning and fine-tuning. As an example, we fine-tuned the pretrained CatGPT using a binary alloy catalyst data set designed for screening two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e-ORR) catalyst and generated catalyst structures specialized for 2e-ORR. Our work demonstrates the potential of generative language models as generative tools for catalyst discovery.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685113","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":"Covalent DNA-Encoded Library Workflow Drives Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 Nonstructural Protein Inhibitors","authors":"Xudong Wang, Liwei Xiong, Ying Zhu, Sixiu Liu, Wenfeng Zhao, Xinyuan Wu, Mengnisa Seydimemet, Linjie Li, Peiqi Ding, Xian Lin, Jiaxiang Liu, Xuan Wang, Zhiqiang Duan, Weiwei Lu, Yanrui Suo, Mengqing Cui, Jinfeng Yue, Rui Jin, Mingyue Zheng, Yechun Xu, Lianghe Mei, Hangchen Hu, Xiaojie Lu","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c12992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12992","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated by persistent viral mutations, underscored the urgent need for diverse inhibitors targeting multiple viral proteins. In this study, we utilized covalent DNA-encoded libraries to discover innovative triazine-based covalent inhibitors for the 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CL<sup>pro</sup>, Nsp5) and the papain-like protease (PL<sup>pro</sup>) domains of Nsp3, as well as novel non-nucleoside covalent inhibitors for the nonstructural protein 12 (Nsp12, RdRp). Optimization through molecular docking and medicinal chemistry led to the development of <b>LU9</b>, a nonpeptide 3CL<sup>pro</sup> inhibitor with an IC<sub>50</sub> of 0.34 μM, and <b>LU10</b>, whose crystal structure showed a distinct binding mode within the 3CL<sup>pro</sup> active site. The X-ray cocrystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 PL<sup>pro</sup> in complex with <b>XD5</b> uncovered a previously unexplored binding site adjacent to the catalytic pocket. Additionally, a non-nucleoside covalent Nsp12 inhibitor <b>XJ5</b> achieved a potency of 0.12 μM following comprehensive structure–activity relationship analysis and optimization. Molecular dynamics revealed a potential binding mode. These compounds offer valuable chemical probes for target validation and represent promising candidates for the development of SARS-CoV-2 antiviral therapies.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685120","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}
Malik L. Williams, Jonathan R. Palmer, Ryan M. Young, Michael R. Wasielewski
{"title":"Charge Transfer Dynamics in Supramolecular Tessellations Composed of Aromatic Donors and Chiral Tris(naphthalenediimide) Triangular Acceptors","authors":"Malik L. Williams, Jonathan R. Palmer, Ryan M. Young, Michael R. Wasielewski","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c13800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c13800","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding charge transfer (CT) dynamics in donor–acceptor (D–A) cocrystals is important for the development of efficient organic photovoltaic and electronic materials. This study explores the photogenerated CT states of supramolecular tessellations formed by cocrystallizing a chiral tris(naphthalenediimide) triangular prism (−)-NDI-Δ with pyrene, perylene, and <i>peri</i>-xanthenoxanthene electron donors. By manipulating crystallization conditions, one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) cocrystals with distinct structural motifs and morphologies are achieved. Femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption microscopies and time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy were employed to elucidate the CT state dynamics. Our findings reveal that the CT state lifetimes are lengthened in the 2D cocrystals relative to the 1D cocrystals, which is attributable to the symmetry and molecular packing differences between them that modulate the CT interactions. This work highlights the potential of using preorganized covalent multisite charge carriers as donors or acceptors in cocrystals as a strategy for engineering structures for advanced multifunctional materials with tunable CT properties.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142690921","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":"Exclusive Generation of Single-Atom Sulfur for Ultrahigh Quality Monolayer MoS2 Growth","authors":"Yunhao Zhang, Jingwei Wang, Yumo Chen, Xian Wu, Junyang Tan, Jiarong Liu, Huiyu Nong, Liqiong He, Qinke Wu, Guangmin Zhou, Xiaolong Zou, Bilu Liu","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c10810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c10810","url":null,"abstract":"Preparation of high-quality two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is the precondition for realizing their applications. However, the synthesized 2D TMDCs (e.g., MoS<sub>2</sub>) crystals suffer from low quality due to the massive defects formed during the growth. Here, we report single-atom sulfur (S<sub>1</sub>) as a highly reactive sulfur species to grow ultrahigh-quality monolayer MoS<sub>2</sub>. Derived from battery waste, sulfurized polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) is found to be exclusive and efficient in releasing S<sub>1</sub>. The monolayer MoS<sub>2</sub> prepared by SPAN exhibits an ultralow defect density of ∼7 × 10<sup>12</sup> cm<sup>–2</sup> and the narrowest photoluminescence (PL) emission peak with full-width at half-maximum of ∼47.11 meV at room temperature. Moreover, the statistical resonance Raman and low-temperature PL results further verify the significantly lower defect density and higher optical quality of SPAN-grown MoS<sub>2</sub> than those of the conventional S-powder-grown samples. This work provides an effective approach for preparing ultrahigh-quality 2D single crystals, facilitating their industrial applications.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685116","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":"Oxygen Vacancy Boosts Nitrogen-Centered Radical Coupling Initiated by Primary Amine Electrooxidation","authors":"Mengwei Han, Yongxiang Luo, Leitao Xu, Wei Chen, Chengmei Li, Yu-Cheng Huang, Yandong Wu, Yimin Jiang, Wenjie Wu, Ruiqi Wang, Ying-Rui Lu, Yuqin Zou, Shuangyin Wang","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c12451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12451","url":null,"abstract":"Synthesis of nitrogen-centered radicals (NCRs) for radical coupling reactions is a powerful and versatile tool in the arsenal of organic synthetic chemistry. However, there are few reports on the direct synthesis of NCRs based on aqueous electrocatalysis. Herein, we present a new electrochemical primary amine oxidation reaction (ePAOR) system with R<sub>1</sub>R<sub>2</sub>-CH-NH<sub>2</sub> as the substrate for synthesizing NCRs and N–N coupling products. However, ePAOR on the model catalyst (NiO) suffers from low N–N coupling selectivity due to the weak adsorption energy of imine (R<sub>1</sub>R<sub>2</sub>-C═NH) intermediates. Guided by theoretical calculations, the oxygen vacancy gives NiO a strong adsorption capacity of R<sub>1</sub>R<sub>2</sub>-C═NH so that it boosts nitrogen-centered radical coupling initiated by the ePAOR on oxygen vacancy-rich NiO (V<sub>O</sub>-NiO), and the effective utilization rate of NCRs was increased from 36 to 75%. This approach is compatible with a wide range of primary amines and can be applied to N–N cross-coupling systems as well.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684998","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":"Plateau–Rayleigh Instability in Soft-Lattice Inorganic Solids","authors":"Zhen-Chao Shao, Xianyun Jiang, Chong Zhang, Tianhao Wang, Yan-Ru Wang, Guo-Qiang Liu, Zong-Ying Huang, Yu-Zhuo Zhang, Liang Wu, Zhong-Huai Hou, Huijun Jiang, Yi Li, Shu-Hong Yu","doi":"10.1021/jacs.4c11866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c11866","url":null,"abstract":"Plateau–Rayleigh instability─a macroscopic phenomenon describing the volume-constant breakup of one-dimensional continuous fluids─has now been widely observed in adatoms, liquids, polymers, and liquid metals. This instability enables controlled wetting–dewetting behavior at fluid–solid interfaces and, thereby, the self-limited patterning into ordered structures. However, it has yet to be observed in conventional inorganic solids, as the rigid lattices restrict their “fluidity”. Here, we report the general fluid-like Plateau–Rayleigh instability of silver-based chalcogenide semiconductors featuring soft-lattice ionic crystals. It enables postsynthetic morphing from conformal core–shell nanowires to periodically coaxial ones. We reveal that such self-limited reconstruction is thermodynamically driven by the surface energy and interface energy and kinetically favored by the high ionic diffusion coefficients of subnanoscale soft-lattice shells. The resulting periodic heterostructures can be topotactically transformed for epitaxial combinations of functional semiconductors free from the lattice-matching rule. This fluid-like behavior in soft inorganic solids thus offers routes toward sophisticated nanostructures and controllable patterning at all-inorganic solid–solid interfaces.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"254 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685114","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}