{"title":"Sulfur-Promoted Direct Conversion of Benzylamines to Aromatic Nitriles under Metal-Free and Air Atmosphere","authors":"Hui Gao,Zhaohang He,Changqun Cai,Hang Gong","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06453a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06453a","url":null,"abstract":"A simple, metal-free, and one-pot protocol for the direct conversion of benzylamines to aromatic nitriles has been developed using elemental sulfur as promoter, DMSO as both solvent and oxidant, and Na2CO3 as base under ambient air. The reaction exhibits good functional group tolerance, including amino, carboxylic acid, boronic ester, and heteroaromatic rings. Gram-scale synthesis (79% yield) and derivatization to pharmaceutically relevant compounds demonstrate the practicality of this method. Mechanistic studies reveal that the transformation proceeds through amide and thioamide intermediates. The protocol features inexpensive reagents, no transition metals, air compatibility, and simple operation.Aromatic nitriles are fundamental building blocks in organic synthesis and serve as key structural motifs in numerous pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, natural products and functional materials (Fig. 1). [1][2][3] The nitrile group can be readily transformed into a variety of other functional groups, making nitriles versatile synthetic intermediates. [4][5][6] Traditional approaches for the synthesis of aromatic nitriles include Sandmeyer reactions, [7] Rosenmund-von Braun reactions, [8] and dehydration of amides orCOMMUNICATION ChemComm 2","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valerii Y. Sirenko,Kostiantyn V. Domasevitch,Sergiu Shova,Il'ya A. Gural'skiy
{"title":"π-Deficient Tetrel Bound Cation as a Band Structure Defining Species for 3D Low Bandgap Perovskitoid","authors":"Valerii Y. Sirenko,Kostiantyn V. Domasevitch,Sergiu Shova,Il'ya A. Gural'skiy","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06104d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06104d","url":null,"abstract":"A new three-dimensional lead bromide perovskitoid was obtained using a π-deficient diprotonated pyridazino[4,5-d]pyridazine cation. This species simultaneously functions as a multitopic ligand, a structure-directing template and the moiety providing low-lying π* orbitals assuring a low optical band gap of 1.59 eV. The discussed mechanism to adjust band structure makes pyridazino[4,5-d]pyridazine a promising component for crystal engineering of similar low-band-gap systems.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinxin Li,Fengniu Lu,Baili Zhao,Zhiqin Yuan,Kai Zhang,Chao Lu
{"title":"Recent advances in fluorescence analysis of chemical warfare agents with organic probes","authors":"Xinxin Li,Fengniu Lu,Baili Zhao,Zhiqin Yuan,Kai Zhang,Chao Lu","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05673c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05673c","url":null,"abstract":"Chemical warfare agents with high toxicity and threat to human health cause wide attention, and many organic probes have been developed for the detection of representative agent, including nerve agents and blister agents. In this review, we summarize the recently adopted fluorescent analysis events with organic probes. The detection of nerve agents is first introduced based on nitrogen activation, hydroxide-activation, cyclization, and other mechanisms. The blister agent detection is concluded in three aspects: thiocarbonyl site recognition, thiol site recognition, and other principles. The applications of fluorescence detection systems toward chemical warfare agents or simulants are by turn-on and ratio metric tactics. In the end, this review highlights the challenges and future trend of chemical warfare agent’s responsive organic probes.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bo Wang,Wangqiang Shen,Guangqing Xu,Peng Zhang,Jun Lv,Yucheng Wu
{"title":"Quasi-in-situ XPS Reveals the Mediating Role of Interfacial SiOx at Cu/Black Silicon Photocathodes","authors":"Bo Wang,Wangqiang Shen,Guangqing Xu,Peng Zhang,Jun Lv,Yucheng Wu","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06546e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06546e","url":null,"abstract":"The thin oxide layer on silicon photoelectrodes is conventionally regarded as a barrier to be removed. Using quasi-in-situ XPS under a Zn-foil short-circuit configuration on a Cu/bSi photocathode, we show that this layer appears to mediate rather than block photogenerated charge transfer at metal/silicon contacts.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jana Schaubeder,Chao Zhong,Caterina Czibula,Cécile Chazot,Bernd Nidetzky
{"title":"Bottom-up enzymatic synthesis of robust sub-10 micrometer cellulose beads","authors":"Jana Schaubeder,Chao Zhong,Caterina Czibula,Cécile Chazot,Bernd Nidetzky","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05538a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05538a","url":null,"abstract":"Controlled phosphorylase-catalyzed β-1,4-glucose polymerization in water yields sub-10 micrometer cellulose beads of narrow size distribution, reflected by mean coefficients of variation of 19 – 26%. The beads retain their morphology after one drying and rehydration cycle, offering a mild aqueous route to morphologically robust cellulose microparticles with potential for simple surface functionalization.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jian-De Dong,Jiao Wu,Siyu Ji,Tian-Xiong Wang,Shuyao Tian,Xu-Hui Jin
{"title":"Solution-Phase Formation of Proquinoidal Conjugated Polymer Nanowires with Rapid Photothermal Response","authors":"Jian-De Dong,Jiao Wu,Siyu Ji,Tian-Xiong Wang,Shuyao Tian,Xu-Hui Jin","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05979a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05979a","url":null,"abstract":"Well-defined solution-phase nanowires from deep-NIR-absorbing proquinoidal polymers remain rare owing to their strongly associating π-backbones. Here, a simple heating-cooling treatment produces such nanowires directly in solution from a non-block BBT-bifuran polymer. The nanowires exhibit absorption extending to ca. 1600 nm and rapid photothermal heating, with their surface temperature rising from 20.6 to 186.4 °C within 0.5 s under 808 nm irradiation. A hydroxyl-functionalized analogue can be incorporated into PVA/SA hydrogels, where a nominal feed loading of only 0.13 wt% increases the 1 sun evaporation rate 3.2-fold.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interfacial Molecular Engineering of Free-Standing Polyaniline-PVDF Hybrid Electrodes Enables High-Performance Flexible Solid-State Supercapacitors","authors":"Rakesh Nanna,Jitesh Pani,Hitesh Borkar","doi":"10.1039/d6cc04452b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc04452b","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we report a simple and scalable vacuum filtration-assisted strategy for the fabrication of Polyaniline (PANI)– poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) composite films with tunable compositions (80:20, 70:30, and 60:40) wt%. Interfacial molecular engineering and compositional optimization enables a balance between electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility, with the 82Pp-based device delivers a high areal capacitance of 310.90 mF/cm² at 1 mA/cm² current density.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screening-guided identification of a near-infrared fluorogenic reporter for portable chloramphenicol aptasensing","authors":"Xinyue Cao,Guangyu Zhang,Zhongyang Huang,Fangcheng Su,Jiaheng Zhang","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05686e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05686e","url":null,"abstract":"Screening 27 commercially available fluorescent dyes against the native chloramphenicol (CAP) aptamer identified ethyl violet (EV) as a near-infrared fluorogenic reporter for the label-free NiRApt–CAP aptasensor. NiRApt–CAP was evaluated in spiked aqueous samples and transferred to a compact fluorometer, providing a label-free route to portable CAP sensing without aptamer modification.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuting Meng,Hang Jiang,Wenxin Lei,Haisheng Ma,Zhongwei Ge,Bing Xu,Yasser M. A. Mohamed,Shouchun Yin,Yun Li,Yunhao Cai
{"title":"Boosting organic solar cells bridge functionalization of dimer acceptors with enhanced non-halogen solvent processability","authors":"Shuting Meng,Hang Jiang,Wenxin Lei,Haisheng Ma,Zhongwei Ge,Bing Xu,Yasser M. A. Mohamed,Shouchun Yin,Yun Li,Yunhao Cai","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05521d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05521d","url":null,"abstract":"Ternary organic solar cells incorporating a dimer acceptor with oligo(ethylene glycol) side chains achieve 20.34% efficiency and enhanced thermal stability (T80 = 180 h at 80 °C), while also enabling non-halogenated solvent processing (19.68% PCE). This work highlights dimer acceptor side-chain engineering as a promising strategy for achieving high-performance and sustainable OSCs.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}