Huixiang Li, Huayang Li, Jun Shen, Changhui Liang, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yongxin Li, Z. Conrad Zhang
{"title":"Selectivity Promotion of Cu by Manganese Oxide in Hydrogenative Ring Opening of Furfural to Pentanediols","authors":"Huixiang Li, Huayang Li, Jun Shen, Changhui Liang, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yongxin Li, Z. Conrad Zhang","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05247a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05247a","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports a targeted activation of C-O-C of furfural alcohol (FA) to produce pentanediols (PeDs) over MnO2 modified Cu. Infrared spectroscopy revealed the strong interaction of furan ring and C-O-C of FA with catalyst surface in a preferred flat adsorption configuration, thus facilitating the activation and cleavage of C-O-C to form PeDs.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815659","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}
Guilherme Cariello, Rafael D C Gallo, Victor M Deflon, Rodrigo A Cormanich, Igor D Jurberg
{"title":"Visible light-mediated formal alkylation and [4+1]-cycloaddition strategies of silyl enol ethers with aryldiazoacetates.","authors":"Guilherme Cariello, Rafael D C Gallo, Victor M Deflon, Rodrigo A Cormanich, Igor D Jurberg","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05451b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05451b","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A reaction sequence of visible light-mediated cyclopropanation/acid-promoted ring-opening is described for the formal alkylation of silyl enol ethers with aryldiazoacetates. Under the same conditions, the Danishefsky's diene can react with aryldiazoacetates to afford [4+1]-cycloaddition adducts. Key mechanistic aspects are proposed based on experimental evidence and DFT calculations.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816616","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}
Cuicui Hu, Minghao Zhang, Wenbo Zhou, Chenyu Liu, Zhan Lin
{"title":"Accurate Prelithiation of Lithium Ion Batteries SiOx Anode towards improved Initial Coulombic Efficiency","authors":"Cuicui Hu, Minghao Zhang, Wenbo Zhou, Chenyu Liu, Zhan Lin","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05415f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05415f","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an accurate prelithiation method for SiOx anodes using ball-milling with LiF. The formation of a LiF-rich SEI layer reduces active lithium loss, resulting in excellent electrochemical performance. This study provides a new approach for developing high-performance silicon-based anodes for lithium-ion batteries.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"235 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815510","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}
So-Young Chun, Chanhee Park, Jiwon Oh, Hey-Jin Yoon, Tae-Il Kim, Youngmi Kim, Seung Wook Ham, Hye Ran Koh, Hyung Ho Lee, Hun Young Kim, Kyungsoo Oh
{"title":"(Thio)chromenone derivatives exhibit anti-metastatic effects through selective inhibition of uPAR in cancer cell lines: discovery of an uPAR-targeting fluorescent probe.","authors":"So-Young Chun, Chanhee Park, Jiwon Oh, Hey-Jin Yoon, Tae-Il Kim, Youngmi Kim, Seung Wook Ham, Hye Ran Koh, Hyung Ho Lee, Hun Young Kim, Kyungsoo Oh","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05907g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05907g","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A class of (thio)chromenone derivatives has been identified as suitable ligands for uPAR, a glycoprotein with a prognostic value in a large number of human cancers. The (thio)chromenone agents actively inhibited the binding of uPAR to uPA with a binding affinity of 18.6 nM, reducing cell migration in the wound healing assay by up to 40% without apparent cell motility. The discovery of an uPAR-targeting fluorescent probe was also made in this study that can selectively bind to the membrane uPAR, providing valuable molecular insights into the role of uPAR in cancer metastasis. This study should serve as a basis for the development of new uPAR-targeting agents that can control the metastatic potential of cancer cells with minimal cytotoxicity.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816800","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}
Zhe Sun, Yixiao Huang, Jiahua Kong, Jianguo Tang, Zhonglin Du
{"title":"Advances in materials and devices for smartlife photovoltaic innovations.","authors":"Zhe Sun, Yixiao Huang, Jiahua Kong, Jianguo Tang, Zhonglin Du","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05210b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05210b","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid development of photovoltaic (PV) technologies is expanding their applications beyond conventional outdoor energy harvesting into innovative smart-life energy solutions. This review examines the most recent progress in materials and device designs for various emerging PV systems, particularly in indoor and low-light environments, semitransparent devices, and flexible, wearable applications. These advancements have great potential to support autonomous smart life, enhance the energy efficiency of building-integrated solutions, and improve wearable technologies. Despite these gains, challenges such as improving efficiency, durability, scalability, and affordability remain, requiring interdisciplinary collaboration and further research to fully unlock PV technologies' role in sustainable, energy-efficient smart life.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816802","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}
Kevin Velasquez Carballo, Meetesh Singh, Xiangbo Meng
{"title":"Accurately Constitute Robust Interfaces for High-Performance High-Energy Lithium Metal Batteries","authors":"Kevin Velasquez Carballo, Meetesh Singh, Xiangbo Meng","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05705h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05705h","url":null,"abstract":"High-energy lithium metal batteries (LMBs) have been receiving an ever-increasing interest. Among them, coupling lithium metal (Li) with nickel-rich LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMCs, x ≥ 0.6, x + y + z = 1) is promising, for Li anodes enable an extremely high capacity (3860 mAh g−1) and the lowest redox potential (−3.04 V vs. standard hydrogen electrode) while NMCs can achieve a much higher capacity of 200 mAh g-1 and lower cost than those of LiCoO2. However, the resultant Li||NMC cells have been hindered from commercialization, due to a series of challenges related to the interface stability of both Li anodes and NMC cathodes. Specifically, Li anodes suffer from Li dendritic growth and the formation of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), while NMC cathodes have been harassed by the formation of cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI), and other interface-related issues including transition metal dissolution, oxygen release, cracking, and so on. To tackle these issues, recently, two sister techniques, atomic and molecular layer deposition (ALD and MLD), have emerged and exhibited tremendous capabilities to accurately constitute robust interfaces for accomplishing high-performance Li||NMC LMBs. They can uniquely develop uniform and conformal films as surface coatings of LMBs in a precisely controllable mode at the atomic/molecular level while proceeding film deposition at low temperatures (e.g., ≤ 250 oC). In this Feature Article, we highlight our latest research progress in developing novel surface coatings via ALD and MLD for Li||NMC LMBs and discuss our outcomes in pursuing their high performance.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815509","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":"Synthesis of Continuously Substituted Quinolines from o-Alkenyl Aromatic Isocyanides by Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Imidoylative 6-endo Cyclization","authors":"Tuanli Yao, Wei Liu, Hanfu Hu, Xiangyang Qin","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05461j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05461j","url":null,"abstract":"An efficient synthesis of continuously substituted quinoline derivatives via palladium-catalyzed intramolecular 6-endo imidoylative cyclization of o‐alkenyl aryl isocyanides with (hetero)aryl halides or vinylic triflates has been developed. The reaction proceeds through the concerted metalation-deprotonation (CMD) mechanism by activation of vinyl C-H bond with imidoylpalladium assisted by the carboxylate. Quinoline as an important heterocyclic scaffold, is prevalently found in natural products, biologically active molecules and functional materials,1 and is also a useful synthon in organic synthesis.2 Thus, various synthetic methods for quinoline motifs have been developed. Representative approaches include condensation reactions3 and catalyzed addition/cyclization approaches.4 Despite these advances, there remains big demand for versatile and effective methodologies to regioselective construct multiple substituted quinoline motifs. Aryl isocyanides have been well exploited in the preparation of nitrogen-containing heterocycles.5 In this context, alkene-containing isocyanides have received much attention, because they can be easily tuned in a way to synthesize a plethora of N-heterocyclic derivatives.6 Takahashi et al reported a three-component coupling reaction of o-alkenylphenyl isocyanides with aryl iodides and amines in the presence of palladium catalyst to produce 2,3-substituted indoles (Figure 1).6a Zhu group reported synthesis of five- to seven-membered cyclic ketoimines through palladium-catalyzed intramolecular imidoylative Heck reaction of alkene-containing isocyanides.6b Wang et al reported the palladium-catalyzed reaction of alkene-containing isocyanides with N-(2-bromobenzoyl)indoles via","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815512","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}
Yi-Chi Zhang, Min Hou, Han-Xiao Liu, Hui Cao, Liang Deng, Yan-Fang Zhu, Yanjiang Li, Zhenbo Wang, Yao Xiao
{"title":"Phase Evolutions of Sodium Layered Oxide Cathodes During Thermal Fluctuations","authors":"Yi-Chi Zhang, Min Hou, Han-Xiao Liu, Hui Cao, Liang Deng, Yan-Fang Zhu, Yanjiang Li, Zhenbo Wang, Yao Xiao","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05901h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05901h","url":null,"abstract":"Layered transition metal oxides (NaxTMO2) are considered to be highly appropriate for the practical applications of sodium ion batteries (SIBs) relying on their facile synthesis, high capacity, and low cost. Generally, the phase growth procedures of NaxTMO2 during solid-state reactions at high temperature closely related to their carbon footprint, prime cost, and the eventual electrochemical properties, while the thermal stability in various desodiated states associated with wide temperature fluctuations are extremely prominent to the electrochemical properties and safety of SIB devices. Therefore, in this review, the influences of sintering conditions such as pyrolyzation temperature, soaking time, and cooling rate on the phase growth patterns of NaxTMO2 are summarized. The thermodynamic and kinetics competitive driving behaviors at the highest temperature for the phase growths are deeply discussed. Furthermore, for the thermal stability of NaxTMO2 cathodes, the phase transition behaviors along with the alterations of battery system temperature under various electro-/chemical environments are concluded. The thermal stability enhancement strategies such as elemental composition modulations, surface reconstructions, and polyphase symbiosis using in the previous works are overviewed. Finally, we prospect the high-efficient preparation methods and the thermal devastation regulations of the NaxTMO2 layered oxides.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815505","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}
Joanna Drwęska, Kornel Roztocki, Agnieszka M Janiak
{"title":"Advances in chemistry of CALF-20, a metal-organic framework for industrial gas applications.","authors":"Joanna Drwęska, Kornel Roztocki, Agnieszka M Janiak","doi":"10.1039/d4cc05744a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05744a","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The metal-organic framework CALF-20 is a super-stable adsorbent utilised for carbon dioxide capture and storage in cement plants. Furthermore, recent findings suggest its potential for various gas-related applications. In this brief review, we summarise ten years of research on CALF-20, emphasising its historical background and key findings. We discuss its flexibility, stability, processability, and tunability, detailing how these properties contribute to advancements in CALF-20 chemistry. We believe that this information will provide a better understanding of CALF-20 and assist in evaluating the potential of both novel and existing materials for gas-related applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816801","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":"Sensitization experiments of ultrasmall gold nanoclusters: determination of triplet quantum yields and molar absorption coefficients.","authors":"Hayato Sakai, Sunao Hiramatsu, Aoi Akiyama, Yuichi Negishi, Taku Hasobe","doi":"10.1039/d4cc06083k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc06083k","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We demonstrated for the first time the determination of triplet quantum yields and molar absorption coefficients of ultrasmall gold nanoclusters specifically [Au<sub>25</sub>(PET)<sub>18</sub>]<sup>-</sup> with phenylethanethiolate (PET) ligands using two sensitization experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816803","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}