The study of inorganic compounds and materials, including coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, solid-state chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, and the synthesis of advanced inorganic materials
6 papersThis study directly compares the C-H bond weakening abilities of nickel and palladium, finding that palladium acidifies C(sp³)-H bonds 100,000 times more than nickel. This acidification makes palladium a preferred metal in C(sp³)-H functionalization reactions.
Researchers successfully isolated and characterized an unstable organobismuth(III) hydride complex. This unstable molecule could help explain how bismuth works as a catalyst in several chemical reactions, potentially opening up new avenues for green chemistry.
This study reveals the ultrafast dynamics of the H2O+ radical cation and OH radical formation in ionized liquid water using femtosecond x-ray pulses. The H2O+ cation is found to decay within 46 fs via proton transfer, leading to the formation of OH radical, which undergoes subsequent vibrational cooling and geminate recombination with a hydrated electron on longer timescales.
Researchers developed a robust single-atom ruthenium catalyst that efficiently converts aldehydes and ketones to primary amines. This catalyst exhibits high selectivity and resistance to poisoning, outperforming traditional ruthenium nanocatalysts and demonstrating its potential for sustainable production of valuable chemicals from biomass.
This paper introduces a machine learning approach to quantify the chemical diversity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). They find that current MOF databases, both experimental and computational, exhibit biases in their chemical space coverage, particularly in metal node diversity. This bias can lead to inaccurate conclusions about structure-property relationships and limit the discovery of novel MOFs.
Researchers created a DNA-based hydrogel that acts like a tiny uranium magnet, selectively grabbing it from seawater. This hydrogel shows excellent potential for uranium extraction due to its high selectivity and capacity, especially compared to current methods.