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Coinage metal(I) clusters supported by a 1,10-phenanthroline-phosphine: orange-to-NIR phosphorescence, metallophilic interactions and enhanced cytotoxicity

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,18027-18036
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02642J, Paper
Alexander V. Artem'ev, Maria P. Davydova, Lyubov S. Klyushova, Evgeniy H. Sadykov, Mariana I. Rakhmanova, Taisiya S. Sukhikh
Based on 2-(diphenylphosphino)-1,10-phenanthroline, a series of small metal(I) clusters, exhibiting orange to NIR phosphorescence and strong dose-dependent cytotoxicity.
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Tunability of triplet excited states and photophysical behaviour of bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes with imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17934-17947
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT01996B, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Katarzyna Choroba, Joanna Palion-Gazda, Mateusz Penkala, Patrycja Rawicka, Barbara Machura
The impact of cyclometalating ligands on the photophysical behaviour of heteroleptic Ir(III) complexes with imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline. [Ir(ppy)2(imphen)]+ is a 3MLLCT emitter, while [Ir(pybzth)2(imphen)]+ has a predominant 3LCN∩C character.
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The role of the stabilizing/leaving group in palladium catalysed cross-coupling reactions

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,18013-18020
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02533D, Paper
Open Access
Lorenzo Palio, Francis Bru, Tommaso Ruggiero, Laurens Bourda, Kristof Van Hecke, Catherine Cazin, Steven P. Nolan
Despite the widespread use of well-defined PdII complexes as pre-catalysts for cross-coupling processes, the role of the throw-away ligand is still underexplored.
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An acidity-triggered aggregation nanoplatform based on degradable mesoporous organosilica nanoparticles for precise drug delivery and phototherapy of focal bacterial infection

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17893-17901
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02111H, Paper
Yunhan Huang, Wei Guo, Xinyu Wang, Jingrui Chang, Bo Lu
An acidity-triggered aggregation antibacterial nanoplatform based on biodegradable mesoporous organic silica nanoparticles, is reported. It enables precise drug release and spatial accuracy for photodynamic therapy and photothermal therapy.
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Gold nanoparticle-decorated amorphous carbon for oxidative cyclization of anthranilamide and aryl alcohols

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17976-17988
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02355B, Paper
The Thai Nguyen, Huyen-Tran Thi Nguyen, Thu Anh Nguyen, Khuong Quoc Vo, Phuong Hoang Tran
Various 2-phenylquinazolin-4(3H)-ones were produced in moderate-to-good yields (44–80%) via the oxidative cyclization of anthranilamide and benzyl alcohols using gold nanoparticle-decorated amorphous carbon as an efficient catalyst.
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Unprecedented C–F bond cleavage in perfluoronaphthalene during cobaltocene reduction

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17789-17793
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02791D, Communication
Gargi Kundu, Debjit Pramanik, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Ravi Kumar, Mayur Sangole, Srinu Tothadi, Aryya Ghosh, Kumar Vanka, Kirandeep Singh, Sakya S. Sen
The reduction of octafluoronapthalene by cobaltocene in preence of NHC led to a distinct Co(I) species with the cleavage of the C–F bond and the formation of Co–C bond.
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Synthesis and relaxivity of gadolinium-based DOTAGA conjugated 3-phosphoglycerate

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17777-17782
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02766C, Communication
Open Access
Andrew R. Brotherton, Shifa Noor Mohamed, Thomas J. Meade
A Gd-DOTAGA based MR contrast agent conjugated to 3-phosphoglycerate for enhanced relaxivity and investigation into its metabolism.
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A bioinspired water oxidation catalyst that is ∼1/10th as active as the photosystem II oxygen evolving center at pH 7: a study of activity and stability factors

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17783-17788
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02336F, Communication
Danijel Boskovic, Richard Terrett, Matthew Longhurst, Sabeel Basheer, Alireza Ariafard, Pawel Wagner, Ronald J. Pace, Rob Stranger, Gerhard F. Swiegers
Ca-doped birnessite MnOx on liquid crystalline reduced graphene oxide exhibits unprecedented performance for an abiological catalyst at pH 7, including a very low onset overpotential of 0.52 V and high activity per unit area at 0.56 V overpotential.
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Beyond the triple bond: unlocking dinitrogen activation with tailored superbase phosphines

Dalton Trans., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02703E, Paper
Vilakkathala U. Krishnapriya, Cherumuttathu H. Suresh
Dinitrogen activation has long been a challenging goal in chemistry. Tailored superbase phosphines offer a promising approach to overcome this challenge by going beyond the traditional triple bond.
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Heats of formation on the way from B2H6 to B20H16: thermochemical consequences of multicenter bonding in ab initio and DFT methods

Dalton Trans., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02589J, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Jindřich Fanfrlík, Jan Řezáč, Drahomír Hnyk, Josef Holub
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of various computational methods in reproducing the experimental heats of formation of boron hydrides using the atomization energy approach.
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Reactions of a geminal Sc/P Lewis pair with pyridotetrazole and beyond

Dalton Trans., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02838D, Paper
Yiwen Guan, Xian Xu, Xin Xu
An FLP pyridyl nitrene adduct was isolated from the denitrogenative reaction of the Sc/P complex with pyridotetrazole. FLP reactivity of the Sc/P complex with many small molecules were investigated with the generation of metallacyclic complexes.
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Synthesis of organo-uranium(II) species in the gas-phase using reactions between [UH]+ and nitriles

Dalton Trans., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02508C, Paper
Justin G. Terhorst, Theodore A. Corcovilos, Samuel J. Lenze, Michael J. van Stipdonk
A series of gas-phase, σ-bonded [U–R]+ species (R = CH3, C2H3, C2H5, C3H7, or C5H6) can be generated by using preparative tandem mass spectrometry (PTMSn) via ion-molecule reactions between [UH]+ and neutral nitriles.
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Asymmetric triply bridged lanthanide binuclear clusters with distinctly different magnetic behaviors

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02652G, Communication
Yue Yang, Yu-Xia Wang, Yu-Zhe Lei, Peng Cheng
Isomorphic binuclear clusters Gd and Dy with antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic couplings are separately exhibiting single-molecule magnetic behavior and strong magnetocaloric entropy.
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Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based-bridged BODIPY dimer: synthesis, e-chem, one- and two-photon photophysical properties

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02655A, Paper
Z. Chai, Tingting Gu, Annaelle Beau, Frederic Bolze, Claude P Gros, Liang Xu, Donghai Shi, Hai-Jun Xu
Four BODIPY dyes (6a ~ 6d) with electron-donating or electron-withdrawing groups at the meso-position were synthesized by Sonogashira coupling reaction of thieno[3,2-b]thiophene with mono-iodo-BODIPY moiety. All compounds were fully characterized...
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Recent Advances in Syntheses and Emerging Applications of 2D Borophene based Nanomaterials with a Focus on Supercapacitors

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02573C, Frontier
Prashanta Pal, Mahasweta Nandi
Two dimensional (2D) nanosheet of boron i.e. borophene, triggered interest in progressive research as a result of the vast field of opportunities to explore, from its innovative synthetic techniques to...
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Detailed mechanism of DNA/RNA nucleobase substituting bridging ligand in diruthenium (II,III) and dirhodium (II,II) tetraacetato paddlewheel complexes: Protonation of the leaving acetate is crucial

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02621G, Paper
Open Access
Iogann Tolbatov, Tiziano Marzo, Paolo Umari, Diego La Mendola, Alessandro Marrone
Paddlewheel complexes of bimetallic scaffolds are emerging metallic agents in the bioinorganic chemistry landscape. In the most commonly employed construct, these complexes are decorated by carboxylate moiety, prompting their possible...
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Alleviating hypoxia by integrating MnO2 with metal-organic frameworks coated upconversion nanocomposites for enhanced photodynamic therapy in vitro

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02605E, Paper
Junxun Zhou, Mengyue Jiang, Qiangqiang Zhang, Yuan Jiang, Haifang Wang, Lining Sun
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) requires the participation of abundant oxygen while the hypoxic tumor microenvironment limits the efficacy of PDT. Here, upconversion luminescent nanocomposites coated with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were synthesized...
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Single-ion magnetism in novel Btp-based cobalt complexes of different charge

Dalton Trans., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02338B, Paper
Open Access
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Gustavo Rama-Martínez, Marcelo Osorio-Celis, Yolanda Sabater-Algarra, Diego Sánchez-Brunete, Antonio L. Llamas-Saiz, Eugenia P. Quirós-Díez, M. Eugenio Vázquez, Miguel Vázquez López, María del Carmen Giménez López
By deprotonating Btp-derived ligands, precise control over counterions in the outer-coordination sphere is achieved in both neutral and charged anisotropic CoII complexes exhibiting field-induced single-ion magnetism.
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Media invited but not welcomed!



  • Siddhartha P Saikia

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Back to square one!



  • Siddhartha P Saikia

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Media & Freebies: a murky connection



  • Siddhartha P Saikia

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Anchored to beliefs




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Sword swinging in the civic body




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Blunder fields




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Why do we succumb to pressure?




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Troubled waters

The good and bad aspects of the rains




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A way with birds

As the world became deafeningly silent during the lockdown, birdsong was the only solace




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The incredible matutinal drink

A cup of morning ‘South Indian coffee’ is the only pick-me-up than one needs




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Ball badminton days

In the early 1980s, local clubs in Mysuru used to conduct round-robin tournaments of the game




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The debt conundrum

We are born in debt and die in debt both financial and social




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Celebrating Hanami

It’s a Japanese tradition of viewing flowers in spring




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The bird in a patch of green

A pigeon becomes a regular visitor to a terrace with lush foliage




b

Behind the race

Potential sportspersons find government sponsorship hardly enough to sustain a living




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A pilgrimage to Orwell’s Barnhill 

The author’s croft by that name on the island of Jura is where he completed 1984




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Talking about menopause

Media explore gender disparity largely, but it has failed to explicitly probe this transformative stage in a woman’s life




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Tipping cuts both ways

It is a case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t




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Freewheeling exploration with a bicycle

The machine was a precious possession, a symbol of hard work and determination




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United by food and festival

A Bengali raised in Jharkhand with a yen for celebrating Onam




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In the abode of lovely nature

There is a gentle breeze that blows ever so often from the Kunda Betta and the old trees sway gently, as if in sheer delight




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Building mental reserves

Treat mental health like an “account” with regular deposits of nurturing habits, thoughts, and actions




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A women-only conversation, but for all

Why do we descend to the misogynistic use of ‘girlish’ and ‘womanly’ as labels to demean some of the complex disciplines?




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Self-care is the best healing

Work on building your network, wear a smile and genuinely thank those who assist in your daily work




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Celebrate menopause

Recognise it as the beginning of a new chapter in a woman’s life




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Navigating public spaces as a woman

When public transport is inadequate or absent, it can heighten risks of violence and restrict access




b

The bookaholic

Worried over why the unread collection is larger than the read ones




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A case for public transport

Aspirational India likes to flaunt snazzy cars, unmindful of the cost to environment




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Rising stars: Anzar Abbas and Katie Wu

Interview with early-career scientists in immunology and neuroscience




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Book of the Year 2017

Physics World book experts Matin Durrani and Tushna Commissariat discuss the themes and trends that surround some of the best popular-physics books of 2017, before announcing the winner of our annual book award




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NanoRaman: correlated tip-enhanced optical spectroscopy and scanning-probe microscopy

Register now: 8 March 2018
A webinar sponsored by HORIBA Scientific




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Developing the world's first full-body PET scanner

Simon Cherry explains why the EXPLORER project will revolutionize medical imaging