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Who goes first?

When the teacher drops a question in class, there’s usually a hush… why this reluctance?




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J-K school girls face online flak for army-sponsored tour




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Shortage of teachers drives govt. schools to hire local staff

Faculty, students pitch in with contributions to pay salary for new recruits




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Special children at their creative best

French artist Matthieu Charbonneau guides Satya Special School children to express themselves




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365 : how to count a year / Miranda Paul + Julien Chung

Paul, Miranda, author




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Change is in the air : carbon, climate, Earth, and us / Debbie Levy ; illustrated by Alex Boersma

Levy, Debbie, author




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A girl can build anything / written by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo and Pat Zietlow Miller ; illustrated by Keisha Morris

Charlton-Trujillo, e. E., author




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The girl who planted trees / written by Caryl Hart ; illustrated by Anastasia Suvorova

Hart, Caryl, author




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How to spacewalk : step-by-step with shuttle astronauts / created by Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, and Michael J. Rosen ; illustrated with images from NASA and drawings by Michael J. Rosen

Sullivan, Kathy, 1951- author




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The lost drop / story by Grégoire Laforce ; art by Benjamin Flouw

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Minnow : the girl who became part fish / created by Willie Poll and Bailey Macabre

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Mya McLure, the brave science girl : the toad cave / by Douglas Haddad ; illustrated by Jennifer Ball-Cordero

Haddad, Douglas, 1976- author




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Restoring prairie, woods, and pond : how a small trail can make a big difference / Laurie Lawlor

Lawlor, Laurie, author




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3 Things Telecom Firms Should Be Doing For Improving Customer Service



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But I live : three stories of child survivors of the Holocaust / Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer, Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp, Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel ; editor: Charlotte Schallié




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Pageboy : a memoir / Elliot Page

Page, Elliot, 1987- author




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Maggie Lou, Firefox / Arnolda Dufour Bowes ; illustrations by Karlene Harvey

Dufour Bowes, Arnolda, 1974- author




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All about insects : an illustrated guide to bugs and creepy-crawlies / [author: Polly Cheeseman ; illustrator: Iris Deppe]

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Can you hear the plants speak? / Nicholas Hummingbird with Julia Wasson ; illustrations by Madelyn Goodnight

Hummingbird, Nicholas, author




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Canada wild : animals found nowhere else on Earth / words by Maria Birmingham ; art by Alex MacAskill

Birmingham, Maria, author




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Wildfire : inside the inferno / by Jaclyn Jaycox

Jaycox, Jaclyn, 1983- author




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Fireside Ventures aims to birth Indian mega-brands

Why VC firm Fireside Ventures believes it can build multimillion-dollar consumer brands in India without burning capital




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Esport: Rise of the virtual Indian champ

Competitive video gaming in India is buzzing with big-money championships, star players, celebrity endorsers and a surging fan base




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‘We hope to see the first public offering in agritech next year’

Why VC firm Omnivore is betting on agritech, rural fintech




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Founders, authors are birds of the same feather

Why writing a book is not that different from becoming a first-generation entrepreneur




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What comes first — a company or its founders?

Why a start-up must have first right over all scarce resources




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Hovering fighters birthed in Bengaluru

Start-up Zulu Defence manufactures drones geared for deployment in warfare




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Why founders love to firefight

Even well-funded start-ups do not deploy time or resources towards process-driven growth




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Drawing water from air on a sustainable, industrial scale

Uravu Labs devises an affordable means of mimicking nature’s water cycle




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Guilt-free, air-fried snacking ventures

New-age startups offer to instant deliver tasty, healthy refreshments that are easy on the pocket too




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Synthesis of environmentally friendly energetic cocrystal derived from commodity chemicals

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04037F, Communication
Open Access
Kazuki Inoue, Yosuke Nishiwaki, Mieko Kumasaki, Shinya Matsumoto, Ken Okada
Ammonium nitrate/glycine (2 : 1) energetic cocrystal was synthesized to address two drawbacks of ammonium nitrate: phase transitions and hygroscopicity. The cocrystal did not show phase transitions and exhibited decreased hygroscopicity.
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Direct π-extension of a Conjugated Carbon Nanohoop Using a Zipper Method

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04976D, Communication
kang Wei, Zaitian Cheng, Xingyu Zhang, Qiang Huang, Pingwu Du
The π-extension of carbon nanorings towards ultrashort carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is a great challenge for synthetic chemists. Herein, we report the synthesis, characterization, and properties of a nanographene-embedded carbon nanoring...
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Synthesis of heteroleptic bis-phosphine bis-NHC iron (0) complexes: a strategy to enhance small molecule activation

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05463F, Communication
Open Access
Christian M. Andre, Nathaniel K. Szymczak
We report low-valent iron complexes containing bis-NHC and bis-phosphine donor ligands that coordinate and strongly activate N2 and CO.
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Bidirectional strain release in a thermosalient organic salt crystal induced by anisotropic thermal expansion and phase transformation

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04764H, Communication
Priyasha Harsha, Dinabandhu Das
Two-way release of strain followed by jumping in an organic salt crystal can be attributed to the anisotropic thermal expansion by heating and phase transformation followed by shear deformation of the crystals by cooling.
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Direct alkene functionalization via photocatalytic hydrogen atom transfer from C(sp3)–H compounds: a route to pharmaceutically important molecules

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05026F, Highlight
Hangqian Fan, Yuxin Fang, Jingbo Yu
Direct functionalization of alkenes with C(sp3)–H substrates offers unique opportunities for the rapid construction of pharmaceuticals and natural products.
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Directed nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04912H, Communication
Yasuyuki Nitta, Takashi Nishikata, Michinori Sumimoto, Yusei Nakashima
In this study, we discovered a directed nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction, "directed SNAr (dSNAr)", in the reaction of ortho-iodobezamides and amine in the presence of pyridine. The reaction proceeded ortho-specifically...
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Zirconium metal–organic framework photocatalysis with TEMPO for blue light-powered aerobic sulfoxidation

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05173D, Communication
Bing Zeng, Yuexin Wang, Kanghui Xiong, Keke Zhang, Siyu Zhang, Xianjun Lang
A catalytic amount of TEMPO, mobile in the reaction medium, enhances the hole transfer of NU-1003 photocatalysis for blue light-powered oxidation of organic sulfides with O2.
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Tunable synthesis of magnetoelectric CoFe2O4–BaTiO3 core–shell nanowires

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03701D, Communication
Noah D. Ferson, John R. Ganiban, David P. Arnold, Jennifer S. Andrew
CoFe2O4–BaTiO3 core–shell nanowires with tunable magnetic anisotropy and magnetoelectric coupling are generated using a template-assisted synthetic procedure providing composition control.
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Employing a PhI(OAc)2-mediated domino reaction to assemble nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivatives and assessing their anti-inflammatory activity

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13352-13355
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03245D, Communication
Xinyue Li, Yuhua Fang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Shenshen Luo, Yuhui Xue, Tingting Yong, Bin Wang
Metal-free radical cascade synthesis of substituted pyrazole derivatives was initiated by PhI(OAc)2 at 23 °C.
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Bioinspired hydrogels: polymeric designs towards artificial photosynthesis

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13314-13324
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04033C, Feature Article
Open Access
Reina Hagiwara, Ryo Yoshida, Kosuke Okeyoshi
This Feature Article outlines the design of polymer networks for water splitting induced by visible light to develop artificial chloroplasts. The network serves as a mediator for photoinduced electron transfer among precisely organised molecules.
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An effective orange-red solution-processed circularly polarized organic light-emitting diode

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04938A, Communication
Junqing Wang, Xiaoyi Lai, Yongzhi Zhou, Lei Hua, Weiguo Zhu, Pengfei Duan, Yafei Wang
Two orange-red emission circularly polarized thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters (R)-ad-PXZ/(S)-ad-PXZ were synthesized. The solution processable device exhibits the maximum external quantum efficiency of 9.0% and gEL value of 10−3.
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Synthesis of substituent-free dioxadiaza[8]circulene to investigate intermolecular interactions and photophysical properties

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05539J, Communication
Aoi Nakagawa, Wataru Ota, Takumi Ehara, Yusuke Matsuo, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Tohru Sato, Shu Seki, Takayuki Tanaka
Substituent-free dioxadiaza[8]circulene has been synthesized and its dense packing structure and optical properties were analyzed in detail.
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Palladium catalyzed C(sp3)-H alkylation of 8-methylquinolines with aziridines: access to functionalized γ-quinolinylpropylamines

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05275G, Communication
Anita Sahoo, Tripti Paul, Shubhajit Basak, Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy
Palladium-catalyzed directed site-selective C(sp3)-H alkylation of 8-methylquinolines has been accomplished using aziridine as an alkylating source via a sequential C-H and C-N bond activation. Site selectivity, funtional group tolerance and...
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Machine Learning Directed Discovery and Optimisation of a Platinum-Catalysed Amide Reduction

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05273K, Communication
Open Access
Eleonora Casillo, Benon Maliszewski, Cesar Blanco, Thomas Scattolin, Catherine Cazin, Steven P Nolan
The discovery and optimisation of reaction conditions leading to the reduction of amides, a fundamental large-scale industrial reaction, is achieved using a machine learning (ML) platform and a platinum catalyst....
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Synthesis of Aryl Fluorocyclopropanes from Aryl Fluorodiazirines and Alkenes in Continuous Flow

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC01881H, Communication
Hoang-Minh To, Shima Mirakhorli, Thierry Ollevier
Photochemically induced generation of aryl fluorocarbene from arylfluorodiazirines and their subsequent [2 + 1] cycloaddition with alkenes was developed in continuous flow. The in situ generated electrophilic aryl fluorocarbene reacted...
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Nickel-catalyzed stereospecific reductive cross-coupling of vinyl chlorosilanes with axially chiral biaryl electrophiles

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04293J, Communication
Tiantian Yin, Shiyuan Sui, Shuqi Li, Junbiao Chang, Dachang Bai
Nickel-catalyzed stereospecific reductive cross-coupling of vinyl chlorosilanes with chiral biaryl electrophiles for the synthesis of axially chiral organosilanes.
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Iron-catalysed intramolecular C(sp3)–H amination of alkyl azides

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04169K, Feature Article
Open Access
Kai Wu, Chi-Ming Che
This review summarizes recent major advances in iron-catalysed C–H aminations of alkyl azides through iron–alkylnitrene/alkylimido intermediates to access various N-heterocycles.
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When Kashmiri kehwa sells out in Canada

Niche regional spices and foods are seeing a surge in popularity, both within India and abroad, in a movement spearheaded by a homesick diaspora, curious lockdown cooks and innovative entrepreneurs



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Theobroma, Mumbai’s popular patisserie, opens its first outlet in Chennai

After 100 outlets across the country, Theobroma opens its first patisserie in the city, in Anna Nagar. The second will open in Nungambakkam next week and feature all the favourites



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Cloud kitchens make a mark in Thiruvananthapuram with pocket-friendly food and a wide range of cuisines

Still ordering in, though lockdowns are over? You are not alone. As cloud kitchens juggle cuisines and experiment with new dishes from a single space, takeaway in Thiruvananthapuram gets more interesting every day