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Look beyond the textbooks

Students need to deal with real life situations and identify their areas of interest. Modifying the school curricula would help achieve this.




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ICSE, ISC exam results to be declared on May 6




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Boys in co-ed schools excel in science subjects




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Mixed response to maths marks

Schools report drop in average score; some students disappointed but take it in their stride




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Over a lakh score ‘Perfect 10’ in CBSE Class X exams




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Maharashtra govt. makes exams ‘fail-safe’

Now on, mark sheets of candidates who fail will read ‘Eligible for Re-Exam’




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Review ‘No Detention’, give States discretion to hold exams : CABE




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CBSE Class X, XII exams from March 9

Class X exams will end on April 10; Class XII exams will end on April 29




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Not declaring deletions on Mahatma Gandhi, RSS in textbooks an ‘oversight’, says NCERT head

The issue is being blown out of proportion, says D.P. Saklani, reacting to the controversy over the removal of sentences on Gandhiji and the RSS; Congress president Kharge says the BJP cannot erase history, no matter how hard it tries




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Chennai Corporation Schools register 88.86% pass in Plus Two examination

A total of 5,899 students of 32 Corporation schools appeared for the examination. As many as 2,129 boys and 2,995 girls cleared it. The pass percentage among boys was 81.07 while among the girls it was 91.5.




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Astronomy for curious kids : an illustrated introduction to the Solar System, our galaxy, space travel--and more! / [Giles Sparrow ; illustrated by Nik Neves]

Sparrow, Giles, 1970- 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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Engineering for curious kids : an illustrated introduction to building machines and amazing structures! / [author: Chris Oxlade ; illustrator: Alex Foster]

Oxlade, Chris, author




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The next scientist : the unexpected beginnings and unwritten future of the world's great scientists / by Kate Messner ; illustrated by Julia Kuo

Messner, Kate, author




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Expedition Polarstern. English

Weiss-Tuider, Katharina, author




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

Dufour Bowes, Arnolda, 1974- 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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Electricity / Victoria M. Williams ; illustrated by Miguel Bustos ; with expert advice from Thomas Banyard

Williams, Victoria (Science writer), author




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Exoplanets : a guide to the worlds outside our solar system / Wendy Bjazevich ; art by David Miles

Bjazevich, Wendy, author




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Extreme weather for kids : lessons and activities all about hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, and more! / Matthew Cappucci ; illustrated by Stephanie Hathaway

Cappucci, Matthew, author




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Insect experts in the rain forest / Sue Fliess ; illustrated by Mia Powell

Fliess, Sue, author




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Taking care of where we live : restoring ecosystems / Merrie-Ellen Wilcox ; illustrated by Amanda Key

Wilcox, Merrie-Ellen, author




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Wildfire : inside the inferno / by Jaclyn Jaycox

Jaycox, Jaclyn, 1983- author




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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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Sex-tech: Mixing pleasure with business

Set to hit $2.09 billion by 2030, the booming sexual wellness industry in India is proving irresistible to fund houses 




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Digital detox for hallucinating chatbots and other AI fails

Bengaluru start-up’s automated platform detects and fixes machine learning gone wrong




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What’s experience got to do with starting up?

How important is work experience before venturing into entrepreneurship?




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Fund thesis: AI is the X-factor 

Why VC firm Good Capital wants to be an early investor in AI-powered businesses




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How startups are expanding the EV charging network

With generous funding, a host of newbie companies are revving up the expansion of the country’s EV charging network




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Flexi funding for unbanked needs

Anicut Capital zeroes in on investment opportunities that banks overlook due to regulatory constraints




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The synthesis of specifically isotope labelled fluorotryptophan and its use in mammalian cell-based protein expression for 19F-NMR applications

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04789C, Communication
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Giorgia Toscano, Martina Rosati, Letizia Barbieri, Katharina Maier, Lucia Banci, Enrico Luchinat, Robert Konrat, Roman J. Lichtenecker
Combining multistep organic synthesis with mammalian cell based protein overexpression leads to isolated 13C–19F spin systems in tryptophan side chains, which represent ideal sensors to probe protein interaction and dynamics using NMR spectroscopy.
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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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Mild boroxazolidone formation and dissociation: Application toward target identification of bioactive molecules

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05370B, Communication
Toya Tabei, Kyoko Nagasawa-Goto, Yohei Saito
We successfully found that boroxazolidone can dissociate under aqueous conditions, which were applicable to a solution containing proteins. The immobilization of a newly synthesized diarylborinic acid on beads enabled the...
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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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Extended polyene formation by a cryptic iterative polyketide synthase from Rhodococcus

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04963B, Communication
Open Access
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Panward Prasongpholchai, Sam Tucker, Charles Burgess, Robert Jenkins, Ina Wilkening, Christophe Corre, Lijiang Song, Manuela Tosin
Investigations of the workings of a newly identified iterative polyketide synthase from Rhodococcus erythropolis PR4 reveal its ability to synthesise extended polyenes.
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Ti3C2Tx MXene bonded perylene diimide as a robust charge host for seawater electrolytes

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05059B, Communication
Sreelakshmi P., Soujanya H. Goudar, Soumyaranjan Behera, Kotagiri Venkata Rao, Ambika S., Narendra Kurra
MXene bonded perylene diimide redox electrode as a robust host for seawater electrolytes.
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What could be the low-temperature limit of atomic layer deposition of platinum using MeCpPtMe3 and oxygen?

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04679J, Communication
Hao Van Bui, Anh Phan Nguyen, Manh Duc Dang, Truong Duc Dinh, Patricia J. Kooyman, J. Ruud Van Ommen
Room-temperature atmospheric-pressure ALD enables the deposition of highly dispersed Pt sub-nanometer clusters on a gram-scale quantity of TiO2 nanopowder.
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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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Carboxylative cyclization of atmospheric CO2 with alkynol catalyzed by a 1-methylhydantoin anion-functionalized ionic liquid via chelative interactions

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03586K, Communication
Yujun Guo, Tingting Chen, Yingjie Xu
[1-MHy] acts as a “pincer ligand” to form chelative interactions with –OH to enhance MBY activation, thus ensuring efficient [P4442][1-MHy]-catalyzed reaction of atmospheric pressure CO2 with MBY under metal- and solvent-free conditions.
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Exploring the effect of pressure on the crystal structure and caloric properties of the molecular ionic hybrid [(CH3)3NOH]2[CoCl4]

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05125D, Communication
Open Access
Pedro Dafonte-Rodríguez, Ignacio Delgado-Ferreiro, Javier García-Ben, Angel Ferradanes-Martínez, María Gelpi, Julian Walker, Charles James McMonagle, Socorro Castro-García, María Antonia Señarís-Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Bermúdez-García, Manuel Sánchez-Andújar
The hybrid metal halide [(CH3)3NOH]2CoCl4 exhibits a first-order phase transition at T ∼ 343 K.
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Visible light-activated polyphenol–Al3+ coordination for ambient and quantitative xylose-to-furfural conversion

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04899G, Communication
Jinshu Huang, Qizhi Luo, Tengyu Liu, Song Yang, Hu Li
Visible light-enhanced coordination of polyphenol–Al3+ is uncovered to switch Lewis/Brønsted acid sites for room-temperature cascade upgrading of xylose to furfural in ultrahigh yields.
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Pyrazolate-supported Cr3(μ3-O) cores; homovalent CrIII3 and mixed-valent CrIII2CrIV

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05161K, Communication
Jessica M. López-Plá, Mohammed Obies, Georgia Zahariou, Michael Pissas, Yiannis Sanakis, John E. McGrady, Raphael G. Raptis
The thermally assisted reaction of Cr(NO3)3·9H2O, 4-Cl-pzH, and Et3N yielded electrochemically active trinuclear CrIII–oxo–pyrazolate complexes with formula (Ph4P)2[Cr33-O)(μ-4-Cl-pz)6X3], X = Cl (1) and Br (2).
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Fabrication of gelatin hydrogels using pre-coordinated lanthanide complexes via imine crosslinking

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03886J, Communication
Chen-Cheng Yu, Yu Yun Hsu, Yu-Chia Su, Yi-Chen Yang, Tzu-Ying Wang, Yi-Cheun Yeh
Precoordinated lanthanide-containing complexes are used to crosslink polyethyleneimine-modified gelatin to form gelatin hydrogel through imine bond formation.
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Radical anions of 1,1-azoliumdithiocarboxylates

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05486E, Communication
Martin Simon Luff, Kai Oppel, Ivo Krummenacher, Holger Braunschweig, Udo Radius
The 1,1-azoliumdithiocarboxylate cAACMe-CS2 (1a) was prepared and its redox chemistry was evaluated and compared to NHC-based dithiocarboxylates IDipp CS2 (1b) and IMes-CS2 (1c). Radical anions [carbene CS2]·– were prepared by...
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Interlayer spacing expansion for V2O5 towards ultra-stable zinc anode-based flexible electrochromic displays in Zn2+/Li+-PC organic electrolyte

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04974H, Communication
Zhe Li, Zhaoyang Song, Linhua Liu, William Yu, Jingwei Chen, Qianqian Zhu, Haizeng Li
To enhance the electrochemical stability and kinetics of V2O5, 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) was in-situ polymerized within V2O5 interlayers, rendering PEDOT@V2O5 with enlarged layer spacing, increased stability in organic electrolyte, superior electrochemical...
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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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Fluorination of antimonene hexagons

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13336-13339
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03423F, Communication
Open Access
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Michael Fickert, Rebeca Martinez-Haya, Diego López-Alcalá, Frank Hauke, José J. Baldoví, Andreas Hirsch, Gonzalo Abellán
Fluorination of two-dimensional antimonene hexagons synthesized through colloidal synthesis has been reached using CF4 plasma through a reactive ion etching process.
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Nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dot-intensified tungsten oxide nanosheets as a SERS substrate for antibiotics detection

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13360-13363
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05052E, Communication
Lu Tan, Xuanzhao Lu, Shuzhen Yue, Yue Cao, Yang Zhou, Baokang Jin, Jun-Jie Zhu
Tungsten oxide nanosheets loaded with nitrogen-doped graphene oxide quantum dots (NGQDs/WO3 NSs) were fabricated as SERS substrates.
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Catalytic asymmetric Michael and Nef-type sequential reaction of nitroolefin with azlactone to construct oxazole-fused succinimide

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13384-13387
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04858J, Communication
Rui Weng, Yuqiao Zhou, Yaqin Zhang, Xiaoming Feng, Xiaohua Liu
A series of oxazole-fused succinimides bearing vicinal quaternary carbon centers were synthesized via catalytic asymmetric Michael addition and Nef-type sequential reactions of nitroolefins with azlactones.
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Mn and Mo co-doped NiS nanosheets induce abundant Ni3+–O bonds for efficient electro-oxidation of biomass

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13392-13395
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04818K, Communication
Pengfei Ren, Zixuan Wang, Wenchao Zhang, Fang Duan, Shuanglong Lu, Mingliang Du, Han Zhu
MnMo–NiS were synthesized for electro-oxidizing ethylene glycol (EG), glycerol (GLY), and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), achieving faradaic efficiencies of 97.5%, 98.6%, and 99.2%, and yield rates of 615.7, 475.5, and 333.9 μmol h−1 cm−2.
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