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Modification of polyvinylidene fluoride through homogeneous reaction for preparation of hydrophilic membrane
Long-lasting anti-fouling membrane of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) requires covalently bonded hydrophilic units, which faces challenges like...
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The EPR Effect and Polymeric Drugs: A Paradigm Shift for Cancer Chemotherapy in the 21st Century
Blood vessels in tumors are different to normal blood vessels because they have abnormal architectures and impaired functional regulation. We have...
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Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions
Substitution of a C=C bond by an isoelectronic B–N bond is a well-established strategy to alter the electronic structure and stability of acenes....
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Polymeric Micelles with Chiral Diamine-Ru(II) Catalysts for Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones in Water
Chiral aromatic alcohols with unique structures have attracted wide attention in asymmetric catalysis for decades. In this study, polymeric micelles...
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Classifications, synthesis and applications of biodegradable pseudo-proteins: a review
Pseudo-protein is a novel synthetic biodegradeable material that has amino acids as the basic structural unit. Unlike protein, this polymer has other...
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Reactivity of oximes for diverse methodologies and synthetic applications
Oximes are valuable synthetic building blocks with reactivity modes that enable their use in diverse methodologies, from cycloadditions to...
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Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis
Conversion of C–H bonds to C–N bonds via C–H amination promises to streamline the synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds. Nitrogen-group...
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Synthetically encoded complementary oligomers
Creating the next generation of advanced materials will require controlling molecular architecture to a degree typically achieved only in...
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Spacer-Controlled Multiple Functionalization of Fullerenes
The chapter provides a survey of the development and applications of the tether- and template-directed regio- and, in the occurrence, stereoselective...
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Phosphorus–nitrogen compounds: part 75—design, synthesis, stereogenic and conformational properties of chiral dispiro(N/N)cyclotriphosphazenes: structural analysis and photophysical and bioactivity studies
Multiheterocyclic inorganic–organic hybrid phosphazenes have robust inorganic ring systems with the stabilities of the phosphorus nitrogen skeleton...
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Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Difunctionalized Organo-Phosphorus and -Sulfur Compounds
Recent results related to the synthesis and reactivity of organocompounds substituted by both phosphorus and sulfur functional groups are reviewed....
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Hydrogen Bonded Network Structures Constructed from Molecular Hosts
Molecular hosts are molecules that show intrinsic inclusion behaviour, usually involving guest molecules occupying cavities within the molecular...
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Soft Materials
This chapter picked up some selected examples of soft materials of fullerenes and the related compounds reported in no earlier than 1993. These...
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High-Performance Polyimides with Pendant Fluorenylidene Groups: Synthesis, Characterization and Adsorption Behaviour
High-performance polyimides (HPIs) were synthesized using various aromatic dianhydrides and fluorenylidene containing diamine via two-step...
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Bicyclobutanes as unusual building blocks for complexity generation in organic synthesis
Bicyclobutanes are among the most highly strained isolable organic compounds and their associated low activation barriers to reactivity make them...
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Bio-Inspired Materials for Environmental Remediation
Highly organized structures and functions in living organisms have been a source of inspiration of new materials, of which properties are beyond the...
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Copolymers with Pendant N-arylimide Groups via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Synthesis, Characterization and Kinetic Study
AbstractRandom and random-block copolymers of methyl methacrylate with N -arylitaconimide monomer ( N -(4-chlorophenyl)itaconimide, N -phenylitaconimide,...
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Evolutions of precision radical polymerizations from metal-catalyzed radical addition: living polymerization, step-growth polymerization, and monomer sequence control
Metal-catalyzed Kharasch addition or atom transfer radical addition (ATRA) is one of the most efficient radical reactions for controlled syntheses of...
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Design of a maleimide monomer to achieve precise sequence control and functionalization for an alternating copolymer with vinylphenol
We designed an N -phenylmaleimide derivative bearing an activated NHS ester (NHS-PhMI) for radical copolymerization with tert -butoxystyrene (tBOS) to...
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Dynamic Helical Structures: Detection and Amplification of Chirality
A unique feature of dynamic helical, chromophoric macromolecules that enables the detection of a small imbalance in chiral guest molecules through...