Water-soluble Pt and Pd tetrasulfophthalocyanines show good photostability and photosensitize the generation of singlet oxygen, which can be efficiently used in ene reactions for synthetic purposes
Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers
Proton Affinity and Gas-Phase Basicity of SO2
New gas-phase experiments and theoretical calculations revise significantly downward the proton affinity and gas-phase basicity of SO2
Increasing Oxygen Delivery
Allosteric Effectors of Human Hemoglobin
Tackling Mad Cow Disease and its Relatives
Hope for previously untreatable, prion-caused diseases comes from the indole-3-glyoxylamide family
Adding Value to Biodiesel By-Products
Iron and vanadium-based catalyst converts the major by-product of biodiesel production into acrylic acid and acrolein
Cytotoxic Amphidinin B Synthesized
The first stereoselective total synthesis of Amphidinin B has been achieved on a gram-scale, allowing biological evaluation
Past President of IUPAC on the IYC 2011
For the first time in the 100-year history of the IUPAC, the worldwide chemistry community will be celebrating the achievements of chemistry
An Array of Colorful Polymers
Researchers have synthesized different colored polyesters simply by changing the ratio of the starting materials
Tunable Plastic Thermometers
Tunable, (super)conductive plastic films made with ion beam and used for electrical resistance thermometers
More Soluble, Less Toxic Cellular Probes
Biocompatibility and water solubility of cellular probes have been improved with iridium complexes with carbohydrates attached