Design and Isolation of Stable Nitroxy Radicals
Persistent nitroxyl radicals – stable species that have an N–O• fragment – form one of the more popular classes of radicals. They have...
On the Innocence of Bipyridine Ligands: How Well Do DFT Functionals Fare for These Challenging Spin
The electronic structures of a number of iron, cobalt, vanadium, and titanium complexes with the 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) ligand were...
Molecular Sensors and Key Locks
A molecule-sized diagnostic system combining several recognition elements and four fluorescence-emission channels enabled the...
Building Organic Frameworks using Halogen Bonds
The halogen bond is an analogue of the hydrogen bond in which the halogen atom is the acceptor of an electron pair exactly like the...
Assembly of Gold Clusters Using Organic Cross-Linkers
The pyridine moieties of the 1,4-bis((E)-2-(pyridin-4-yl)vinyl)benzene cross-linker bind gold clusters leading to the metal-organic...
Water-Stable Aromatic Dianions
Organic anions are genÂerÂally accepÂted to be highly unstable in water, and dianÂions even more so. Nonetheless, two-electron reducÂtion...