Aqueous surface reactions

Surface reactions of gold(111) with aqueous cyanide studied by scanning tunneling microscopy

Ultrafast Soft X-ray Studies of Surface Chemical Reactions and Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in Aqueous Systems

The ultimate goal in chemistry is to understand on a fundamental level how bonds are broken and reformed during chemical reactions. In many cases we can draw simple pictures of how electrons flow with respect to electron pair redistributions or electrostatic interactions along a reaction path. For many systems bonding can often be understood in terms of molecular orbitals and reactivity in dyna...

Aqueous asymmetric cyclopropanation reactions in polymersome membranes.

Copper-bis(oxazoline) complexes have been immobilised in the hydrophobic domain of a polymersome membrane to perform asymmetric cyclopropanation reactions in aqueous media with enhanced conversions and enantioselectivities.

Mukaiyama Aldol Reactions in Aqueous Media

Mukaiyama aldol reactions in aqueous media have been surveyed. While the original Mukaiyama aldol reactions entailed stoichiometric use of Lewis acids in organic solvents under strictly anhydrous conditions, Mukaiyama aldol reactions in aqueous media are not only suitable for green sustainable chemistry but are found to produce singular phenomena. These findings led to the discovery of a series...

Aqueous iodine equilibria in Mammalian iodination reactions.

Regulatory activity has been demonstrated in two classes of iodinated organic species: thyroid hormones (T(3) and T(4)) and iodinated lipids (ILs), e.g. 6-iodo-5-hydroxy-8,11,14-eicosatrienoic acid. The formation of iodinated biomolecules requires iodide oxidation. In mammals iodide oxidation is one of several peroxidase-mediated reactions that serve to reduce hydrogen peroxide. I(2) is one of ...