Lanthanides possess similar chemical properties rendering their separation from one another a challenge of fundamental chemical and global importance given their incorporation into many advanced technologies. New separation strategies combining green chemistry with low cost and high efficiency remain highly desirable. We demonstrate that the subtle bonding differences among trivalent lanthanide...

Seven magnesium-containing aluminoborosilicate glasses, with three to five oxides, have been studied through comprehensive multinuclear solid-state NMR (11B, 27Al, 29Si, 23Na, 17O, and 25Mg) Raman spectroscopy. The progressive addition of cations the substitution sodium calcium by magnesium illuminate impact on glass structure. proportion tri-coordinated boron drastically increased addition, de...

Polymerization of ethylene by complexes [{(P^O)PdMe(L)}] (P^O = κ(2)-(P,O)-2-(2-MeOC(6)H(4))(2)PC(6)H(4)SO(3))) affords homopolyethylene free of any methyl methacrylate (MMA)-derived units, even in the presence of substantial concentrations of MMA. In stoichiometric studies, reactive {(P^O)Pd(Me)L} fragments generated by halide abstraction from [({(P^O)Pd(Me)Cl}μ-Na)(2)] insert MMA in a 1,2- as...

Al complexes are widely used in a range of polymerization reactions (ROP of cyclic esters and cationic polymerization of alkenes). Since the discovery in 1978 that an Al porphyrin complex could copolymerize propylene oxide with carbon dioxide, Al coordination compounds have been studied extensively as catalysts for epoxide-carbon dioxide copolymerizations. The most widely studied catalysts are ...

Bacillus subtilis is one of the bacterial members provided with a nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) system constituted by the DNA-binding Ku homodimer that recruits the ATP-dependent DNA Ligase D (BsuLigD) to the double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) ends. BsuLigD has inherent polymerization and ligase activities that allow it to fill the short gaps that can arise after realignment of the broken end...

Reaction of trimethylaluminium with the linked bis(phenol) trans-1,4-dithiocyclohexanediyl-2,2-bis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenol) (cydtbpH2, 1a) led to the chiral methyl aluminium complex [Al(cydtbp)Me] (2a) as both racemate and resolved enantiomers, which were characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Rac-{trans-1,2-dithiocyclohexanediyl-2,2-bis(6-tert-butyl-4-methylphen...

Unimolecular core−shell and hollow polymer nanoparticles with well-defined dimensions were crafted using spherical core−shell starlike diblock copolymers as templates. Monodisperse and structurally stable star-like diblock copolymers composed of inner degradable core blocks and outer photo-cross-linkable shell blocks were synthesized via a combination of two living polymerization techniques, na...

The mussel byssus is a remarkable attachment structure that is formed by injection molding and rapid in-situ hardening of concentrated solutions of proteins enriched in the catecholic amino acid 3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine (DOPA). Fe3+, found in high concentrations in the byssus, has been speculated to participate in redox reactions with DOPA that lead to protein polymerization, however direc...

The synthesis of polar functionalized cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs) from the coordination copolymerization norbornene (NB) and monomers catalyzed by late transition metal catalysts has been a recent research hotspot. However, few have achieved efficient with commercial vinyl-type monomers, such as methyl acrylate (MA). In this contribution, nickel complexes bearing 2-(diarylphosphino)-N-pheny...