Redox-active organic dendrimers are of interest for a variety applications, e. g. as components in optoelectronic devices and energy-storage (battery) materials, were also used to model enzymatic reactivity. Here, we report the first synthesis redox-active dendrimer-like oligoguanidines, assembling six or twelve guanidino groups attached aromatic cores one molecule. The novel being strong elect...

Thermal intramolecular electron transfer from the ferrocene (Fc) to naphthoquinone (NQ) moiety occurs efficiently by the addition of metal triflates (M(n)()(+): Sc(OTf)(3), Y(OTf)(3), Eu(OTf)(3)) to an acetonitrile solution of a ferrocene-naphthoquinone (Fc-NQ) linked dyad with a flexible methylene and an amide spacer, although no electron transfer takes place in the absence of M(n)()(+). The r...

The inequivalence of substitution pair positions of naphthalene ring has been investigated by a theoretical measurement of hydrogen bond strength, aromaticity, and excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) reaction as the tools in three substituted naphthalene compounds viz 1-hydroxy-2-naphthaldehyde (HN12), 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde (HN21), and 2-hydroxy-3-naphthaldehyde (HN23). Th...

We studied the energetics of the closed-ring mechanism of the acid-catalysed dehydration of d-fructose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) by carrying out canonical ensemble free-energy calculations using bias-sampling, hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Molecular Dynamics simulations with explicit water solvent at 363 K. The quantum mechanical calculations are performed at the PM3 theor...

A critical step in creating an artificial photosynthesis system for energy storage is designing catalysts that can thrive in an assembled device. Single-site catalysts have an advantage over bimolecular catalysts because they remain effective when immobilized. Hybrid water oxidation catalysts described here, combining the features of single-site bis-phosphonate catalysts and fast bimolecular bi...