A water-soluble strapped iron(III)tetraarylporphyrin (FeIIIPor-1) bearing two propylpyridinium groups at the side chains and a carboxylic acid group overhanging position of strap was synthesized to mimic function myoglobin with distal polar functionality in aqueous solution. FeIIIPor-1 forms stable 1:1 inclusion complex per-O-methylated β-cyclodextrin dimer having pyridine linker (Py3OCD), prov...

We used strong-field laser pulses that were tailored with closed-loop optimal control to govern specified chemical dissociation and reactivity channels in a series of organic molecules. Selective cleavage and rearrangement of chemical bonds having dissociation energies up to approximately 100 kilocalories per mole (about 4 electron volts) are reported for polyatomic molecules, including (CH3)2C...

Finely dispersed nanometre-scale gold particles are known to catalyse several oxidation reactions in aerobic, ambient conditions. The catalytic activity has been explained by various complementary mechanisms, including support effects, particle-size-dependent metal-insulator transition, charging effects, frontier orbital interactions and geometric fluxionality. We show, by considering a series ...

Adam Wightwick1,2,3, Robert Walters3, Graeme Allinson3,4, Suzanne Reichman5, and Neal Menzies1,2 1The University of Queensland 2Co-operative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) 3Department of Primary Industries, Victoria 4Victorian Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management (CAPIM) 5Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (R...

Absolute total cross sections (TCSs) for electron scattering from acetaldehyde [(CH3)CHO] and acetone [(CH3)2CO] molecules have been measured at electron-impact energy extending from 0.7 to 400 eV, using a linear electron-transmission technique. The shape of obtained TCS energy dependences appears typical for targets of high electric dipole moment; both TCSs decrease with the energy increase; o...

Single crystals of the title compounds, disodium di(cobalt/iron) cobalt tris-(orthovanadate), Na2(Fe/Co)2Co(VO4)3, and disilver di(cobalt/iron) cobalt tris-(orthovanadate), Ag2(Fe/Co)2Co(VO4)3, were grown from a melt consisting of stoichiometric mixtures of three metallic cation precursors and vanadium pentoxide. The difficulty to distinguish between cobalt and iron by using X-ray diffraction a...

Highlight Research Each species of microalga has a preferable nitrogen source for their optimal growth. The sources in the grown media affected growth rate and biochemical composition Chlorella FNUB01. (NH2)2CO (urea) was found to be best alternative For producing 1 g FNUB01, use urea reduced cost medium by 72.6%. Abstract sp. is potential microalgae produced commercially feed, accelerator, imm...