For the helix-shaped vines growing in garden, as well for many bioactive molecules and other three-dimensional objects, chirality is an essential ubiquitous property. The synthetic control of atropoisomerism along C−N bonds particularly rare challenging, however. A simple CrIII–salen complex was nevertheless used a chiral enantiopure catalyst highly atroposelective Nenitzescu indole synthesis. ...

Compared to divalent ruthenium coordination complexes, which are widely exploited as parts of multi-component photonic devices, optically active trivalent chromium complexes are under-represented in multi-metallic supramolecular architectures performing energy conversion mainly because of the tricky preparation of stable heteroleptic CrIII building blocks. We herein propose some improvements wi...

The crystal structures of the new isomorphous compounds iron(III) oxyfluorotellurate(IV), FeTeO(3)F, gallium(III) oxyfluorotellurate(IV), GaTeO(3)F, and chromium(III) oxyfluorotellurate(IV), CrTeO(3)F, consist of zigzag chains of MO(4)F(2) distorted octahedra alternately sharing O-O and F-F edges and connected via TeO(3) trigonal pyramids. A full O/F anionic ordering is observed and the electro...

Heavy metals that contaminate soils and water usually exist in various oxidation states and form a number of compounds with different physical and chemical characteristics. These differences are often reflected in dramatic variation in toxicokinetic and biologic properties. Such variation in properties, critical in determining intrinsic toxicity, often causes a great deal of uncertainty in anal...

The kinetics of thermal decomposition of AlIII -, CrIII -, FeIII ,CeIII and LaIII -alginate complexes have been studied using thermogravimetry (TG) and differential thermogravimetry (DTG) techniques in static air. However, the TG curves showed three distinct stages of weight loss, the DTG curves indicated the presence of a series of thermal peaks associated with the TG curves. The results revea...

High-throughput characterization by soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and electrochemical characterization is used to establish a correlation between electronic structure and catalytic activity of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts. As a model system a quasi-ternary materials library of Ni1-y-zFeyCrzOx was synthesized by combinatorial reactive magnetron sputtering, characterized b...