A series of bismuth-dicarboxylate-deferiprone coordination networks have been prepared and structurally characterised. The new compounds have been demonstrated to release the iron overload drug deferiprone on treatment with PBS and have also been shown to have antibacterial activity against H. pylori.

The trends in electronic structure of Bi 3+ and 2+ as luminescent dopant wide bandgap inorganic compounds that pure Bi-compounds for photocatalytic splitting water are explored by determination vacuum referred electron binding energies. Spectroscopic data combined with the chemical shift model from luminescence field on flatband potentials electrochemistry provide most needed data. Occasionally...

Bis(amidodimethyl)disiloxane ligands derived from O{SiMe2N(H)R}2 (abbreviated as (NONR)H2) are a stable support for neutral and cationic bismuth compounds. Attempts to extend the series Bi(NONR)Cl (R = Ar = 2,6-iPr2C6H3; R = tBu) to include compounds where R = Ar' = 2,6-Me2C6H3 were complicated by concomitant formation of the bimetallic compound {Bi(NONAr')}2(μ-NONAr'). Compounds containing [Bi...

Eight bismuth(III) complexes derived from a variety of α-amino acids covering a range of physico-chemical properties (L-phenylalanine (Phe), L-proline (Pro), L-methionine (Met), L-cysteine (Cys), D,L-serine (Ser), L-tyrosine (Tyr), l-aspartic acid (Asp) and L-glutamic acid (Glu)) have been synthesised, characterised, and evaluated for their activity against Helicobacter pylori. The optimal synt...

The band gaps of bismuth vanadate (BiVO₄) and bismuth sulfide (Bi₂S₃) are about 2.40 eV and 1.30 eV, respectively. Although both BiVO₄ and Bi₂S₃ are capable of strong visible light absorption, electron-hole recombination occurs easily. To solve this problem, we designed a one-step hydrothermal method for synthesizing a Bismuth sulfide (Bi₂S₃)/Bismuth vanadate (BiVO₄) heterojunction using polyvi...

The synthesis of materials in high-pressure experiments has recently attracted increasing attention, especially since the discovery of record breaking superconducting temperatures in the sulfur-hydrogen and other hydrogen-rich systems. Commonly, the initial precursor in a high pressure experiment contains constituent elements that are known to form compounds at ambient conditions, however the d...