Immobilised TiO2 mesocrystals were prepared on sanded glass substrates via a solution synthesis of immobilised precursor, followed by thermal treatment which triggered topotactic conversion reaction. The obtained possessed not only anatase nanoparticles with high surface area and co-exposed {1 0 1}/{0 1} facets but also large overall particle size strong binding to the substrate inherited from ...

Although hydrously altered, CR chondrites are among the most primitive samples of the solar nebula because of no evidence for thermal or shock metamorphism [1], high presolar grain abundances [2], and perhaps because of their solar refrac-tory lithophile/Mg ratios [3]. Previous O-isotope measurements showed that CR chondrites form a mixing line of slope ~ 0.7 with a rather large scatter [4]. We...

The electrophilic fluorination of several (triphos)Pt-aryl(+) establishes the first example of aryl-F coupling from a Pt center.

Key words fluorination - dienes hypervalent iodine difunctionalization

The Prins reaction was investigated using BF₃.OEt₂ as a Lewis acid. It has been recently demonstrated, that if BF₃.OEt₂ is used in stoichiometric amounts then these reactions generate fluorinated products where the BF₃.OEt₂ contributes fluoride ion to quench the intermediate carbocations. In this study oxa- and aza-Prins reactions for the synthesis of 4-fluoro-pyrans and -piperidines were inves...

3-Fluoro-5-nitro-1-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzene was prepared by three different ways: as a byproduct of direct fluorination of 1,2-bis(3-nitrophenyl)disulfane, by direct fluorination of 4-nitro-1-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzene, and by fluorodenitration of 3,5-dinitro-1-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzene. The title compound was subjected to a nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the fluorine atom with ...

Ž . Purified single-wall carbon nanotubes SWNTs were fluorinated at several different temperatures. Product stoichiometries were determined and electron microscopy was used to verify whether or not the fluorination was destructive of the tubes. SWNTs fluorinated at three different temperatures were then defluorinated using hydrazine. Raman spectroscopy and resistance measurements were utilized ...

We report a protein-observe (19)F NMR-based ligand titration binding study of human PDI b'x with Δ-somatostatin that also emphasises the need to optimise recombinant protein fluorination when using 5- or 6-fluoroindole. This study highlights a recombinant preference for 5-fluoroindole over 6-fluoroindole; most likely due to the influence of fluorine atomic packing within the folded protein stru...

A new polyfluorinated anti-staining coating material CF3O(CF2CF2O)xCF2-CONHCH2CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3 has been developed by utilizing the PERFECT method, which employs a liquid-phase direct fluorination reaction with elemental fluorine as a key step. Direct fluorination of a partially-fluorinated ester, which was prepared from a non-fluorinated poly(ethylene glycol) and a perfluorinated acyl fluoride, ...