Gels can be formed by dissolving Fmoc-diphenylalanine (Fmoc-PhePhe or FmocFF) in an organic solvent and adding water. We show here that the choice and amount of organic solvent allows the rheological properties of the gel to be tuned. The differences in properties arise from the microstructure of the fibre network formed. The organic solvent can then be removed post-gelation, without significan...

A simple and solvent-minimized sample preparation technique based on hollow fibre-protected liquid-phase micro-extraction has been developed for extraction of fifteen organic sulphur compounds from aqueous samples. The analysis of the extracted them was performed by gas chromatography equipped with mass spectrometry and/or flame photometric detectors. 3.3 µL of organic solvent located in the lu...

A linear coplanar carbazole-based benzoxazole derivative without any auxiliary moieties could gelatinize organic solvents, and exhibited emission enhancement owing to the J-aggregate formation.

We have used knowledge of the electronic structure of excited states of acids to design molecules that exhibit enhanced excited-state acidity. Such "super" photoacids are the strongest reversible photoacids known and allow the time evolution of proton transfer to be examined in a wide array of organic solvents. This includes breaking/formation of the hydrogen bonds in hundreds of femtoseconds, ...

This work demonstrates that the donor-acceptor-donor charge-transfer chromophores can be tailor-made to be near-infrared absorbing and fluorescent, as well as being liquid crystals. The chromophore containing an extremely strong acceptor of benzo[1,2-c:4,5-c']bis([1,2,5]thiadiazole) can form a columnar mesophase that absorbs at 890 nm and emits at 1160 nm in the solid state. These chromophores ...

Enthalpies of dissolution of C60 and C70 in o-xylene, toluene, and CS2 have been measured by a Calvet MS-80 microcalorimeter at temperatures from 293.15 K to 313.15 K. It was observed that the dissolution of C60 in the three organic solvents in the above range of temperatures was exothermic, while the dissolution of C70 in the same three solvents was endothermic. The enthalpy of dissolution of ...

A kind of Gd@C82 salt, Gd@C82/TBPA, was prepared through chemical oxidation. The Gd@C82/TBPA salt was characterized as being paramagnetic with an effective magnetic moment of 9.68μB. The Gd@C82/TBPA salt dissolves in many organic solvents and its high solubility will make it more applicable for use as a magnetic material.

Two multicomponent reactions, the Ugi and Passerini reactions, are accelerated by the use of aqueous solutions. The rate enhancements compared to those by organic solvents can approach 300-fold. Reactions performed in water offer another advantage that products are often insoluble, permitting direct isolation by precipitation. The methods were applied to the preparation of three small combinato...

Patterned porous films containing enzymes have been facilely prepared via a one-step breath figure process, which is based on the self-assembly of horseradish peroxidase nanoparticles that show good resistance to organic solvents. The patterned biohybrid films possess robust catalytic activity.