Gold metallacages: Design principles and applications Metallacages (MCgs) are three-dimensional (3D)-supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) obtained by the self-assembly of metal ions with donor lig…

Our new paper is here!! "Gold #metallacages: Design principles and applications". With the contribution of @sophierthomas.bsky.social, Nina Willnhammer and @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social. Check it out #Openaccess in @cp-chem.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... enjoy the read!! @tum.de

Very excited to share this preprint about our new journey into chiral materials for #magnetism and #spintronics. Thank you @macdiarmidinsti.bsky.social for funding support, & interdisciplinary collaborations with Simon Granville and Hua-Shu Hsu. Congratulations to PhD student Joshua Webb!

Really glad see this out. Congratulations Nafees for taking lead!

Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes Containing COUBPY Ligands as Potent Photosensitizers for the Efficient Phototherapy of Hypoxic Tumors Hypoxia, a hallmark of many solid tumors, is linked to increased cancer aggressiveness, metastasis, and resistance to conventional therapies, leading to poor patient outcomes. This challenges the effi...

Thrilled to share our #JACS paper! Our new Ru(II)-COUBPY photosensitizer (PI >30,000) for hypoxic tumor treatment using red light with in vivo validation!. @gassergroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

What a way to kick off AMN11 —a plenary by 2023 Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi!
#AMN11, #quantumdots, @macdiarmidinsti.bsky.social

Light-Harvesting Spin Hyperpolarization of Organic Radicals in a Metal–Organic Framework Light-driven spin hyperpolarization of organic molecules is a crucial technique for spin-based applications such as quantum information science (QIS) and dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). Synthetic ...

The introduction of light-harvesting concept has resulted in spin hyperpolarization even at low concentrations. Applications in quantum sensing and DNP are expected. Just out in JACS.
Congrats Tomoyuki, Miku and all!

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Shake-up for science sector New Zealand’s seven Crown Research Institutes to be grouped into three new organisations.

I know the devil will be in the details and there's still lots more to come, but my immediate response to this news is "This will be a shitshow that will cause more problems to the NZ science sector than it will solve" 🧪 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/science-s...

Crown-Ether Coordination Compounds of Europium and 24-Crown-8 | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Feldmann and co-workers @InorgChem #europium #EuCl2 #EuI2 #EuCl3 #24crown8 #luminescence

A hollow blue sphere with represents the porous outer shell of a nanoreactor, which contains further nanoreactors (purple and yellow). Reactants (represented by stars, hexagons and octahedra) diffuse through the pores to react with active sites forming products (red hexagons and blue dots).

Our December issue is live!

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Including Reviews on:
• Reprogramming the genetic code.
• A new generation of radiopharmaceuticals.
• Porous molecular nanoreactors (on the cover).

Congratulations Gilles!

Fantastic end to IC24 with Paul Low giving the Burrows Award lecture, molecular electronics and dad jokes for all! #ozchem #ChemSky

“Although we were initially skeptical that mirror bacteria could pose major risks, we have become deeply concerned. We were uncertain about the feasibility of synthesizing mirror bacteria but have concluded that technological progress will likely make this possible”
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Unveiling the Potential of Sulfur-Rich Macrocyclic Chelators Against Cadmium Poisoning | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Tosato and co-workers @InorgChem #cadmium #poisoning #sulfur_rich #macrocycles #chelators #coordination_chemistry #DO4S

Two enantiomers (mirror images) of a helix made by wrapping moelcules around a couple of iron atoms. The left handed one binds ten times more strongly to a G-quadruplex in Mpox virus than the right.

Still stunned that one metallohelix enantiomer stabilizes a new G-quadruplex in #mpox #mpxv virus RNA, so increasing expression of a protein that activates immune response. Chemistry by my team but amazing biology by Xiaogang Qu and his collabs. doi.org/10.1093/nsr/...

Structural Gating Enhances Long-Distance Light-Driven Interfacial Electron Transfer Structural gating provides a molecular means to transfer electrons preferentially in one desired vectorial direction, a behavior needed for applications in artificial photosynthesis. At the interfaces utilized herein, visible-light absorption by a transition metal complex opens a “structural gate” by planarization of otherwise rotating phenyl rings in p-phenylene ethynylene (PE) bridge units. Planarization provides a conjugated pathway for electron flow toward a conductive oxide surface. Interfacial electron transfer to the oxide restores rotation and closes the gate to the unwanted recombination reaction. This structural gating results in nearly quantitative long-distance (>20 Å) interfacial electron transfer that occurs ∼1000 times faster than transfer in the opposite direction. A comparative kinetic study of these complexes with those that contain ionic bridge units, without gating function, as a function of the applied potential and hence −ΔG° provided a physical basis for the structural gating. A small distance-dependent reorganization energy with weak electronic coupling underlies the success of this gate that enables efficient long-distance electron transfer and slow recombination.

Light-triggered structural gating for directional electron transfer. ⚡ Work by Jerry Meyer, Elena Galoppini, @fncastellano.bsky.social and co-workers.

"Structural Gating Enhances Long-Distance Light-Driven Interfacial Electron Transfer"

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