The ability of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to act as organocatalysts as well as versatile ligands in transition metal-mediated processes led us to explore the effect of the NHCs backbone design on the electronic properties ...

Polymer mechanochemistry, wherein exogenous forces are harnessed to drive chemical processes within polymeric matrices, has afforded access to an astounding array of otherwise kinetically prohibitive reactivity. These ...

The marine diterpene (–)-stolonidiol (1) has been shown to upregulate neuronal levels of acetylcholine. The mechanism through which a small molecule can impart this allosteric-like effect is currently unknown. A laboratory ...

The electronic properties of conjugated polymers are strongly dependent on their morphologies. Despite continuous research efforts in conjugated polymers (CPs) as a promising alternative to traditional inorganic semiconductors ...

A large portion of any science major’s curriculum utilizes laboratories. Many of these laboratories now incorporate cooperative learning as a result of studies attesting to its beneficial effects. However, little attention ...

Pyrrole chemistry is a well-developed area in the field of organic chemistry. Since the beginning of the 20th century this area has developed rapidly, such that pyrrolecontaining compounds have found applications in ...

A nuclear magnetic resonance study of 15 phosphine-boranes has been undertaken with the view to investigating the electronic nature of the P-B dative bond. A correlation between the ³¹P-¹¹B coupling constant and the base ...

Anions are important species in the natural world and are critically involved in almost the full range of known chemical process. Also, anions are among the most pervasive of all known pollutants (e.g., nitrate, phosphate). ...

Biomolecules, for example, DNA and enzymes, perform nearly all the chemical processes essential for life. Their functions are dependent though on their ability to fold and bind into precise three-dimensional conformations ...

Several methods for treating ground and excited states are presented. All of them are based on the coupled cluster theory which is acknowledged to provide an excellent alternative to the correlation problem. A new ...