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Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes (2016)
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Farre, A., Soares, K., Briggs, R. A., Balanta, A., Benoit, D. M., & Bonet, A. (2016). Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes. Chemistry: a European journal, 22(49), 17552-17556. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201603979

© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The generation of in situ sp 2 –sp 3 diboron adducts has revolutionised the synthesis of organoboranes. Organocatalytic diboration reactions have represented a milestone in terms of unpredictable re... Read More about Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes.

Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands (2016)
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Efremova, O. A., Vorotnikov, Y. A., Brylev, K. A., Vorotnikova, N. A., Novozhilov, I. N., Kuratieva, N. V., …Sutherland, A. J. (2016). Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 45(39), 15427-15435. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt02863b

This article describes the synthesis, structures and systematic study of the spectroscopic and redox properties of a series of octahedral molybdenum metal cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands (ⁿBu₄N)₂[{Mo₆X₈}(OTs)₆] and (ⁿBu₄N)₂[{Mo₆X₈}(... Read More about Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands.

Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules (2016)
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Roggatz, C. C., Lorch, M., Hardege, J. D., & Benoit, D. M. (2016). Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules. Global change biology, 22(12), 3914-3926. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13354

Ocean acidification is a global challenge that faces marine organisms in the near future with a predicted rapid drop in pH of up to 0.4 units by the end of this century. Effects of the change in ocean carbon chemistry and pH on the development, growt... Read More about Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules.

Structurally optimised BODIPY derivatives for imaging of mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer and heart cells (2016)
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Nigam, S., Burke, B. P., Davies, L. H., Domarkas, J., Wallis, J. F., Waddell, P. G., …Archibald, S. J. (2016). Structurally optimised BODIPY derivatives for imaging of mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer and heart cells. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, 52(44), 7114-7117. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc08325g

The structural features required for mitochondrial uptake of BODIPY-based optical imaging agents have been explored. The first derivatives of this class of dyes shown to have mitochondrial membrane potential-dependent uptake in both cancer and heart... Read More about Structurally optimised BODIPY derivatives for imaging of mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer and heart cells.

Adsorption of imidazole on Au(111) surface: Dispersion corrected density functional study (2016)
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Izzaouihda, S., Mahjoubi, K., Abou El Makarim, H., Komiha, N., & Benoit, D. M. (2016). Adsorption of imidazole on Au(111) surface: Dispersion corrected density functional study. Applied Surface Science, 383, 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.04.144

We use density functional theory in the generalized gradient approximation to study the adsorption of imidazole on the Au(111) surface and account for dispersion effect using Grimme's empirical dispersion correction technique. Our results show that t... Read More about Adsorption of imidazole on Au(111) surface: Dispersion corrected density functional study.

Vibrational anharmonicity of small gold and silver clusters using the VSCF method (2016)
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Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2016). Vibrational anharmonicity of small gold and silver clusters using the VSCF method. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 18(1), 529-549. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp05283a

We study the vibrational spectra of small neutral gold (Au2–Au10) and silver (Ag2–Au5) clusters using the vibrational self-consistent field method (VSCF) in order to account for anharmonicity. We report harmonic, VSCF, and correlation-corrected VSCF... Read More about Vibrational anharmonicity of small gold and silver clusters using the VSCF method.