Xavi Ribas, University of Girona, and colleagues conducted a mechanistic study that provide valuable insights for the future design of new F-containing bioactive fluorinated aryl-alkyl ethers
Authors discuss their recent research article

Exploring Nickel(II) Catalysts for Fluorinated Ether Formation

Novel Strategy for Cancer Immunotherapy
Method uses pH-sensitive peptides (pHLIPs) and click chemistry to enhance the ability of natural killer cells to target and destroy these cells

Unique Patterns of Thiol-Mediated Cellular Uptake
Two existing exchange networks and a new repressor pathway discovered, improving the understanding of cellular delivery systems and offering new strategies for drug delivery

Broadening the Horizon of Organic On-Surface Synthesis
Using gold nanoparticles with surface-assembled monolayers (SAMs) to achieve highly selective hetero-Ullmann coupling

New Insights into the Photostability of Phenoxazines
Identifying the degradation products of phenoxazine in halogenated and non-halogenated solvents

Halogen Bonding in Polycyclic Aromatics
Quantum chemical calculations reveal how aromatic polycyclics of different sizes act as Lewis bases in halogen bonds, which is valuable for pharmaceutical drug design

Pain Relief Without the Usual Risks of Opioids
Screening of a chemical library of 40,000 natural products showed that aniquinazoline B, a fungal natural product, activates the µ-opioid receptor

Hydroformylation of Vinyl Arenes
Enantioselective hydroformylation of vinyl arenes via copper hydride catalysis

Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Catalyst Performance
How relatively simple machine learning models can be found

Gas-Phase Structure of 1-Chloronaphthalene
The precise knowledge of the structure of 1-chloronaphthalene is important for analyzing its contribution to contamination, for example, in the interstellar medium