Sugar containing iridium complexes shown to be water-soluble, biocompatible and suitable for lectin sensing
Water-Soluble Iridium Biosensors
New Routes to IN Inhibition
HIV-1 integrase (IN) is an essential enzyme for HIV-1 replication: New routes to IN inhibition could overcome drug resistance
Hydrogenase Cofactor Simply Synthesized
New route to hydrogenase cofactor azadithiolate provides a simple way to make model enzymes for H2 fuel production
Anion Binding Indicates Catalyst Activity
Anion binding constants of a series of diamine-functionalized organocatalysts provides useful tool to probe catalytic activity
Finding Hidden Chirality
The importance of an often overlooked source of chirality, atropisomerism, depends upon the barriers to rotation
Improvement of COX-1 Inhibitors
Novel cyclooxygenase-1 inhibitors show promise as analgesics, with none of the previous side effects
Treating Resistant Infections with Silver
Silver N-heterocyclic carbenes are promising candidates for new topical antibacterial drugs due to high activity against resistant S. aureus
Intelligent Metal-Storage Nanocapsules
New metal-storage nanocapsules created from self-assembly of dendrimers with soft aliphatic units
Vanadium Complexes of Reduced Schiff Bases
Reduced Schiff base ligands less susceptible to hydrolysis and form more stable V complexes than corresponding Schiff bases
Gold and DNA Join Forces to Detect Mercury
Ultrasensitive mercury detection made possible with gold nanowire-on-film surface-enhanced Raman sensor