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Functionalized Biodegradable Polymers via Termination of Ring-Opening Polymerization by Acyl Chlorides
Polymers. 2021. Vol. 13. Article 868.
Aliphatic polyesters are an important class of polymeric materials for biomedical applications due to their versatile and tunable chemistry, biocompatibility and biodegradability. A capability of direct bonding with biomedically significant molecules, provided by the presence of the reactive end functional groups (FGs), is highly desirable for prospective polymers. Among FGs, N-hydroxysuccinimidyl activated ester group (NHS) and maleimide fragment (MI) provide efficient covalent bonding with –NH– and –SH containing compounds. In our study, we found that NHS- and MI-derived acyl chlorides efficiently terminate living ring-opening polymerization of "-caprolactone, L-lactide, ethyl ethylene phosphonate and ethyl ethylene phosphate, catalyzed by 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenoxy magnesium complex, with a formation of NHS- and MI-functionalized polymers at a high yields. Reactivity of these polymers towards amine- and thiol-containing model substrates in organic and aqueous media was also studied.
Makarov D. M., Kalikin N., Fashchevsky K. A. et al., Electrochimica Acta 2026 Vol. 579 Article 150159
Machine learning (ML) has become a powerful tool for accelerating the development of carbon-based supercapacitors;
however, most published models assume that a single predictive framework can describe both conventional
porous carbons and hybrid carbon electrodes. Here, we test this assumption using a comprehensive
benchmark dataset and an extended literature-curated dataset enriched with synthesis- and electrolyte-related
descriptors. Three ML algorithms ...
Added: October 13, 2026
Shi R., Yu Y., Chibisov A., International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2025 Vol. 107 P. 52–62
Cyanide containing wastewater can cause livestock death and reduce agricultural production and electrochemical reduction of cyanide (CNRR) is a promising way to eliminate its harm and turn waste into valuable products. However, the reaction mechanism and function of electrocatalysts for CNRR have not been fully understood yet. Herein we identify a two-dimensional (2D) conductive copper-organic ...
Added: October 11, 2026
Zhukov A., Chen F., Zeng Y. et al., Nanoscale 2026 Vol. 18 No. 36 P. 19223–19253
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals have emerged as promising materials for next-generation light-emitting diodes (LEDs) owing to their solution processability, tunable emission wavelengths, narrow emission linewidths, and high photoluminescence quantum yields. Among them, anisotropic nanocrystals, including one-dimensional nanorods (NRs) and two-dimensional nanoplatelets (NPLs), offer additional opportunities for controlling transition dipole moment orientation and light out-coupling efficiency. These ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Мальцева В. Е., Ananyev I., Milevskii N. et al., Molecular Systems Design and Engineering 2026 Vol. 11 No. 7 P. 691–704
The use of hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as extractants for metal ion separation is largely due to the ease of their preparation and the possibility of modifying them depending on the composition of the metal mixture to be separated. However, the most common approach to DES modification involves the replacement of the extractant, while ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Мальцева В. Е., Ananyev I., Golubev A. V. et al., Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2026 Vol. 71 P. 724–736
Two voluminous polymer silver(I) salts of perchlorinated dodecoborate clusters, {[(Me2CO)Ag(μ-Me2CO)2Ag(Me2CO)][μ-B12Cl12]}n (1) and {[DMFAg(μ-DMF)2AgDMF][μ-B12Cl12]}n (2) were synthesized. The 35Cl nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy supplemented with the X-ray diffraction data was applied for identifying and analyzing noncovalent interactions Cl···X in these salts. Whereas in X-ray diffraction, noncovalent interactions are associated with the presence of the shortened ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Мальцева В. Е., Rozhkov A., Ananyev I. et al., Inorganic Chemistry 2026 Vol. 65 No. 22 P. 12484–12496
Despite the well-established importance of chalcogen bonding in crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry, experimental charge density data for TeII-centered chalcogen bonds have remained entirely absent, leaving the electronic nature of these interactions uncharacterized at the level of directly measured electron density. Here, we report the first high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) study of TeII-centered chalcogen bonds, ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Ostovari Moghaddam A., Mehrabi-Kalajahi S., Solizoda I. A. et al., Metals and Materials International 2026 P. 1–9
Off-stoichiometric boron-doped chemically complex intermetallic alloys (CCIMAs) have recently emerged as a new avenue for overcoming the low temperature brittleness of ordered superlattices. However, their behavior at high temperatures remains unexplored. In this study, a novel (Ni39.6Co29.3Cr10Al15.8Ta3.3Nb2)98.5B1.5 CCIMA was prepared and its oxidation resistance over a wide temperature range (500 °C–950 °C) was studied. The ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Kashpurovich I., Oleynichenko A., Stegailov V., Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations 2026 Vol. 13 No. 1 P. 52–73
We report a high-performance implementation of the resolution-of-the-identity Hartree–Fock method that fully exploits the permutational symmetry of three-center electron repulsion integrals (ERI). The present implementation adopts a hybrid MPI+OpenMP parallelization strategy. Two different algorithmic approaches (with and without the pre-transformation of ERIs) are compared. A custom data layout introduced previously is employed. Designed to efficiently ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Li Y., Han J., Zaman N. et al., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2026 Vol. 18 No. 39 P. 54241–54251
The development of lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dot (QD) photodetectors for short-wave infrared (SWIR) applications has been fundamentally limited by the thermodynamic instability of large PbS QD facets, which leads to aggregation and epitaxial fusion. In this work, robust thermodynamic stabilization was achieved by introducing methylammonium chloride (MACl) in PbS QD surface passivation, as validated ...
Added: September 26, 2026
Kolos A., Nelyubina Y., Godovikova M. et al., Chemistry - A European Journal 2025 Vol. 31 No. 41 Article e202501793
Cyclopentadienyl rhodium complexes (C5R5)RhLx are widely used as homogeneous catalysts. Herein we report the synthesis of such complexes with structurally diverse cyclopentadienyl ligands in one step directly from alkynes. Specifically, reactions of bulky terminal alkynes (tert-butylacetylene or trimethylsilylacetylene) with activated internal alkynes (ethyl 2-butynoate or dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD)) and [(cod)RhCl]2 produce either cyclopentadienyl or pentalene-type ...
Added: February 15, 2026
Ankudinov N., Alexeev N., Podyacheva E. et al., Chemical Science 2025 Vol. 16 No. 15 P. 6298–6306
Organic compounds with boron–nitrogen bonds are widely used as fluorescent sensors and semiconducting materials. This paper presents a new approach for the formation of B–N bonds via catalytic insertion of nitrenes into B–H bonds. The reaction proceeds most selectively for cyclic boranes with a 2-phenylpyridine framework and nitrenes generated in situ by the oxidation of ...
Added: February 15, 2026
Tsygankov A., Kozlov A., Liao S. et al., Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2024 Vol. 519 Article 216114
Transition metal (TM)-based catalysts are indispensable tools in modern organic synthesis. Although many efficient catalysts based on TMs are already known, further improvement of catalytic system activity remains one of the major goals of transition metal coordination chemistry. A large number of TM-based catalysts contain halide ligands, mostly chlorides and bromides. Transition metal fluorides have ...
Added: January 23, 2025
Jiang X., Tan J., Liu D. et al., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2024 Vol. 15 No. 13 P. 3611–3618
Further improving the activity and selectivity of photocatalytic CO2 reduction remains a challenge. Herein, we propose a new strategy for synergistically promoting photocatalytic CO2 reduction by combining two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric polarization and single-atom catalysis. Our calculations showed that the ferroelectric polarization of CuBiP2Se6 provides the internal driving force for the separation and migration of photogenerated carriers, which provides ...
Added: April 11, 2024
Petrova V., Domnin A., Porozov Yuri et al., Journal of Computational Chemistry 2024 Vol. 45 No. 3 P. 170–182
Prediction of catalytic reaction efficiency is one of the most intriguing and challenging applications of machine learning (ML) algorithms in chemistry. In this study, we demonstrated a strategy for utilizing ML protocols applied to Quantum Theory of Atoms In Molecules (QTAIM) parameters to predict the ability of the A17 L47K catalytic antibody to covalently capture ...
Added: January 29, 2024
Lukin R., Grigoriev R., Yarullin A. et al., , in: Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track.: PMLR, 2022. P. 1–12.
In this report, we describe the Open Catalyst Challenge held at NeurIPS 2021, focusing on using machine learning (ML) to accelerate the search for low-cost catalysts that can drive reactions converting renewable energy to storable forms. Specifically, the challenge required participants to develop ML approaches for relaxed energy prediction, i.e. given atomic positions for an ...
Added: January 12, 2024
Komarova A., Dmitry S. Perekalin, Organometallics 2023 Vol. 42 No. 13 P. 1433–1438
There is a common assumption that replacement of the classical catalyst based on rare and expensive noble metals by the catalysts based on earth-abundant metals will dramatically reduce the costs of organic synthesis. Herein we demonstrate that it may not be true, mainly because sophisticated organic substrates and modern reagents are often as expensive as ...
Added: August 11, 2023
Runikhina S., Afanasyev O., Kuchuk E. et al., Chemical Science 2023 Vol. 14 P. 4346–4350
Converter gas is a large scale waste product that is usually burned to carbon dioxide and contributes to the world emission of greenhouse gases. Herein we demonstrate that instead of burning the converter gas can be used as a reducing agent in organic reactions to produce valuable pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. In particular, amide-based selected drug ...
Added: August 11, 2023
Yury A. Budkov, Petr E. Brandyshev, Nikolai N. Kalikin, Soft Matter 2023 Vol. 19 P. 3281–3289
Based on the random phase approximation, we develop a molecular theory of self-coacervation in zwitterionic polymer solutions. We show that the interplay between the volume interactions of the monomeric units and electrostatic correlations of charged groups on a polymer backbone can result in liquid-liquid phase separation (self-coacervation). We analyse the behavior of the coacervate phase ...
Added: April 18, 2023
Shvydkiy N., Rimskiy K., Dmitry S. Perekalin, Applied Organometallic Chemistry 2023 Vol. 37 No. 3 Article e7008
The readily available cyclobutadiene platinum complex [(C4Et4)PtCl2] catalyzes hydrosilylation of alkenes and alkynes. The reaction typically proceeds at room temperature and does not require any solvent. The target products are obtained from both terminal and internal alkynes, as well as from terminal alkenes in 43−99% yields. The scope of silanes includes various tertiary silanes (Et3SiH, ...
Added: January 24, 2023
Kolos A., Nelyubina Y., Dmitry S. Perekalin, Organometallics 2022 Vol. 41 No. 21 P. 3038–3043
The parent ethylene rhodium(I) complex [(C2H4)2RhCl]2 reacts with internal alkynes to give binuclear metallacycles [(C4R4)Rh2Cl2(C2H4)]2 (R = Me, Et, CH2OMe, Ph), which can act as catalytic intermediates in cyclotrimerization reactions. These metallacycles can be converted into catalytically inert metallocenes CpRh(η5-C4R4RhCp) by addition of CpTl. Further reactions of these metallocenes with [CpRhI2]x and AgBF4 lead to ...
Added: January 24, 2023
Shvydkiy N., Petrushina T., Dmitry S. Perekalin, ChemCatChem 2021 Vol. 13 No. 12 P. 2873–2878
Cyclobutadiene rhodium complexes [(C4R4)RhX]2 (R=Et, Ph; X = I, Cl) at 0.5 mol% loading catalyze the formation of aromatic amides from various indoles, tosyl azide, and carbon monoxide (1 atm). The reaction gives good yields of the target products (typically 60‐85%) and tolerates both donor and moderately acceptor substituents in the indoles (alkyl, OMe, Hal, ...
Added: January 24, 2023
Mandal R., Barsu N., Garai B. et al., Chemical Communications 2021 Vol. 57 No. 91 P. 12167–12170
A new protocol is developed for the mono- and bis-ortho-C–H alkynylation of easily accessible benzamide derivatives using alkynyl bromides at room temperature by merging cobalt and photocatalysts. The diverse reactivity of various alkynyl bromides towards the C–H alkynylation and competing C–H/N–H bond annulation reactions has been demonstrated to give the corresponding products in good yields ...
Added: January 24, 2023
Kolos A., Nelyubina Y., Sundararaju B. et al., Organometallics 2021 Vol. 40 No. 22 P. 3712–3719
Herein we describe the synthesis and reactivity of rhodium catalysts with the very bulky cyclopentadienyl ligand C8H3tBu4 (designated as tBu4Cp). The reaction of [Rh(cod)Cl]2 with tert-butylacetylene in the presence of Et3N gives the complex (tBu4Cp)Rh(cod) (60–65% yield), in which the cyclopentadienyl ligand tBu4Cp is assembled from four alkyne molecules. The oxidation of (tBu4Cp)Rh(cod) with chlorine or bromine gives the corresponding ...
Added: January 24, 2023
Mukhangali S., Neplokh V., Kochetkov F. et al., Applied Physics Letters 2022 No. 121 Article 243504
This paper demonstrates an elastic (i.e., both flexible and stretchable) pixel matrix based on the patterned films of single-walled carbon nanotubes, which were obtained using optical lithography and plasma etching. The proposed elastic electrodes maintain their initial resistivity at 10% stretching. We also demonstrate an application of the elastic pixel matrix to an array of ...
Added: December 14, 2022