Chemistry

3 open-access papers in Chemistry, free to watch.

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Water compatible silica supported iron trifluoroacetate and trichloroacetate: as prominent and recyclable Lewis acid catalysts for solvent-free green synthesis of hexahydroquinoline-3-carboxamides

Dnyaneshwar Purushottam Gholap, Ramdas Huse, Sudarshan S. Dipake, Machhindra K. Lande

Many chemical reactions depend on substances that are difficult to recover and can pollute the process. This study describes a solid helper that works without a solvent, works in water, and can be used again. What if a catalyst could make a complex medicinally relevant molecule without solvent, deliver a ninety-eight percent yield, and then be recovered for reuse? This paper tests exactly that idea with silica-supported iron Lewis acids.

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5:01

Research Progress on Metal–Organic Frameworks by Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy

Anqi Zheng, Kuibo Yin, Rui Pan, Mingyun Zhu, Yuwei Xiong, Litao Sun

Imagine trying to photograph a soap bubble with a blast of radiation: the picture might be sharp, but the subject vanishes first. That is the problem researchers face with these promising, fragile materials. Metal–organic frameworks can fall apart under the electron beam used to study them. Yet advanced transmission electron microscopy is turning that apparent contradiction into a way to see their atoms, defects, growth, and transformations.

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3:51

RadicalPy: A Tool for Spin Dynamics Simulations

Lewis M. Antill, Emil Vatai

A tiny chemical reaction may help explain how migratory animals sense Earth’s magnetic field. But testing that idea has often required difficult simulations, and some biological results have been hard to reproduce. Spin-dynamics simulations can demand more memory than a practical computer can provide. RadicalPy tackles that bottleneck with a hybrid method that combines chemical kinetics, semiclassical modeling, and quantum techniques—and reproduces experimental magnetic-field effects.

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