Ferrocene-based dendritic macromolecules as efficient supports in nanocatalysis

Editorial: Nanocatalysis

Efficient Discovery of Common Substructures in Macromolecules

Biological macromolecules play a fundamental role in disease; therefore, they are of great interest to fields such as pharmacology and chemical genomics. Yet due to macromolecules’ complexity, development of effective techniques for elucidating structure-function macromolecular relationships has been ill explored. Previous techniques have either focused on sequence analysis, which only approxim...

Regeneration and Recycling of Supports for Biological Macromolecules Purification

Great evolution and improvement in biological molecules purification have been achieved in the last 20 years, giving advantages in both product quality and yield, and speed of purification methods. Purity levels, once poorly suitable for large scale production, as well as requiring long and very expensive procedures, are today achievable using simple procedures. For example, till few decades ag...

1 Concepts in Nanocatalysis

Catalysis occupies an important place in chemistry, where it develops in three directions, which still present very few overlaps: heterogeneous, homogeneous and enzymatic. Thus, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis are well-known as being two different domains defended by two scientific communities (molecular chemistry and solid state), although both are looking for the same objective, the d...

Heteroditopic ferrocene-based ureas as receptors for anions and cations.

The synthesis of structurally new types of ferrocene-based ureas, in which the ferrocene moiety is simultaneously attached to two urea groups, have been prepared directly from 1,1-bis(isocyanato)ferrocene 1. Receptors 2a, 2b, and 2d show spectral and electrochemical anion-sensing capability for hydrogenphosphate and fluoride anions, in addition 2d also shows a sensing capability for acetate ani...