Thiourea Organocatalysts as Emerging Chiral Pollutants: En Route to Porphyrin-Based (Chir)Optical Sensing

Synthesis of Chiral Thiourea-Phosphine Organocatalysts derived from L-Proline

A novel class of thiourea-phosphine was prepared from L-Proline as a chiral renewable resource. The original structure of the chiral framework offers an interesting potential to the construction of bifunctional organocatalysts for asymmetric transformations.

Chiroptical Probes ACationic Zinc Porphyrin as a Chiroptical Probe for Z-DNA**

DNA is a polymorphic polymer that can adopt a variety of secondary structures ranging from the canonical right-handed B form to the left-handed Z conformation. The latter conformation is less common than the right-handed B-DNA because under physiological conditions Z-DNA has a higher energy. Although the biological role of Z-DNA still remains to be clarified, it has recently been inferred that ...

Phthalates as Emerging Pollutants in Water Environment: Control & Treatment Strategies

Novel Chiral Bis-Phosphoramides as Organocatalysts for Tetrachlorosilane-Mediated Reactions.

The formation of novel chiral bidentate phosphoroamides structures able to promote Lewis base-catalyzed Lewis acid-mediated reactions was investigated. Two different classes of phosphoroamides were synthetized: the first class presents a phthalic acid/primary diamine moiety, designed with the aim to perform a self-assembly recognition process through hydrogen bonds; the second one is characteri...

Chiral imides as potential chiroptical switches: synthesis and optical properties

A series of chiral aromatic imides and diimides were synthesized and their electrochemical, absorption, fluorescent, and chiroptical properties were examined for their potential application as molecular chiroptical switches. These compounds exhibit strong UV–vis absorptions, and can be electrochemically reduced to radical anions that absorb in the near infrared (NIR) region. Further reduction t...