A facile strategy based on the amidation reaction of anhydride and NH(2) group in carbon nitride polymer is developed to synthesize a new polymeric photocatalyst which responds to visible-light. The high photocatalytic activity may be due to the coupling anhydride groups promoting the separation of the photoinduced electrons and holes.

A new amidation of azoxybenzenes with sulfonamides catalyzed by a rhodium(III) salt has been developed. This sulfonamidation proceeds efficiently under mild reaction conditions to generate new C– N bonds through C–H bond activation and functionalization, affording the corresponding 2-sulfonamidoazoxybenzenes in good yields with high regioselectivity.

Abstract An efficient method for the direct synthesis of Weinreb amides derived from serine and threonine derivatives via diboronic acid anhydride-catalyzed hydroxy-directed amidation is described. This first successful example serine- or threonine-derived using catalytic dehydrative amidations. The methodology could be applied to concise Garner’s aldehyde.

The uranyl ion (UO22+ ) binds phosphopeptides with high affinity, and when irradiated with UV-light, it can cleave the peptide backbone. In this study, high-accuracy tandem mass spectrometry and enzymatic assays were used to characterise the photocleavage products resulting from the uranyl photocleavage reaction of a tetraphosphorylated β-casein model peptide. We show that the primary photoclea...

The ability to respond to hyperosmotic stress is one of the numerous conserved cellular processes that most of the organisms have to face during their life. In metazoans, some peptides belonging to the FMRFamide-like peptide (FLP) family were shown to participate in osmoregulation via regulation of ion channels; this is, a well-known response to hyperosmotic stress in plants. Thus, we explored ...