The detection of nerve agent simulants is achieved by the photoinduced electron transfer (PET) mechanism. A ‘‘turn-on’’ fluorescence response upon phosphorylation at 8-hydroxyquinoline of norbornene-based triazolyl functionalized 8-hydroxyquinoline (NCHQ) followed by intramolecular rearrangement provides very intense green emission. The detection limit of polymer (PNCHQ) coated paper strips is ...

A lactose-bearing norbornene imide template was polymerized using (Cy3P)2Cl2Ru=CHPh to produce a lactose-substituted neoglycopolymer. The resulting polymer showed a 100-fold overall increase in inhibitory potency (5-fold increase on a per saccharide residue basis) compared to monomeric lactose in both a galectin-binding assay and an Erythrina corallodendrum hemagglutination assay.

Palladium(I) carbonyl carboxylate complexes [Pd(mu-CO)(mu-RCO2)](n) (R = Me, n = 4; R = CMe(3), n = 6) and the corresponding palladium(II) carboxylates (acetate and pivalate) catalyze the cyclopropanation of olefins with ethyl diazoacetate. The performance of these catalysts is similar in terms of selectivity and cyclopropane yields, regardless of the oxidation state of the metal center. Howeve...

A series of block and random copolymers consisting of oligo(ethylene glycol) and cholic acid pendant groups were synthesized via ring-opening metathesis polymerization of their norbornene derivatives. These block and random copolymers were designed to have similar molecular weights and comonomer ratios; both types of copolymers showed thermosensitivity in aqueous solutions with similar cloud po...

Results of a study of the valence electronic structure of norbornene (C(7)H(10)), up to binding energies of 30 eV, are reported. Experimental electron momentum spectroscopy (EMS) and theoretical Green's function and density functional theory approaches were utilized in this investigation. A stringent comparison between the electron momentum spectroscopy and theoretical orbital momentum distribu...

The detection of nerve agent simulants is achieved by the photoinduced electron transfer (PET) mechanism. A "turn-on" fluorescence response upon phosphorylation at 8-hydroxyquinoline of norbornene-based triazolyl functionalized 8-hydroxyquinoline () followed by intramolecular rearrangement provides very intense green emission. The detection limit of polymer () coated paper strips is 25 ppb with...

Three-component couplings were achieved from common aryl halides, alkyl halides, and heteroarenes under palladium and norbornene co-catalysis. The reaction forges hindered aryl-heteroaryl bonds and introduces ortho-alkyl groups to aryl rings. Various heterocycles such as oxazoles, thiazoles and thiophenes underwent efficient coupling. The heteroarenes were deprotonated in situ by bases without ...