Quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals and superconductors are very flexible systems in the study of many-body effects and unusual mechanisms for superconductivity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Their “soft” lattices enable one to use relatively low pressures to tune the same material through a variety of low-temperature groundstates, for example from Mott insulator via intermingled antiferro...

The deep ocean is a demanding environment to the analyst, one that contains fine particles of degraded organic matter and is characterized by high pressures (about 360 atmospheres at 3.6 km depth), low temperatures (down to ;2 8C), and a high concentration (3.5 wt %) of corrosive salts. Such conditions make it difficult to analyze in situ interesting and important geologic materials and dynamic...

Highly oxidizing nitrate radicals (NO3˙) are easily accessed from readily available nitrate salts by visible light photoredox catalysis using a purely organic dye as the catalyst and oxygen as the terminal oxidant. The interaction of the excited catalyst and nitrate anions was studied by spectroscopic methods to elucidate the mechanism, and the method was applied to the NO3˙ induced oxidation o...

Organic salts composed of chiral amines and sulfonic acid with high hyperpolarizability allowed the construction of polar crystals with incorporated guest molecules. The polarity of the crystals was precisely regulated by employing suitable guest molecules. As a result, the crystals generated a strong second harmonic generation property.

A straightforward synthesis of diaryliodonium salts is achieved by using Oxone as the stoichiometric oxidant. Slow addition is the key to obtaining good yields and purities of the reaction products, which are highly useful reagents in many different areas of organic synthesis.

~-phase organic conductors with bidimensional layers of orthogonal molecular dimers are modelled by tetramers and hexamers of appropriate geometry. The complex conductivity is calculated within the Hubbard model including the electron-intramolecular vibration coupling. The polarized optical conductivity data of two ~-phase charge-transfer salts of b~s-(ethylenedithio)-tetrathiafulvalene: ~-(BED...

Gold nanoparticles capped with cucurbituril[7] have been prepared in the absence of metallic cations and organic ligands. Remarkably, these nanohybrids encapsulate dissolved oxygen and are highly active in electrochemical reduction. The effect of the presence of sodium and ammonium salts on this catalysed process is also analysed.

An easy-to-prepare, reusable and versatile catalyst consisting of oxidised copper nanoparticles on activated carbon has been fully characterised and found to effectively promote the multicomponent synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles from organic halides, diazonium salts, and aromatic amines in water at a low copper loading.

A crown ether-functionalized poly(tetraphenylethene) (AP-TPE) is synthesized and the rotation of the TPE group is successfully restricted via the complexation of crown ether and organic ammonium salts, leading to a stepwise enhanced fluorescence accompanied by a morphological transition from micellar to vesicular.