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Two‐photon excitation of bright diaza[4]helicenes for isotropic and circularly polarized emission (2025)
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Fabri, B., De Rosa, D. F., Black, D. J., Mucci, R., Krimovs, A., Pal, R., & Lacour, J. (online). Two‐photon excitation of bright diaza[4]helicenes for isotropic and circularly polarized emission. Chemistry: A European Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202501212

Helicenes are chiral organic dyes that are attracting growing attention due to the high tunability of their (chir)optical and electronic properties. In this work, a series of functionalized cationic diaza[4]helicenes based on dimethoxyquinacridinium... Read More about Two‐photon excitation of bright diaza[4]helicenes for isotropic and circularly polarized emission.

Designing lenalidomide cocrystals with an extended-release profile for improved pulmonary drug delivery † (2025)
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Screen, M. A., Tomkinson, G., McCabe, J. F., Askin, S., Mahon, C. S., Wilson, M. R., & Steed, J. W. (2025). Designing lenalidomide cocrystals with an extended-release profile for improved pulmonary drug delivery †. New Journal of Chemistry, 49, 6535-6543. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5nj00425j

Lenalidomide is a poorly soluble immunomodulatory drug that has been the subject of several cocrystal studies aiming to improve oral bioavailability by enhancing solubility. In contrast, for application in pulmonary fibrosis, reduced solubility may e... Read More about Designing lenalidomide cocrystals with an extended-release profile for improved pulmonary drug delivery †.

Molecular Rectangles Featuring Two Parallel NCN ‐Coordinated Platinum Units: Enhancing Near‐Infrared Emission Through Excimer Formation (2025)
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Salthouse, R. J., Sil, A., Pander, P., Dias, F. B., & Williams, J. A. G. (online). Molecular Rectangles Featuring Two Parallel NCN ‐Coordinated Platinum Units: Enhancing Near‐Infrared Emission Through Excimer Formation. Chemistry - A European Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202500834

New macrocyclic molecules are described that incorporate Pt(NCN) units on opposite edges of a rectangular structure, with xanthene units constituting the other two sides. Here, NCN represents a cyclometallating tridentate ligand based on 2,6‐di(2‐pyr... Read More about Molecular Rectangles Featuring Two Parallel NCN ‐Coordinated Platinum Units: Enhancing Near‐Infrared Emission Through Excimer Formation.

The role of ring-type structures in nonconventional luminescent polyurethane derivatives † (2025)
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Zhu, C.-Y., Meng, Y.-J., Xu, Y.-H., Xia, C.-Q., Jiang, N., Xu, J.-W., & Bryce, M. R. (online). The role of ring-type structures in nonconventional luminescent polyurethane derivatives †. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc00577a

Nonconventional luminescent materials have been extensively studied in recent years. However, the ambiguity of their luminescence mechanism seriously hinders their development and the establishment of detailed structure–activity relationships. Based... Read More about The role of ring-type structures in nonconventional luminescent polyurethane derivatives †.

Profiling Serine Hydrolases in the Leishmania Host‐Pathogen Interactome Using Cell‐Permeable Activity‐Based Fluorophosphonate Probes (2025)
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Isern, J. A., Porta, E. O., Kalesh, K., Koutsogiannis, Z., Cazzola, D., Pohl, E., Denny, P., & Steel, P. G. (online). Profiling Serine Hydrolases in the Leishmania Host‐Pathogen Interactome Using Cell‐Permeable Activity‐Based Fluorophosphonate Probes. ChemBioChem, Article e202500160. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202500160

Leishmaniasis, a vector borne neglected tropical disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania, is a major global public health challenge with millions of new cases annually. Treatment of leishmaniasis is difficult for many reasons including a... Read More about Profiling Serine Hydrolases in the Leishmania Host‐Pathogen Interactome Using Cell‐Permeable Activity‐Based Fluorophosphonate Probes.

Endogenous Near‐Infrared Chemiluminescence: Imaging‐Guided Non‐Invasive Thrombolysis and Anti‐Inflammation Based on a Heteronuclear Transition Metal Complex (2025)
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Wang, Z., Zhu, B., Nie, W., Zhang, L., Xiao, N., Zhang, Q., Wu, Z., Shi, C., Zhu, W., Liu, Q., Zhu, D., Bryce, M. R., Ren, L., & Tang, B. Z. (online). Endogenous Near‐Infrared Chemiluminescence: Imaging‐Guided Non‐Invasive Thrombolysis and Anti‐Inflammation Based on a Heteronuclear Transition Metal Complex. Advanced Science, Article 2501257. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202501257

Conventional therapy to treat thrombi (blood clots) has significant limitations: i) inflammation; ii) bleeding side effects; iii) re‐embolisation, and iv) in situ thrombi that are not visible. Here it is reported that Cu2Ir nanoparticles (NPs) with a... Read More about Endogenous Near‐Infrared Chemiluminescence: Imaging‐Guided Non‐Invasive Thrombolysis and Anti‐Inflammation Based on a Heteronuclear Transition Metal Complex.

A tailored graphene supramolecular gel for pharmaceutical crystallization (2025)
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Zhang, Q., Screen, M. A., Bowen, L., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., & Steed, J. W. (online). A tailored graphene supramolecular gel for pharmaceutical crystallization. Chemical Science, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc08087d

A graphene-based supramolecular gel was designed and prepared to control the crystallization process and polymorphism of pharmaceuticals. The gelators were modified at the end segments with pyrene moieties, which spontaneously interact with the graph... Read More about A tailored graphene supramolecular gel for pharmaceutical crystallization.

Predicting aquatic toxicity of anionic hydrocarbon and perfluorinated surfactants using membrane-water partition coefficients from coarse-grained simulations (2025)
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Gredelj, A., Roberts, J., Kearney, E. M., Barrett, E. L., Haywood, N., Sheffield, D., Hodges, G., & Miller, M. A. (2025). Predicting aquatic toxicity of anionic hydrocarbon and perfluorinated surfactants using membrane-water partition coefficients from coarse-grained simulations. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 27(4), 1131-1144. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4em00649f

Anionic surfactants are widely used in commercial and industrial applications. For assessment of their environmental fate and effects, it is highly desirable to quantify the membrane-water partition/distribution coefficient (Kmw/Dmw). Here, we furthe... Read More about Predicting aquatic toxicity of anionic hydrocarbon and perfluorinated surfactants using membrane-water partition coefficients from coarse-grained simulations.

High-Temperature X-Ray Crystal Structure Analysis of Schiff Base Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes and Data Statistics (2025)
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Okui, A., Tsuchiya, R., Nakane, D., Akitsu, T., & Blundell, T. J. (2025). High-Temperature X-Ray Crystal Structure Analysis of Schiff Base Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes and Data Statistics. Molecules, 30(6), Article 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30061289

In this study, single crystals of previously reported Schiff base copper (II) (Cu) and nickel (II) (Ni) complexes were synthesized; a structural analysis was performed using data measured at high temperatures, 298 K and 410 K; and CIF and electron de... Read More about High-Temperature X-Ray Crystal Structure Analysis of Schiff Base Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes and Data Statistics.

Reading Behind the Lines: Ghost Texts and Spectral Imaging in the Manuscripts of Alfred Tennyson (2025)
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Sullivan, M. J., Easton, R., & Beeby, A. (online). Reading Behind the Lines: Ghost Texts and Spectral Imaging in the Manuscripts of Alfred Tennyson. The Review of English Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgaf007

This article is among the first sustained applications of multispectral imaging and image processing to the study of modern anglophone literature. It recovers previously unreadable variants in the manuscripts of Alfred Tennyson, pioneers methods of m... Read More about Reading Behind the Lines: Ghost Texts and Spectral Imaging in the Manuscripts of Alfred Tennyson.