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Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples (2020)
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Dellinger, M., Hilton, R. G., & Nowell, G. M. (2020). Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 35(2), 377-387. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ja00288j

Rhenium (Re) is a trace element whose redox chemistry makes it an ideal candidate to trace a range of geochemical processes. In particular, fractionation of its isotopes 187Re (62.6% abundance) and 185Re (37.4%) may be used to improve our understandi... Read More about Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples.

Changes in hot spring temperature and hydrogeology of the Alpine Fault hanging wall, New Zealand, induced by distal South Island earthquakes (2014)
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Cox, S., Menzies, C., Sutherland, R., Denys, P., Chamberlain, C., & Teagle, D. (2015). Changes in hot spring temperature and hydrogeology of the Alpine Fault hanging wall, New Zealand, induced by distal South Island earthquakes. Geofluids, 15(1-2), 216-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/gfl.12093

Thermal springs in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, originate through penetration of fluids into a thermal anomaly generated by rapid uplift and exhumation on the Alpine Fault. Copland hot spring (43.629S, 169.946E) is one of the most vigorously flowi... Read More about Changes in hot spring temperature and hydrogeology of the Alpine Fault hanging wall, New Zealand, induced by distal South Island earthquakes.

Testing the Utility of Geochemical Proxies to Reconstruct Holocene Coastal Environments and Relative Sea Level: A Case Study from Hungry Bay, Bermuda (2019)
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Kemp, A. C., Vane, C. H., Khan, N. S., Ellison, J. C., Engelhart, S. E., Horton, B. P., …Moyer, R. P. (2019). Testing the Utility of Geochemical Proxies to Reconstruct Holocene Coastal Environments and Relative Sea Level: A Case Study from Hungry Bay, Bermuda. Open Quaternary, 5, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.49

On low-lying, tropical and sub-tropical coastlines freshwater marshes may be replaced by salt-tolerant mangroves in response to relative sea-level rise. Pollen analysis of radiocarbon-dated sediment cores showed that such a change occurred in Hungry... Read More about Testing the Utility of Geochemical Proxies to Reconstruct Holocene Coastal Environments and Relative Sea Level: A Case Study from Hungry Bay, Bermuda.

Stereoselective Syntheses of 3’-Hydroxyamino- and 3’-Methoxyamino-2’,3’-Dideoxynucleosides (2019)
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Bose, S., & Hodgson, D. R. (2019). Stereoselective Syntheses of 3’-Hydroxyamino- and 3’-Methoxyamino-2’,3’-Dideoxynucleosides. Organic Letters, 21(22), 9084-9088. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03474

Aminonucleosides are used as key motifs in medicinal and bioconjugate chemistry; however, existing strategies toward 3′-hypernucleophilic amine systems do not readily deliver deoxyribo-configured products. We report diastereoselective syntheses of de... Read More about Stereoselective Syntheses of 3’-Hydroxyamino- and 3’-Methoxyamino-2’,3’-Dideoxynucleosides.

The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity? (2019)
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Pavan, C., Delle Piane, M., Gullo, M., Filippi, F., Fubini, B., Hoet, P., …Turci, F. (2019). The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity?. Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 16(1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12989-019-0315-3

Background: Silica continues to represent an intriguing topic of fundamental and applied research across various scientific fields, from geology to physics, chemistry, cell biology, and particle toxicology. The pathogenic activity of silica is variab... Read More about The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity?.

Geochemistry, detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope of the clastic rocks in southern Tibet: implications for the Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Lhasa terrane (2019)
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Wei, Y., Zhao, Z., Niu, Y., Zhu, D., DePaolo, D. J., Jing, T., …Sheikh, L. (2020). Geochemistry, detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope of the clastic rocks in southern Tibet: implications for the Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Lhasa terrane. Gondwana Research, 78, 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.08.014

In order to reconstruct tectonic evolution history of the southern margin of Asia (i.e., Lhasa terrane) before the India-Asia collision, here we present a comprehensive study on the clastic rocks in the southern Lhasa terrane with new perspectives fr... Read More about Geochemistry, detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope of the clastic rocks in southern Tibet: implications for the Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Lhasa terrane.

The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge (2019)
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Foulger, G. R., Doré, T., Emeleus, C. H., Franke, D., Geoffroy, L., Gernigon, L., …Stoker, M. (2020). The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge. Earth-Science Reviews, 206, Article 102926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926

The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm was the culmination of a long period of tectonic unrest extending back to the Late Palaeozoic. Breakup was prolonged and complex and disintegrated an inhomogeneous collage of cratons suture... Read More about The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge.

A second type of highly asphaltic crude oil seepage stranded on the South Australian coastline (2019)
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Corrick, A., Hall, P., Gong, S., McKirdy, D., Selby, D., Trefry, C., & Ross, A. (2020). A second type of highly asphaltic crude oil seepage stranded on the South Australian coastline. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 112, Article 104062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104062

Strandings of semi-solid to solid asphaltic bitumen along the coastline of South Australia have been reported as far back as the late 1800s. Hitherto only a single variety, now referred to as asphaltite, has been attributed to seepage from the nearby... Read More about A second type of highly asphaltic crude oil seepage stranded on the South Australian coastline.

Adakites without a slab: Remelting of hydrous basalt in the crust and shallow mantle of Borneo to produce the Miocene Sintang Suite and Bau Suite magmatism of West Sarawak (2019)
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Breitfeld, H. T., Macpherson, C., Hall, R., Thirlwall, M., Ottley, C. J., & Hennig-Breitfeld, J. (2019). Adakites without a slab: Remelting of hydrous basalt in the crust and shallow mantle of Borneo to produce the Miocene Sintang Suite and Bau Suite magmatism of West Sarawak. Lithos, 344-345, 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.06.016

We present new geochronological and geochemical data for Neogene magmatism from West Sarawak. Zircon U-Pb geochronology divides Neogene magmatic rocks of West Sarawak into a Lower Miocene West Sarawak Sintang Suite with ages of c. 19 to 21 Ma, and a... Read More about Adakites without a slab: Remelting of hydrous basalt in the crust and shallow mantle of Borneo to produce the Miocene Sintang Suite and Bau Suite magmatism of West Sarawak.

Excited-State Dynamics of Molecules with Classically-Driven Trajectories and Gaussians (2019)
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Ibele, L. M., Nicolson, A. J., & Curchod, B. F. (2020). Excited-State Dynamics of Molecules with Classically-Driven Trajectories and Gaussians. Molecular Physics, 118(8), Article e1665199. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2019.1665199

Simulating the dynamics of a molecule initiated in an excited electronic state constitutes a rather challenging task for theoretical and computational chemistry, as such dynamics leads to a strong coupling between nuclear motion and electronic states... Read More about Excited-State Dynamics of Molecules with Classically-Driven Trajectories and Gaussians.

Diversity of soluble salt concentrations on volcanic ash aggregates from a variety of eruption types and deposits (2019)
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Colombier, M., Mueller, S. B., Kueppers, U., Scheu, B., Delmelle, P., Cimarelli, C., …Dingwell, D. B. (2019). Diversity of soluble salt concentrations on volcanic ash aggregates from a variety of eruption types and deposits. Bulletin of Volcanology, 81(7), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1302-0

Ash aggregation is a common phenomenon in particle-laden environments of volcanic eruption plumes and pyroclastic density currents. Many of these initially fragile aggregates gain sufficient mechanical strength to remain intact after atmospheric tran... Read More about Diversity of soluble salt concentrations on volcanic ash aggregates from a variety of eruption types and deposits.

Evidence for a large-magnitude eruption from Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) at 29 ka (2019)
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Albert, P., Giaccio, B., Isaia, R., Costa, A., Niespolo, E., Pereira, A., …Smith, V. (2019). Evidence for a large-magnitude eruption from Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) at 29 ka. Geology, 47(7), 595-599. https://doi.org/10.1130/g45805.1

The 40 ka caldera-forming eruption of Campi Flegrei (Italy) is the largest known eruption in Europe during the last 200 k.y., but little is known about other large eruptions at the volcano prior to a more recent caldera-forming event at 15 ka. At 29... Read More about Evidence for a large-magnitude eruption from Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) at 29 ka.

Elements and (first) principles in chemistry (2019)
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Hendry, R. F. (2021). Elements and (first) principles in chemistry. Synthese, 198, 3391-3411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02312-8

The first principle of chemical composition is that elements are actually present in their compounds. It is a golden thread running through the history of compositional thinking in chemistry since before the chemical revolution. Opposed to this princ... Read More about Elements and (first) principles in chemistry.

Real time monitoring of interactions of gold nanoparticles with supported phospholipid lipid layers (2020)
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Bunga, Y., & Kataky, R. (2020). Real time monitoring of interactions of gold nanoparticles with supported phospholipid lipid layers. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 872, Article 114302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114302

Rapid methods for assessing engineered nanoparticle (NP) and their interactions with lipid membranes is important to several fields including pharmaceutical, clinical and toxicological studies. This study presents Resonance Enhanced Surface Impedance... Read More about Real time monitoring of interactions of gold nanoparticles with supported phospholipid lipid layers.

Microbial cycling, migration and leakage of light alkanes in the Nile Delta tertiary fan (2020)
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Böker, U., Dodd, T., Goldberg, T., & Aplin, A. (2020). Microbial cycling, migration and leakage of light alkanes in the Nile Delta tertiary fan. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 121, Article 104578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104578

We present a geochemical dataset which helps unravel the complex set of processes by which light alkanes are sourced, charged, mixed, leaked and altered in the Plio-Pleistocene Nile Delta. Thermogenic gas derives from a sub-Messinian source and mixes... Read More about Microbial cycling, migration and leakage of light alkanes in the Nile Delta tertiary fan.

Boerhaave´s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models (2020)
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Hendriksen, M. M., & Verwaal, R. E. (2020). Boerhaave´s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 43(3), 385-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000005

This article discusses the (re)construction and use of an Early modern instrument, better known as Herman Boerhaave's (1668–1738) little furnace. We investigate the origins, history and materiality of this furnace, and examine the dynamic relationshi... Read More about Boerhaave´s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models.

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland: a remote window on the Cambrian Explosion (2019)
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Harper, D., Hammarlund, E., Topper, T., Nielsen, A., Rasmussen, J., T-y.s., P., & Smith, M. (2019). The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland: a remote window on the Cambrian Explosion. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(6), 1023-1037. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-043

The lower Cambrian Lagerstätte of Sirius Passet, Nansen Land, North Greenland, is one of the oldest of the Phanerozoic, exceptionally preserved biotas. The Lagerstätte evidences the escalation of numbers of new body plans and life modes that formed t... Read More about The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland: a remote window on the Cambrian Explosion.

Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches (2020)
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Badreshany, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches. Levant, 52(1-2), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2020.1786270

By way of an introduction to this volume, we look to provide a brief review of recent approaches to ceramic studies in Levantine archaeology, and to the way that the results of laboratory-based investigations have been integrated within these. As we... Read More about Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches.

C-H activation/metalation approaches for the synthesis of indolizine derivatives (2019)
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Clososki, G. C., Steel, P. G., Bertallo, C. R. D. S., Arroio, T. R. A. R., Vessecchi, R., Toledo, M. F., & Sadler, S. (2019). C-H activation/metalation approaches for the synthesis of indolizine derivatives. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 31-32, 5205-5213. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900608

The C‐H borylation of indolizines has not previously been reported and in this communication, we describe our preliminary efforts to apply this chemistry to this scaffold and contrast this approach to directed metalation. Through these methodologies... Read More about C-H activation/metalation approaches for the synthesis of indolizine derivatives.

Immune landscape in Burkitt lymphoma reveals M2-macrophage polarization and correlation between PD-L1 expression and non-canonical EBV latency program (2020)
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Granai, M., Mundo, L., Akarca, A. U., Siciliano, M. C., Rizvi, H., Mancini, V., …Marafioti, T. (2020). Immune landscape in Burkitt lymphoma reveals M2-macrophage polarization and correlation between PD-L1 expression and non-canonical EBV latency program. Infectious Agents and Cancer, 15(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13027-020-00292-w

Background: The Tumor Microenviroment (TME) is a complex milieu that is increasingly recognized as a key factor in multiple stages of disease progression and responses to therapy as well as escape from immune surveillance. However, the precise contri... Read More about Immune landscape in Burkitt lymphoma reveals M2-macrophage polarization and correlation between PD-L1 expression and non-canonical EBV latency program.

Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions (2018)
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Poitras, S. P., Pearson, D. G., Hardman, M. F., Stachel, T., Nowell, G. M., & Cairns, S. (2018). Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S2), 719-736. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-018-0641-4

The Central Mackenzie Valley (CMV) area of Northwest Territories is underlain by Precambrian basement belonging to the North American Craton. The potential of this area to host kimberlitic diamond deposits is relatively high judging from the seismolo... Read More about Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions.

Tracing the natural and anthropogenic influence on the trace elemental chemistry of estuarine macroalgae and the implications for human consumption (2019)
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Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., Ottley, C. J., Unsworth, E., Raab, A., Feldmann, J., …Bücker, P. (2019). Tracing the natural and anthropogenic influence on the trace elemental chemistry of estuarine macroalgae and the implications for human consumption. Science of the Total Environment, 685, 259-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.263

Macroalgae (seaweed) has been shown to be an effective environmental indicator. We investigate the trace element chemistry of macroalgae samples from locations along the Firth of Forth and Forth Estuary in Scotland. The overall trend in elemental abu... Read More about Tracing the natural and anthropogenic influence on the trace elemental chemistry of estuarine macroalgae and the implications for human consumption.

Syneruptive incorporation of martian surface sulphur in the nakhlite lava flows revealed by S and Os isotopes and highly siderophile elements: implication for mantle sources in Mars (2019)
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Mari, N., Riches, A., Hallis, L., Marrocchi, Y., Villeneuve, J., Gleissner, P., …Lee, M. (2019). Syneruptive incorporation of martian surface sulphur in the nakhlite lava flows revealed by S and Os isotopes and highly siderophile elements: implication for mantle sources in Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 266, 416-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.05.025

Martian lava flows likely acquired S-rich material from the regolith during their emplacement on the planet’s surface. We investigated five of the twenty known nakhlites (Nakhla, Lafayette, Miller Range (MIL) 090032, Yamato 000593, and Yamato 000749)... Read More about Syneruptive incorporation of martian surface sulphur in the nakhlite lava flows revealed by S and Os isotopes and highly siderophile elements: implication for mantle sources in Mars.

The Neoarchaean Uyea Gneiss Complex, Shetland: an onshore fragment of the Rae Craton on the European Plate (2019)
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Kinny, P., Strachan, R., Fowler, M., Clark, C., Davis, S., Jahn, I., …Dempsey, E. (2019). The Neoarchaean Uyea Gneiss Complex, Shetland: an onshore fragment of the Rae Craton on the European Plate. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(5), 847-862. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-017

A tract of amphibolite facies granitic gneisses and metagabbros in northern Shetland, U.K., is here named the Uyea Gneiss Complex. Zircon U–Pb dating indicates emplacement of the igneous protoliths of the complex c. 2746–2726 Ma, at a later time than... Read More about The Neoarchaean Uyea Gneiss Complex, Shetland: an onshore fragment of the Rae Craton on the European Plate.

The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review (2019)
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Naafs, B., Inglis, G., Blewett, J., McClymont, E., Lauretano, V., Xie, S., …Pancost, R. (2019). The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review. Global and Planetary Change, 179, 57-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.05.006

Molecular fossils (biomarkers) are abundant in organic rich natural archives such as peats and lignites (fossilized peat), where their distribution is governed by their biological source, environmental factors, such as temperature and pH, and diagene... Read More about The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review.

Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Eocene-Oligocene potassic felsic suites in western Yunnan, eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from petrology, zircon chronology, elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic geochemistry (2019)
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Tong, X., Zhao, Z., Niu, Y., Zhang, S., Cousens, B., Liu, D., …Lutfi, W. (2019). Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Eocene-Oligocene potassic felsic suites in western Yunnan, eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from petrology, zircon chronology, elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic geochemistry. Lithos, 340-341, 287-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.04.023

In western Yunnan, potassic felsic suites with important Cu mineralization have been interpreted as being genetically associated with the Ailao Shan-Red River (ASRR) shear zone. In this paper, we show that the magmatism is unrelated to the shear zone... Read More about Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Eocene-Oligocene potassic felsic suites in western Yunnan, eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from petrology, zircon chronology, elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic geochemistry.

Evidence from plutonic xenoliths for magma differentiation, mixing and storage in a volatile-rich crystal mush beneath St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles (2019)
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Cooper, G. F., Blundy, J. D., Macpherson, C. G., Humphreys, M. C., & Davidson, J. P. (2019). Evidence from plutonic xenoliths for magma differentiation, mixing and storage in a volatile-rich crystal mush beneath St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(5), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1576-4

Quantifying the storage conditions and evolution of different magmatic components within sub-volcanic plumbing systems is key to our understanding of igneous processes and products. Whereas erupted magmas represent a portion of the eruptible volcanic... Read More about Evidence from plutonic xenoliths for magma differentiation, mixing and storage in a volatile-rich crystal mush beneath St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles.

A simple and efficient flow preparation of pyocyanin a virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2019)
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Mortzfeld, F., Pietruszka, J., & Baxendale, I. (2019). A simple and efficient flow preparation of pyocyanin a virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019(31-32), 5424-5433. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900526

The synthesis of the naturally occurring toxin pyocyanin has been realized in a short 4 step sequence. The key photochemical reaction and isolation of the final product has been facilitated by the use of flow chemistry techniques and immobilised reag... Read More about A simple and efficient flow preparation of pyocyanin a virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Mesozoic crustal evolution of southern Tibet: Constraints from the Early Jurassic igneous rocks in the central Lhasa terrane (2020)
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Dong, X., Niu, Y., Zhang, Z., Tian, Z., & He, Z. (2020). Mesozoic crustal evolution of southern Tibet: Constraints from the Early Jurassic igneous rocks in the central Lhasa terrane. Lithos, 366-367, Article 105557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105557

Phanerozoic growth of continental crust on our planet is one of the important research themes in Earth Science. Here, we present the results of a systematic study of newly found and previously reported Mesozoic igneous rocks, including diorite cumula... Read More about Mesozoic crustal evolution of southern Tibet: Constraints from the Early Jurassic igneous rocks in the central Lhasa terrane.

Raman and IR Spectroelectrochemical Methods as Tools to Analyze Conjugated Organic Compounds (2018)
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Blacha-Grzechnik, A., Karon, K., & Data, P. (2018). Raman and IR Spectroelectrochemical Methods as Tools to Analyze Conjugated Organic Compounds. Journal of Visualized Experiments, Article e56653. https://doi.org/10.3791/56653

In the presented work, two spectroelectrochemical techniques are discussed as tools for the analysis of the structural changes occurring in the molecule on the vibrational level of energy. Raman and IR spectroelectrochemistry can be used for advanced... Read More about Raman and IR Spectroelectrochemical Methods as Tools to Analyze Conjugated Organic Compounds.

Science podcasts: analysis of global production and output from 2004 to 2018 (2019)
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MacKenzie, L. E. (2019). Science podcasts: analysis of global production and output from 2004 to 2018. Royal Society Open Science, 6(1), Article 180932. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180932

Since 2004, podcasts have emerged as a decentralized medium for science communication to the global public. However, to date, there have been no large-scale quantitative studies of the production and dissemination of science podcasts. This study iden... Read More about Science podcasts: analysis of global production and output from 2004 to 2018.

Mineral compositions of syn-collisional granitoids and their implications for the formation of juvenile continental crust and adakitic magmatism (2020)
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Xiao, Y., Chen, S., Niu, Y., Wang, X., Xue, Q., Wang, G., …Wang, D. (2020). Mineral compositions of syn-collisional granitoids and their implications for the formation of juvenile continental crust and adakitic magmatism. Journal of Petrology, 61(3), Article egaa038. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa038

Continental collision zones have been proposed as primary sites of net continental crustal growth. Therefore, studies on syn-collisional granitoids with mafic magmatic enclaves (MMEs) are essential for testing this hypothesis. The Baojishan (BJS) and... Read More about Mineral compositions of syn-collisional granitoids and their implications for the formation of juvenile continental crust and adakitic magmatism.

The origin and geodynamic significance of the Mesozoic dykes in eastern continental China (2019)
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Kong, J., Niu, Y., Sun, P., Xiao, Y., Guo, P., Hong, D., …Duan, M. (2019). The origin and geodynamic significance of the Mesozoic dykes in eastern continental China. Lithos, 332-333, 328-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.02.024

We sampled 22 Mesozoic dykes in eastern continental China and carried out a detailed study on these samples, including KAr and zircon UPb geochronology, and elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotope geochemistry. Their KAr and zircon ages of 130–110 Ma are b... Read More about The origin and geodynamic significance of the Mesozoic dykes in eastern continental China.

A large explosive silicic eruption in the British Palaeogene Igneous Province (2019)
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Troll, V. R., Emeleus, C. H., Nicoll, G. R., Mattsson, T., Ellam, R. M., Donaldson, C. H., & Harris, C. (2019). A large explosive silicic eruption in the British Palaeogene Igneous Province. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 494. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35855-w

Large-volume pyroclastic eruptions are not known from the basalt-dominated British Palaeogene Igneous Province (BPIP), although silicic magmatism is documented from intra-caldera successions in central volcanoes and from small-volume ash-layers in th... Read More about A large explosive silicic eruption in the British Palaeogene Igneous Province.

Using Cyclic Voltammetry, UV-Vis-NIR, and EPR Spectroelectrochemistry to Analyze Organic Compounds (2018)
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Pluczyk, S., Vasylieva, M., & Data, P. (2018). Using Cyclic Voltammetry, UV-Vis-NIR, and EPR Spectroelectrochemistry to Analyze Organic Compounds. Journal of Visualized Experiments, Article e56656. https://doi.org/10.3791/56656

Cyclic voltammetry (CV) is a technique used in the analysis of organic compounds. When this technique is combined with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or ultraviolet-visible and near-infrared (UV-Vis-NIR) spectroscopies, we obtain useful inform... Read More about Using Cyclic Voltammetry, UV-Vis-NIR, and EPR Spectroelectrochemistry to Analyze Organic Compounds.

Unravelling the complexity of magma plumbing at Mount St. Helens: a new trace element partitioning scheme for amphibole (2019)
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Humphreys, M. C., Cooper, G. F., Zhang, J., Loewen, M., Kent, A. J., Macpherson, C. G., & Davidson, J. P. (2019). Unravelling the complexity of magma plumbing at Mount St. Helens: a new trace element partitioning scheme for amphibole. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-018-1543-5

Volcanoes at subduction zones reside above complex magma plumbing systems, where individual magmatic components may originate and interact at a range of pressures. Because whole-rock compositions of subduction zone magmas are the integrated result of... Read More about Unravelling the complexity of magma plumbing at Mount St. Helens: a new trace element partitioning scheme for amphibole.

Optical Properties and Dielectric Functions of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells (2019)
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Mendis, B. G., Ramasse, Q. M., Shalvey, T., Major, J. D., & Durose, K. (2019). Optical Properties and Dielectric Functions of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2(2), 1419-1427. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b01995

CdTe thin-film solar cells have complex microstructures, such as grain boundaries within the absorber layer, as well as CdS window, and Au back contact interfaces, where the local structure and chemistry undergo significant changes. The optical prope... Read More about Optical Properties and Dielectric Functions of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells.

Perovskite U-Pb and Sr-Nd isotopic perspectives on melilitite magmatism and outward growth of the Tibetan Plateau (2018)
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Liu, D., Zhao, Z., Niu, Y., Zhu, D., & Li, X. (2018). Perovskite U-Pb and Sr-Nd isotopic perspectives on melilitite magmatism and outward growth of the Tibetan Plateau. Geology, 46(12), 1027-1030. https://doi.org/10.1130/g45329.1

Mantle-derived alkaline magmatism along major strike-slip faults provides unique insights into the lateral growth of the Tibetan Plateau. Here we use the geochemistry of perovskites from the West Qinling melilitite to probe into the nature and dynami... Read More about Perovskite U-Pb and Sr-Nd isotopic perspectives on melilitite magmatism and outward growth of the Tibetan Plateau.

Exploiting C-H Borylation for the Multidirectional Elaboration of 2-Halopyridines (2019)
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Reuven, J., Salih, O., Sadler, S., Thomas, C., & Steel, P. (2020). Exploiting C-H Borylation for the Multidirectional Elaboration of 2-Halopyridines. Tetrahedron, 76(3), Article 130836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2019.130836

Regioselectively polysubstituted pyridines can be efficiently accessed from 2-halopyridines via a sequence involving C-H borylation, Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling and nucleophilic aromatic substitution chemistry.

Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry (2017)
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Saunders, J. (2018). Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(4), 719-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1393617

McTaggart takes love seriously. He rejects rival accounts that look to reduce love to pleasure, moral approbation or a fitting response to someone’s qualities. In addition, he thinks that love reveals something about the structure of the universe, an... Read More about Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry.

2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) as a CF3-building block: synthesis of enol ethers and vinyl sulfides (2019)
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Murray, B. J., Ball, E. D., Harsanyi, A., & Sandford, G. (2019). 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) as a CF3-building block: synthesis of enol ethers and vinyl sulfides. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019(47), 7666-7672. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201901445

2,3,3,3‐Tetrafluoropropene (HFO‐1234yf) is an inexpensive and readily available fluorinated building block, owing to its growing use as a low global warming potential 4th generation refrigerant, but there have so far been few reported uses of this fl... Read More about 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) as a CF3-building block: synthesis of enol ethers and vinyl sulfides.

Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence (2018)
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Ward, J. S., Nobuyasu, R. S., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Santos, J., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2018). Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83(23), 14431-14442. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.8b02187

The synthesis of 1-methylphenoxazine via CO2-directed lithiation chemistry is reported. This electron donor was coupled with 2,8-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide with Buchwald–Hartwig chemistry to give a new D–A–D charge-transfer fluorescent molecule 1b.... Read More about Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence.