Paper Highlights of 2014

December 2014

Supramolecular Polymers as Surface Coatings: Rapid Fabrication of Healable Superhydrophobic and Slippery Surfaces

Qiang Wei, Christoph Schlaich, Sylvain Prévost, Andrea Schulz, Christoph Böttcher, Michael Gradzielski, Zhenhui Qi, Rainer Haag and Christoph A. Schalley, Adv. Mater. 2014, 26(43), 7358-7364

Sebastian Riedel in Nature:

Identification of an iridium-containing compound with a formal oxidation state of IX

G. Wang, M. Zhou, J.T. Goettel, J. Schrobilgen, J. Su, J. Li, T. Schlöder, S. Riedel, Nature 2014, 514(7523), 475-477
Rainer Haag in Angewandte Chemie:

Mussel-Inspired Dendritic Polymers as Universal Multifunctional Coatings

Q. Wei, K. Achazi, H. Liebe, A. Schulz, P.-L.M. Noeske, I. Grunwald, R. Haag, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53(43), 11650–11655
again Rainer Haag in Angewandte Chemie:

Photoresponsive Switches at Surfaces Based on Supramolecular Functionalization with Azobenzene–Oligoglycerol Conjugates

O. Nachtigall, C. Kördel, L.H. Urner, R. Haag, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53(36), 9669–9673
Eugen Illenberger in Angewandte Chemie:

Reactions in Nitroimidazole Triggered by Low-Energy (0–2 eV) Electrons: Methylation at N1-H Completely Blocks Reactivity

K. Tanzer, L. Feketeova, B. Puschnigg, P. Scheier, E. Illenberger, S. Denifl, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53(45), 12240–12243

Es wa(h)r einmal ...: Naturwissenschaften im Märchen

Pocket book by Manja Erb and Sabine Streller, publisher: K. Schüling, 2014, ISBN: 978-3865232472

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Oxygen Transfer from an Intramolecularly Coordinated Diaryltellurium Oxide to Acetonitrile. Formation and Combined AIM and ELI-D Analysis of a Novel Diaryltellurium Acetimidate

Ole Mallow, Jens Bolsinger, Pamela Finke, Malte Hesse, Yu-Sheng Chen, Andrew Duthie, Simon Grabowsky, Peter Luger, Stefan Mebs, and Jens Beckmann, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136(31), 10870-10873
Tuning the electronic effects of aromatic phosphorus heterocycles: an unprecedented phosphinine with significant P(π)-donor properties

Antonia Loibl, Iris de Krom, Evgeny A. Pidko, Manuela Weber, Jelena Wiecko and Christian Müller, Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8842-8844
Cyclometalated Mono- and Dinuclear Ir^III Complexes with “Click”-Derived Triazoles and Mesoionic Carbenes

Ramananda Maity, Stephan Hohloch, Cheng-Yong Su, Margarethe van der Meer and Biprajit Sarkar, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(32), 9952-9961

Unprecedented Strong Lewis Bases - Synthesis and Methyl Cation Affinities of Dimethylamino-Substituted Terpyridines

Paul Hommes, Christina Fischer, Christoph Lindner, Hendrik Zipse and Hans-Ulrich Reissig, Angew. Chem. 2014, 53(29), 7647-7651
Iron oxide nanoparticles stabilized with dendritic polyglycerols as selective MRI contrast agents

Daniel Nordmeyer, Patrick Stumpf, Dominic Gröger, Andreas Hofmann, Sven Enders, Sebastian B. Riese, Jens Dernedde, Matthias Taupitz, Ursula Rauch, Rainer Haag, Eckart Rühl and Christina Graf, Nanoscale 2014, 6, 9646-9654

Hierarchically Ordered Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Bifullerenes

L. Wasserthal, B. Schade, K. Ludwig, C. Böttcher, A. Hirsch, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(20), 5961-5966
Following ORR intermediates adsorbed on a Pt cathode catalyst during break-in of a PEM fuel cell by in operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy

D. E. Ramaker, A. Korovina, V. Croze, J. Melke, C. Roth, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 13645-13653

A Universal Approach to Crosslinked Hierarchical Polymer Multilayers as Stable and Highly Effective Antifouling Coatings

Q. Wei, T. Becherer, P.-L. M. Noeske, I. Grunwald, R. Haag, Adv. Mater. 2014, 26(17), 2688-2693
Stimuli-induced folding cascade of a linear oligomeric guest chain programmed through cucurbit[n]uril self-sorting (n = 6, 7, 8)

L. Cera, C.A. Schalley, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5(6), 2560-2567

Complex RNA Folding Kinetics Revealed by Single-Molecule FRET and Hidden Markov Models

B.G. Keller, A. Kobitski, A. Jäschke, G.U. Nienhaus, F. Noé , J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136(12), 4534-4543
A Convergent Total Synthesis of the Telomerase Inhibitor (+-)-gamma-Rubromycin

M. Wilsdorf, H.-U. Reißig, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53(17), 4332-4336

Redox-Induced Spin-State Switching and Mixed Valency in Quinonoid-Bridged Dicobalt Complexes

David Schweinfurth, Yvonne Rechkemmer, Stephan Hohloch, Naina Deibel, Irina Peremykin, Jan Fiedler, Raphael Marx, Petr Neugebauer, Joris van Slageren, and Biprajit Sarkar, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(12), 3475-3486

Carbohydrate-Lectin Recognition of Sequence-Defined Heteromultivalent Glycooligomers

D. Ponader, P. Maffre, J. Aretz, D. Pussak, N. M. Ninnemann, S. Schmidt, P. H.
Seeberger, C. Rademacher, G. U. Nienhaus, L. Hartmann, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136(5), 2008-2016
Ruthenium Complexes of Tripodal Ligands with Pyridine and Triazole Arms: Subtle Tuning of Thermal, Electrochemical, and Photochemical Reactivity

F. Weisser, S. Hohloch, S. Plebst, D. Schweinfurth, B. Sarkar, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(3), 781-793

Porphyrin Assemblies and Their Scaffolds

J.-H. Fuhrhop, Langmuir 2014, 30(1), 1-12
Partial side chain fluorination influencing amyloid formation: a symphony of size, hydrophobicity, and alpha-helix propensity

U.I.M. Gerling, M. Salwiczek, C.D. Cadicamo, H. Erdbrink, S. Grage, P. Wadhwani, A. Ulrich, M. Behrens, G. Haufe, C. Czekelius, B. Koksch, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5(2), 819-830

A Microgel Construction Kit for Bioorthogonal Encapsulation and pH-Controlled Release of Living Cells

D. Steinhilber, T. Rossow, S. Wedepohl, F. Paulus, S. Seiffert, R. Haag, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52(51), 13538-13543
NMR Studies of Protonation and Hydrogen Bond States of Internal Aldimines of Pyridoxal 5'-Phosphate Acid-Base in Alanine Racemase, Aspartate Aminotransferase and Poly-L-lysine

Monique Chan-Huot, Alexandra Dos, Reinhard Zander, Shasad Sharif, Peter M. Tolstoy, Shara Compton, Emily Fogle, Michael D. Toney, Ilya Shenderovich, Gleb S. Denisov, and Hans-Heinrich Limbach, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135(48), 18160-18175