Via hydrothermal synthesis, we constructed four nucleobase-based metal-organic compounds. These polymers show novel 2D and 3D structures, such as three-interpenetrating dmp net, supramolecular zeolite-type sra net, and exceptional 2D 4⁴ net composed of three kinds of quadrangle, observed in polymer 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Moreover, thermogravimetric studies of polymers 1, 2, and 4, and the magnetic properties of 3 are also explored.

The reactions of the HBr molecule with CH₂CH₂Cl (R1), CH₂CHCl₂ (R2), CH₂CH₂Br (R3), and CH₂CHBr₂ (R4) are investigated theoretically by a dual-level direct dynamics method. Using the canonical variational transition state theory (CVT) or CVT with the small-curvature tunnelling (SCT) correction, the rate constants are calculated over a wide temperature range of 200–2000 K at the G2M(RCC5)//MPW1K/6–311+G(d,p) level. The effect of chlorine or bromine substitution on the ethyl radical reactivity is discussed.

The synthesis of some novel N-tosyl tetra and diaza cyclophanes incorporating m-terphenyl as spacer units is described. All the N-tosyl aza cyclophanes exhibit excellent anti-arthritic and anti-inflammatory activity.

The alkaline hydrolysis of hydrophobic triphenylmethane dye (ethyl violet) is inhibited in sodium dodecyl sulfate mixed micellar systems with various nonionic surfactants, due to repulsion of OH¯ ions by the negatively charged micellar aggregates. Positive cooperativity model of enzyme catalysis is successfully applied for quantitative analysis of micellar data.

Derivatives 4a–d of the novel diindeno[1,2-g:1′,2′-s]rubicene ring system have been prepared in three steps from 1,5-dichloroanthraquinone. The photophysical properties of this novel ring system and a correlation of the organic field-effect transistors’ performance with X-ray crystallographic analyses are reported.

The time evolution of gold nanoparticles produced by laser ablation synthesis in solution (LASiS) as a function of sodium dodecyl sulfate concentration in aqueous solution is explained in terms of a simple kinetic model. Transmission electron microscopy studies show that the nanoparticle size distributions are not influenced by surfactant micelles.

A new kind of alkaline earth-based alkalide M²⁺(H₅Azacryptand[2.2.2]^–)M′^–·2MeNH₂ (M = Be, Mg, Ca; M′ = Li, Na, K) exhibits unusually large non-linear optical (NLO) properties.

Solid-phase methylamine was VUV photoprocessed at low temperature (20 K). The use of CO as an H radical scavenger gave new insights about the photomechanisms of methylamine photodestruction as well as new possible ways for the formation of amides in the interstellar medium.

This paper reviews work carried out in the Centre for Biospectroscopy, Monash University, at the Infrared Microspectroscopy Beamline on the Australian Synchrotron since the first synchrotron light. It discusses the attributes and advantages of the beamline for chemical spectroscopy and imaging of cellular and tissue samples and briefly summarizes new techniques that will come online in the near future.

The ability of synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction measurements to establish structures of perovskite oxides is discussed using CdTiO₃ and the series Ba_2-xSr_xInTaO₆.

This review updates the recent advances and applications of three prominent synchrotron radiation techniques, microprobe X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy/imaging, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and infrared microspectroscopy, and highlights how these tools are useful to the medicinal chemist.

An efficient and divergent synthesis of benzo[d]thiazoles is developed by phenyliodine bis(trifluoroaceate) (PIFA)-mediated oxidative cyclization of readily available β-oxo thioamides based on reaction conditions selection.

The formation of an intermediate ruthenium(iii) thiolate complex by the interaction of RSH (R = glutathione and l-cysteine) and dichlorotetraaquaruthenium(iii), [Ru^IIICl₂(H₂O)₄]⁺, is reported. The results are interpreted in terms of a mechanism involving a rate-determining inner-sphere one-electron transfer from RSH to the oxidants.