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.

2-Pyridyliminopropadienone and 2-thiazolyliminopropadienone are obtained by flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT) of the title compounds and characterized by low temperature IR spectroscopy, but the corresponding dihydrothiazolyliminopropadienone eliminates cyanoketene, isothiocyanic acid and acetylene.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This work investigates how electronic structures and photophysical properties can be adjusted by the introduction of different donors. Four series of pyridopyrazine-based oligomers, (PPC)_n, (TPP)_n, (SPP)_n and (FPP)_n (n = 1–4), show a smooth binomial relationship between the inverse of their repeating unit numbers (1/n) and the HOMO–LUMO gaps, IP_(a/v), EA_(a/v) and optical properties.

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.

Photocrosslinking of PEG using exogenous agents is a convenient way to produce branched PEG from commercial sources. In this study, two series of new photocrosslinkers (i.e. bis-fluorophenyl azide and bis-trifluoromethyl diazirine) were synthesized and practical conditions for photocrosslinking of a 10-kDa PEG were explored.