High five! Methyl probes at five ring positions of phenylalanine explore the hydrophobic core dynamics of zinc finger miniproteins

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC02346B, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Philip Horx, Armin GeyerThe elucidation of internal dynamics in proteins is essential for the understanding of their stability and functionality. Breaking the symmetry of the degenerate...

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Synthesis of C-Acyl Furanosides via the Cross-Coupling of Glycosyl Esters with Carboxylic Acids

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC03596G, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Yongliang Wei, Jenny Lam, Tianning DiaoC-acyl furanosides are versatile synthetic precursors to a variety of natural products, nucleoside analogues, and pharmaceutical...

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Machine learning of solvent effects on molecular spectra and reactions

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC02742E, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Michael Gastegger, Kristof T Schütt, Klaus Robert MuellerFast and accurate simulation of complex chemical systems in environments such as solutions is a long standing...

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Pyrimidine-directed metal-free C‒H borylation of 2‐pyrimidylanilines: A useful process for tetra-coordinated triarylborane synthesis

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC02937A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Supriya Rej, Amrita Das, Naoto ChataniConvenient, easily handled, laboratory friendly, robust approaches to afford synthetically important organoboron compounds are...

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Hollow and Highly Diastereoselective Face-Rotating Polyhedra Constructed through Rationally Engineered Facial Units

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC03428F, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Xiao Tang, Zhihao Li, Haoliang Liu, Hang Qu, Wenbin Gao, Xue Dong, Shilin Zhang, Xinchang Wang, Andrew C.-H. Sue, Liulin Yang, Kai Tan, Zhong-qun Tian, Xiaoyu CaoMolecular...

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Mechanochemistry unveils stress transfer during sacrificial bond fracture of tough multiple network elastomers

Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D1SC03352B, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Yinjun Chen, Gabriel Sanoja, Costantino CretonThe molecular level transfer of stress from a stiff percolating filler to a stretchable matrix is a crucial and generic mechanism...

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A Modular Approach to Mechanically Gated Photoswitching with Color-Tunable Molecular Force Probes

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC02890A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Ross W. Barber, Maxwell J. RobbMolecular force probes conveniently report on mechanical stress and/or strain in polymers through straightforward visual cues. Unlike...

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An Evolution-Inspired Strategy to Design Disulfide-Rich Peptides Tolerant to Extensive Sequence Manipulation

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC02952E, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Jun Zha, Jinjing Li, Shihui Fan, Zengping Duan, Yibing Zhao, Chuanliu WuNatural disulfide-rich peptides (DRPs) are valuable scaffolds for the development of new bioactive molecules...

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Molecular crystalline capsules that release their contents by light

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC03394H, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Akira Nagai, Ryo Nishimura, Yohei Hattori, Eri Hatano, Ayako Fujimoto, Masakazu Morimoto, Nobuhiro Yasuda, Kenji Kamada, Hikaru Sotome, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Satoshi Yokojima,...

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Combining palladium and ammonium halide catalysts for Morita−Baylis−Hillman carbonates of methyl vinyl ketone: From 1,4-carbodipoles to ion pairs

Chem. Sci., 2021, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SC03517G, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Yang Yang, Bo Zhu, Lei Zhu, Ying Jiang, Chun-Ling Guo, Jing Gu, qin ouyang, Wei Du, Ying-Chun ChenHere we report the Morita−Baylis−Hillman carbonates from diverse aldehydes and methyl...

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