Main group molecular switches with swivel bifurcated to trifurcated hydrogen bond mode of action

G Hum, SJI Phang, HC Ong, F León… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Artificial molecular machines have captured the full attention of the scientific community
since Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart, and Ben Feringa were awarded the 2016 …

Orthogonality in main group compounds: a direct one-step synthesis of air-and moisture-stable cyclophosphazanes by mechanochemistry

Y Sim, D Tan, R Ganguly, Y Li, F García - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanochemistry has been established to be an environmentally-friendly way of
conducting reactions in a solvent-free manner. The development of mechanochemical …

Conformational control in main group phosphazane anion receptors and transporters

AJ Plajer, J Zhu, P Prohm, FJ Rizzuto… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Anion binding by receptor molecules is a central field of modern chemistry which impacts
areas of catalysis as well as biological and materials chemistry. As binding often requires …

Tailoring the binding properties of phosphazane anion receptors and transporters

AJ Plajer, J Zhu, P Proehm, AD Bond… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The binding and sensing of anions is an important cross-disciplinary field, which impacts
broad areas such as biology, supramolecular chemistry and catalysis. To date, however, this …

Assembly of metallo-macrocycles through reductive C–C coupling of alkylnitriles by an Mg–Mg-bonded compound

Y Xue, J Wang, Y Shi, W Xu, Y Zhao, B Wu… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Low-valent metal complexes have attracted much research interest owing to their novel
reactivities toward small molecules. Herein the reactivity of the α-diimine-ligated, Mg–Mg …

N‐bridged acyclic trimeric poly‐cyclodiphosphazanes: highly tuneable cyclodiphosphazane building blocks

X Shi, F León, Y Sim, S Quek, G Hum… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We have synthesized a completely new family of acyclic trimeric cyclodiphosphazane
compounds comprising NH, NiPr, NtBu and NPh bridging groups. In addition, the first NH …

Catechol and 1, 2, 4, 5-tetrahydroxybenzene functionalized cyclodiphosphazane ligands: synthesis, structural studies, and transition metal complexes

MK Pandey, HS Kunchur, GS Ananthnag… - Dalton …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Syntheses of two novel cyclodiphosphazane derivatives appended on catechol and 1, 2, 4,
5-tetrahydroxy benzene,[{(μ-N (tBu) P) 2 (C6H4O2)}](1) and [{((μ-N (tBu) P) 2) 2 (μ …

Pre-arranged building block approach for the orthogonal synthesis of an unfolded tetrameric organic–inorganic phosphazane macrocycle

Y Sim, F Leon, G Hum, SJI Phang, HC Ong… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Inorganic macrocycles remain challenging synthetic targets due to the limited number of
strategies reported for their syntheses. Among these species, large fully inorganic …

A chiral phosphazane reagent strategy for the determination of enantiomeric excess of amines

AJ Peel, A Terzopoulos, RB Jethwa, D Choudhury… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Methods for measuring enantiomeric excess (ee) of organic molecules by NMR
spectroscopy provide rapid analysis using a standard technique that is readily available …

Guest Binding via N− H⋅⋅⋅ π Bonding and Kinetic Entrapment by an Inorganic Macrocycle

AJ Plajer, FJ Rizzuto, HC Niu, S Lee… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Modern supramolecular chemistry is overwhelmingly based on non‐covalent interactions
involving organic architectures. However, the question of what happens when you depart …