Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102616
Shinji Aoyama , Lorenzo Catti , Michito Yoshizawa
Porous aromatic/polyaromatic polymers (PAPs) have been widely investigated as polycavity materials, featuring infinite grid frameworks with high stability. However, in contrast to host-guest functions in mono/oligocavities, the applications of these polycavities remained largely limited, owing to the complete insolubility, ill-defined structures, and inseparability. Here, we report a general strategy for the facile preparation of aqueous polycavity hosts through uptake of insoluble PAPs within aromatic micelles in water. The obtained aqueous host-guest composites, e.g., including a pyrene-benzene-based PAP, are analyzed via solution/solid-state techniques, revealing roughly spherical ∼100 nm-sized particles. The giant composites can be easily size fractionated in a highly monodisperse fashion using a centrifugation-filtration protocol. Importantly, the water-soluble polycavities of the PAPs within the micelle provide cavity-dependent incorporation abilities toward hydrocarbons, accompanying large emission enhancement (up to ∼9-fold) of the semi-rigid polycavities. Medium-sized dyes and hydrocarbons are furthermore co-incorporated into the polycavities, yielding unusual quaternary host-guest composites with enhanced dye-based emission.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102597
Dihao Wang , Dvir Harris , Chern Chuang , Graham P. Schmidt , Olivia C. Fiebig , Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen
Purple bacteria convert solar energy into biochemical energy with high quantum efficiency across diverse environments. Under low light, many species increase the number of antenna complexes and replace their primary light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) with a blue-shifted variant, LH3. The structural basis of the blue shift and its influence on the dynamics of solar energy conversion have remained unclear. Here, we integrated cryogenic electron microscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, and quantum dynamics simulations to compare LH2 and LH3 from Rhodoblastus acidophilus strain 7750. Our analyses revealed that hydrogen bonding dynamically tunes the transition energy, introducing a previously unreported excitation energy equilibrium between bacteriochlorophyll rings in LH3. This energy redistribution opened new inter-complex pathways, enabling 68% faster energy transport to maintain high conversion efficiency even with the larger antenna. Collectively, these results establish structural modifications as a tunable knob to optimize both absorption and transport for robust light harvesting under fluctuating conditions.
{"title":"Robust light-harvesting properties upon low-light acclimation in purple bacteria","authors":"Dihao Wang , Dvir Harris , Chern Chuang , Graham P. Schmidt , Olivia C. Fiebig , Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Purple bacteria convert solar energy into biochemical energy with high quantum efficiency across diverse environments. Under low light, many species increase the number of antenna complexes and replace their primary light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) with a blue-shifted variant, LH3. The structural basis of the blue shift and its influence on the dynamics of solar energy conversion have remained unclear. Here, we integrated cryogenic electron microscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, and quantum dynamics simulations to compare LH2 and LH3 from <em>Rhodoblastus acidophilus</em> strain 7750. Our analyses revealed that hydrogen bonding dynamically tunes the transition energy, introducing a previously unreported excitation energy equilibrium between bacteriochlorophyll rings in LH3. This energy redistribution opened new inter-complex pathways, enabling 68% faster energy transport to maintain high conversion efficiency even with the larger antenna. Collectively, these results establish structural modifications as a tunable knob to optimize both absorption and transport for robust light harvesting under fluctuating conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102597"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144154179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102619
Till Schertenleib , Mehrdad Asgari , Beatriz Mouriño , Vikram V. Karve , Timo M.O. Felder , Dragos Stoian , Volodymyr Bon , Jian Hao , Andres Ortega-Guerrero , Emad Oveisi , Kumar Varoon Agrawal , Berend Smit , Stefan Kaskel , Simon J.L. Billinge , Wendy L. Queen
We introduce a new approach to defect engineering in Zr-based metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs), aiming to reduce Zr site valency while preserving high node connectivity. Using a rapid heat treatment (RHT) in humid air, oxygen vacancies (O-vacancies) were created in Dresden University of Technology (DUT)-67 through cluster dehydration. Unlike conventional defect engineering, aimed at creating missing-linker defects, this method breaks intra-cluster Zr-O–Zr bonds, generating coordinatively unsaturated Zr (Zrcus) sites. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the O-vacancies lead to symmetry breaking, irreversible node distortions, and framework amorphization. This treatment converts 50% of metal sites to Zrcus sites, nearly doubling the catalytic activity of DUT-67 in glyoxal conversion to glycolic acid. DFT modeling and in situ PDF analysis highlight the dynamic behavior of Zr clusters under reaction conditions, suggesting a new avenue for defect engineering in Zr-MOFs to enhance catalytic performance.
{"title":"Anisotropic node distortions in amorphous MOFs: Low-valent Zr sites as catalytic hotspots","authors":"Till Schertenleib , Mehrdad Asgari , Beatriz Mouriño , Vikram V. Karve , Timo M.O. Felder , Dragos Stoian , Volodymyr Bon , Jian Hao , Andres Ortega-Guerrero , Emad Oveisi , Kumar Varoon Agrawal , Berend Smit , Stefan Kaskel , Simon J.L. Billinge , Wendy L. Queen","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102619","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102619","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We introduce a new approach to defect engineering in Zr-based metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs), aiming to reduce Zr site valency while preserving high node connectivity. Using a rapid heat treatment (RHT) in humid air, oxygen vacancies (O-vacancies) were created in Dresden University of Technology (DUT)-67 through cluster dehydration. Unlike conventional defect engineering, aimed at creating missing-linker defects, this method breaks intra-cluster Zr-<span><math><mrow><msub><mi>μ</mi><mn>3</mn></msub></mrow></math></span>O–Zr bonds, generating coordinatively unsaturated Zr (Zr<sub>cus</sub>) sites. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the O-vacancies lead to symmetry breaking, irreversible node distortions, and framework amorphization. This treatment converts 50% of metal sites to Zr<sub>cus</sub> sites, nearly doubling the catalytic activity of DUT-67 in glyoxal conversion to glycolic acid. DFT modeling and <em>in situ</em> PDF analysis highlight the dynamic behavior of Zr clusters under reaction conditions, suggesting a new avenue for defect engineering in Zr-MOFs to enhance catalytic performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102619"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144269103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manipulation of intramolecular charge transfer in NIR-II emissive organic diradicaloids via a symmetry-breaking design","authors":"Tingting Huang, Kun Yang, Wei Hu, Lina Feng, Zipeng Wu, Hui Chen, Jianguo Wang, Zebing Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102659","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102659"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102823
Bayu I.Z. Ahmad , Phillip J. Milner
In this issue of Chem, Queen and co-workers introduce cluster dehydroxylation by using rapid heat treatment as a new defect-engineering strategy in zirconium-based frameworks. They thoroughly characterize the oxygen-vacancy nature of the defect, primarily by pair distribution function (PDF) analysis. Dehydrated DUT-67 exhibited double the catalytic activity for glyoxal hydration of the pristine material.
{"title":"Untapped defect-engineering strategy: Cluster dehydroxylation of zirconium-based MOFs","authors":"Bayu I.Z. Ahmad , Phillip J. Milner","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this issue of <em>Chem</em>, Queen and co-workers introduce cluster dehydroxylation by using rapid heat treatment as a new defect-engineering strategy in zirconium-based frameworks. They thoroughly characterize the oxygen-vacancy nature of the defect, primarily by pair distribution function (PDF) analysis. Dehydrated DUT-67 exhibited double the catalytic activity for glyoxal hydration of the pristine material.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102823"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145403967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102598
Wenchao Wu , Hao Xu , Yang Xu , Peijie Luo , Qingrui Zeng , Yuntian Chen , Yan Xu , Dongxiao Zhang , Fanyang Mo
Efficient compound separation remains a persistent challenge in synthetic chemistry, with column chromatography serving as a critical purification tool. Traditional methods require extensive expertise and repetitive labor—areas where AI offers significant advantages. This study introduces an AI-driven platform to automate data collection and optimize separation processes. By leveraging deep learning, the system predicts key separation parameters, while transfer learning enables adaptation to diverse column specifications. A novel metric, separation probability , quantifies the likelihood of successful component isolation and has been experimentally validated. The approach enhances precision, reduces manual intervention, and expands the scope of chromatographic applications, offering a more efficient and scalable solution for chemical purification.
{"title":"Intelligent column chromatography prediction model based on automation and machine learning","authors":"Wenchao Wu , Hao Xu , Yang Xu , Peijie Luo , Qingrui Zeng , Yuntian Chen , Yan Xu , Dongxiao Zhang , Fanyang Mo","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102598","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efficient compound separation remains a persistent challenge in synthetic chemistry, with column chromatography serving as a critical purification tool. Traditional methods require extensive expertise and repetitive labor—areas where AI offers significant advantages. This study introduces an AI-driven platform to automate data collection and optimize separation processes. By leveraging deep learning, the system predicts key separation parameters, while transfer learning enables adaptation to diverse column specifications. A novel metric, separation probability <span><math><mfenced><msub><mi>S</mi><mi>p</mi></msub></mfenced></math></span>, quantifies the likelihood of successful component isolation and has been experimentally validated. The approach enhances precision, reduces manual intervention, and expands the scope of chromatographic applications, offering a more efficient and scalable solution for chemical purification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102598"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102629
Yufeng Luo , Zijian Zheng
The sulfur redox pathways in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries involve an intricate 16-electron conversion process featuring multiple polysulfide intermediates. These polysulfides show high solubility and reactivity in ether-based electrolytes, leading to complex electrochemical and chemical reaction branches. Unlike the much-discussed electrochemical reactions, chemical reactions associated with polysulfides have been largely overlooked in the literature. Herein, we comprehensively summarize these polysulfide-associated chemical reactions with different components in Li-S batteries and discuss their crucial impacts on electrochemical performance. We also propose several notable scientific challenges from the perspective of chemical reactions in practical Li-S batteries and outline feasible strategies to address them for future research.
{"title":"Chemical reactions in lithium-sulfur batteries","authors":"Yufeng Luo , Zijian Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>The sulfur redox pathways in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries involve an intricate 16-electron conversion process featuring multiple polysulfide<span> intermediates. These polysulfides show high solubility and reactivity in ether-based electrolytes, leading to complex electrochemical and chemical reaction branches. Unlike the much-discussed electrochemical reactions, chemical reactions associated with polysulfides have been largely overlooked in the literature. Herein, we comprehensively summarize these polysulfide-associated chemical reactions with different components in Li-S batteries and discuss their crucial impacts on </span></span>electrochemical performance. We also propose several notable scientific challenges from the perspective of chemical reactions in practical Li-S batteries and outline feasible strategies to address them for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102629"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102815
Sihyeong Yi , Ji Hyae Lee , Seung Bum Park
Optimizing natural products for drug discovery remains vital yet challenging. In this issue of Chem, Oguri and co-workers apply a divergent synthetic strategy to redesign the scaffold of the anticancer drug ecteinascidin 743, generating 14- to 17-membered macrocycles with shifted bridgehead connectivity. These analogs preserve the core pharmacophore, expand structural space, and fine-tune DNA alkylation and anticancer potency, offering new strategies for natural product-inspired therapeutics.
{"title":"Divergent scaffold redesign of ecteinascidin 743 as a gateway to anticancer macrocycles","authors":"Sihyeong Yi , Ji Hyae Lee , Seung Bum Park","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102815","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102815","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Optimizing natural products for drug discovery remains vital yet challenging. In this issue of <em>Chem</em>, Oguri and co-workers apply a divergent synthetic strategy to redesign the scaffold of the anticancer drug ecteinascidin 743, generating 14- to 17-membered macrocycles with shifted bridgehead connectivity. These analogs preserve the core pharmacophore, expand structural space, and fine-tune DNA alkylation and anticancer potency, offering new strategies for natural product-inspired therapeutics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102815"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145500401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102826
Alexis Grimaud
Enhancing the selectivity of carbon monoxide reduction toward multi-carbon products poses a significant challenge. Now, writing in Nature Chemistry, Zhang and colleagues demonstrate that high ionic strength significantly improves C–C coupling by decreasing water ordering on the surface of copper catalysts and thus achieves more than 90% Faradaic efficiency toward multi-carbon products.
{"title":"Enhancing multi-carbon product formation by increasing water disordering","authors":"Alexis Grimaud","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Enhancing the selectivity of carbon monoxide reduction toward multi-carbon products poses a significant challenge. Now, writing in <em>Nature Chemistry</em>, Zhang and colleagues demonstrate that high ionic strength significantly improves C–C coupling by decreasing water ordering on the surface of copper catalysts and thus achieves more than 90% Faradaic efficiency toward multi-carbon products.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102826"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145428201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102553
Scot M. Sutton , Sunil Pulletikurti , Huacan Lin , Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy , Charles L. Liotta
The aldol reactions of formaldehyde is the essence of the formose reaction, considered the leading prebiotic pathway for accessing sugars on the early Earth. However, the formose reaction produces an intractable mixture, and efforts to tame the reaction to selectively and efficiently form aldose sugars have been unsuccessful. We have undertaken an NMR-mechanistic study of the aldol reactions of excess formaldehyde with glycolaldehyde, dihydroxyacetone, erythrulose, and erythrose under mild conditions and show that the reaction pathway is dominated by the formation linear ketoses and eventual accumulation of branched ketoses. Formation of C4 and higher aldo-sugars were not observed, implying that neither carbonyl migrations nor retroaldol reactions are occurring. Our results suggest that (1) controlling the aldol reaction of formaldehyde to selectively produce linear aldoses appears unfeasible; and (2) the concept of the formose reaction as a prebiotic source of ribose on early Earth needs serious reconsideration, and other models/options should be explored.
{"title":"Abiotic aldol reactions of formaldehyde with ketoses and aldoses—Implications for the prebiotic synthesis of sugars by the formose reaction","authors":"Scot M. Sutton , Sunil Pulletikurti , Huacan Lin , Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy , Charles L. Liotta","doi":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aldol reactions of formaldehyde is the essence of the formose reaction, considered the leading prebiotic pathway for accessing sugars on the early Earth. However, the formose reaction produces an intractable mixture, and efforts to tame the reaction to selectively and efficiently form aldose sugars have been unsuccessful. We have undertaken an NMR-mechanistic study of the aldol reactions of excess formaldehyde with glycolaldehyde, dihydroxyacetone, erythrulose, and erythrose under mild conditions and show that the reaction pathway is dominated by the formation linear ketoses and eventual accumulation of branched ketoses. Formation of C4 and higher aldo-sugars were not observed, implying that neither carbonyl migrations nor retroaldol reactions are occurring. Our results suggest that (1) controlling the aldol reaction of formaldehyde to selectively produce linear aldoses appears unfeasible; and (2) the concept of the formose reaction as a prebiotic source of ribose on early Earth needs serious reconsideration, and other models/options should be explored.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":268,"journal":{"name":"Chem","volume":"11 11","pages":"Article 102553"},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}