Trapped yet free inside the tube: Supramolecular chemistry of molecular peapods

T Matsuno, H Isobe - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Supramolecular composites of carbon nanotubes and trapped fullerenes are known as
peapods, and the structures of the “peapods” have been diversified by trapping many other …

Stoichiometry validation of supramolecular complexes with a hydrocarbon cage host by van't Hoff analyses

TM Fukunaga, Y Onaka, T Kato, K Ikemoto… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Defining chemical processes with equations is the first important step in characterizing
equilibria for the assembly of supramolecular complexes, and the stoichiometry of the …

Effect of Intake of Extra Virgin Olive Oil on Mortality in a South Italian Cohort with and without NAFLD

C Bonfiglio, F Cuccaro, A Campanella, N Rosso… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) is the main source of seasoning fat in the
Mediterranean diet and it is one of the components with known protective factors on chronic …

Characteristic analysis and kinetics description for biochar-based catalysts coking during the biomass catalytic pyrolysis

B Wang, J Hu, W Chen, C Chang, S Pang, P Li - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Coke formation is one of the major obstacles in the development of catalytic pyrolysis of
biomass. The experiments were carried out on poplar wood chips using the biochar-based …

Regulating supramolecular interactions in dimeric macrocycles

P Fang, M Chen, N Yin, G Zhuang, T Chen… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular behavior is highly dependent on many factors, including complicated
microenvironments and weak interactions. Herein, we describe tuning supramolecular …

High Adherence to a Mediterranean Alcohol-Drinking Pattern and Mediterranean Diet Can Mitigate the Harmful Effect of Alcohol on Mortality Risk

A Campanella, C Bonfiglio, F Cuccaro, R Donghia… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Alcohol is a psychoactive substance with deleterious effects on human health
and mortality. This study aims to investigate the joint associations between the …

Charge delocalization and aromaticity of doubly reduced double-walled carbon nanohoops

R Lingas, ND Charistos, A Muñoz-Castro - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) exhibit selective host capabilities, featuring the ability to
incorporate smaller CPPs to form double-walled host–guest complexes. Moreover, CPPs …

Reversible Adsorption of Ammonia in the Crystalline Solid of a CO2H-Functionalized Cyclic Oligophenylene

K Ono, T Ishikawa, S Masano, H Kawai… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ammonia (NH3) is a viable candidate for the storage and distribution of hydrogen (H2) due
to its exceptional volumetric and gravimetric hydrogen energy density. Therefore, it is …

Bayesian Inference for Model Analyses of Supramolecular Complexes: A Case Study with Nanocarbon Hosts

Y Onaka, R Sakai, TM Fukunaga… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A 126 π‐electron nanobowl molecule, phenine tridehydrosumanene, was synthesized in 12
steps through the development of a polygon cyclization strategy that assembled the …

Molecular baskets form inclusion complexes with phenethylamine drugs in water

TJ Finnegan, C Mortensen, JD Badjić - Chemical Communications, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular basket 16− comprising a nonpolar cavity and an anionic nest of six carboxylates
at its rim was found to form inclusion complexes with (1R, 2S)-ephedrine,(1R, 2R) …