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Overall, this work provides fundamental insights into the organocatalytic ROP of these specific six-membered asymmetric cyclic glucose carbonates. More importantly, these findings serve as a foundation for future design strategies that incorporate adjacent functionalities within monomers to act as directing groups and impart molecular interactions that define regiochemical ring-opening.Polyoxometalate molybdenum blue (MB) complexes typically exist as discrete multianionic clusters and are composed of repeating Mo building units. MB wheels such as Mo176 and Mo154 are made from pentagon-centered Mo8 building blocks joined by equal number of Mo1 units as loin, and Mo2 dimer units as skirt along the ring edge, with the ring sizes of the MB wheels modulated by the Mo2 units. Herein we report a new class of contracted lanthanide-doped MB structures that have replaced all the Mo2 units with lanthanide ions on the inner rim, giving the general formula Mo90Ln10. We show three examples of this new decameric Mo90Ln10 (Ln = La, Ce, and Pr) framework synthesized by high temperature reduction and demonstrate that later Ln ions result in Mo92Ln9 (Ln = Nd, Sm), conserving one Mo2 linker unit in its structure, as a consequence of the lanthanide contraction. Remarkably the Mo90Ln10 compounds are the first examples of charge-neutral molybdate wheels as confirmed by BVS, solubility experiments, and redox titrations. We detail our full synthetic optimization for the isolation of these clusters and complete characterization by X-ray, TGA, UV-vis, and ICP studies. Finally, we show that this fine-tuned self-assembly process can be utilized to selectively enrich Ln-MB wheels for effective separation of lanthanides.Perfluoroalkyl acids spontaneously concentrate at air-water and non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL)-water interfaces, which can influence their retention during subsurface transport. This work presents measurements of air- and NAPL-water interfacial tension for synthetic groundwater containing perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanesulfonamide (FOSA), or aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) formulations at concentrations ranging from 0.1 to greater than 1000 mg/L. The NAPLs tested included dodecane, tetrachloroethylene, and jet fuel. AFFF formulations were less efficient at lowering interfacial tension than PFOA, FPOS, or FOSA substances below 100 mg/L, while above 100 mg/L, these formulations were more effective, achieving tensions of less than 3 mN/m. Infiltration of solutions with such low tension could lead to mobilization of residual NAPL. Equations based on interfacial tension measurements show that concentrations of PFOA, PFOS, and FOSA at the air-water interface were from 2 to 16 times greater than at the NAPL-water interface below 100 mg/L and were 10-50 times greater for AFFF below 20 mg/L. Calculations for unsaturated soil estimate that up to 87% of PFOS mass was at the air-water interface and less than 4% at the dodecane-water interface for bulk-water concentrations below 1 mg/L.This Communication reports the first general method for rapid, chemoselective, and modular functionalization of serine residues in native polypeptides, which uses a reagent platform based on the P(V) oxidation state. This redox-economical approach can be used to append nearly any kind of cargo onto serine, generating a stable, benign, and hydrophilic phosphorothioate linkage. The method tolerates all other known nucleophilic functional groups of naturally occurring proteinogenic amino acids. A variety of applications can be envisaged by this expansion of the toolbox of site-selective bioconjugation methods.This study measured and compared the combination efficiencies (FcP) of geminate radical cage pairs to nongeminate (collisional) radical cage pairs (Fc'). For the [Cp'(CO)3Mo·, ·Mo(CO)3Cp'] radical cage pair, Fc' was found to be smaller than FcP in solutions having the same viscosity. It is proposed that the difference in FcP and Fc' arises because the radicals in the collisional cage pair are less likely to have the correct orbital orientation for radical-radical combination to occur, whereas photochemically generated geminate cage pairs are more likely to have the correct orbital orientation. As predicted, FcP and Fc' both increase when the microviscosity of a solution increases.High-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials for a high-temperature harsh environment are highly required for electronics and aerospace applications. Here, a composite made of ultrahigh-temperature ceramic- and polymer-derived SiOC ceramic (PDC-SiOC) with high EMI shielding was reported for such applications. A total EMI shielding efficiency (SET) of 26.67 dB with a thickness of 0.6 mm at the Ka-band (26.5-40 GHz) was reported for ZrB2 fabricated by spark plasma sintering, which showed reflection-dominant shielding. A unique interface of t-ZrO2 was formed after the introduction of PDC-SiOC into ZrB2. BSJ-03-123 inhibitor This interface has better electrical conductivity than SiOC. The composites also displayed reflection-dominant shielding. Accordingly, the composite with a normalized ZrB2 fraction of 50% pyrolyzed at 1000 °C exhibited a significant SET of 72 dB (over 99.99999% shielded) with a thickness of 3 mm at the entire Ka-band. A maximum SET of 90.8 dB (over 99.9999999% shielded) was achieved with a thickness of 3 mm at around 39.7 GHz.The TiO2/Au nanostructure has been acknowledged as one of the most classic visible-light active photocatalysts due to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of Au nanoparticles. In many cases, the SPR effect only features weak visible light absorption in conventional TiO2/Au nanostructures. Here, we demonstrate a design of TiO2/Au/TiO2 with a combination of whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonances and SPR for efficient visible-light-driven photocatalysis. Escherichia coli (E. coli) were used as natural reactants as well as a template to construct an E. coli-like TiO2/Au/TiO2 nanostructure. Using numerical simulations, we show that the E. coli-like TiO2 capsule acts as the WGM resonator to interplay with the SPR effect of the Au NPs on TiO2 surface, which leads to a significant increase of visible light absorption and the local field enhancement at the Au-TiO2 interface. Accordingly, with the synergistic effect of WGM and SPR, the E. coli-like TiO2/Au/TiO2 nanostructure exhibits enhanced photocatalytic activity in the visible range.