Publications associées à Diméthylsulfoxyde

Reactions of hypobromous acid with dimethyl selenide, dimethyl diselenide and other organic selenium compounds: kinetics and product formation

Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for many living organisms particularly due to its unique redox properties. We recently found that the sulfur (S) analog for dimethyl selenide (DMSe), i.e. dimethyl sulfide (DMS), reacts fast with the marine oxida ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

New Applications of 1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes in Catalysis

Johannes Klett

The constant urge to construct new molecules in an economical and sustainable fashion led to the development of numerous metal-catalyzed transformations. Organocatalysts consisting of abundant and more sustainable elements offer an elegant solution to over ...

EPFL2024

Z-REX uncovers a bifurcation in function of Keap1 paralogs

Yimon Aye, Xuyu Liu, Jesse Poganik, Yi Zhao, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Kuan-Ting Huang

Studying electrophile signaling is marred by difficulties in parsing changes in pathway flux attributable to on-target, vis-& agrave;-vis off-target, modifications. By combining bolus dosing, knockdown, and Z- REX & mdash;a tool investigating on- target/on ...

eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2022

Diformylxylose as a new polar aprotic solvent produced from renewable biomass

Jeremy Luterbacher, Anastasiia Komarova, Graham Reid Dick

Lignin is a promising candidate for the replacement of fossil-based materials, due to its natural abundance and aromatic structure. This same structure poses major challenges to lignin's exploitation for material development. The harsh conditions generally ...

2021

Iodic acid, sulfuric acid and methanesulfonic acid collected during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini

Measurements of iodic acid, sulfuric acid and methanesulfonic acid concentration in the gas phase obtained with a nitrate chemical ionization mass spectrometer (we used an APi-TOF mass spectrometer produced by Tofwerk AG coupled with a Chemical ionization ...

2020

The Synergism of DMSO and Diethyl Ether for Highly Reproducible and Efficient MA(0.5)FA(0.5)PbI(3)Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Yi Zhang, Yonghui Lee, Keith Gregory Brooks, Ruiyuan Hu, Min Chen

Composition and film quality of perovskite are crucial for the further improvement of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), including efficiency, reproducibility, and stability. Here, it is demonstrated that by simply mixing 50% of formamidinium (FA(+)) into meth ...

2020

Hypobromous Acid as an Unaccounted Sink for Marine Dimethyl Sulfide?

Urs von Gunten, Boris Droz

Marine emissions of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) to the atmosphere play a fundamental role in the global sulfur (5) cycle and have important consequences for the Earth's radiative balance. In the ocean, DMS is mainly produced by marine algae and bacteria via cle ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Conjugating Biotin to Ruthenium(II) Arene Units via Phosphine Ligand Functionalization

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor, Andrea Monti

Two-step functionalization of 4-diphenylphosphino benzoic acid with biotin afforded 2-(biotinyloxy)ethyl 4-(diphenylphosphanyl)benzoate (LP), that was subsequently used to synthesize the Ru(II) arene complexes [RuCl2(eta(6)-p-cymene)(LP)] (1), [Ru(C2O4)(et ...

2020

Enantioselective Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Access to Benzonorcaradienes by Coupling of Oxabenzonorbornadienes and Alkynes

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang, Sung Hwan Park

Benzonorcaradienes and benzonorcarenes are attractive scaffolds that occur in natural products as well as biologically active compounds. However, there is a significant gap in the current synthetic toolbox as methods to access benzonorcaradiene enantiosele ...

2019

Organocatalysts in C-N Bond Forming Reactions of Amines with CO2

Martin Hulla

The thesis describes a simple approach for N-formylation of amines with CO2 and hydrosilane reducing agents, the use of organic salts as N-formylation catalysts, their physical properties required for high catalytic activity and their role in the catalytic ...

EPFL2019

Investigations of the Chemistry of 1-Alkynyltriazenes

Florian Gérald Abela

The chemistry of aromatic triazenes is well known, and has been explored for more than a century. These compounds have emerged as very useful intermediates, because of their unique reactivity. This functionality can notably be used to access many other fun ...

EPFL2018

Solution-Processed Low-Bandgap CuIn(S,Se)(2) Absorbers for High-Efficiency Single-Junction and Monolithic Chalcopyrite-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

Alexander Roland Uhl

A novel molecular-ink deposition route based on thiourea and N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) that results in a certified solar cell efficiency world record for non-vacuum deposited CuIn(S,Se)(2) (CIS) absorbers and non-vacuum deposited absorbers with a bandgap ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

alpha-Diimine homologues of cisplatin: synthesis, speciation in DMSO/water and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor, Silvia Schoch

The Pt(ii) -diimine complexes [PtCl2{N-2-(HCNR)(2)}] (R = C6H11, 1; 4-C6H10OH, 2; 4-C6H4CH3, 3; 4-C6H4OH, 4) and [PtCl2{N-2-(CH3CNOH)(2)}] (5) were prepared in 60-81% yields from the 1:1 molar reactions of cis-[PtCl2(DMSO)(2)] with the appropriate -diimine ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2018

Oxaliplatin reacts with DMSO only in the presence of water

Paul Joseph Dyson, Laure Menin, Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

Herein we show that oxaliplatin reacts rapidly with DMSO in aqueous solutions, despite being stable in pure DMSO and pure water. Furthermore, the reactivity of the clinically applied Pt(II) drugs in water/DMSO and PBS/DMSO mixtures, and the nature of the s ...

2017

Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Studies on the Solvation Energetics for H2 Storage in the CO2/HCOOH System

Gabor Laurenczy, Cornel Fink

Solvents play a crucial role in many chemical reactions and additives can be used to shift the reaction equilibrium. Herein we study the enthalpy of mixing for selected solvents (aqueous, organic) and basic additives (amines, aqueous KOH) when mixed with f ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Synthesis and spectroscopy of anionic tridentate benzimidazole-pyridine carboxylate and tetrazolate chromophore ligands

Svetlana Eliseeva

We report on seven new anionic benzimidazole-pyridine carboxylate and tetrazolate tridentate (NNO)-N-boolean AND-O-boolean AND and (NNN)-N-boolean AND-N-boolean AND ligands that are modified with chromophore (phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl) and solubilizing gr ...

Elsevier2015

Higher generation cationic N,N-ruthenium(II)-ethylene-glycol-derived metallodendrimers: Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

A new series of higher generation cationic N,N-chelating, ruthenium(II)-ethylene-glycol metallodendrimers from first-, second-, third- and fourth-generation pyridylimine-based poly(propylene) dendrimer scaffolds of the type, DAB-(NH2) (where n = 4, 8, 16 o ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Direct synthesis of formic acid from carbon dioxide by hydrogenation in acidic media

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Séverine Joëlle Moret

The chemical transformation of carbon dioxide into useful products becomes increasingly important as CO2 levels in the atmosphere continue to rise as a consequence of human activities. In this article we describe the direct hydrogenation of CO2 into formic ...

Nature Research2014

Direct Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation into Formic Acid in Acidic Media

Séverine Joëlle Moret

A major challenge in the face of increasing global energy demand is the development of alternative environmentally friendly and renewable energy resources. Hydrogen is an excellent energy carrier, but has drawbacks in storage density and is dangerous to ha ...

EPFL2014

Understanding Chloroquine Action at the Molecular Level in Antimalarial Therapy: X-ray Absorption Studies in Dimethyl Sulfoxide Solution

Andrzej Sienkiewicz

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used to determine the local atomic structure around the iron atom from a soluble synthetic analogue of malaria pigment (hemozoin), cf. ferrimesoporphyrin IX of mesohematin anhydride, in the absence or presence of chloroquin ...

2011