While developing bis-camphorsulfonyl urea as a hydrogen-bonding catalysts, we discovered that the native conformation of the catalyst is unsuitable for inducing enantioselectivity. By complexing the catalyst with weakly ...

In this paper, the synthesis of Ag microflowers for use as manipulable and reusable substrates in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is demonstrated, working with ultra-low volumes of the analyte. Flower-like AgBr ...

Background: 1,4-Naphthoquinone analogs, such as plumbagin, are toxic compounds due to their redox cycling and thiol-reactive properties. Results: The p300 inhibitor PTK1, a plumbagin derivative with greatly reduced toxicity, ...

Noble metal nanoparticle-based plasmonic sensors, fabricated by top-down and colloidal routes, are widely used for high sensitivity detection of diverse analyte molecules using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). ...

We demonstrate the use of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) as an excellent tool for identifying the binding site of small molecules on a therapeutically important protein. As an example, we show the specific ...

A series of Na1-xKxNdW2O8 (0.0 <= x <= 0.7) nanoparticles have been synthesized by an efficient glycothermal technique for the first time. SEM measurements confirmed the particle size ranges from 30-200 nm with ellipsoidal ...

Single crystals of LaMn0.5Co0.5O3 belonging to the ferromagnetic-insulator and distorted perovskite class were grown using a four-mirror optical float zone furnace. The as-grown crystal crystallizes into an orthorhombic ...

Aurora kinases are the most commonly targeted mitotic kinases in the intervention of cancer progression. Here, we report a resorcinol derivative, 5-methyl-4(2-thiazolylazo) resorcinol (PTK66), a dual inhibitor of Aurora A ...

The present work investigates the superior ability of LaFeO3 (LaFeO) and La0.8Ca0.2FeO2.95 (LaCaFeO) nanoparticles to detect 3 ppm SO2 gas. The influence of calcium substitution on the sensing behaviour of LaFeO has been ...

Metal assisted chemical etching in combination with nanosphere lithography is a low cost fabrication method to produce Si nanopillars (SiNPLs) with controlled size, periodicity and high aspect ratio on a large scale. These ...