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Nagami S, Kaguchi R, Akahane T, Harabuchi Y, Taniguchi T, Monde K, Maeda S, Ichikawa S, Katsuyama A. Photoinduced dual bond rotation of a nitrogen-containing system realized by chalcogen substitution. Nat Chem 2024; 16:959-969. [PMID: 38418536 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01461-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
Abstract
Photoinduced concerted multiple-bond rotation has been proposed in some biological systems. However, the observation of such phenomena in synthetic systems, in other words, the synthesis of molecules that undergo photoinduced multiple-bond rotation upon photoirradiation, has been a challenge in the photochemistry field. Here we describe a chalcogen-substituted benzamide system that exhibits photoinduced dual bond rotation in heteroatom-containing bonds. Introduction of the chalcogen substituent into a sterically hindered benzamide system provides sufficient kinetic stability and photosensitivity to enable the photoinduced concerted rotation. The presence of two different substituents on the phenyl ring in the thioamide derivative enables the generation of a pair of enantiomers and E/Z isomers. Using these four stereoisomers as indicators of which bonds are rotated, we monitor the photoinduced C-N/C-C concerted bond rotation in the thioamide derivative depending on external stimuli such as temperature and photoirradiation. Theoretical calculations provide insight on the mechanism of this selective photoinduced C-N/C-C concerted rotation.
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- Shotaro Nagami
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- JST, ERATO, Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Sapporo, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Frontier Research Center of Advanced Material and Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Frontier Research Center of Advanced Material and Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- JST, ERATO, Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Sapporo, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
- Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
- Center for Research and Education on Drug Discovery, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
- Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
- Center for Research and Education on Drug Discovery, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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Petelski AN, Peruchena NM, Zalazar MF. Acidity of Isomorphic Substituted Zeolites with B, Al and Ga Revisited. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202400080. [PMID: 38351426 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Revised: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Isomorphic substitution of zeolites with B, Al and Ga is a widely used approach in catalysis. The experimentally reported trend of their acidities decreases in the order: Al>Ga>B. However, a consistent explanation is still lacking in the literature. To bring more understanding of this trend, density functional theory computations were conducted on several model systems. First, the acidity of small clusters with two (2T) and five (5T) tetrahedral sites was analyzed. These systems were then projected onto three large void structures: H-[A]-BEA (52T), H-[A]-FAU (84T) and H-[A]-MOR (112T) with A=B, Al, Ga. Our electron density and Interacting Quantum Atom analyses show that the acidity of Al zeolites originates from the much stronger O-Al bond, which is dominated by the electrostatic attraction. The bridging hydroxyl therefore donates more charge density to the metal, the proton becomes more positive and consequently more acidic. Ga zeolites are more acidic than B zeolites due to the greater covalent nature on the O-Ga bond. The resulting acidity, as seen by ammonia, depends on both the acidic oxygen and the charge distribution of the surrounding oxygens exerted by the substituents.
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- Andre Nicolai Petelski
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN), Facultad Regional Resistencia (FRRe), CONICET, Centro de Investigación en Química e Ingeniería Teórica y Experimental (QUITEX), French 802, H3500CHJ, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentin
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- Laboratorio de Estructura Molecular y Propiedades (LEMyP), Instituto de Química Básica y Aplicada del Nordeste Argentino (IQUIBA-NEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE-CONICET), Avenida Libertad 5460, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Estructura Molecular y Propiedades (LEMyP), Instituto de Química Básica y Aplicada del Nordeste Argentino (IQUIBA-NEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE-CONICET), Avenida Libertad 5460, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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Nieuwland C, Fonseca Guerra C. Chalcogen Atom Size: A Key Parameter in Modulating Carbonyl Compound Properties. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202304361. [PMID: 38284777 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202304361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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Exchanging oxygen in the functional group C=O (i. e., carbonyl) for the less electronegative Group 16 elements, sulfur or selenium, unexpectedly enhances the electronegativity of the C=X group in π-conjugated molecules and reduces the molecular π HOMO-LUMO energy gap. Quantum-chemical analyses revealed that the steric size of the chalcogen atom X is at the origin of this seemingly counterintuitive behavior. This tuning of the chemical properties of carbonyl compounds by varying the chalcogen atom size in the C=X bond can be applied in many fields of chemistry. This concept article delineates several useful applications in the fields of organocatalysis, supramolecular chemistry, and photo(electro)chemistry.
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- Celine Nieuwland
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The, Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The, Netherlands
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Nieuwland C, Almacellas D, Veldhuizen MM, de Azevedo Santos L, Poater J, Fonseca Guerra C. Multiple hydrogen-bonded dimers: are only the frontier atoms relevant? Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:11306-11310. [PMID: 38054332 PMCID: PMC11022277 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp05244c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Non-frontier atom exchanges in hydrogen-bonded aromatic dimers can induce significant interaction energy changes (up to 6.5 kcal mol-1). Our quantum-chemical analyses reveal that the relative hydrogen-bond strengths of N-edited guanine-cytosine base pair isosteres, which cannot be explained from the frontier atoms, follow from the charge accumulation in the monomers.
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- Celine Nieuwland
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute for Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, Amsterdam 1081 HZ, The Netherlands.
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica & Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, Barcelona 08028, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute for Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, Amsterdam 1081 HZ, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute for Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, Amsterdam 1081 HZ, The Netherlands.
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica & Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, Barcelona 08028, Catalonia, Spain
- ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute for Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, Amsterdam 1081 HZ, The Netherlands.
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Byerly-Duke J, VanVeller B. Thioimidate Solutions to Thioamide Problems during Thionopeptide Deprotection. Org Lett 2024; 26:1452-1457. [PMID: 38341867 PMCID: PMC11031844 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c00035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2024]
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Thioamides have structural and chemical similarity to peptide bonds, offering valuable insights when probing peptide backbone interactions, but are prone to side reactions during solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). Thioimidates have been demonstrated to be effective protecting groups for thioamides during peptide elongation. We further demonstrate how thioimidates can assist thioamides through the most yield-crippling step of thionopeptide deprotection, allowing for the first isolation of an important benchmark α-helical peptide that had previously eluded synthesis and isolation.
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- Jacob Byerly-Duke
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Cai Y, Zhao Y, Tang K, Zhang H, Mo X, Chen J, Huang Y. Amide C-N bonds activation by A new variant of bifunctional N-heterocyclic carbene. Nat Commun 2024; 15:496. [PMID: 38216571 PMCID: PMC10786861 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44756-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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We report an organocatalyst that combines a triazolium N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) with a squaramide as a hydrogen-bonding donor (HBD), which can effectively catalyze the atroposelective ring-opening of biaryl lactams via a unique amide C-N bond cleavage mode. The free carbene species attacks the amide carbonyl, forming an axially chiral acyl-azolium intermediate. Various axially chiral biaryl amines can be accessed by this methodology with up to 99% ee and 99% yield. By using mercaptan as a catalyst turnover agent, the resulting thioester synthon can be transformed into several interesting atropisomers. Both control experiments and theoretical calculations reveal the crucial role of the hybrid NHC-HBD skeleton, which activates the amide via H-bonding and brings it spatially close to the carbene centre. This discovery illustrates the potential of the NHC-HBD chimera and demonstrates a complementary strategy for amide bond activation and manipulation.
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- Yuxing Cai
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, 518055, Shenzhen, China
- Pingshan Translational Medicine Center, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, 518118, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Pingshan Translational Medicine Center, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, 518118, Shenzhen, China
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- Pingshan Translational Medicine Center, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, 518118, Shenzhen, China
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- Pingshan Translational Medicine Center, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, 518118, Shenzhen, China
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- Pingshan Translational Medicine Center, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, 518118, Shenzhen, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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Nieuwland C, Verdijk R, Fonseca Guerra C, Bickelhaupt FM. More Electropositive is More Electronegative: Atom Size Determines C=X Group Electronegativity. Chemistry 2023:e202304161. [PMID: 38117278 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202304161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Opposite to what one might expect, we find that the C=X group can become effectively more, not less, electronegative when the Pauling electronegativity of atom X decreases down Groups 16, 15, and 14 of the Periodic Table. Our quantum-chemical analyses, show that, and why, this phenomenon is a direct consequence of the increasing size of atom X down a group. These findings can be applied to tuning and improving the hydrogen-bond donor strength of amides H2 NC(=X)R by increasingly withdrawing density from the NH2 group. A striking example is that H2 NC(=SiR2 )R is a stronger hydrogen-bond donor than H2 NC(=CR2 )R.
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- Celine Nieuwland
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
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Almacellas D, Fonseca Guerra C, Poater J. Strengthened cooperativity of DNA-based cyclic hydrogen-bonded rosettes by subtle functionalization. Org Biomol Chem 2023; 21:8403-8412. [PMID: 37830458 DOI: 10.1039/d3ob01391j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Cooperative effects cause extra stabilization of hydrogen-bonded supramolecular systems. In this work we have designed hydrogen-bonded rosettes derived from a guanine-cytosine Janus-type motif with the aim of finding a monomer that enhances the synergy of supramolecular systems. For this, relativistic dispersion-corrected density functional theory computations have been performed. Our proposal involves a monomer with three hydrogen-bonds pointing in the same direction, which translates into shorter bonds, stronger donor-acceptor interactions, and more attractive electrostatic interactions, thus giving rise to rosettes with strengthened cooperativity. This newly designed rosette has triple the cooperativity found for the naturally occurring guanine quadruplex.
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- David Almacellas
- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica & IQTCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, AIMMS, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica & IQTCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
- ICREA, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Jena S, Routray C, Dutta J, Biswal HS. Hydrogen Bonding Directed Reversal of
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C NMR Chemical Shielding. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202207521. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202207521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Subhrakant Jena
- School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) PO-Bhimpur-Padanpur Via-Jatni, District-Khurda PIN - 752050 Bhubaneswar India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex Anushakti Nagar Mumbai 400094 India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) PO-Bhimpur-Padanpur Via-Jatni, District-Khurda PIN - 752050 Bhubaneswar India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex Anushakti Nagar Mumbai 400094 India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) PO-Bhimpur-Padanpur Via-Jatni, District-Khurda PIN - 752050 Bhubaneswar India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex Anushakti Nagar Mumbai 400094 India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) PO-Bhimpur-Padanpur Via-Jatni, District-Khurda PIN - 752050 Bhubaneswar India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex Anushakti Nagar Mumbai 400094 India
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Jena S, Routray C, Dutta J, Biswal HS. Hydrogen‐Bonding Directed Reversal of 13C NMR Chemical Shielding. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202207521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Subhrakant Jena
- National Institute of Science Education and Research School of Chemical Sciences INDIA
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research School of Chemical Sciences INDIA
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research School of Chemical Sciences INDIA
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research School of Chemical Sciences Jatani 752050 Bhubaneswar INDIA
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