Crystal Structures of the NO and N2O4 Sorption Complexes of Fully Dehydrated Fully Cd2+-Exchanged Zeolite X (FAU): Coordination of Neutral NO and N2O4 to Cd2+

Novel TiO2/graphene oxide functionalized with a cobalt complex for significant degradation of NOx and CO

A TiO₂/FGO composite manifests high photocatalytic properties for NO_x and CO removal as high as three times more than that of bare TiO₂.

Novel quantum dots-carboxymethyl chitosan nanocomposite nitric oxide donors capable of detecting release of nitric oxide in situ

Nitric oxide (NO) donor compounds are primarily monofunctional in that they release NO under the requisite conditions. To detect the amount and duration of NO released, subsequent analysis methods are required. It would be advantageous if a NO donor compound could both release and detect NO at the same time. This would eliminate potential errors in the analysis. In this paper, novel cadmium telluride quantum dots (CdTe QD)-carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCS) nanocomposite NO donors, including both diazeniumdiolates and fluorescence probes, were fabricated by first synthesizing CdTe QD in CMCS aqueous solution and then reacting NO as well as ethyl bromide with the resultant CdTe QD-CMCS nanocomposites. Transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and particle size analysis were used to examine the morphology and size distribution of the CdTe QD-CMCS nanocomposite NO donors. The donors are nanospheres with CdTe QD encapsulated and have dimensions of ~300 nm. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and contact angle tests were employed to characterize the chemical structure of the donors, and the results also show that CdTe QD are well incorporated into CMCS, and many of them are close to the surface of the donors. The precursors of the donors exhibit a fluorescent effect, and the fluorescence can be quenched by NO. The donors can release NO spontaneously in a phosphate-buffered saline solution similar to a physiological environment, and can quantitatively detect the release of NO in situ based on fluorescence quenching of the donors by the NO.

Structural and Magnetic Study of N2, NO, NO2, and SO2 Adsorbed within a Flexible Single-Crystal Adsorbent of [Rh2(bza)4(pyz)]n

The crystalline one-dimensional compound, [Rh(II)2(bza)4(pyz)]n (1) (bza = benzoate, pyz = pyrazine) demonstrates gas adsorbency for N2, NO, NO2, and SO2. These gas-inclusion crystal structures were characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography as 1 x 1.5 N2 (298 K), 1 x 2.5 N2 (90 K), and 1 x 1.95 NO (90 K) under forcible adsorption conditions and 1 x 2 NO2 (90 K) and 1 x 3 SO2 (90 K) under ambient pressure. Crystal-phase transition to the P1 space group that correlates with gas adsorption was observed under N2, NO, and SO2 conditions. The C2/c space group was observed under NO2 conditions without phase transition. All adsorbed gases were stabilized by the host lattice. In the N2, NO, and SO2 inclusion crystals at 90 K, short interatomic distances within van der Waals contacts were found among the neighboring guest molecules along the channel. The adsorbed NO molecules generated the trans-NO...NO associated dimer with short intermolecular contacts but without the conventional chemical bond. The magnetic susceptibility of the NO inclusion crystal indicated antiferromagnetic interaction between the NO molecules and paramagnetism arising from the NO monomer. The NO2 inclusion crystal structure revealed that the gas molecules were adsorbed in the crystal in dimeric form, N2O4.