Advances in liquid organic hydrogen carriers: developing efficient dehydrogenation strategies

Ruike Tan, Qing Ji, Yanni Ling and Lu Li* (李路，吉林大学)

👉 In pursuit of global carbon neutrality, countries are intensifying their efforts to harness clean energy sources.

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Triflate anion chemistry for enhanced four-electron zinc–iodine aqueous batteries

Tingting Liu, Chengjun Lei, Huijian Wang, Wei Yang, Xin He and Xiao Liang* (梁宵，湖南大学)

👉 OTf⁻ anions establish weak hydrogen-bonds with water to stabilize I+ species while optimizing a water-lean Zn²⁺ coordination structure to mitigate Zn dendrites and corrosion for developing advanced four-electron zinc–iodine aqueous batteries.

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The meso-substituent electronic effect of Fe porphyrins on the electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction reaction

Hongyuan He, Zi-Yang Qiu, Zhiyuan Yin, Jiafan Kong, Jing-Shuang Dang*（党静霜，陕西师范大学）, Haitao Lei* (雷海涛，陕西师范大学), Wei Zhang and Rui Cao* (曹睿，陕西师范大学)

👉 The meso-substituents of Fe porphyrins play critical roles in regulating the electrocatalytic properties for CO₂ reduction, showing significantly improved activity with increased electron-donating features of meso-substituents.

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Adaptive water oxidation catalysis on a carboxylate-sulfonate ligand with low onset potential

Jing Yang* (杨晶，深圳技术大学), Shaoqi Zhan, Linqin Wang, Hao Yang, Lele Duan, Xiaolei Fan, Tianqi Liu* (刘天奇，浙江大学) and Licheng Sun* (孙立成，西湖大学）

👉 Active site on a hybrid carboxylate-sulfonate ligand for catalytic water oxidation with low onset potential.

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Photocatalytic CO₂ reduction with iron porphyrin catalysts and anthraquinone dyes

Huiqing Yuan* (嘉应学院／中山大学), Yuanhai Yu, Shuang Yang, Qinqin Lei, Zhiwei Yang, Bang Lan*（蓝邦，嘉应学院／中山大学） and Zhiji Han* (韩治际，中山大学)

👉 Highly active photocatalytic systems for CO₂ reduction using inexpensive anthraquinone dyes and iron porphyrin catalysts.

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Smart controlled-release nanopesticides based on metal–organic frameworks

Xin Jin, Ruixi Xiao, Zejun Cao and Xuezhong Du* (杜学忠，南京大学)

👉 Recent progress in smart controlled-release nanopesticides based on metal–organic frameworks toward hierarchical targets in response to multidimensional stimuli is highlighted to enhance pesticide efficacy.

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An Au bipyramids@CuZn MOF core–shell nanozyme enables universal SERS and a colorimetric dual-model bioassay

Mengdi Wang, Feng Shi, Jiayin Li, Lingfeng Min* (苏北人民医院), Zhanjun Yang* (杨占军，扬州大学) and Juan Li* (李娟，扬州大学)

👉 A novel AuNBPs@CuZn MOF core–shell nanozyme with high peroxidase-like activity and surface enhanced Raman scattering activity has been developed for the SERS and colorimetric dual-model detection of biomolecules.

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Spin characteristics in conjugated stable diradicals

Dacheng Dai, Qian Zhan, Tianfang Shi, Dongsheng Wang* (王东升，电子科技大学) and Yonghao Zheng* (郑永豪，电子科技大学)

👉 The burgeoning interest in stable conjugated diradicals is attributed to their distinctive spin characteristics. In this review, we emphasize how to precisely control these spin characteristics to understand their role in the molecules and as functional radical materials.

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Mechanistic insights into facilitating reductive elimination from Ni(II) species

Bolin Qiao, Fa-You Lin, Dongmin Fu, Shi-Jun Li, Tao Zhang* (张涛，河南省科学院) and Yu Lan* (蓝宇，郑州大学)

👉 The possible modes have been summarized to disclose the reductive elimination from Ni(II) species.

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Metal-free, photoredox-catalyzed aromatization-driven deconstructive functionalization of spiro-dihydroquinazolinones with α-CF₃ alkenes

Jin-Hua Zhang, Hong-Jie Miao, Jia-Yi Li, Wenke Li, Pengchen Ma* (西安交通大学), Xin-Hua Duan and Li-Na Guo* (郭丽娜，西安交通大学)

👉 Metal-free, photoredox-catalyzed aromatization-driven deconstructive functionalization of spiro-dihydroquinazolinones with α-CF₃ alkenes is achieved with high chemoselectivity. Mechanistic studies suggest a radical pathway for this cascade reaction.

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Efficient late-stage synthesis of quaternary phosphonium salts from organothianthrenium salts via photocatalysis

Jun Liu, Zhaoyu Feng, Hanxiang Li, Zhengze Yu* (于正泽, 青岛大学), Hongyu Wang* (王洪玉，中国海洋大学) and Bo Tang

👉 A photoactivated approach for the selective late-stage synthesis of quaternary phosphonium salts utilizing organothianthrenium salts and tertiary phosphines was reported with high yields and broad functional group compatibility.

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BODIPY-based photocages: rational design and their biomedical application

Heng Li, Jun Wang* (王骏，合肥师范学院), Lijuan Jiao* (焦莉娟，安徽师范大学) and Erhong Hao* (郝二红，安徽师范大学)

👉 This highlight reviews various strategies for constructing BODIPY-based photocages, their photodecaging mechanisms, and their applications in the biomedical field.

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Construction of cationic meso-thiazolium-BODIPY AIE fluorescent probes for viscosity imaging in dual organelles

Yu-Xin Tang, Yingmei Cao, Wen-Jing Shi* (史文静，广州大学), Jin-Cheng Li, Wei-Lin Lu, Ting Fan, Liyao Zheng, Jin-wu Yan* (颜金武，华南理工大学), Dongxue Han and Li Niu* (牛利，广州大学)

👉 We report meso-thiazolium-BODIPY-based red-shifted fluorescent rotors with viscosity-response and AIE, and successfully apply them for viscosity imaging in dual organelles.

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Ferroptosis-inducing photosensitizers alleviate hypoxia tumor microenvironment for enhanced fluorescence imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

Linhao Zhang, Maomao He, Xiang Xia, Zhiyuan Ma, Chengyuan Lv, Ran Wang, Wenkai Liu, Jiangli Fan, Xiaojun Peng and Wen Sun* (孙文，大连理工大学)

👉 A photosensitizer exhibits enhanced photodynamic therapy effect via inducing ferroptosis, which increases O₂ levels and thus reduces the intracellular hypoxia.

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Iron-catalyzed benzylic C–H thiolation via photoinduced ligand-to-metal charge-transfer

Kaiting Sun, Tianyi Sun, Yuxin Jiang, Jiayue Shi, Wenlu Sun, Youyou Zheng, Zhixuan Wang, Ziyu Li, Xiaoqing Lv, Xingxian Zhang* (张兴贤，浙江工业大学), Fan Luo* (嘉兴大学) and Shihui Liu* (刘石惠，嘉兴大学)

👉 The protocol features operational simplicity, mild reaction conditions, and the use of FeCl₃ as catalyst and thiols/disulfides as sulfur sources, which enables the transformation of diverse benzylic C–H bonds into C–S bonds with a high efficiency.

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