Article on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon solute probes and an evaluation of additional naphthacene and perylene derivatives as possible solvent polarity probe molecules.

Article on the spectroscopic properties of polycyclic aromatic compounds and an examination of nitromethane as a selective fluorescence quenching agent for alternant polycyclic aromatic nitrogen hetero-atom derivatives.

Article reports on singlet oxygen sensitization involving a class of hemiquinonoid-substituted resorcinarenes prepared from the corresponding 3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-substituted resorcinarenes.

This article presents a new type of push–pull charge transfer complex, viz., a spiro-locked N-heterocycle-fused zinc porphyrin, ZnP-SQ, that is shown to undergo excited state charge separation, which is enhanced by axial F⁻ binding to the Zn center. Spectroelectrochemical studies are used to identify the spectra of charge separated states and charge separation upon photoexcitation of ZnP is established.

Article on kinetic studies of the reaction of atomic chlorine with chlorobenzene.

Article discussing a computational study of coinage metal-ethylene complexes supported by tris(pyrazolyl)borates.

This article discusses six-, five-, and four-coordinate ruthenium(II) hydride complexes.

This article discusses electric field induced phase transitions in polymers.

Article uses acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles (UiO-68-NH2) to encapsulate sufficient insulin and decorated the exterior with targeting proteins (transferrin) to realize highly efficient oral insulin delivery.

Article using first-principles simulations to predict room temperature ferroelectricity in a representative of the formate family, [NH₂NH₃][Co(HCOO)₃].

This article is a response to "A critique of Abraham and Acree's correlation for deca-1,9-diene/water partition coefficients," published in New Journal of Chemistry, 2013.

Article on experimental and computational studies of the isomerization reactions of bidentate phosphine ligands in triosmium clusters.

Article on the deviations of drug solubility in water-cosolvent mixtures from the Jouyban-Acree model and the effect of solute structure.

Data management plan for the grant "Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification." This project seeks to develop and deploy a new class of porous organic polymers which have high capacity and selectivity to rapidly remove heavy metal contaminants well below parts per million level standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. The project will engineer porosity and surface chemistry of porous organic polymers to clean inorganic heavy metal contaminants from both surface water and wastewater. Porous organic polymers are robust, chemically and thermally stable, scalable, and modular, with very high surface area. The modularity of these polymers allows for a molecular-level tuning of the pore structure and surface chemistry that allows for engineered site-specificity of binding sites that target the heavy metal contaminants. Recent data shows these new materials offer a significant increase in capacity relative to benchmark materials, with a rapid removal of mercury and other heavy metal ions. This project will advance the concept by exploring rational design of these porous polymers with different topologies by customizing the monomer with various binding groups. The objectives of the project include design, synthesis, and characterization, followed by assessment of these materials to remove inorganic contaminants …

Article discusses how rate coefficients, k, for the gas-phase Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction were measured over the 15–500 torr (He and N2 bath gas) pressure range at temperatures between 283 and 323 K. An atmospheric degradation mechanism for C4H2O3 is proposed based on the observed product yields and theoretical calculations of ring-opening pathways and activation barrier energies at the CBS-QB3 level of theory. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.