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The strong influence of the structure of amide derivatives on their extraction properties has been demonstrated in several studies in the literature. To investigate and rationalize the influence of the nature and length of the monoamide alkyl chains on Pu(iv) extraction/complexation, a theoretical study was performed using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) method in the scalar relativistic framework. Rimegepant For that, the geometries for the inner/outer-sphere complexes and interaction energies of [Pu(NO3)4] and [Pu(NO3)6]2- with different ligands have been calculated. For both inner and outer-sphere complexes, it is found that the introduction of a bulky alkyl group on the carbonyl side strongly diminishes the complexation energy. This is fully consistent with monamide extraction properties. The influence of the bulkiness of the alkyl group is as or even more important for outer than for inner-sphere interactions. This result was unexpected when considering that there are less flexibility and stronger steric constraints in the inner sphere compared to the outer one. However, this can be attributed to specific electrostatic interactions between the two outer-sphere amide ligands and two nitrate ions of [Pu(NO3)6]2-. By increasing the polarity of the solution, such interactions diminish and the outer-sphere ligands move away from [Pu(NO3)6]2-. Consequently, the solvent effects were found to be very significant for outer-sphere complexation while rather small for inner-sphere complexation. This gives the key possibility to tune the substituent effect by changing the polarity of the solution. As for carbamide ligands, it was found that the weak interactions (dispersion) have remarkable effects on both inner and outer-sphere complexations.Here we report a surface morphology-induced spin state control in ultrathin films of a spin-crossover (SCO) material. The surface microstructure of film domains exhibited selectivity, to stabilize the SCO-active high-spin (HS) or SCO-inactive high-spin (HS2) states. To date, the latter has only been confirmed in the bulk counterpart at gigapascal pressure.The enantiomers of a novel mononuclear ruthenium(ii) complex [Ru(phen)2bidppz]2+ with an elongated dppz moiety were synthesized. Surprisingly, the complex showed no DNA intercalating capability in an aqueous environment. However, by the addition of water-miscible polyethylene glycol ether PEG-400, self-aggregation of the hydrophobic ruthenium(ii) complexes was counter-acted, thus strongly promoting the DNA intercalation binding mode. This mild alteration of the environment surrounding the DNA polymer does not damage or alter the DNA structure but instead enables more efficient binding characterization studies of potential DNA binding drugs.High volatility would lead to a highly flammable hazard, explosion danger, low regeneration efficiency and air pollution. Eutectic solvents (ESs) are assumed to be nonvolatile; however, the assumption is not correct. Here, we, for the first time, find that superbase-derived ESs are highly volatile. Even at room temperature (i.e., 25 °C) and atmospheric pressure, the mass loss of ESs could reach as high as 43.5% after 20 h of exposure. Superbase-derived ESs are promising solvents for CO2 capture, and they are also highly volatile after CO2 capture. We found that typical ethylene glycol  1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (EG  DBU (4  1)) has a three-stage volatilizing mechanism. EG and DBU volatilize first by breaking weak hydrogen-bonding interactions (1st stage), followed by the destruction of strong hydrogen-bonding interactions (2nd stage), and finally by destroying much stronger hydrogen-bonding interactions (3rd stage). This work presents a new horizon that ESs and their mixture with CO2 are highly volatile, which is helpful for mitigating laboratory explosion, combustion hazards, air pollution and designing new types of ESs with negligible volatility.In 2003, a fully automated protein crystallization and monitoring system (PXS) was developed to support the structural genomics projects that were initiated in the early 2000s. In PXS, crystallization plates were automatically set up using the vapor-diffusion method, transferred to incubators and automatically observed according to a pre-set schedule. The captured images of each crystallization drop could be monitored through the internet using a web browser. While the screening throughput of PXS was very high, the demands of users have gradually changed over the ensuing years. To study difficult proteins, it has become important to screen crystallization conditions using small amounts of proteins. Moreover, membrane proteins have become one of the main targets for X-ray crystallography. Therefore, to meet the evolving demands of users, PXS was upgraded to PXS2. In PXS2, the minimum volume of the dispenser is reduced to 0.1 µl to minimize the amount of sample, and the resolution of the captured images is increased to five million pixels in order to observe small crystallization drops in detail. In addition to the 20°C incubators, a 4°C incubator was installed in PXS2 because crystallization results may vary with temperature. To support membrane-protein crystallization, PXS2 includes a procedure for the bicelle method. In addition, the system supports a lipidic cubic phase (LCP) method that uses a film sandwich plate and that was specifically designed for PXS2. These improvements expand the applicability of PXS2, reducing the bottleneck of X-ray protein crystallography.Hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK1) is an intracellular kinase that plays an important role in modulating tumor immune response and thus is an attractive target for drug discovery. Crystallization of the wild-type HPK1 kinase domain has been hampered by poor expression in recombinant systems and poor solubility. In this study, yeast surface display was applied to a library of HPK1 kinase-domain variants in order to select variants with an improved expression level and solubility. The HPK1 variant with the most improved properties contained two mutations, crystallized readily in complex with several small-molecule inhibitors and provided valuable insight to guide structure-based drug design. This work exemplifies the benefit of yeast surface display towards engineering crystallizable proteins and thus enabling structure-based drug discovery.