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Polyanionic Na3V2(PO4)2FO2 has been successfully prepared for the first time by ionothermal reaction in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMIM TFSI) ionic liquid. Its structure and elemental stoichiometry are confirmed by X-ray diffraction, NMR spectroscopy, and ICP-OES, respectively. Furthermore, the scanning electron microscopy reveals that the as-obtained material possesses an original platelet-like morphology. A topochemical reaction mechanism is proposed to explain the formation of the 3D framework of Na3V2(PO4)2FO2 from layered compound α-VOPO4·2H2O. Galvanostatic electrochemical tests indicate a modification of the desodiation and sodiation mechanism of the as-prepared Na3V2(PO4)2FO2 compared to those synthesized by conventional solid-state approaches. Furthermore, the electrochemical performance of Na3V2(PO4)2FO2 obtained at different cycling rates is also discussed.Plenty of enzymes with structural data do not have their mechanism of catalysis elucidated. Reactivity descriptors, theoretical quantities generated from resolved electronic structure, provide a way to predict and rationalize chemical processes of such systems. In this Application Note, we present PRIMoRDiA (PRIMoRDiA Macromolecular Reactivity Descriptors Access), a software built to calculate the reactivity descriptors of large biosystems by employing an efficient and accurate treatment of the large output files produced by quantum chemistry packages. Here, we show the general implementation details and the software main features. Calculated descriptors were applied for a set of enzymatic systems in order to show their relevance for biological studies and the software potential for use in large scale. Also, we test PRIMoRDiA to aid in the interaction depiction between the SARS-CoV-2 main protease and a potential inhibitor.The separation of adjacent lanthanides continues to be a challenge worldwide because of the similar physical and chemical properties of these elements and a necessity to advance the use of clean-energy applications. Herein, a systematic structure-performance relationship approach toward understanding the effect of N-alkyl group characteristics in diglycolamides (DGAs) on the separation of lanthanides(III) from a hydrochloric acid medium is presented. In addition to the three most extensively studied DGA complexants [N,N,N',N'-tetra(n-octyl)diglycolamide, TODGA; N,N,N',N'-tetra(2-ethylhexyl)diglycolamide, TEHDGA; N,N'-dimethyl-N,N'-di(n-octyl)diglycolamide, DMDODGA], 12 new extracting agents with varying substitution patterns were designed to study the interplay of steric and electronic effects that control rare-earth element extraction. Subtle changes in the structure around diglycolamide carbonyl oxygen atoms result in dramatic shifts in the lanthanide extraction strength and selectivity. The effects of the chain length and branching position of N-alkyl substituents in DGAs are elaborated on with the use of experimental, computational, and solution-structure characterization techniques.Bacterial cell surface glycans are quintessential drug targets due to their critical role in colonization of the host, pathogen survival, and immune evasion. The dense cell envelope glycocalyx contains distinctive monosaccharides that are stitched together into higher order glycans to yield exclusively bacterial structures that are critical for strain fitness and pathogenesis. However, the systematic study and inhibition of bacterial glycosylation enzymes remains challenging. Bacteria produce glycans containing rare sugars refractory to traditional glycan analysis, complicating the study of bacterial glycans and the identification of their biosynthesis machinery. To ease the study of bacterial glycans in the absence of detailed structural information, we used metabolic glycan labeling to detect changes in glycan biosynthesis. Here, we screened wild-type versus mutant strains of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori, ultimately permitting the identification of genes involved in glycoprotein and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. Our findings provide the first evidence that H. pylori protein glycosylation proceeds via a lipid carrier-mediated pathway that overlaps with lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. Protein glycosylation mutants displayed fitness defects consistent with those induced by small molecule glycosylation inhibitors. Broadly, our results suggest a facile approach to screen for bacterial glycosylation genes and gain insight into their biosynthesis and functional importance, even in the absence of glycan structural information.A novel magnetic metal-organic framework (Fe3O4@GlcA@Cu-MOF) has been prepared and characterized by spectroscopic, microscopic, and magnetic techniques. This magnetically separable catalyst exhibited high catalytic activity for nitrile hydration and the ability to reduce isothiocyanates, isocyanates, and isocyanides with excellent activity and selectivity without any additional reducing agent.Our food system is experiencing dramatic changes as the expansion of e-commerce, introduction of new products, and innovations in supply chain structures all pose to transform how we buy, sell, and distribute food. However, the environmental impacts of these transformations remain unclear. Iclepertin This feature reviews existing literature on environmental implications of e-commerce, discusses relevant trade-offs, and identifies pressing gaps in research. Some trade-offs discussed are those between centralized and decentralized delivery service types, those unique to a rural landscape, and those within the interplay of transportation and consumer behavior. The impacts of fulfillment centers, of refrigerated logistics, of e-commerce on consumer shopping and food waste habits, and of e-commerce services in rural regions are identified as pressing knowledge gaps.Columnar polymers and liquid crystals obtained from π-conjugated cone-shaped molecules are receiving increasing interest due to the possibility of obtaining unconventional polar organizations that show anisotropic charge transport and unique chiroptical properties. However, and in contrast to the more common planar discotics, the self-assembly of conic or pyramidic molecules in solution remains largely unexplored. Here, we show how a molecular geometry change, from flat to conic, can generate supramolecular landscapes where different self-assembled species, each of them being under thermodynamic equilibrium with the monomer, exist exclusively within distinct regimes. In particular, depending on the solvent nature-aromatic or aliphatic-cone-shaped C3-symmetric subphthalocyanine 1 can undergo self-assembly either as a tail-to-tail dimer, showing monomer-dimer sigmoidal transitions, or as a head-to-tail noncentrosymmetric columnar polymer, exhibiting a nucleation-elongation polymerization mechanism. Moreover, the experimental and theoretical comparison between racemic and enantiopure samples revealed that the two enantiomers (1M and 1P) tend to narcissistically self-sort in the dimer regime, each enantiomer showing a strong preference to associate with itself, but socially self-sort in the polymer regime, favoring an alternate stacking order along the columns.