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[ASAP] Molecular Basis for Omapatrilat and Sampatrilat Binding to Neprilysin—Implications for Dual Inhibitor Design with Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00441




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Unlock Your Team’s Potential With Teamstack

Teamstack is a password manager for your whole team. Running in the cloud it allows you to manage your tools and resources, and seamlessly scale your teams’ access, from a single, easy-to-use control panel. Teamstack is powerful, and secure with multi-factor authentication, single sign-in, SAML and form-based authentication. It works with desktop and mobile apps, […]




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17 Tools for Effective Customer Engagement

The one thing that every business that offers a service has in common is its customers. It doesn't matter if you are a freelancer with just one client or a small design agency with a few clients, you have to deal with customers on a day to day basis.




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Popular Design News of the Week: April 20, 2020 – April 26, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]




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The Latest Research for Web Designers, April 2020

Although life hasn’t returned to normal yet, the web design and marketing space doesn’t seem to have been too badly disrupted — at least not with all the new research and surveys floating around. And thank goodness for that. If we can maintain some semblance of normalcy, I think we’ll all get through this crisis in good shape.




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Email Personalization: Your Secret To Better Engagement

One of the struggles that marketers face is how to send the right message at exactly the right time to target people in a way that will appeal to them. To solve the problem, businesses need to get themselves acquainted with new technologies and the power of personalization. In the past few years, digital marketing […]




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8 Best CMS for 2020

Content Management Systems are arguably the internet’s most powerful web development tool. In a rapidly growing market where every business under the sun requires a website that is not only fully functioning, but optimised, easy to update regularly, and implement the latest features, the right CMS is important. As a web developer it can be […]




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Popular Design News of the Week: April 27, 2020 – May 3, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]




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3 Essential Design Trends, May 2020

The state of the world around us can greatly impact website design. From emotional changes that correlate to the feel of a design to information and data to deliver, the impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is making its way into projects (intentionally or not). Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. “Unbalanced” Use […]




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8 of the Top WP Multipurpose Themes That You Can Use

More than a few multipurpose WordPress themes have become big sellers in recent years, and for a reason. Actually, for several reasons. One reason is they serve as excellent toolkits for web designers who have large and varied clienteles. The best multipurpose themes, like those presented here, are popular for other reasons as well. They […]




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Thanks to Covid-19, Website Accessibility Has Never Been More Important

The first global pandemic of the digital era is upon us. We’re living in unprecedented and uncomfortable times. For our senior citizens, these past several weeks have been particularly discomforting. According to the CDC, men and women over the age of 65 are significantly more likely to develop complications from COVID-19. As we seek to […]




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Informed societies : why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy / edited by Stéphane Goldstein.

London : Facet Publishing, 2019




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The no-nonsense guide to research support and scholarly communication / Claire Sewell.

London : Facet Publishing, 2020.




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Blockchain in libraries / Michael Meth.

Chicago, IL : ALA TechSource, [2019]




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Library leadership your way / Jason Martin.

Chicago : ALA Editions, 2019.




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Meeting the challenge of teaching information literacy / Michelle Reale.

Chicago : ALA Editions, 2020.




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Making books : a guide to creating handcrafted books / London Centre for Book Arts.

New York, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]




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Invisible search and online search engines [electronic resource] : the ubiquity of search in everyday life / Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.




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Event-driven mobile financial information services [electronic resource] : design of an intraday decision support system / Jan Muntermann

[Germany] : Deutscher Universit̃ts-Verlag : 2007




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Evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval [electronic resource] : 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006 : revised selected papers / Carol Peters [and others] (eds.)

Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007




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Encyclopedia of cryptography and security [electronic resource] / editor-in-chief, Henk C.A. van Tilborg

New York : Springer, 2005




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EndNote® 1-2-3 easy! [electronic resource] : reference management for the professional / Abha Agrawal

New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., [2006]




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Digital libraries [electronic resource] : achievements, challenges and opportunities : 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006 : proceedings / Shigeo Sugimoto [and others] (eds.)

Berlin : Springer, [2006]




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Digital libraries [electronic resource] : implementing strategies and sharing experiences : 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005 : proceedings / Edward A. Fox [and others] (eds.)

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]




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Digital Libraries [electronic resource] : International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004. Proceedings / edited by Zhaoneng Chen, Hsinchun Chen

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005




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Digital libraries [electronic resource]: research and development : First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, February 13-14, 2007 : revised selected papers / Costantino Thanos, Francesca Borri, Leonardo Candela (eds.)

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2007]




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Context: nature, impact, and role [electronic resource] : 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005, Glasgow, UK, June 4-8, 2005 ; proceedings / Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven (eds.)

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]




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Melanoma Diagnoses Rise While Mortality Stays Fairly Flat, Raising Concerns About Overdiagnosis

This Medical News story examines the question of whether some melanomas might be better left undetected.




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Macrocyclization of 3-Triflyloxybenzynes with Tetrahydrofuran via Anionic Thia-Fries Rearrangement

Chem. Commun., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00135J, Communication
Chaorong Qi, Ruixiang Cheng, Wenfang Xiong, Lu Wang, Yanwei Ren, Huanfeng Jiang
A novel and uncommon macrocyclization reaction between 3-triflyloxybenzynes and tetrahydrofuran has been developed for the first time, providing a direct method for the synthesis of a range of functionalized 19-membered...
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Correction: Preparation of carbon dots by non-focusing pulsed laser irradiation in toluene

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC90181D, Correction
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Huiwu Yu, Xiangyou Li, Xiaoyan Zeng, Yongfeng Lu
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A fentanyl vaccine constructed upon opsonizing antibodies specific for the Galα1-3Gal epitope

Chem. Commun., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC02107E, Communication
Jiaxing Wang, Beverly A Ellis, Bin Zhou, Lisa M. Eubanks, Steven Blake, Kim D Janda
A double conjugation strategy was implemented to produce an anti-fentanyl vaccine, which was predicated upon preformed-antibody-assisted antigen presentation. The new vaccine was found to reduce the psychoactive effects of fentanyl...
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Simultaneous co-assembly of fenofibrate and ketoprofen peptide for the dual-targeted treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4922-4925
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00513D, Communication
Zhongyan Wang, Chuanrui Ma, Yuna Shang, Lijun Yang, Jing Zhang, Cuihong Yang, Chunhua Ren, Jinjian Liu, Guanwei Fan, Jianfeng Liu
An ingenious co-assembled nanosystem based on fenofibrate and ketoprofen peptide for the dual-targeted treatment of NAFLD by reducing hepatic lipid accumulation and inflammatory responses.
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Photochemical α-carboxyalkylation of tryptophols and tryptamines via C–H functionalization

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4930-4933
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00847H, Communication
Zhiqiang Pan, Yuchang Liu, Fengchi Hu, Qinglong Liu, Wenbin Shang, Chengfeng Xia
A process for the α-carboxyalkylation of tryptophols and tryptamines by the functionalization of C–H bonds under visible light irradiation has been developed.
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On-surface synthesis of planar acenes via regioselective aryl–aryl coupling

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4890-4893
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01043J, Communication
Lin Feng, Tao Wang, Hongxing Jia, Jianmin Huang, Dong Han, Wenzhao Zhang, Honghe Ding, Qian Xu, Pingwu Du, Junfa Zhu
The reaction of 2,2'-dibromo-biphenyl (DBBP) on a Ag(111) surface leads to the generation of planar dibenzo[e,l]pyrene, in contrast to the nonplanar saddle-shaped tetraphenylene formed in solution.
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Noncovalent structural locking of thermoresponsive polyion complex micelles, nanowires, and vesicles via polymerization-induced electrostatic self-assembly using an arginine-like monomer

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4954-4957
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00427H, Communication
Qingqing Zhao, Qizhou Liu, Chao Li, Lei Cao, Lei Ma, Xiyu Wang, Yuanli Cai
The noncovalent locking of nanostructured thermoresponsive polyion complexes can be achieved via polymerization-induced electrostatic self-assembly (PIESA) using an arginine-like cationic monomer.
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Graphene-modulated assembly of zinc phthalocyanine on BiVO4 nanosheets for efficient visible-light catalytic conversion of CO2

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4926-4929
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01518K, Communication
Ji Bian, Jiannan Feng, Ziqing Zhang, Jiawen Sun, Mingna Chu, Ling Sun, Xin Li, Dongyan Tang, Liqiang Jing
Graphene-modulated ZnPc/BiVO4 Z-scheme heterojunctions for efficient visible-light catalytic CO2 conversion are achieved by increasing the optimized amount of highly dispersed ZnPc.
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Synthesis of chiral α-substituted α-amino acid and amine derivatives through Ni-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4934-4937
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01220C, Communication
Gongyi Liu, Xianghe Zhang, Heng Wang, Hengjiang Cong, Xumu Zhang, Xiu-Qin Dong
Efficient Ni-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of cyclic N-sulfonyl ketimino esters and ketimines was successfully developed to prepare a series of chiral α-monosubstituted α-amino acid derivatives and amine derivatives with excellent results.
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Nonlinear organic–inorganic halide hybrids containing unprecedented linear [MIX2]− coordination units and quasi-two-dimensional lone pairs

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4894-4897
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01532F, Communication
Qi Wu, Xian Liu, Yeshuang Du, Chunlin Teng, Fei Liang
A first example of monovalent-metal-based hybrid halides [N(CH3)4]MCl2 (M = Ga+, In+) with zero-dimensional configuration containing unprecedented linear [GaCl2]/[InCl2] units have been designed and synthesized.
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Structural elucidation of the degradation mechanism of nickel-rich layered cathodes during high-voltage cycling

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4886-4889
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00327A, Communication
Open Access
Jing Lai, Jun Zhang, Zuowei Li, Yao Xiao, Weibo Hua, Zhenguo Wu, Yanxiao Chen, Yanjun Zhong, Wei Xiang, Xiaodong Guo
A splitting of two O3 phases, rather than the often observed O1 phases in the conventional LiCoO2 electrode, was discovered in the LiNi0.85Co0.10Mn0.05O2 at high-voltage region (>4.6 V) by in situ high-resolution synchrotron radiation diffraction.
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Fe3Pt intermetallic nanoparticles anchored on N-doped mesoporous carbon for the highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4898-4901
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00895H, Communication
Danke Chen, Zhuoyi Li, Yu Zhou, Xu Ma, Hanqing Lin, Wen Ying, Xinsheng Peng
N-Doped mesoporous carbon catalysts dispersed with Fe3Pt intermetallic nanoparticles, exhibiting excellent ORR performance, were synthesised by direct pyrolysis of Pt–Fe co-functionalized ZIF-8.
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A heteroleptic diradical Cr(III) complex with extended spin delocalization and large intramolecular magnetic exchange

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4906-4909
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00548G, Communication
Xiaozhou Ma, Elizaveta A. Suturina, Mathieu Rouzières, Fabrice Wilhelm, Andrei Rogalev, Rodolphe Clérac, Pierre Dechambenoit
Ligand-based successive reductions in a heteroleptic Cr(III) complex give rise to intended extremely strong metal–radical magnetic interactions.
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Unexpected persistence of cis-bridged chains in compressed AuF3

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4902-4905
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01374A, Communication
Dominik Kurzydłowski, Serhiy Kobyakov, Zoran Mazej, Sharad Babu Pillai, Brahmananda Chakraborty, Prafulla K. Jha
Raman scattering measurements and DFT calculations indicate that solid AuF3 adopts a metastable cis-bridge structure upon room-temperature compression.
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Stepwise assembly of nanoclusters guided by DNA origami frames with high-throughput

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4918-4921
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00274G, Communication
Xiaodong Xin, Lihui Wang, Kaiwei Wang, Lizhi Dai, Hai Cao, Zheng Li, Ye Tian
We propose two strategies to construct nanoclusters efficiently with explicit positions of nanoparticles by the surface-encoded method.
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Oxyanion transport across lipid bilayers: direct measurements in large and giant unilamellar vesicles

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4910-4913
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC09888G, Communication
Krzysztof M. Bąk, Bartjan van Kolck, Krystyna Maslowska-Jarzyna, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Alexander Kros, Michał J. Chmielewski
A simple, carbazole-based dithioamide receptor transports a variety of biologically relevant anions through lipid bilayers, as shown by direct fluorescent assays in LUVs and GUVs.
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CRISPR/Cas-directed programmable assembly of multi-enzyme complexes

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4950-4953
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01174F, Communication
Samuel Lim, Jiwoo Kim, Yujin Kim, Dawei Xu, Douglas S. Clark
We describe a versatile CRISPR/Cas-based strategy to construct precisely organized, scaffolded multi-enzyme systems with improved productivity.
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A dual-round signal amplification strategy for colorimetric/photoacoustic/fluorescence triple read-out detection of prostate specific antigen

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4942-4945
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01086C, Communication
Chao Jiang, Yan Huang, Ting He, Peng Huang, Jing Lin
A colorimetric/fluorescence/photoacoustic triple read-out detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA) was developed by using a silica coated Au@Ag core–shell nanorod (denoted Au@Ag@SiO2) based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system.
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The design of hypercrosslinked polymers from benzyl ether self-condensing compounds and external crosslinkers

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4938-4941
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01002B, Communication
Robert T. Woodward
Hypercrosslinked polymers were produced via the self-condensation of benzyl ether compounds, providing a one-component route to highly porous networks and significant reductions in catalyst waste compared to conventional routes.
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Atomically thin TiO2 nanosheets synthesized using liquid metal chemistry

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4914-4917
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01456G, Communication
Turki Alkathiri, Nripen Dhar, Azmira Jannat, Nitu Syed, Md Mohiuddin, Manal M. Y. A. Alsaif, Robi S. Datta, Kibret A. Messalea, Bao Yue Zhang, Muhammad Waqas Khan, Aaron Elbourne, Naresh Pillai, Jian Zhen Ou, Ali Zavabeti, Torben Daeneke
The library of two-dimensional materials is limited since many transition metal compounds are not stratified and can thus not be easily isolated as nanosheets. Liquid metal-based synthesis provides a new approach to overcome this limitation.
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A highly active Rh1/CeO2 single-atom catalyst for low-temperature CO oxidation

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4870-4873
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00230E, Communication
Bing Han, Tianbo Li, Junying Zhang, Chaobin Zeng, Hiroaki Matsumoto, Yang Su, Botao Qiao, Tao Zhang
Rh1/CeO2 SAC is highly active for CO oxidation, which exhibits a high TOF of 0.41 s−1via the Mars–van Krevelen mechanism.
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New insight derived from a two-compartment cell: electrochemical behavior of FeF3 positive electrode

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4878-4881
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01162B, Communication
Kazuki Yoshii, Noboru Taguchi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Masahiro Shikano, Hikari Sakaebe
A designed two-compartment cell revealed the degradation mechanism and an essentially effective additive for the FeF3 composite electrode.
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