The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation (2023)
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Jin, S., Trager, S. C., Dalton, G. B., Aguerri, J. A. L., Drew, J. E., Falcón-Barroso, J., …Zurita, C. (2024). The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 2688-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-deg field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, a nearly 1000-multiplex fibre pos... Read More about The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation.

Exploration of utility of combined optical photothermal infrared and Raman imaging for investigating the chemical composition of microcalcifications in breast cancer (2023)
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Bouzy, P., Lyburn, I. D., Pinder, S. E., Scott, R., Mansfield, J., Moger, J., …Stone, N. (in press). Exploration of utility of combined optical photothermal infrared and Raman imaging for investigating the chemical composition of microcalcifications in breast cancer. Analytical Methods, 15(13), 1620-1630. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ay01197b

Microcalcifications play an important role in cancer detection. They are evaluated by their radiological and histological characteristics but it is challenging to find a link between their morphology, their composition and the nature of a specific ty... Read More about Exploration of utility of combined optical photothermal infrared and Raman imaging for investigating the chemical composition of microcalcifications in breast cancer.

Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star (2022)
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Nikolov, N. K., Sing, D. K., Spake, J. J., Smalley, B., Goyal, J. M., Mikal-Evans, T., …Mayne, N. J. (2022). Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(2), 3037-3058. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1530

We present new analysis of infrared transmission spectroscopy of the cloud-free hot-Saturn WASP-96b performed with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes (HST and Spitzer). The WASP-96b spectrum exhibits the absorption feature from water in excellen... Read More about Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star.

Asymmetric synthesis of primary amines catalyzed by thermotolerant fungal reductive aminases (2020)
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Mangas-Sanchez, J., Sharma, M., Cosgrove, S. C., Ramsden, J. I., Marshall, J. R., Thorpe, T. W., …Turner, N. J. (in press). Asymmetric synthesis of primary amines catalyzed by thermotolerant fungal reductive aminases. Chemical Science, 11(19), 5052-5057. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc02253e

Chiral primary amines are important intermediates in the synthesis of pharmaceutical compounds. Fungal reductive aminases (RedAms) are NADPH-dependent dehydrogenases that catalyse reductive amination of a range of ketones with short-chain primary ami... Read More about Asymmetric synthesis of primary amines catalyzed by thermotolerant fungal reductive aminases.

Inverse Opal CuCrO2 Photocathodes for H2 Production Using Organic Dyes and a Molecular Ni Catalyst (2019)
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Creissen, C. E., Warnan, J., Antón-García, D., Farré, Y., Odobel, F., & Reisner, E. (2019). Inverse Opal CuCrO2 Photocathodes for H2 Production Using Organic Dyes and a Molecular Ni Catalyst. ACS catalysis, 9(10), 9530-9538. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b02984

Dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical (DSPEC) cells are an emerging approach to producing solar fuels. The recent development of delafossite CuCrO2 as a p-type semiconductor has enabled H2 generation through the coassembly of catalyst and dye component... Read More about Inverse Opal CuCrO2 Photocathodes for H2 Production Using Organic Dyes and a Molecular Ni Catalyst.

Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes (2019)
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Keegans, J., Fryer, C. L., Jones, S. W., Côté, B., Belczynski, K., Herwig, F., …Diget, C. A. (2019). Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(1), 620-639. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz368

Massive-star binaries can undergo a phase where one of the two stars expands during its advanced evolutionary stage as a giant and envelops its companion, ejecting the hydrogen envelope and tightening its orbit. Such a common envelope phase is requir... Read More about Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes.

ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H 2 Evolution in Water (2019)
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Kuehnel, M. F., Creissen, C. E., Sahm, C. D., Wielend, D., Schlosser, A., Orchard, K. L., & Reisner, E. (2019). ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H 2 Evolution in Water. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(15), 5059-5063. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201814265

A precious-metal- and Cd-free photocatalyst system for efficient H2 evolution from aqueous protons with a performance comparable to Cd-based quantum dots is presented. Rod-shaped ZnSe nanocrystals (nanorods, NRs) with a Ni(BF4)2 co-catalyst suspended... Read More about ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H 2 Evolution in Water.

The evolution of a stereoselective synthesis of the C1–C16 fragment of bryostatins (2016)
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Ball, M., Baron, A., Bradshaw, B., Dumeunier, R., O'Brien, M., & Thomas, E. J. The evolution of a stereoselective synthesis of the C1–C16 fragment of bryostatins. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14(40), 9650-9681. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ob01804a

The development of a synthesis of the C1–C16 fragment of bryostatins in which the key step is a stereoselective oxy-Michael reaction used to assemble the cis-2,6-disubstituted tetrahydropyran with the exocyclic alkene already installed, is described.... Read More about The evolution of a stereoselective synthesis of the C1–C16 fragment of bryostatins.

Theory and Practice: Bulk Synthesis of C3B and its H2- and Li-Storage Capacity (2015)
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King, T. C., Matthews, P. D., Glass, H., Cormack, J. A., Holgado, J. P., Leskes, M., …Wright, D. S. (2015). Theory and Practice: Bulk Synthesis of C3B and its H2- and Li-Storage Capacity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54(20), 5919-5923. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201412200

Previous theoretical studies of C3B have suggested that boron-doped graphite is a promising H2- and Li-storage material, with large maximum capacities. These characteristics could lead to exciting applications as a lightweight H2-storage material for... Read More about Theory and Practice: Bulk Synthesis of C3B and its H2- and Li-Storage Capacity.

Selective Lability of Ruthenium(II) Arene Amino Acid Complexes (2015)
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Scrase, T. G., O’Neill, M. J., Peel, A. J., Senior, P. W., Matthews, P. D., Shi, H., …Barker, P. D. (2015). Selective Lability of Ruthenium(II) Arene Amino Acid Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 54(7), 3118-3124. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic502051y

A series of organometallic complexes of the form [(PhH)Ru(amino acid)]+ have been synthesized using amino acids able to act as tridentate ligands. The straightforward syntheses gave enantiomerically pure complexes with two stereogenic centers due to... Read More about Selective Lability of Ruthenium(II) Arene Amino Acid Complexes.