Nowadays, transition metals in nano-size have been transformed into an efficient catalytic tool for the performance of C–S cross-coupling reactions. This review provides a systematic and comprehensive study of recently published breakthroughs on the synthesis of sulphides using metallic nanocatalysts from 2007 to 2015 .

Thermal rearrangement of hydroxyl-containing polyimides in the solid state produces poly(benzoxaole) polymers with unique gas separation properties. However, these suffer from poor mechanical properties that can be overcome through copolymers.

Upon reaction with silver salts three azobis(2-pyridine) ligands are shown to consistently act as di-bidentate bridging ligands, leading to the formation of 1D coordination polymers.

In this paper, we report the use of potassium organotrifluoroborate salts as nucleophilic organoboron reagents in the Suzuki cross-coupling reactions of 2-halo deazapurines. Regio-isomeric C-2-substituted imidazo[4,5-b]pyridine analogues were synthesized by employing this protocol in good to excellent yields.

Inter-particle connectivity is key for electron transfer in photoanodes, while a porous structure is important for the hole transfer in photoanodes.

A molecularly imprinted TiO₂/WO₃ magnetic nanocomposite was prepared. The composite can degrade 4-nitrophenol under visible light. The composite can be easily recycled by a magnet and has good reusability.

Three 1D polymeric 18-member metallomacrocyles have been obtained using an open-bridged triazolyl ligand as the spacer. Use of an isomeric triazolyl ligand with different picolyl nitrogen orientation, which favours chelate formation, resulted in two mononuclear complexes.

A convergent synthetic protocol for the construction of new fused tricyclic pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinolines, -[1,8]naphthyridines, -azepines, and -azocines via Friedel–Crafts cycliacylations of their synthesized carboxylic acids is described.

A series of silicon-containing amides and esters derived from ibuprofen was synthesised and screened for NF-κβ inhibition. Amides achieved higher inhibition values and were more potent NF-κβ inhibitors than ibuprofen. The determination of their cytotoxicity and a molecular docking calculation of the silicon-containing derivatives on IKKβ is also reported.

A series of pyrrole 4-pyrazoline biheterocyclic derivatives have been synthesized and studied using experimental IR, UV, ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopic analyses along with density functional theory calculations using the B3LYP functional with 6–311+G (d,p) basis set. The global, local reactivity, and thermodynamic parameters support the analyses. All the experimental findings correlate well with the theoretical results.

Mace-like Fe₃O₄ nanostructures were synthesized via a facile microemulsion-mediated solvothermal method. The effects of various reaction conditions on the morphology and structure of Fe₃O₄ products were investigated. The lithium–air battery based on mace-like Fe₃O₄ nanostructures exhibited a high discharge capacity of 1427 mA h g⁻¹ in ambient air.

New catalysis applications of nanocarbon materials pave the way towards greener chemical syntheses. For the catalytic oxidation of cyclohexane in liquid phase, the higher activity was obtained over Fe@CNT compared with that of Ni@CNT. The enhanced catalytic performance can be attributed to a combined contribution of thin walls of the CNTs and confined electron-donating metals, which are favourable to electron transfer on the surfaces of CNTs.

Stable cyclopropenylidenes have proven to be efficient organocatalysts for several types of reactions on carbonyl substrates. This new family of carbenes holds great potential to compete with the very popular and well-studied N-heterocyclic carbenes for new applications in organic chemistry.