Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux

Overcoming Reversibility: Borrowing Hydrogen Enables Enantioselective Intermolecular Oxa-Michael Addition to α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes

Abstract Chiral 1,3-dioxygenated motifs are key scaffolds in bioactive natural products, yet their synthesis via intermolecular oxa-Michael addition to α,β-unsaturated aldehydes remains challenging notably due to the high reversibility of the oxygenated nucleophile addition. This...

More is not always better: Dissociative photoionization limits the EUV absorbing photoacid generator pentafluorophenyl triflate in photolithography

Pentafluorophenyl triflate has been explored as a highly absorbing neutral photoacid generator (PAG) candidate for next-generation chemically amplified resists used in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Although increased fluorination enhances EUV absorption, this study demon...

Compartmentalization of metals for photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in specialized cells of the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120

Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria, such as Anabaena sp. PCC7120, are some of the oldest multicellular organisms. When combined nitrogen sources are scarce, this cyanobacterium compartmentalizes photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in vegetative cells and in differentiated heterocysts...