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The search for new fluorophores for the selective and efficient detection of metal ions holds a significant place in the modern sensing studies. This work reports the synthesis of a ligand, i.e. benzilbis(2-hydroxyanil), which was found to be a highly sensitive and exclusively selective probe for Fe3+ ions compared to 16 other metal ions, including Fe2+ ions. The binding constant of this ligand with Fe3+ was determined to be 6.05 ×1017 M−1, with a LOD of 136 nM for Fe3+ ions in a MeOH/H2O (1 : 9) mixture, thus making it an efficient fluorophore for Fe3+ ion sensing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Synthetically versatile imidazolium chlorides, especially 1,3‐bis‐(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐imidazolium chloride (IPrHCl) along with copper (I) iodide and cesium carbonate, were found to be useful to form C−O bonds via coupling of phenols and aryl/heteroaryl bromides. In this catalysis, the metal:ligand (Cu:IPr) loading was optimised to 1.0 mol%, making it an inexpensive and a simple one pot catalytic route for synthesising a variety of diaryl ethers. The catalytic cycle was probed by UV‐Vis, FT‐IR and HRMS techniques confirming involvement of a copper‐imidazolium‐carbonate complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Synthetically versatile imidazolium chlorides, especially 1,3‐bis‐(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐imidazolium chloride (IPrHCl) along with copper (I) iodide and cesium carbonate, were found to be useful to form C−O bonds via coupling of phenols and aryl/heteroaryl bromides. In this catalysis, the metal:ligand (Cu:IPr) loading was optimised to 1.0 mol%, making it an inexpensive and a simple one pot catalytic route for synthesising a variety of diaryl ethers. The catalytic cycle was probed by UV‐Vis, FT‐IR and HRMS techniques confirming involvement of a copper‐imidazolium‐carbonate complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Synthesis of nano-crystalline hydroxyapatite (HAp) from fish scale ( Catla catla ) was carried out by calcining of raw fish scale between 200 °C and 1200 °C. The synthesized powders were characterized using thermogravimetry – differential thermal analysis (TGA-DTA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The crystallinity, crystallite size, strain and cell parameters of fish scale derived calcined powders and chemically synthesized HAp (S-HAp) powders were estimated from XRD data. The average crystallite size of fish scale derived HAp powder increased with increasing calcination temperature. The fish scale derived HAp (FSH800) and S-HAp, calcined at 800 °C, showed crystallite size of 30 nm and 60 nm, respectively. ICP-AES analysis revealed that the fish scale derived HAp powder calcined at 1200 °C (FSH1200) contain significantly high amount of magnesium and strontium ions compared to S-HAp. After sintering at 1200 °C for 1 h, the relative density of FSH1200 was 20% higher than that of S-HAp due to better sinterability as a result of its small crystallite size and the presence of trace elements. In vitro cytotoxicity studies performed using human osteoblast-like cells (MG63) and mouse osteoblast cell line (MC3T3-E1) demonstrated that fish scale derived HAp (FSH1200) is non-toxic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]