Akihiro Wakisaka

TL;DR: It is concluded that Cd(II) can form an inner-sphere complex with the nucleobase in the motif, and large 1H and 31P chemical shift perturbations for the motif are observed, which suggests that the metal ion at these motifs is not a catalytic center of hammerhead ribozymes.

TL;DR: The microscopic environments around a cation and its counterion were experimentally studied for methanol solutions of CsCl, LiCl and LiClO4 through mass spectrometric analysis of clusters as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the observed clusters are controlled by the solvation structure depending on the solvent alkyl-chain length, and that the phenol molecules also formed clusters in methanol and acetonitrile, but not in propan-1-ol or propiontrile.

TL;DR: In this paper, the self-association of m-cresol in aqueous organic solvents (1,4-dioxane-water and methanol-water), which is an attractive pathway for synthesis of a new class of polyphenols withoutuse of toxic formaldehyde, was remarkably influenced by the water content.

TL;DR: Kinetic and selectivity studies suggest that a polymeric network of [Ln(dehp)3] has different characteristics than the corresponding monomeric complex, and such unique affinity can be explained by two factors: the coordination preference and steric strain caused by the polymeric structure.