Alessandra Garau

TL;DR: The conformation adopted by L(1)-L(3) in these species reveals the aliphatic portion of the rings folded over the plane containing the heteroaromatic moiety with the ligands trying to encapsulate the metal center within their cavity.

TL;DR: The spectroscopic and photochemical characterization of 5-(5-chloro-8-hydroxyquinolinylmethyl)-2,8-dithia-5-aza-2,6-pyridinophane (L) as a fluorescent sensor for the selective imaging of Cd(2+) in living cells is reported.

TL;DR: This review describes the recent advances in the development of imaging agents based on silica nanoparticles as well as the possibility of combining together different imaging techniques in the same nanoplatform and simultaneously performing imaging and therapy.

TL;DR: The chemical bond and structural features for the most important classes of solid products obtained by reacting chalcogen donors with dihalogen and interhalogens are reviewed and each structural motif considered in the absence of X-ray structural analyses is considered.

TL;DR: Interaction of methimazole (MMI, 1-methyl-imidazole-2-thione) with I2 in solvents having different polarity gives two new stable compounds containing a dication disulfides and a monocation disulfide arranged in dimers, respectively, which could represent effective intermediates in the reaction of MMI with an active iodine species in the thyroid gland.