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12 p, 1.6 MB Mussel-inspired lego approach for controlling the wettability of surfaces with colorless coatings / Casagualda Clapés, Carolina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Mancebo Aracil, Juan (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Moreno Villaécija, Miguel Ángel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; López Moral, Alba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Alibes, Ramón (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Busqué Sánchez, Félix (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Ruiz-Molina, Daniel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
The control of surface wettability with polyphenol coatings has been at the forefront of materials research since the late 1990s, when robust underwater adhesion was linked to the presence of L-DOPA-a catecholic amino acid-in unusually high amounts, in the sequences of several mussel foot proteins. [...]
2023 - 10.3390/biomimetics8010003
Biomimetics, Vol. 8, issue 1 (March 2023) , art. 3  
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9 p, 704.8 KB Thiol-yne click reaction : an interesting way to derive thiol-provided catechols / Nador, Fabiana (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Mancebo Aracil, Juan (Universidad Nacional del Sur. Instituto de Química del Sur) ; Zanotto, Duham (Universidad Nacional del Sur. Instituto de Química del Sur) ; Ruiz-Molina, Daniel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Radivoy, Gabriel (Universidad Nacional del Sur. Instituto de Química del Sur)
The hydrothiolation of activated alkynes is presented as an attractive and powerful way to functionalize thiols bearing catechols. The reaction was promoted by a heterogeneous catalyst composed of copper nanoparticles supported on TiO2 (CuNPs/TiO2) in 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCE) under heating at 80 °C. [...]
2021 - 10.1039/d0ra09687c
RSC advances, Vol. 11, issue 4 (2021) , p. 2074-2082  
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16 p, 1.2 MB Bioinspired Functional Catechol Derivatives through Simple Thiol Conjugate Addition / Mancebo Aracil, Juan (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Casagualda Clapés, Carolina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Moreno Villaécija, Miguel Ángel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Nador, Fabiana (Universidad Nacional del Sur) ; Garcia-Pardo, Javier (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Franconetti García, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Busqué Sánchez, Félix (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Alibes, Ramón (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Esplandiu Egido, Maria José (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Ruiz-Molina, Daniel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Sedó Vegara, Josep (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
The combination of the surface-adhesive properties of catechol rings and functional moieties conveying specific properties is very appealing to materials chemistry, but the preparation of catechol derivatives often requires elaborate synthetic routes to circumvent the intrinsic reactivity of the catechol ring. [...]
2019 - 10.1002/chem.201901914
Chemistry, Vol. 25, Issue 53 (September 2019) , p. 12367-12379  
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21 p, 1.6 MB The Chemistry behind Catechol-Based Adhesion / Saiz-Poseu, Javier (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Mancebo Aracil, Juan (Universidad Nacional del Sur) ; Nador, Fabiana (Universidad Nacional del Sur) ; Busqué Sánchez, Félix (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Ruiz-Molina, Daniel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
The adhesion of some marine organisms to almost any kind of surface in wet conditions has aroused increasing interest in recent decades. Numerous fundamental studies have been performed to understand the scientific basis of this behaviour, with catechols having been found to play a key role. [...]
2019 - 10.1002/anie.201801063
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. Internet), Vol. 58, Issue 3 (January 2019) , p. 696-714  
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16 p, 2.8 MB Replacing nitrogen by sulfur : From structurally disordered eumelanins to regioregular thiomelanin polymers / Iacomino, Mariagrazia (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; Mancebo Aracil, Juan (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Guardingo Melián, Mireia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Martín, Raquel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; D'Errico, Gerardino (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; Perfetti, Marco (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; Manini, Paola (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; Crescenzi, Orlando (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; Busqué Sánchez, Félix (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) ; Napolitano, Alessandra (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; d'Ischia, Marco (University of Naples "Federico II". Department of Chemical Sciences) ; Sedó Vegara, Josep (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia) ; Ruiz-Molina, Daniel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
The oxidative polymerization of 5,6-dihydroxybenzothiophene (DHBT), the sulfur analog of the key eumelanin building block 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI), was investigated to probe the role of nitrogen in eumelanin build-up and properties. [...]
2017 - 10.3390/ijms18102169
International journal of molecular sciences, Vol. 18, Núm. 10 (October 2017) , art. 2169  

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