Flexible luminescent non-lanthanide metal-organic frameworks as small molecules sensors

Toxic, carcinogenic, and hazardous materials are omnipresent, generally obtained by anthropogenic activities, industrial activities, aerobic and anaerobic degradation of waste materials and are harmful to human health and environment. Thus, sensing, colorimetric detection, and subsequent inclusion of these chemicals are of prime importance for human health and environment. In comparison to other classes of highly porous materials, luminescent metal-organic frameworks (LMOFs) have chromophoric organic ligands, high surface area, high degree of tunability and structural diversity. They have received scientific interest as sensory materials for device fabrication to detect and sense toxic small molecules. Especially, as soft-porous materials exhibiting a degree of flexibility or dynamic behaviour, flexible LMOFs are promising for selective detection and sensing, and for encapsulation of toxic and health hazardous molecules. Such flexible LMOFs offer a potential platform for selective adsorption/separation, molecular recognition, and sensing application. In this perspective, we highlight the advantages of flexibility of LMOFs for selective detection and sensing, and inclusion of toxic small molecules (solvents, anions, halobenzenes, aromatics, aromatic amines, nitro-explosives and acetylacetone). In addition, the principles and strategies guiding the design of these MOF based materials and recent progress in the luminescent detection of toxic small molecules are also discussed. In this perspective we limit our discussion on the 'non-lanthanide' based luminescent MOFs that have flexibility in the framework and show small molecule sensing applications.

Evolving Role and Translation of Radiomics and Radiogenomics in Adult and Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

Exponential technologic advancements in imaging, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence, in addition to increasing access to vast amounts of diverse data, have revolutionized the role of imaging in medicine. Radiomics is defined as a high-throughput feature-extraction method that unlocks microscale quantitative data hidden within standard-of-care medical imaging. Radiogenomics is defined as the linkage between imaging and genomics information. Multiple radiomics and radiogenomics studies performed on conventional and advanced neuro-oncology image modalities show that they have the potential to differentiate pseudoprogression from true progression, classify tumor subgroups, and predict recurrence, survival, and mutation status with high accuracy. In this article, we outline the technical steps involved in radiomics and radiogenomics analyses with the use of artificial intelligence methods and review current applications in adult and pediatric neuro-oncology.

Flexible Luminescent MOF: Trapping of Less Stable Conformation of Rotational Isomers, In Situ Guest-Responsive Turn-Off and Turn-On Luminescence and Mechanistic Study

Flexible and dynamic Cu^I metal-organic framework [Cu(I)-MOF (1)] with well-defined nanoporous channel built with flexible terpyridine ligand offers a scaffold for the inclusion of different classes of guest molecules through a single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) transformation in the vapor phase at ambient conditions with visual color change. Thus, Cu(I)-MOF (1) offers a potential platform for molecular recognition and undergoes guest-responsive structural dynamism that can be triggered by interfacial interactions. Despite having the stable conformation of the rotational isomers, it selectively encapsulates the less stable conformation (eclipsed and gauche) into its cavity from their vapor phases in the SCSC process. All of the guest-exchanged processes are reversible. It shows selectivity toward less polar guest in a class. The intermediate of all of the guest-exchanged processes appeared as a black material (H₂O@Cu(I)-MOF) (1z) prior to the encapsulation of each guest that happens through the SCSC manner followed by encapsulation of the guests replacing H₂O in situ at ambient conditions through SCSC transformation. This confirms that the process is a two-step process leading to a common intermediate. The MOF loses its luminescence behavior with H₂O removing lattice solvents in situ and appears as a black material, and it regains its luminescence property with the guests replacing H₂O. Thus, the MOF displays both luminescence "turn-off" and "turn-on" before and after incorporation of the guests, respectively, leading to a common turn-off mechanism. A fluorescence titration experiment shows selectivity toward aniline among benzene and its derivatives.

Mononuclear bis(dithiolene) Mo(iv) and W(iv) complexes with P,P; S,S; O,S and O,O donor ligands: a comparative reactivity study

Comparative redox reactions of eight Mo^IV/W^IVcomplexes with P,P; S,S; S,O and O,O donor ligands are presented.