This week: Conservation of historical leather book covers, acid rain sensing, bacterial cytological profiling — and more! Each and every day, ACS grants free access to a new peer-reviewed research article from one of the Society’s journals. These articles are specially chosen by a team of scientific editors of ACS journals from around the world to […]

This week: Conservation of historical leather book covers, acid rain sensing, bacterial cytological profiling — and more!

Each and every day, ACS grants free access to a new peer-reviewed research article from one of the Society’s journals. These articles are specially chosen by a team of scientific editors of ACS journals from around the world to highlight the transformative power of chemistry. Access to these articles will remain open to all as a public service.

Check out this week’s picks!
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Bacterial Cytological Profiling Reveals the Mechanism of Action of Anticancer Metal Complexes

Mol. Pharmaceutics, Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00407
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Deca-Arylsamarocene: An Unusually Inert Sm(II) Sandwich Complex

Organometallics, Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00254
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TD-DFT and TD-DFTB Investigation of the Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Silver Nanorods and Nanorod Dimers

J. Phys. Chem. C, Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b05196
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Swift Acid Rain Sensing by Synergistic Rhizospheric Bioelectrochemical Responses

ACS Sens., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00401
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Identifying the Rate-Limiting Elementary Steps of Nitrogen Fixation with Single-Site Fe Model Complexes

Inorg. Chem., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01183
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Study of the Degradation and Conservation of Historical Leather Book Covers with Macro Attenuated Total Reflection–Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging

ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (7), pp 7150–7157
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00773
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Total Synthesis of (±)–Exotine B

Org. Lett., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b01817
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