Access to 2,4-Disubstituted Pyrrole-Based Polymer with Long-Wavelength and Stimuli-Responsive Properties via Copper-Catalyzed [3+2] Polycycloaddition.

Pyrrole-based polymers (PBPs), a type of fascinating functional polymers, play a crucial role in materials science. However, efficient synthetic strategies of PBPs with diverse structures are mainly focused on conjugated polypyrroles and still remain challenging. Herein, an atom and step economy protocol is described to access various 2,4-disubstituted PBPs by in situ formation of pyrrole core structure via copper-catalyzed [3+2] polycycloaddition of dialkynones and diisocyanoacetates.

Machine learning based on gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI for differentiating atypical intrahepatic mass-forming cholangiocarcinoma from poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma.

Purpose: The study was to develop a Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI radiomics model for differentiating atypical intrahepatic mass-forming cholangiocarcinoma (aIMCC) from poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma (pHCC).

Materials And Methods: A total of 134 patients (51 aIMCC and 83 pHCC) who underwent Gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI between March 2016 and March 2022 were enrolled in this study and then randomly assigned to the training and validation cohorts by 7:3 (93 patients and 41 patients, respectively). The radiomics features were extracted from the hepatobiliary phase of Gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI.

Nomogram based on MRI for preoperative prediction of Ki-67 expression in patients with intrahepatic mass cholangiocarcinoma.

Objectives: To validate a new nomogram based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for pre-operative prediction of Ki-67 expression in patients with intrahepatic mass cholangiocarcinoma (IMCC).

Methods: A total of 78 patients with clinicopathologically confirmed IMCC who underwent pre-operative gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid enhanced MRI between 2016 and 2022 were enrolled in the training and validation group (53 patients and 25 patients, respectively). Images including qualitative, quantitative MRI features and clinical data were evaluated.

Renewable high-density spiro-fuels from lignocellulose-derived cyclic ketones.

Renewable high-density spiro-fuels are synthesized from lignocellulose-derived cyclic ketones for the first time, which show higher density, higher neat heat of combustion and lower freezing point compared with other biofuels synthesized from the same feedstock, and thus represent a new type of renewable high-density fuel attractive for practical applications.