Gold nanoparticles decorated with a ferrocene derivative as a potential shift-based transducing system of interest for sensitive immunosensing.

The condensation of 1,1'-ferrocenedimethanol and lipoic acid yields a ferrocene derivative (FcD): 1,1'-ferrocenyl bis(methylene lipoic acid ester), a bipodant linker which was used to aggregate gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The FcD/AuNP aggregations displayed a very well-resolved signal related to the ferrocene oxidation to ferrocenium. The aggregates were found to form an efficient transducing system for a novel concept of immunosensing based on the shifting of the ferrocene oxidation potential.

Switching on/off the chemisorption of thioctic-based self-assembled monolayers on gold by applying a moderate cathodic/anodic potential.

An in situ and real-time electrochemical method has been devised for quantitatively monitoring the self-assembly of a ferrocene-labeled cyclic disulfide derivative (i.e., a thioctic acid derivative) on a polycrystalline gold electrode under electrode polarization.

Revealing molecular self-assembly and geometry of non-covalent halogen bonding by solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

We report a new spectroscopic fingerprint of intermolecular contacts in halogen bond-driven self-assembling aggregates and a precise determination of intermolecular NI distances in microcrystalline samples.

1,2-Bis[bis-(methyl-sulfan-yl)methyl-ene]hydrazine.

The title compound, C(6)H(12)N(2)S(4), was obtained as a by-product (8%) during the reaction of the electrogenerated cyano-methyl anion with phenyl-amine, carbon disulfide and methyl iodide. The mol-ecule, with the exception of 8 H atoms, lies on a crystallographic mirror plane and is arranged around an inversion centre located at the mid-point of the N-N bond.

Lead and cadmium concentrations in seawater and algae of the Tunisian coast.

Both lead and cadmium are toxic trace metals, even in very weak concentrations. The aim of this study was to estimate lead and cadmium pollution in various sites of the Tunisian coast and to verify the possibility of modification of the algae bioconcentration power according to water physico-chemical conditions. Our study concerned 99 samples of algae and 99 samples of seawater, taken in different sites of the Tunisian littoral.