In Houston, Texas, nitrogen dioxide (NO) air pollution disproportionately affects Black, Latinx, and Asian communities, and high ozone (O) days are frequent. There is limited knowledge of how NO inequalities vary in urban air quality contexts, in part from the lack of time-varying neighborhood-level NO measurements. First, we demonstrate that daily TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) NO tropospheric vertical column densities (TVCDs) resolve a major portion of census tract-scale NO inequalities in Houston, comparing NO inequalities based on TROPOMI TVCDs and spatiotemporally coincident airborne remote sensing (250 m × 560 m) from the NASA TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment-Air Quality (TRACER-AQ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUrban air pollution disproportionately harms communities of color and low-income communities in the U.S. Intraurban nitrogen dioxide (NO) inequalities can be observed from space using the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHouston, Texas is a major U.S. urban and industrial area where poor air quality is unevenly distributed and a disproportionate share is located in low-income, non-white, and Hispanic neighborhoods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBoth arylsulfonyl and alkylsulfonyl azides can be effectively activated by the cobalt(II) complexes of -symmetric chiral amidoporphyrins for enantioselective radical 1,5-C-H amination to stereoselectively construct 5-membered cyclic sulfonamides. In addition to C-H bonds with varied electronic properties, the Co(II)-based metalloradical system features chemoselective amination of allylic C-H bonds and is compatible with heteroaryl groups, producing functionalized 5-membered chiral cyclic sulfonamides in high yields with high enantioselectivities. The unique profile of reactivity and selectivity of the Co(II)-catalyzed C-H amination is attributed to its underlying stepwise radical mechanism, which is supported by several lines of experimental evidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCobalt complexes of N-confused porphyrins and benziphthalocyanine, which both feature organometallic bonds at the macrocycle cores, catalyze the cyclopropanation of styrene with a higher trans-selectivity than the corresponding porphyrin and phthalocyanine complexes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiporphyrins can be efficiently synthesized from bromoporphyrin precursors via palladium-catalyzed C-O bond formation. The synthetic methodology is general and can be applied to various diols, forming a series of homo-diporphyrins containing different types of spacers in high to excellent yields. Chiral diporphyrins can be readily constructed through the use of optically active diols.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF5,10-Bis(2',6'-dibromophenyl)porphyrins bearing various substituents at the 10 and 20 positions were demonstrated to be versatile synthons for modular construction of chiral porphyrins via palladium-catalyzed amidation reactions with chiral amides. The quadruple carbon-nitrogen bond formation reactions were accomplished in high yields with different chiral amide building blocks under mild conditions, forming a family of D2-symmetric chiral porphyrins. Cobalt(II) complexes of these chiral porphyrins were prepared in high yields and shown to be active catalysts for highly enantioselective and diastereoselective cyclopropanation under a practical one-pot protocol (alkenes as limiting reagents and no slow addition of diazo reagents).
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