Publications by authors named "Shengwen Xu"

Priming effects of soil organic matter decomposition are critical to determine carbon budget and turnover in soil. Yet, the overall direction and intensity of soil priming remains under debate. A second-order meta-analysis was performed with 9296-paired observations from 363 primary studies to determine the intensity and general direction of priming effects depending on the compound type, nutrient availability, and ecosystem type.

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The increased usage of rare earth elements (REEs) leads to the extensive exploitation of rare earth mines, and the REEs pollution in soil caused by the legacy mine tailings has brought great harm to environment and human health. Although Phytolacca americana can remove REEs from contaminated soil to some extent, there is still an urgent problem to improve its efficiency. Hyperaccumulator extract is a new organic material with potential in metal phytoextraction, but its role in REEs phytoremediation and the related underlying processes remain unclear.

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Article Synopsis
  • * The process involves generating a -carborane cage radical through the transfer of electrons from the cage to a photocatalyst when exposed to green light.
  • * This new reaction strategy allows for efficient B-N, B-S, and B-Se couplings in the presence of various compounds and can aid in modifying drugs and creating new boron-based drug candidates for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).
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Rare earth elements (REEs) are considered to be emerging contaminants due to their widespread use and lack of recycling. Phytolacca americana L. has great potential for REEs phytoextraction.

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Access to nido-carborane site-selective B-N(sp) coupling by photoredox catalysed B-H activation has been achieved for the first time, which leads to the synthesis of a series of nitrogen-containing nido-carboranes with moderate to good yields. This protocol is applicable to primary and secondary amines containing alkyl, or heteroaryl groups as well as sulfonamides. Furthermore, the open to air and metal-free conditions with excellent site-selectivity represent a significant improvement for B-H functionalization of nido-carboranes with organic functionalities.

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Inspired by the chemistry and biology of chromone and oxindole derivatives, herein we report the first example of thermal-mediated [1,3]-hydrogen transfer as the key step for the efficient synthesis of oxindole-chromone hybrid collections 2, which avoids additional catalyst and solvent conditions. All the oxindole-chromones 2 are smoothly obtained in >99% yields in all cases, avoiding column chromatography purification. In particular, the products 2 can act as potential synthons for further elaboration in structural diversity, which might be valuable in organic and medicinal chemistry.

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A novel methodology toward the diversity-oriented asymmetric construction of densely functionalized isoxazole-dispirobisoxindoles was developed. This approach is distinguished by an organocatalytic stereo- and appealing β-regioselective [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of 3-methyl-4-nitro-5-isatylidenyl-isoxazoles and 3-isothiocyanato oxindoles. Complex polycyclic oxindoles 3 featuring two different oxindole moieties and three contiguous stereocenters were smoothly afforded in up to 96% yield, 96% ee, and >20 : 1 dr.

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Objective: To evaluate the effect of health education on prevention from schistosome infection in engineering construction workers in Poyang Lake area.

Methods: The workers for constructing "De Chang" highway in Poyang Lake area were divided randomly into an experiment group and a control group, "health education + protective skill training" was carried out in the experiment group, whereas, no intervention was implemented in the control group.

Results: In the experiment group, the awareness rates of schistosomiasis control knowledge were 7.

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