@article {44184,
	title = {Imido-P(V) trianion supported enantiopure neutral tetrahedral Pd(II) cages},
	journal = {Chemical Communications},
	volume = {54},
	year = {2018},
	month = {FEB},
	pages = {1873-1876},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>Charge-neutral chiral hosts are attractive due to their ability to recognize a wide range of guest functionalities and support enantio-selective processes. However, reports on such charge-neutral cages are very scarce in the literature. Here, we report an enantiomeric pair of tetrahedral Pd(II) cages built from chiral tris(imido) phosphate trianions and oxalate linkers, which exhibit enantioselective separation capabilities for epichlorohydrin, beta-butyrolactone, and 3-methyl- and 3-ethyl cyclopentanone.</p>},
	issn = {1359-7345},
	doi = {10.1039/c8cc00207j},
	author = {Rajasekar, Prabhakaran and Pandey, Swechchha and Paithankar, Harshad and Chugh, Jeetender and Steiner, Alexander and Boomishankar, Ramamoorthy}
}
@article {48437,
	title = {Water-controlled keto-enol tautomerization of a prebiotic nucleobase},
	journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry B},
	volume = {126},
	year = {2022},
	month = {JUL},
	pages = {5735{\textendash}5743},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>
	Barbituric acid is believed to be a proto-RNA nucleobase that was used for biological information transfer on prebiotic earth before DNA and RNA in their present forms evolved. Nucleobases have various tautomeric forms and the relative stability of these forms is critical to their biological function. It has been shown that barbituric acid has a tri-keto form in the gas phase and an enol form in the solid state. However, its dominant tautomeric form in aqueous medium that is most relevant for biology has been investigated only to a limited extent and the findings are inconclusive. We have used multiple approaches, namely, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, NMR, and IR spectroscopy to determine the most stable tautomer of barbituric acid in solution. We find a delicate balance in the stability of the two tautomers, tri-keto and enol, which is tipped toward the enol as the extent of solvation by water increases.</p>
},
	issn = {1520-6106},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c02507},
	author = {Datar, Avdhoot and Paithankar, Harshad and Deb, Pranab and Chugh, Jeetender and Bagchi, Sayan and Mukherjee, Arnab and Hazra, Anirban}
}
