Potential of hydrogen (pH) is one of the most relevant parameters characterizing aqueous solutions. In biology, pH is intrinsically linked to cellular life since all metabolic pathways are implicated into ionic flows. In that way, determination of local pH offers a unique and major opportunity to increase our understanding of biological systems. Whereas the most common technique to obtain these data in analytical chemistry is to directly measure potential between two electrodes, in biological systems, this information has to be recovered in-situ without any physical interaction. Based on their non-invasive optical properties, fluorescent pH-sensitive probe are pertinent tools to develop. One of the most notorious pH-sensitive probes is fluorescein. In addition to excellent photophysical properties, this fluorophore presents a pH-sensitivity around neutral and physiologic domains. This review intends to shed new light on the recent use of fluorescein as pH-sensitive probes for biological applications, including targeted probes for specific imaging, flexible monitoring of bacterial growth, and biomedical applications.

This review provides an outline of the most noteworthy achievements in the area of C-N, C-O and C-P bond formation by hydroamination, hydroalkoxylation, hydrophosphination, hydrophosphonylation or hydrophosphinylation reaction on unactivated alkenes (including 1,2- and 1,3-dienes) promoted by first-row late transition metal catalytic systems based on manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc. The relevant literature from 2009 until mid-2017 has been covered.

Naphthalene is certainly not a common arene. In contrast to benzene, the bicyclic feature of naphthalene offers multiple differentiable positions and thus a broad diversity of substitution patterns. Naphthalene is a central building block for the construction of elaborated polycyclic architectures with applications in broad domains such as life and materials sciences. As a result, C–H functionalization strategies specially designed for naphthalene substrates have become essential to install valuable substituents on one or both rings towards polysubstituted naphthalenes. This short review provides a focus on uncommon substitution patterns; however, classical ortho C–H activation is not covered.1 Introduction2 C–H Functionalization Using a Directing Group Located at Position 12.1 Functionalization on the Ring Bearing the DG: 1,3-Substitution Pattern2.2 Functionalization on the Ring Bearing the DG: 1,4-Substitution Pattern2.3 Functionalization on the Neighboring Ring: 1,6-, 1,7- and 1,8-Substitution Patterns3 C–H Functionalization Using a Directing Group Located at Position 23.1 Functionalization on the Ring Bearing the DG: 2,4- and 2,1-Substitution Patterns3.2 Miscellaneous Substitution Patterns4 Bis C–H Functionalization4.1 Symmetrical Bisfunctionalization: 1,2,8-Substitution Pattern4.2 Symmetrical Bisfunctionalization: 2,3,1-Substitution Pattern4.2 Unsymmetrical Bisfunctionalization: 2,3,1-Substitution Pattern4.3 Symmetrical Bisfunctionalization: 2,4,8-Substitution Pattern5 Conclusion and Outlook

Anion recognition represents an active area of research in supramolecular chemistry. The last two decades have been marked by spectacular advances in the design of new anion receptors. Moreover, the development of approaches combining experimental and theoretical studies has proved to be particularly relevant, allowing for a better understanding and rationalization of the phenomena involved in anion complexation processes. In this context, the combination of weak interactions within the same receptor and their synergistic effects, called cooperativity, has attracted increasing interest within the scientific community. This Review focuses on the combination of anion‐π and hydrogen bonds and the emerging concept of cooperativity. The most relevant anion‐π donor families are presented. The concept of cooperativity is illustrated using the most recent examples present in current literature.