In this issue's Emerging Area, Henry N. C. Wong at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China, and co-workers examine the properties of hydroxytetraphenylenes. The structure of tetraphenylenes makes these compounds ideal for use as building blocks for forming chiral 3-dimensional motifs, and as asymmetric catalysts. 

In a Perspective Article, Yoshihiro Matano and Hiroshi Imahori at Kyoto University, Japan discuss the design and synthesis of phosphole-based  systems for novel organic materials. 

Featured on the outside front cover of the issue (above) is a paper by Toshihiro Ihara and colleagues at Kumamoto University, Japan, on Anthracene-DNA conjugates as building blocks of designed DNA structures constructed by photochemical reactions.

In their Hot Article, also featured on the Inside front cover (below), Robert Mach and co-workers at Washington University in St. Louis, US, report ¹¹C- and ¹⁸F-labelled isatin analogues as radiotracers for noninvasive imaging of apoptosis.