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Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.



April 2007


Mauveine dye

Hot Article: The mystery of mauve

20 April 2007

Two new compounds have been identified in an original sample of Perkin's mauveine dye.


Schematic diagram showing that bent molecules form nanospheres or nanowires, while straight ones make nanocubes

Hot Article: Forming clusters with open arms

23 April 2007

Rationally designed smart nanomaterials could be a step closer thanks to Chinese chemists.


Mountain with ice on

Hot Article: RNA on ice

23 April 2007

Evidence has been uncovered suggesting that the earliest forms of life may have benefited from the frozen environment of the polar regions.


Protein

Hot Article: Iron taxis

25 April 2007

Researchers investigate the role of the protein frataxin in iron transport in the body.


TEM micrograph of film

Hot Article: Making functionalised macrocycles

27 April 2007

A porphyrazine macrocycle with eight peripheral cyano groups has been made for the first time by researchers in Russia.


Part of molecule

Hot Article: Carrier molecules

27 April 2007

Scientists design prodigiosin mimics that efficiently co-transport HCl across a membrane.


organometallic gelator

Hot Article: Smart gels

27 April 2007

A titanocene gelator that is able to gelate a variety of solvents of different polarity has been made.


Molecule

Hot Article: Hot-wiring enzymes for fuel cells

30 April 2007

Stable enzyme-modified graphite electrodes could be used in fuel cells, according to researchers in Oxford.