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Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.
April 2008
Hot article: Easy copper catalysis
04 April 2008
Japanese chemists report a simple method to add aryl-metal species to alkynoates, using a copper acetate catalyst.
Hot article: New method for mixture analysis
08 April 2008
A new, time-saving method to analyse complex mixtures of compounds has been discovered by French scientists.
A bright future for solar cells
08 April 2008
A highly efficient light harvesting molecule could lead to cheaper solar cells, claim international scientists.
Hot article: Biodegradable polymers
08 April 2008
Scientists in France have synthesized a biodegradable polymer derived from glutamic acid.
Radical proposal for atmospheric link to asthma
09 April 2008
Nitrate radicals irreversibly damage amino acids and could play a role in respiratory disease, say Australian researchers.
Liquid crystals in all of us?
18 April 2008
European researchers spark debate as they claim that cell nuclei may contain liquid crystals.
Hot article: Guest directs molecular arrangement
21 April 2008
UK chemists control molecular organisation on the nanoscale.
Hot article: 'Click' chemistry preparation of functionalized fullerenes
21 April 2008
French and Brazilian researchers have developed fullerene hexakis-adducts as 3D molecules with high potential for biological and materials applications.
Hot article: Quenching pyrene-based fluorescent probe
21 April 2008
Scientists in Switzerland have shown that pyrene excimer fluorescence can be effectively quenched by perylene diimide (PDI) upon DNA duplex formation.
Hot article: Ultrasensitive SERS detection
25 April 2008
The surface-enhanced raman scattering signals (SERS) of four analytes, in low concentrations, have been detected using silver nanoparticles developed by scientists in China.
Hot article: White phosphorus used to synthesize nickel phosphide
29 April 2008
French researchers have synthesised nickel phosphide using Ni (0) complexes and the highly reactive white phosphorus (P4), as a single source of phosphorus.
Hot article: Getting in a spin
29 April 2008
Scientists in Japan have shown the intercalation of metal (aza)porphines into an organic-pillared coordination box, forming metal arrays with unusual spin properties.
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