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Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.



December 2006


Barium-gallium complex

Hot Article: Gallium forms new relationships

04 December 2006

Bonds between gallium and two different alkaline earth metals have been formed for the first time by scientists in Germany.


Axel of porphyrin molecule

Hot Article: Competing faces of porphyrins

08 December 2006

Australian chemists have kinetically trapped a guest molecule inside a molecular cavity.


diseased plant

Hot Article: A pharmacy to protect plants

11 December 2006

Scientists in Canada have reported the discovery of naturally occurring aromatic isothiocyanates


mass spectrometer detector and beam

Hot Article: Fingerprinting bacteria

14 December 2006

Rapid and highly specific detection of disease-causing micro-organisms is now possible thanks to US scientists.


supramolecular switch

Hot Article: Staying switched on

15 December 2006

A supramolecular switch that can remember whether it is switched on has been developed by US chemists.


Irradiating the electron donor

Hot Article: Faster photosynthesis?

22 December 2006

Accelerating electron transfer in molecular arrays could have implications for molecular electronic devices and artificial photosynthesis, chemists in France and Sweden say.