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Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.



January 2007


hypervalent iodine

Hot Article: Cleaner, safer synthesis

09 January 2007

Replacing toxic heavy metals with hypervalent iodine could be music to the ears of synthetic chemists.


fluorescent azobenzene

Hot Article: The brightest azobenzene

11 January 2007

The most intensely fluorescent azobenzene molecule to date has been discovered by Japanese scientists.


Boron nanoparticles

Hot Article: Boron nanoparticles

12 January 2007

A simple route to functionalised boron nanoparticles has been developed by US scientists.


Immobilised primer probes

Hot Article: The genetic detective

16 January 2007

Scientists develop a selective microarray method to detect genetic variations.


Part of Pd-acyl molecule

Hot Article: Methanolysis explored

17 January 2007

UK scientists shed light on the mechanism of an industrially-important process.


quantum wires

Hot Article: Luminescent quantum wires

19 January 2007

A valuable insight into the versatile synthesis of luminescent quantum rods has been revealed by scientists in Germany.


L-histidine crystal

Hot Article: Chirality detection on nanoscopic surfaces

24 January 2007

Chirality on nanoscopic surfaces can now be detected using polarised near-field scanning optical microscopy.