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Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.



May 2007


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Hot Article: Anomaly in palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions revealed

03 May 2007

Chemists in the UK have reported a vital step towards the mechanistic understanding of this important reaction.


Nanoparticles

Hot Article: Growing particles from the inside out

11 May 2007

Gold particles have been grown inside silica nanoshells in an inside out approach to synthesis.


Azide functionalised polymersome

Hot Article: Bio-inspired nanocontainers

11 May 2007

Drug delivery agents could be made by modifying the surface of polymer vesicles with bio-active molecules, say Dutch researchers.


Molecule

Hot Article: Metal centre holds key to gas reduction

14 May 2007

Removal of nitrogen oxides from car exhaust fumes continues to be a challenge for environmental scientists. Now chemists in Poland might be able to help.


Dendrimer

Hot Article: Dendrimer synthesis branches out

31 May 2007

Scientists report a simple and efficient dendrimer synthesis, using fewer steps and with easier purification.


LUMO orbital diagram

Hot Article: Pi-bowls

31 May 2007

A potential new route to organic electronic materials has been developed by scientists in Japan.