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Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.



October 2006


Coordination cages

Hot Article: Keeping guest molecules in order

06 October 2006

Guest molecules can be ordered by the self-assembly of a symmetrical cage into a 2-D network structure.


Optical tweezers deform droplets

Hot Article: Advances in organic semiconductors

11 October 2006

Chinese scientists have developed a powerful protocol for making new functional units of organic semiconductors.


Cascade reactions for DNA detection

Hot Article: Cascade reactions for DNA detection

11 October 2006

A new visual method of detecting DNA using a reagent that produces an optical response has been developed by scientists in Germany.


fragment of polypeptide

Hot Article: Mild method for 'green' plastics

12 October 2006

Scientists discover a new low temperature route to biodegradable and biocompatible polymers.


gold nanoparticles

Hot Article: Stabilising gold nanoparticles

13 October 2006

Chemists in France have made heteroditopic ligands and used them to stabilize gold nanoparticles.


Tetrametallic rectangular box complexes

Hot Article: Building box complexes

13 October 2006

Scientists in the US have used small molecular building blocks to construct tetrametallic rectangular box complexes.


Click on to HPLC

Hot Article: Click on to HPLC

17 October 2006

The power of 'click chemistry' has been extended to the world of separation analysis by a team of scientists in China.


photosensitising dye for use in cancer therapy

Hot Article: New dye for cancer treatment

24 October 2006

A photosensitising dye for use in a targeted and non-invasive form of cancer therapy has been developed by scientists in Turkey.


dipyridyl group of single molecule wire

Hot Article: The longest single molecule wire

30 October 2006

A single molecule wire, claimed by scientists to be the longest to date, has electronic properties that can be chemically modified.


Cobalt complex

Hot Article: A lasting memory

31 October 2006

Achiral or racemic molecules with imprintable chiral memory can be transformed into stereoselective catalysts, say scientists.