Issue 12, 2007

Crossing the mirror between conceptual worlds creates an integrated insight and a higher degree of understanding, as exemplified by the homo-chemicus inspecting its chemical ideas in the looking glass.

Issue 11, 2007

The cover presents an alternative version of the famous dream of Kekule - envisaging the benzene ring as the mythological Ouroboros snake.

Issue 11, 2007 Inside Cover

p-Carboxylatocalix[4]arene, when crystallised from pyridine, forms large diameter non-covalent nanotubes through back-to-back stacking of the cone shaped host molecule.

Issue 10, 2007

The propeller shape of this mariposa lily from Western US is reminiscent of the tripodal ligand complexes of zinc(II) that are the topic of a Perspective by Dai and Canary.

Issue 9, 2007

Insulated wires are commercially available in countless motifs, and chemists are engineering an ever-growing portfolio of molecular analogs, as exemplified by two syntheses of PtCxPt complexes in which the sp carbon chains are shielded by two functionalized flexible sp³ chains.

Issue 8, 2007

The evolution of ionic liquids from solvents of unknown toxicity to active pharmaceutical ingredients is illustrated.

Issue 7, 2007

The ''Place du Capitole'' (the city hall of Toulouse) with the representation of a dendrimer instead of the ''Croix du Languedoc'', emblem of Toulouse and its area. Toulouse is the venue for the International Dendrimer Symposium 5.
DOI: 10.1039/b709022f

Issue 6, 2007

Small Pac-zincs are ''eating'' DNA, illustrating the potency of zinc(II) complexes as catalysts for the hydrolytic cleavage of phosphate diester bonds.
DOI: 10.1039/b703556j

Issue 6, 2007 Inside Cover

Textile-like well-organized assemblies are obtained by nanoscale alignment of conjugated polymers by a supramolecular approach (the central Chinese character means textile).
DOI: 10.1039/b707586n

Issue 5, 2007

Like the Hydra of old, the psychedelic Antarctic octopus (Paraledone turqueti) is a monster capable of grabbing its victims using multiple interactions. The same is true for the new anion receptor described by Sessler
DOI: 10.1039/B615673H

Issue 4, 2007

View of Nice from Mount Boron
DOI: 10.1039/B618493F

Issue 3, 2007

The modern methods of computational chemistry can provide valuable insight to experimentalists to explain their results, suggest novel interpretations, and support or disprove hypotheses.
DOI: 10.1039/B615528F

Issue 2, 2007

The cover depicts immunostaining of amyloid plaques from transgenic mice. Beta-Amyloid peptide aggregation in the brain is a known symptom of Alzheimer's neurodegenerative disease. Chelators can help to study the interactions of metal ions with beta-amyloid peptides and, ultimately, to develop new therapeutic applications.
DOI: 10.1039/B616085A

Issue 1, 2007

For its 30th anniversary, NJC features a molecular capsule whose two halves are held together by a belt of zinc ions. The cover highlights different forms of zinc, including the alchemical depiction.
DOI: 10.1039/B615947H