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Hot article: 1H NMR to determine the HBA ability of anions in RTILs
16 May 2008
A hydrogen bond accepting (HBA) ability scale for anions of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) has been determined by means of 1H NMR spectroscopy and a solvatochromic UV/vis p...
Hot article: Acceptorless and reversible dehydrogenation goes solid
16 May 2008
Hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of a cyclic alkane can now be achieved in the solid state, without any need for a hydrogen acceptor.

Hot article: Breaking news, ethanol detected in Bordeaux
03 April 2008
French scientists in Bordeaux present a new type of indiator-displacement-assay based on perfluorocarbon for the detection of ethanol in water.

Hot Article: New perspectives for magnetic resonance imaging
03 April 2008
French Scientists have discovered an iron(II)-based molecular system whose properties offer novel opportunities for the development of more efficient and versatile MRI contrasting ...

Hot Article: Self-assembly of chromophoric aggregates: a photophysical investigation.
03 April 2008
Fluorescence and circular dichroism were used to highlight the role of solvent and of gelator structure in the self-assembly and chirality of fibrillar networks.

Hot Article: Probing silicone-protein interactions
03 April 2008
Phage display technology was used to present a combinatorial library of peptides to a series of model silicone surfaces based on solid molecular cage silsesquioxanes.

Hot article: Would hydrogen go for naked fluorides?
05 February 2008
Chemists in the UK undress fluorides in a virtual porous polymer to investigate hydrogen physisorption.

Hot Article: C60-C60 interactions stabilise self-assemblies
01 February 2008
Chemists in France demonstrate how pi-pi interactions stabilise fullerene-containing non-covalent assemblies with porphyrins.
Hot Article: Size controlled nanoparticles
19 November 2007
The use of mesostructured hybrid silica hosts allowed the synthesis of size-controlled CN-bridged coordination polymer nanoparticles with anomalous magnetic properties.

Hot Article: Mechanical Instability of Gold Nanoparticles during Mercury Amalgamation
08 October 2007
Richard Compton speaks to NJC about his recent investigations into the mechanical instabilty of gold.

Hot Article: Boron carbide revisited
01 June 2007
Roald Hoffmann tells us why boron carbide is non-stoichiometric and on the new method he and his colleagues are developing to study such solids.

Hot Article: Protecting dye from singlet oxygen attack
17 May 2007
Encapsulating a chromophore in a macrocycle protects it from attack by the singlet oxygen it produces for PDT, researchers in the UK have found.

Hot Article: Taking anions and cations for a ride
10 May 2007
The tuned design of two heteroditopic calixarene-based receptors by an Oxford University group results in high selectivity in the binding of ion pairs.

Hot Article: A unique anion for a rare 2D nucleobase structure
02 April 2007
The flat formate anion forces the model base 9-ethylguanine to form extended 2D hydrogen-bonded sheets, researchers at Leiden University have found.

