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Contents list for New Journal of Chemistry, issue 8, 2008
Front cover
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1269
DOI: 10.1039/b812060a
Inside front cover
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1270
DOI: 10.1039/b812061g
Contents and Chemical Science
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1271
DOI: 10.1039/b812062p
Editorial
The bio-inspired design of novel materials
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1283
DOI: 10.1039/b811430g
Laurent Bonneviot, a member of the NJC Editorial Board, introduces the interdisciplinary field of bio-inspired materials, the subject on which we have eight papers in this issue of the Journal.
Perspectives
Bio-inspired synthetic pathways and beyond: integrative chemistry
Eric Prouzet, Serge Ravaine, Clément Sanchez and Rénal Backov,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1284
DOI: 10.1039/b802527b
Advanced functional materials having hierarchical structures can be tailor made via the smart integration of soft chemistry based pathways and the versatile processing conditions offered by soft-matter physico-chemistry.
Aerogel materials from marine polysaccharides
Françoise Quignard, Romain Valentin and Francesco Di Renzo,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1300
DOI: 10.1039/b808218a
Supercritical drying of natural hydrocolloids with different functional groups allows to obtain materials with high surface area and catalytic activity.
Letters
One-pot reaction cascades catalyzed by base- and acid-functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles
Yulin Huang, Brian G. Trewyn, Hung-Ting Chen and Victor S.-Y. Lin,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1311
DOI: 10.1039/b806664g
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) containing base (primary amine) and sulfonic acid inside the MCM-41 type porous channels were used as compatible catalysts for one-pot reaction cascades
Papers
Graftable chiral ligands for surface organometallic materials: calixarenes bearing asymmetric centers directly attached to the lower rim
Andrew Solovyov, Justin M. Notestein, Kathleen A. Durkin and Alexander Katz,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1314
DOI: 10.1039/b801434p
The stereoselective synthesis of calixarene ligands having chiral centers directly attached to lower-rim oxygens was achieved, and factors that govern the induction of asymmetry in these structures was investigated via circular dichroism and 1H NMR spectroscopies.
Calcium phosphate nanoparticles as nuclei for the preparation of colloidal calcium phytate
Kathirvel Ganesan and Matthias Epple,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1326
DOI: 10.1039/b803903h
Nanoparticles of calcium phytate were prepared by treating a dispersion of calcium phosphate with sodium phytate.
Porous materials via egg-constituents templating
Valentin Valtchev, Feifei Gao and Lubomira Tosheva,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1331
DOI: 10.1039/b804449j
Porous materials with pre-determined composition, hierarchical porosity and controlled morphology were prepared by employing egg yolk, egg white and eggshell membrane as templates.
Biomimetic synthesis of microporous and mesoporous materials at room temperature and neutral pH, with application in electronics, controlled release of chemicals, and catalysis
Avelino Corma, Manuel Moliner, María J. Díaz-Cabañas, Pedro Serna, Beatriu Femenia, Jaime Primo and Hermenegildo García,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1338
DOI: 10.1039/b808697b
Microporous and mesoporous molecular sieve materials with application in electronics, controlled release of chemicals, and catalysis have been synthesized using silica mobilizing agents that are functional mimics of silicateine bioinspiration from living marine organisms.
Interactions of aluminium hydrolytic species with biomolecules
Olivier Deschaume, Agathe Fournier, Kirill L. Shafran and Carole C. Perry,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1346
DOI: 10.1039/b805406c
The formation and properties of bioinorganic assemblies between the basic globular protein lysozyme and aqueous aluminium species including Al13-mer, Al30-mer and colloidal aluminium hydroxide, demonstrated by 2D-infrared spectroscopy combined to suspensions characterization techniques.
Letters
The enantioselective hydrogenation of 5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-3-carboxylic acid over a cinchona alkaloid-modified palladium catalyst: asymmetric synthesis of a cockroach attractant
Kornél Sz
ri, György Szllsi and Mihály Bartók,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1354
DOI: 10.1039/b808694j
The enantioselective hydrogenation of 5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-3-carboxylic acid over 5% Pd/Al2O3 modified by cinchonidine proved to be an efficient method for the asymmetric synthesis of the cockroach attractant methyl (+)-tetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-carboxylate.
Papers
Detecting delocalization
Adam J. Bridgeman and Christopher J. Empson,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1359
DOI: 10.1039/b801180j
The construction of chemical connections ab initio from electronic structure calculations and the automatic detection of multicentre bonding is introduced and used to probe the bonding in electron-deficient and electron-rich molecules.
Efficient blue phosphorescent host through nonbonded conformational locking interactions
Jongchul Kwon, Tae-Hyuk Kwon, Hyo Soon Cho, Myoung Ki Kim, Ik-Soo Shin, Dae-Yup Shin, Su Jin Park and Jong-In Hong,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1368
DOI: 10.1039/b714231e
The maximum quantum efficiency, current efficiency and power efficiency of the OLED device using the TCTEB host were 8.5%, 13.7 cd A-1, and 11.3 lm W-1, respectively, when doped with 8 wt% FIrpic.
The synthesis of high-content fullerene functionalised polymers through the controlled addition of an amine-tagged fullerene derivative
Christopher M. Tollan, Paul R. Birkett and Norman S. Allen,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1373
DOI: 10.1039/b718078k
Reaction of an acrylyol chloride-co-methyl methacrylate copolymer with the amine group of a fulleropyrrolidine resulting in high fullerene content polymeric products.
The effect of fluorination on the luminescent behaviour of 8-hydroxyquinoline boron compounds
Sondra L. Hellstrom, Juri Ugolotti, George J. P. Britovsek, Tim S. Jones and Andrew J. P. White,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1379
DOI: 10.1039/b712837a
The luminescent behaviour of a variety of OLED devices made using fluorinated boron quinolinate compounds has been investigated
Synthesis and characterization of water-soluble ZnO quantum dots prepared through PEG-siloxane coating
Ralph-Olivier Moussodia, Lavinia Balan and Raphaël Schneider,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1388
DOI: 10.1039/b719642c
Stable, water-soluble, and luminescent colloidal dispersions of ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by functionalization of hydrophobic oleate-capped ZnO QDs with a poly(ethylene glycol) siloxane.
The clash of the synthons: crystal structures of benzimidazole–alcohol–carboxylic acids
Franck Delval, Alexandra Spyratou, Simon Verdan, Gerald Bernardinelli and Alan F. Williams,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1394
DOI: 10.1039/b717018a
The scorpion
s tail: intramolecular coulombic attraction between the two parts of a zwitterion, or intermolecular carboxylate–benzimidazolonium attractions can compete effectively with 
-stacking interactions in crystal packing.
Palladium nanostructures synthesized by radiolysis or by photoreduction
Tanafit Redjala, Gabriela Apostolecu, Patricia Beaunier, Mehran Mostafavi, Arnaud Etcheberry, Denis Uzio, Cécile Thomazeau and Hynd Remita,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1403
DOI: 10.1039/b719517f
Palladium nanostructures formed by nanowires, nanoplates or having a flower-like shape were synthesized by slow reduction either by photoreduction or by radiolysis of palladium acetylacetonate in 2-propanol under CO atmosphere.
Thin thermo-responsive polymer films onto the pore system of chromatographic beads via reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization
Farnoosh Roohi and Maria Magdalena Titirici,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1409
DOI: 10.1039/b800851e
Thermo-responsive silica–PNIPAAM composites were produced using RAFT polymerization and used as stationary phases in HPLC for separation of a mixture of steroids under aqueous isocratic conditions by changing the temperature of the column.
Titanium complexes based on chiral enantiopure dialkanolamines: synthesis, structures and catalytic activity
Kirill V. Zaitsev, Maxim V. Bermeshev, Alexey A. Samsonov, Juri F. Oprunenko, Andrei V. Churakov, Judith A. L. Howard, Sergey S. Karlov and Galina S. Zaitseva,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1415
DOI: 10.1039/b714739b
Synthesis and structure of new titanium(IV) complexes based on enantiopure dialkanolamines are described. These compounds were tested as catalysts in the Abramov reaction and demonstrated moderate enantiomeric activity.
A new synthetic route to organically capped cadmium selenide nanoparticles
Oluwatobi Samuel Oluwafemi and Neerish Revaprasadu,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1432
DOI: 10.1039/b801717d
We report a novel, simple environmentally friendly, and inexpensive method for the preparation of monodispersed hexadecylamine (HDA) and tri-n-octylphosphine oxide (TOPO) capped CdSe nanoparticles.
Pyrene derived functionalized low molecular weight organic gelators and gels
Arno Hahma, Shreedhar Bhat, Kimmo Leivo, Juha Linnanto, Manu Lahtinen and Kari Rissanen,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1438
DOI: 10.1039/b801708e
A pyrene based functionalized organogelator creates a complex gel network containing evenly sized agglomerates due to competition between aromatic interactions and bonding within and between the supramolecules through the free standing functional groups.
Negative hyperconjugation of some fluorine containing groups
Otto Exner and Stanislav Böhm,
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1449
DOI: 10.1039/b718430a
The groups CF3, SF5 and SCF3 behave in the theory of substituent effects as resonance acceptors; when this should be pictured in resonance formulae, it is necessary to use the no-bond formulae/negative hyperconjugation. These formulae predict correctly that the bonds to fluorine are weakened and elongated.
Back matter
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1454
DOI: 10.1039/b812065j
Back cover
New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 1455
DOI: 10.1039/b812063n
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