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The cover image shows the successive build-up of a MnIII12MnII9 aggregate from concentric Archimedean polyhedra.
DOI: 10.1039/B811370J
Single-molecule electron transfers have been studied by combining scanning and flourescence microscopy with cyclic voltammetric potential scanning.
DOI: 10.1039/B812161C
Control over the polymorphism leading to the formation of bicomponent porous networks at the solid-liquid interface was obtained through self-assembly of the building blocks at sub-monolayer coverages.
DOI: 10.1039/B811534F
The cover illustrates the catalytic reduction of oxygen to water by cytochrome c oxidase and by a functional biomimetic model of its active site.
DOI: 10.1039/B808070B
A novel gold nanoprobe for the rapid detection of environmentally toxic Hg2+ in a power-free microfluidic device with the naked eye.
DOI: 10.1039/B811528A
Arsenic-containing long-chain alkanes and alkenes, natural constituents of fish oil, are likely to be biosynthesised by phytoplankton and passed along the food chain.
DOI: 10.1039/B808049F
Prins observing synergy in his Brønsted-acid catalysed reaction.
DOI: 10.1039/B807953F
The antioxidant glutathione induces formation of this oxidised ruthenium arene complex in water - as unexpected as square ripples!
DOI: 10.1039/B805358H
TEM images of nanodimensioned mesoporous silica, that typically span less than 10 porous channels in width.
DOI: 10.1039/B804327b
Mesoporous Pt nanotubes were realized by the volume control of lytotropic liquid crystals infiltrated inside the channels of porous anodic alumina membranes under a reduced pressure.
DOI: 10.1039/B804072a
Two cases of chemical communication in insects are shown: Chemical Mimicry between parasitic and host female bees, and Chemical Speciation through speciesspecific marking pheromones in male bumble bees.
DOI: 10.1039/B712681F
Liquid crystalline arrays of polygonal cylinders where the wall thickness is equal to the width of a benzene ring were obtained
DOI: 10.1039/B804945a
An aqueous solution that sequesters and separates hydrocarbon gases is one possibility when deep-cavity cavitands harness the hydrophobic effect
DOI: 10.1039/b805446K
The cover illustrates an exemplary transformation with the blossoming of an orchid flower. We demonstrate that fluorous allylsilanes were detagged with Selectfluor to deliver allylic fluorides purified by Fluorous solid Phase Extraction. This transformation, featuring a C-F bond-forming reaction as the detagging event, is particularly relevant for application in the area of medicinal chemistry and radiochemistry.
DOI: 10.1039/b804484h
Doughnut shaped microparticles are shown to have highly specific cellular uptake capabilities and exhibit exciting in vivo properties.
DOI: 10.1039/B805323e
Isoreticular metal-organic framework-3 has been chemically modified, in a postsynthetic approach, with isocyanates to generate urea groups within the lattice.
DOI: 10.1039/B806150E
N-substituted aza[14]metacyclophane tetracation:a spin-quintet tetraradical having four para-phenylenediamine-based semi-quinone moieties.
DOI: 10.1039/B805333B
The picture shows the X-ray structure of a glycoluril derived tetrameric molecular bowl and its structural and functional macroscopic relative.
DOI: 10.1039/b800785c
A 1,3-alternate cationic calix[4]arene mediates HX efflux and shows antiproliferative activity against murine monocyte/ macrophage cancer cells
DOI: 10.1039/b719482j
A thiol ligand place exchange reaction inside a polymer bead leads to more stable gold nanorods.
DOI: 10.1039/B804797a
A mechanistic study of gold-nanoparticle catalyzed oxidations sheds more light on the fundamental aspects of this important green chemical reaction.
DOI: 10.1039/b803270J
A small dose of sensitizer with a conjugated spectator ligand harvests numerous photons for the conversion of light to electricity.
DOI: 10.1039/b802909a
Unsupported IrII-IrII bridge incorporating chlorides and carbonyls is synthesized via oxidative additions of dichloromethanes to diiridium(I) core in presence of NP-Fc. Background photo of Pamban bridge kindly provided by S. Ashwin, www.irfca.org.
DOI: 10.1039/b803632b
The sea urchin-shaped fullerene hexakis-adducts can be efficiently functionalized under click reaction conditions. The authors thank Jean-Claude Wollès for the background picture.
DOI: 10.1039/B804393K
The para-acylcalix[n]arenes possess a very rich capacity to self-assemble into a wide variety of structures and sizes ranging from molecular assemblies through dimeric capsules, molecular sheets to nanoparticles.
DOI: 10.1039/b806461j
Three types of noncovalent interactions direct the topology and achieve space partition.
DOI: 10.1039/B800571K
The Degradation of an Al13- cluster as a model for the bulk, visualized in a hurricane of a HCl atmosphere.
DOI: 10.1039/B801224E
A double helical molecule with a rugby ball shape. Yellow and red are the colours of Cambridge, host city of ChemComm Editorial Office
DOI: 10.1039/B719712H
Although the sun is now setting on catenanes at UCLA, NU horizons beckon for polycatenanes in Evanston.
DOI: 10.1039/B716245F
The diversity accessible in dynamic combinatorial libraries can be expanded by creating them in two phases under phase-transfer conditions.
DOI: 10.1039/B718075F
Halogen bonding between iodide ions and 1,3,5-trifluoro-2,4,6-triiodobenzene results in the cation-templated honeycomb-like networks.
DOI: 10.1039/b716879a
MWCNTs modified by covalent anchoring of glucose oxidase to convert glucose to H2O2 for use by a catalase enzyme to provide autonomous propulsion.
DOI: 10.1039/b715310d
A soft self-assembly method was developed to synthesize water-soluble and biocompatible nanocrystal-micelles, whose nature represents an ideal building block for ordered arrays and bioapplications.
DOI: 10.1039/B711251N
Canted antiferromagnetic behaviour observed in a three-dimensional MOF possessing distorted Kagome lattice formed by two geometrically different Mn2+ ions.
DOI: 10.1039/B712910F
STEM-XEDS image of a carbon-supported gold palladium nanoparticle that is very effective for alcohol oxidation and direct H2O2 synthesis.
DOI: 10.1039/B712305C
Supercuttle! Cuttlebone has been used as a biotemplate in the synthesis of the first high-temperature superconductor with a regular macroporous morphology.
DOI: 10.1039/B715368F
Palladium nanoparticles supported on imidazolium-functionalized ionic CNTs showed extraordinary stability in an ionic liquid, providing a robust recyclable ionic liquid-based catalytic system.
DOI: 10.1039/B715463A
Solvent polarity alters the configuration of the lowest excited triplet state in a Pt (II) charge transfer complex.
DOI: 10.1039/B713285A
First 43Ca NMR characterization of Ca2+ ion binding to G-quartets.
DOI: 10.1039/B714803H
A new dimetallofullerene, Ce2@C78, and its bis-silylated derivative were successfully prepared and fully characterized.
DOI: 10.1039/B712568B
A cyclobutane ring formed from the solid-state photochemical cycloaddition of an hydrogen-bonded zwitter-ionic Pb(II) complex is found to isomerize in solution.
DOI: 10.1039/B714355a
Crystalline Inverse Crown Ether (ICE) complexes with alkali metal-manganese(II) amido host rings and oxo cores have been prepared.
DOI: 10.1039/B714880A
ZnO nanonails, arranged in spherical peacock-wing like morphologies, used as an efficient electron mediator for the effective detection of hydrazine.
DOI: 10.1039/B711215G
Strapped and other topographically nonplanar calixpyrrole analogues display improved anion affinities and enhanced selectivities relative to unfunctionalized calix[4]pyrroles.
DOI: 10.1039/B713183F
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