Archive for September, 2014

Top 25 ChemComm articles April–June 2014

We are delighted to share with you the top 25 most downloaded articles in ChemComm from April–June 2014. 

Top 25 most downloaded ChemComm articles for Q2 2014

Nanoparticles act as protein carriers during cellular internalization
Gerard W. Doorley and Christine K. Payne
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC16937A

Alzheimer’s disease amyloid beta converting left-handed Z-DNA back to right-handed B-form
Jie Geng, Chuanqi Zhao, Jinsong Ren and Xiaogang Qu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02049D

Polyfunctional benzylic zinc chlorides by the direct insertion of magnesium into benzylic chlorides in the presence of LiCl and ZnCl2
Albrecht Metzger, Fabian M. Piller and Paul Knochel
DOI: 10.1039/B812396A

Proton-regulated rectified ionic transport through solid-state conical nanopores modified with phosphate-bearing polymer brushes
Basit Yameen, Mubarak Ali, Reinhard Neumann, Wolfgang Ensinger, Wolfgang Knoll and Omar Azzaroni
DOI: 10.1039/B920870D

Wet chemical synthesis of silver nanorods and nanowires of controllable aspect ratio
Nikhil R. Jana, Latha Gearheart and Catherine J. Murphy
DOI: 10.1039/B100521I

Self-assembly of functional columnar liquid crystals
Takashi Kato, Takuma Yasuda, Yuko Kamikawa and Masafumi Yoshio
DOI: 10.1039/B816624B

Multifunctional catalysis by Pd-polyoxometalate: one-step conversion of acetone to methyl isobutyl ketone
Robert D. Hetterley, Elena F. Kozhevnikova and Ivan V. Kozhevnikov
DOI: 10.1039/B515325E

A robust, catalytic metal–organic framework with open 2,2′-bipyridine sites

Honghan Fei and Seth M. Cohen
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01607F

Examination of native chemical ligation using peptidyl prolyl thioesters
Takahiro Nakamura, Akira Shigenaga, Kohei Sato, Yusuke Tsuda, Ken Sakamoto and Akira Otaka
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47228K

Photo- and electro-chromism of diarylethene modified ITO electrodes—towards molecular based read–write–erase information storage
Jetsuda Areephong, Wesley R. Browne, Nathalie Katsonis and Ben L. Feringa
DOI: 10.1039/B608502D

Aggregation-induced emission: phenomenon, mechanism and applications
Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam and Ben Zhong Tang
DOI: 10.1039/B904665H

Direct arylation of pyridines without the use of a transition metal catalyst
Yahui Li, Wei Liu and Chunxiang Kuang
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02546F

One-pot synthesis of magnetic particle-embedded porous carbon composites from metal–organic frameworks and their sorption properties
Hee Jung Lee, Won Cho, Eunji Lim and Moonhyun Oh
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01914H

Interaction of modified liposomes with Bacillus spores
Sergey Kazakov, Marian Kaholek, Tao Ji, Charles L. Turnbough, Jr and Kalle Levon
DOI: 10.1039/B312389H

A facile one-pot method to high-quality Ag-graphene composite nanosheets for efficient surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Zhe Zhang, Fugang Xu, Wenshu Yang, Mingyi Guo, Xiaodan Wang, Bailin Zhang and Jilin Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11125F

Graphene quantum dots: emergent nanolights for bioimaging, sensors, catalysis and photovoltaic devices

Jianhua Shen, Yihua Zhu, Xiaoling Yang and Chunzhong Li
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC00110A

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes and graphene composite structures for energy and catalytic applications
Won Jun Lee, Uday Narayan Maiti, Ju Min Lee, Joonwon Lim, Tae Hee Han and Sang Ouk Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC00146J

Novel hole transporting materials with a linear π-conjugated structure for highly efficient perovskite solar cells
Junjie Wang, Shirong Wang, Xianggao Li, Lifeng Zhu, Qingbo Meng, Yin Xiao and Dongmei Li
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01637H

Metal-free oxidative synthesis of quinazolinones via dual amination of sp3 C–H bonds

Dan Zhao, Teng Wang and Jian-Xin Li
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02648A

A dual functional additive for the HTM layer in perovskite solar cells
Hong Zhang, Yantao Shi, Feng Yan, Liang Wang, Kai Wang, Yujin Xing, Qingshun Dong and Tingli Ma
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49458F

Copper-catalyzed olefinic C–H difluoroacetylation of enamides
Gilles Caillot, Jérémy Dufour, Marie-Charlotte Belhomme, Thomas Poisson, Laurence Grimaud, Xavier Pannecoucke and Isabelle Gillaizeau
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01994F

Room-temperature Cu(II)-catalyzed aromatic C–H azidation for the synthesis of ortho-azido anilines with excellent regioselectivity

Yunpeng Fan, Wen Wan, Guobin Ma, Wei Gao, Haizhen Jiang, Shizheng Zhu and Jian Hao
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01481B

Metal-mediated transformations of small molecules
Louise A. Berben and Jason B. Love
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC90123A
From themed collection Metal-Mediated Transformations of Small Molecules

A highly efficient mesoscopic solar cell based on CH3NH3PbI3−xClx fabricated via sequential solution deposition
Yingzhuang Ma, Lingling Zheng, Yao-Hsien Chung, Saisai Chu, Lixin Xiao, Zhijian Chen, Shufeng Wang, Bo Qu, Qihuang Gong, Zhaoxin Wu and Xun Hou
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01962H

Reduction of graphene oxide viaL-ascorbic acid
Jiali Zhang, Haijun Yang, Guangxia Shen, Ping Cheng, Jingyan Zhang and Shouwu Guo
DOI: 10.1039/B917705A 


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Hot ChemComm articles for September

All of the referee-recommended articles below are free to access until 15th October 2014

A convergent rhodium-catalysed asymmetric synthesis of tetrahydroquinolines
Ho Yin Li, Joachim Horn, Amanda Campbell, David House, Adam Nelson and Stephen P. Marsden  
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 10222-10224
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04940C, Communication
From themed collection In Celebration of Richard Taylor’s 65th Birthday


On-surface aryl–aryl coupling via selective C–H activation
Qiang Sun, Chi Zhang, Huihui Kong, Qinggang Tan and Wei Xu  
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 11825-11828
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05482B, Communication


A single molecular probe for multi-analyte (Cr3+, Al3+ and Fe3+) detection in aqueous medium and its biological application
Junfeng Wang, Yingbo Li, Nikul G. Patel, Ge Zhang, Demin Zhou and Yi Pang  
Chem. Commun., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04731A, Communication


Disentangling scalar coupling patterns by real-time SERF NMR
Nina Gubensäk, Walter M. F. Fabian and Klaus Zangger  
Chem. Commun., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05892E, Communication


Isolation of stable non cyclic 1,2-disulfoxides. Revisiting the thermolysis of S-aryl sulfinimines
José A. Souto, Willian Lewis and Robert A. Stockman  
Chem. Commun., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05751A, Communication


Chemical Reaction-Induced Multi-molecular Polarization (CRIMP)
Youngbok Lee, Niki M Zacharias, David Piwnica-Worms and Pratip K Bhattacharya  
Chem. Commun., 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06199C, Communication

 

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Antimalarial flow synthesis closer to commercialisation

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated the large scale and inexpensive production of a range of antimalarial drugs, using a continuous flow system.

The processes yields several artemisinin-derived APIs that are key components in Artemisinin Combination Therapies

An important starting material for various anti-malarial drugs is artemisinin, which until recently could only be obtained by extraction from the plant Artemisia annua. As Peter Seeberger, from the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, explains, ‘the problem is that the drug is too expensive, such that in Africa and south east Asia between 40 and 50% of the artemisinin combination therapies are fake.’


Read the full article in Chemistry World»

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Continuous synthesis of artemisinin-derived medicines
Kerry Gilmore, Daniel Kopetzki, Ju Weon Lee, Zoltán Horváth, D. Tyler McQuade, Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern and Peter H. Seeberger  
Chem. Commun., 2014, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05098C

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Optimising multi-enzyme reactions – enabling enzymatic encoding

The ability to mimic cascade and linked enzyme reactions has potential applications for disease diagnosis and pharmaceutical manufacturing, to name just two. However, the optimisation of the ratios of the interacting enzymes can be a time consuming step when carried out using standard solution based enzyme assays. With the problem becoming exponentially more difficult with the number of enzymes in the system, Jun Ge and Zheng Liu of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, with colleagues, have looked to overcome this hurdle by developing a simple, fast and high throughput method based on ink-jet printing. 

The team replaced the colour inks in a standard inkjet printer with enzyme and substrate solutions. The ratio of these solutions could be controlled by varying the overall colour that was printed. Optimisation of cascade and coupled enzymatic reactions could be carried out rapidly and inexpensively compared to the standard solution based method. 

Enzymatic encryption, decoding and deletion of information

Precise two-dimensional control of enzyme placement via ink-jet printing also raises the possibility of creating 2D codes with enzymatic encryption built in, as the figure demonstrates. I don’t want to give the secret of this encryption technique away so you’ll have to read the paper today. 

To read the details, check out the ChemComm article in full: 

Ink-jet printing an optimal multi-enzyme system
Yifei Zhang, Fengjiao Lyu, Jun Ge, Zheng Liu
Chem. Commun., 2014, Accepted Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06158F 

 

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