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Call for Papers: Post-synthetic Modification of Coordination Networks

06 Jan 2012

We are pleased to announce an upcoming themed issue on post-synthetic modification of coordination networks, guest edited by Andy Burrows and Seth Cohen. It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to this themed issue.

Post-synthetic modification is becoming an increasingly important technique in preparing functional network structures. This Themed Issue will highlight the current status of this rapidly growing and evolving area, as well as mapping out future directions. When considering articles for this themed issue, the terms ‘post-synthetic modification’ and ‘coordination network’ will be taken in their broadest senses, so while postsynthetic modifications can involve covalent bond forming and breaking, they can alternatively refer to making or breaking coordination bonds or other framework changes. Coordination networks can include any extended structure based on coordination bonds, including coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks.

How to submit?

All types of manuscript, Communications, Full Papers and Highlights, will be considered for publication. We aim to publish this themed issue in the second half of 2012 and therefore would like to receive manuscripts by 31st January 2012. The manuscript should be prepared according to the format for regular articles and should be submitted via our online system. All invited manuscripts will be subject to the normal refereeing procedure.

Read some related CrystEngComm Highlight articles:

Discovery, development, and functionalization of Zr(IV)-based metal–organic frameworks Min Kim and Seth M. Cohen
CrystEngComm, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE06491J

Mixed-component metal–organic frameworks (MC-MOFs): enhancing functionality through solid solution formation and surface modifications Andrew D. Burrows
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 3623-3642
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00568A

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CrystEngComm Symposium: Pharmaceutical Polymorphism

10 Nov 2011

Many different aspects of polymorphism as it relates to pharmaceutical solids were discussed at the CrystEngComm Symposium: Pharmaceutical Poymorphism in The Chemistry Centre, Friday 4th November.

From modelling and control, through development and formulation to intellectual property aspects, all areas concerning the impact that polymorphism has on the development of pharmaceuticals were covered by the speakers. Dr Örn Almarsson (Alkermes Inc. USA) began the day with an overview of crystal polymorphism and pharmaceuticals, followed by Dr Graeme Day’s (University of Cambridge, UK) account of how computational methods are being developed to deal with complex molecular flexibility when predicting polymorphs and crystal structures. Professor Ivo Rietveld (Universite Paris Decartes, France) then closed the morning session with a review of using pressure-temperature diagrams to determine the stability hierarchy of a set of polymorphs.

Dr Ann Newman (Seventh Street Development Group, IN, USA) began the afternoon session with a discussion of the importance of solid form screening to drug development, while Dr Simon Black (Astra Zeneca, UK) illustrated some of the issues around the discovery of a new polymorph with some interesting case studies.

Professor Jamshed Anwar (University of Bradford, UK) outlined the methodology for molecular simulation and its application to polymorph phase transitions, followed by Dr Z. Jane Li (Boehringer Ingelheim, USA) who gave an overview of the impact that the necessary control of polymorph formation has on the development of pharmaceutical formulation. Dr Avijit Kelkar (Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (UK) Limited, UK) then finished the Symposium by sharing his expertise in the area of patents and intellectual property.

Many thanks are due to CrystEngComm Editorial Board member, Dr Z. Jane Li, who provided the vision and concept behind the symposium, and without whom the event would not have been possible. Full details of the presentations (abstracts, biographies etc), take a look at the symposium programme which can be found on the symposium website.

CrystEngComm will publish a themed issue on ‘Crystal engineering and crystallography in the pharmaceutical industry’ in early 2012 with Guest Editors Dr Magali Hickey, Dr Örn Almarsson and Dr Matt Peterson. For more information, contact the Editorial Office.

Read some related CrystEngComm Highights by following the links below:

Control of polymorphic transition inducing preferential enrichment

Rui Tamura, Sekai Iwama and Rajesh G. Gonnade

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 5269-5280

DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05294B

Creating carboxylic acid co-crystals: The application of Hammett substitution constants

Colin C. Seaton

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 6583-6592

DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05645J

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Welcoming new Editorial Board member: Nicola Pinna

22 Aug 2011

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nicola Pinna to the CrystEngComm Editorial Board,

Professor Nicola Pinna, based at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Seoul National University, Korea, has research interests in the area of nanostructured materials. His research achievements include work to develop new synthetic approaches to allow a more generalized synthesis strategy to inorganic nanomaterials via a ‘toolbox’ of well-known chemical reactions which can be used to prepare target nanoparticles using a sequence of predictable synthesis steps.

Professor Nicola Pinna

Nicola studied physical chemistry at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, and received his Ph.D. in 2001. He then moved to the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, and a year later, in 2003, moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, followed by a year at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, as an Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, in 2005. Since 2006 he has been a researcher at the University of Aveiro, and since 2009 has held a joint position at Seoul National University.

In 2011, Nicola Pinna was ranked among the top 100 materials scientists of the past decade by impact.

Find out more about Nicola’s research at his website and check out some of his recent papers below:

Confined crystallization of polycrystalline high-magnesium calcite from compact Mg-ACC precursor tablets and its biological implications

Weihua Di, Xinguang Ren, Naoto Shirahata, Chunxu Liu, Ligong Zhang, Yoshio Sakka and Nicola Pinna

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 952-956, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00153H

Surfactant-free nonaqueous synthesis of lithium titanium oxide (LTO) nanostructures for lithium ion battery applications

Seung-Ho Yu, Andrea Pucci, Tobias Herntrich, Marc-Georg Willinger, Seung-Hwan Baek, Yung-Eun Sung and Nicola Pinna

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 806-810 DOI: 10.1039/C0JM03064C

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CrystEngComm has a new Impact Factor!

04 Jul 2011

CrystEngComm’s 2010 Impact Factor has been announced as 4.00 in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson ISI earlier this week.

Since its launch in 1999, CrystEngComm has grown from strength to strength, to become the journal of choice for many authors and readers working in the crystal engineering and nanocrystal fields.

The Impact Factor for 2010 is calculated from the total number of citations given in 2010 to articles published in 2008 and 2009, divided by the number of articles published in 2008 and 2009.

We thank all our authors and referees who have supported the journal since its launch. Please visit our website to learn more about CrystEngComm, or submit an article today.

Information about the latest impact factors for other RSC journals can be found here.

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Professor Shu-Hong Yu appointed as Associate Editor

06 Apr 2011

From 1st May 2011, researchers working in the area of nanocrystals will have a new option for submitting their articles to CrystEngComm.

Professor Shu-Hong Yu, based at the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei and the National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, China, has recently been appointed as a CrystEngComm Associate Editor, with his Editorial Office opening 1st May.

Associate Editor, Professor Shu-Hong Yu

Shu-Hong studied chemistry at the Hefei University of Technology and received his first degree in 1988. He studied at the Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry (SRICI), and then moved to the University of Science and Technology of China, where he was awarded his PhD. From 1999 to 2001, he worked in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and was later awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (2001-2002) in the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, working with Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti and PD Habil Dr. Helmut Cölfen. He joined the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale (HFNL) in 2003.

Currently, he leads the Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, HFNL, and also is the acting Deputy Dean of the School of Chemistry & Materials, University of Science and Technology of China.

Shu-Hong’s research interests include bio-inspired synthesis and self-assembly of advanced inorganic materials; templated-directed organization of nanoparticles; novel inorganic synthesis; the synthesis of biominerals and their applications; and the optical, electronic, magnetic, and catalytic properties of low dimensional nanostructured materials. Find out more about Shu-Hong’s research at his website and check out some of his recent papers below:

Confined crystallization of polycrystalline high-magnesium calcite from compact Mg-ACC precursor tablets and its biological implications

Jun Jiang, Min-Rui Gao, Yun-Hao Qiu, Guang-Sheng Wang, Lei Liu, Guo-Bin Cai and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 952-956, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00153H

From (Cd₂Se₂)(pa) (pa = propylamine) hybrid precursors to various CdSe nanostructures: structural evolution and optical properties

Hong-Bin Yao, Xiao Zhang, Xiao-Han Wang, Shu-Hong Yu and Jing Li

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3191-3197, DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01351J

Mineralization of calcite ribbons on an Allium fistulosum L. bulb inner membrane in an ethanol–water mixed solvent under control of polyacrylic acid by a double diffusion method

Lei Liu, Bo Hu, Shao-Feng Chen, Shu-Juan Liu, Jun Jiang, Guo-Bin Cai and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 3593-3598, DOI: 10.1039/C002697B

Controlled crystallization of hierarchical and porous calcium carbonate crystals using polypeptide type block copolymer as crystal growth modifier in a mixed solution

Xiaohui Guo, Lei Liu, Wanv Wang, Ji Zhang, Yaoyu Wang and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 2054-2061, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00202J

Hierarchical assembly of micro-/nano-building blocks: bio-inspired rigid structural functional materials

Hong-Bin Yao, Hai-Yu Fang, Xiao-Han Wang and Shu-Hong Yu

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00121J

Shu-Hong joins the journal’s two existing Associate Editors, Professor Christer Aakeroy based at Kansas State University, USA and Professor Song Gao at Peking University, China.

Articles for consideration by Shu-Hong Yu can be submitted here.

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Doubt cast on X-ray structure of trapped reactive species

04 Jan 2011

A recent post on the ChemComm Blog is generating some interesting discussion. The blog post outlines the claims of a ChemComm article by Henry Rzepa (Imperial College, London, UK), that casts some doubts over a recently published article in Science (Y.-M. Legrand, A. van der Lee, M. Barboiu, Science 2010, 329, 299-302).

Why not join in the debate! Post your comments on the ChemComm blog (https://blogs.rsc.org/cc/2010/12/23/doubt-cast-on-x-ray-structure-of-trapped-reactive-species/)

The ChemComm article(Henry S. Rzepa, Chem. Commun. 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10/1039/C0CC04023A) is free to access until 25th January 2011.

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Professor Song Gao – a new Associate Editor for CrystEngComm

22 Dec 2010

I am delighted to announce that CrystEngComm has a new Associate Editor, Professor Song Gao from Peking University, China.

Song Gao is a Cheung Kong Professor, Dean of the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University, Deputy Director of Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Song has been a member of the CrystEngComm Editorial Board for the last three years in his previous role as Regional Associate Editor for China. He will be delighted to receive your papers in his new role as Associate Editor. Submit a manuscript to Song.

Song’s research interests are magnetic ordered coordination polymers, molecular nanomagnets, molecular and crystal engineering, and multifunctional molecular materials. You can find out more about Professor Gao and his research into the mysterious world of molecular magnetism on his website.

To celebrate Song’s appointment we have made some of his recent CrystEngComm articles FREE to read until the 22nd December! Hurry, find out more about his latest research now:

M2(N3)4(hmt)(H2O) (M = Co2+ and Ni2+, hmt = hexamethylenetetramine): mixed azide-hmt bridged 3D metal frameworks with long-range magnetic ordering
Ru-Yin Li, Zhe-Ming Wang and Song Gao
CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 2096-2101 DOI: 10.1039/B906694M, Paper

Four 2D metal–organic networks incorporating Cd-cluster SUBs: hydrothermal synthesis, structures and photoluminescent properties
Shuangquan Zang, Yang Su, Yi-Zhi Li, Jianguo Lin, Xianying Duan, Qingjin Meng and Song Gao
CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 122-129 DOI: 10.1039/B806899B, Paper

Transition metal coordination frameworks with bridges of 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane-N,N′-dioxide incorporating anions of different size
Hao-Ling Sun, Zhe-Ming Wang, Song Gao and Stuart R. Batten
CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 1796-1802 DOI: 10.1039/B810245G, Paper

Three-dimensional metal–organic frameworks constructed from bix and 1,2,4-benzenetricarboxylate
Jing Yao, Zhen-Da Lu, Yi-Zhi Li, Jian-Guo Lin, Xian-Ying Duan, Song Gao, Qing-Jin Meng and Chang-Sheng Lu
CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 1379-1383 DOI: 10.1039/B805263H, Paper

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship

05 Nov 2010

ChemComm is delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. Deadline for nominations: 28^th February 2011. Visit the ChemComm blog for more information.

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Hydrogen bond defined

27 Oct 2010

An IUPAC task group has recently published their recommendations for the definition for the hydrogen bond.

“The hydrogen bond is an attractive interaction between a hydrogen atom from a molecule or a molecular fragment X–H in which X is more electronegative than H, and an atom or a group of atoms in the same or a different molecule, in which there is evidence of bond formation.”

The recommendations continue with a list of experimental and theoretical criteria that can be used as evidence for the presence of the hydrogen bond, and finish with characteristics that are typical of hydrogen bonded systems.

The task group membership includes Professor Gautam Desiraju (Bangalore, India), founding Editorial Board member, and current Advisory Board member of CrystEngComm.

For more information on the task group and to view the provisional recommendation see the IUPAC report.

Follow the links below to read two CrystEngComm Highlights with a focus on hydrogen bonding:

CH/π hydrogen bonds in organic and organometallic chemistry

Motohiro Nishio, Yoji Umezawa, Kazumasa Honda, Sei Tsuboyama and Hiroko Suezawa

CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 1757-1788

and

Chain-link hydrogen-bonded capsules

Eric Bosch

CrystEngComm, 2007, 9, 191-198

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Len MacGillivray appointed as new CrystEngComm Editorial Board Chair

05 Oct 2010

Professor Len MacGillivray

I am delighted to announce that Professor Len MacGillivray has been appointed as the new Chair of the CrystEngComm Editorial Board, from January 2011.

Based at the University of Iowa, Len, who has been a member of the Editorial Board since 2008, has research interests in the areas of molecular recognition, self assembly and supramolecular chemistry. In particular, Len’s work involves the use of template controlled synthesis in the solid state, using rigid bifunctional molecules as linear templates, to direct the formation of C-C bonds covalent bonds.

Len will become Chair of the Editorial Board in January, when Neil Champness (The University of Nottingham) ends his term as Chair. Neil has been Chair of the Editorial Board since 2007, and a member of the Editorial Board for 10 years.

We very much look forward to working with Len in his new role.

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