NJC issue 5 out!

We invite you to visit the May issue of NJC.

An article by Kazuyuki Kuroda and co-workers (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) features on this month’s front cover. In this publication, the authors report the synthesis of a novel air-stable spherosilicate oligomer that can be trimethylsilylated leading to further chemical modification or condensed upon thermal-treatment to afford molecularly ordered hybrids. This silicate oligomer is an attractive building block for the preparation of silica-based nanomaterials such as metallosilicates or mesostructured materials.

“A spherosilicate oligomer with eight stable silanol groups as a building block of hybrid materials”, Kazufumi Kawahara, Hiroki Tachibana, Yoshiaki Hagiwara and Kazuyuki Kuroda New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1210-1217. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ20953E (Paper).

 

The inside cover was produced by Monika Stolar and Thomas Baumgartner (University of Calgary, Canada), presenting a series of donor/acceptor functionalized π-conjugated materials, in which the donor component is a 3(6)-carbazole unit and the acceptor component a 2(6)-dithienophosphole species. The new chromophores display a desirable and reversible stimulus-responsive behaviour with a significant red shift of the absorption and emission wavelengths in the presence of acids.

“Synthesis and unexpected halochromism of carbazole-functionalized dithienophospholes”, Monika Stolar and Thomas Baumgartner New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1153-1160. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40022G (Paper).

You can access and read the whole issue 5 here. Why not sign-up for our table of contents e-alerts today to receive NJC issues direct to your inbox?

Digg This
Reddit This
Stumble Now!
Share on Facebook
Bookmark this on Delicious
Share on LinkedIn
Bookmark this on Technorati
Post on Twitter
Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)