This month’s issue begins with a Focus article by Dr Fuwei Li (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and co-workers in which the authors review reactions that introduce carbonyl groups into unactivated heterocycles. They highlight that various heterocycles could be utilized as simple starting materials to generate carbonyl group containing target molecules.
Carbonylative diversification of unactivated heteroaromatic compounds
Rui Lang, Chungu Xia and Fuwei Li.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2732-2738. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00099D.
This month’s front cover illustrates the Letter by Dr Soumen Basak (Saha Institute of Nuclear 
Physics, India) and co-workers who report an elegant, facile and green protocol for designing dendrimer-like assemblies of multicolor fluorophore-labeled peptides grafted on gold nanoparticles.
According to the authors, multicolour fluorescent labeling of both intra- and extracellular structures is a powerful technique for simultaneous monitoring of multiple complex biochemical processes. These multi-functional nanoparticles have shown great promise as new probes for biomedical imaging and carriers in drug delivery.
A multicolor fluorescent peptide–nanoparticle scaffold: real time uptake and distribution in neuronal cells
Kallol Bera, Shounak Baksi, Moupriya Nag, Subhas Chandra Bera, Debashis Mukhopadhyay and Soumen Basak.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2739-2743. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00265B.
The inside cover was designed by Dr Leigh Loots (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).
Dr Loots and her colleagues demonstrated that the synthesis of novel pyridinium zwitterionic compounds show a great potential as a new class of supramolecular building blocks for the formation of ionic as well as metal-organic frameworks.
Synthesis and solid-state supramolecular chemistry of a series of pyridinium-derived zwitterions
Leigh Loots, Delia A. Haynes and Tanya le Roex.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2778-2786. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00281D.
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