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Stay up-to-date with these 5 latest NJC Perspectives , all available as advance articles on the web.

• Read about multiple-decker sandwich complexes containing lanthanide and actinide metals with Frank Edelmann’s article
• Gain insights into the digestive ripening method, providing access to highly monodispersed nanoparticles as featured by Deepti S. Sidhaye and B. L. V. Prasad
• Explore the technique of hydrogen/deuterium exchange experiments in the high vacuum of a mass spectrometer to unravel the structural aspects and the gas-phase reactivity of supramolecular complexes, as detailed by Christoph A. Schalley and coworkers
• Take a tour of the assembly, properties, functions and multiple applications of ferrocenyl dendrimers, as reviewed by Didier Astruc.
• Delve into rare earths, jewels for functional materials of the future, by Jean-Claude G. Bünzli et al.

                      Multiple-decker sandwich complexes of f-elements
                      Frank T. Edelmann
                      New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
                      DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00672F, Perspective

Many manifestations of digestive ripening: monodispersity, superlattices and nanomachining
Deepti S. Sidhaye and B. L. V. Prasad,
New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00359J, Perspective

Gas-phase H/D-exchange experiments in supramolecular chemistry
Henrik D. F. Winkler, Egor V. Dzyuba and Christoph A. Schalley
New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00634C, Perspective

Ferrocenyl dendrimers: multi-electron redox reagents and their applications
Didier Astruc
New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00875C, Perspective

Rare earths: jewels for functional materials of the future
Svetlana V. Eliseeva and Jean-Claude G. Bünzli
New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00969E, Perspective

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Check out NJC’s two latest Perspectives now available as advance articles on the web:

Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo and colleagues (City University of Hong-Kong) review recent progress on luminescent iridium(III) polypyridine complexes as probes for chemical and biological molecules using different strategies. The targets include protons, cations and anions, small molecules, nucleic acids, protein molecules. Additionally, the use of these complexes as bioimaging reagents and cellular probes is also highlighted.

Development of luminescent iridium(III) polypyridine complexes as chemical and biological probes, Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo, Steve Po-Yam Li and Kenneth Yin Zhang, New J. Chem., 2011, Adance article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00478B, Perspective

Digestive ripening is addressed by Deepti S. Sidhaye and B. L. V. Prasad in their Perspective entitled: ‘Many manifestations of digestive ripening: monodispersity, superlattices and nanomachining‘, in which the authors provide insights into the digestive ripening method, where simply refluxing a surface active molecule—the digestive ripening agent—with a polydispersed nanoparticle system in an appropriate solvent leads to the formation of highly monodispersed nanoparticles, proving its utility in many new nanoparticle synthetic avenues.

Many manifestations of digestive ripening: monodispersity, superlattices and nanomachining, Deepti S. Sidhaye and B. L. V. Prasad, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00359J, Perspective

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You can now browse the October issue of NJC on the website. The cover highlights a Perspective, by Andreas Schnepf at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which reviews a novel class of cluster compounds in group 14 chemistry, exemplified by Ge_nR_m, to explore the transition from molecular to bulk properties.

Metalloid cluster compounds of germanium: novel structural motives on the way to elemental germanium! by Andreas Schnepf*
New J. Chem., 2010, 34, 2079-2092; DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00263A

We invite you to also take a look at some of the 34 other papers in this issue, covering topics as diverse as: gelation phenomena, sensors, water purification, drug uptake & release, mesoporous & nano materials, catalysis & reaction mechanisms, ionic liquids, aromatic sextet theory, conjugates for tumor imaging, molecular clusters, cyclophanes & cyclodextrins, lectin binding, dendrimers in DSSCs, purification of carbon nanotubes, organic synthesis, partitioning in biphasic systems, optically active supramolecules, paramagnetic complexes.

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The September issue of NJC  is now published. It features a Perspective article by Irene Ling, Yatimah Alias and Colin L. Raston at the University of Western Australia and the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur)  on the use of p-sulfonatocalixarenes as elements for multi-component self-assembly.

Authors discuss the construction and structural diversity of complexes of p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene incorporating imidazolium or pyrrolidinium cations, opening the path towards new startegies in calixarene self-assembly. This work is illustrated on this month’s outside front cover:  

Structural diversity of multi-component self-assembled systems incorporating p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene 

Irene Ling, Yatimah Alias and Colin L. Raston, 

New J. Chem., 2010, DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00317D

NJC Perspective article hot of the press – read it now!

Self-assembly of amphiphilic calixarenes and resorcinarenes in water, Kaisa Helttunen and Patrick Shahgaldian, New J. Chem., 2010, DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00123F

Kaisa Helttunen (University of Jyväskylä) and Patrick Shahgaldian (University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland) present the developments of the chemistry of amphiphilic calixarenes and resorcinarenes with a clear focus on the synthetic paths used for their production and their self-assembly properties in water.

Check out the recent NJC Perspective article by Andreas Schnepf (University of Karlsruhe) on metalloid cluster compounds of germanium.

In this review, the author presents a novel class of cluster compounds in group 14 chemistry, shedding light on the synthesis, structural features and bonding properties of these structures in the borderland between the molecular and solid state. 

Metalloid cluster compounds of germanium: novel structural motives on the way to elemental germanium! Andreas Schnepf, New J. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00263A