January can seem like an extra long month for many, with post-holiday blues and dark wintery evenings to contend with. However, the winter solstice has past, so the evenings are gradually getting lighter and here at the ChemComm Editorial Office we have published enough hot articles to keep the blues at bay. So why not take a look at the selection of hot articles below, which caught some of our referees attention…
- Clostridium botulinum produces the most lethal toxins known to man and, as such, they are high-risk terrorist threats. Alarmingly, there is no approved therapeutic. Why not read Kim Janda‘s communication to find out about a small molecule he’s discovered that inhibits the neurotoxin.
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- Matthias Beller and Anahit Pews-Davtyan synthesised a variety of substituted imidazoles from commercially available starting materials, via a hydroamination–cyclization sequence. Take a look at the communication to see the excellent yields obtained, helped by the presence of catalytic zinc triflate.
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Enhanced white-light emission was achieved by cleverly loading green- and red-light-emitting donor–acceptor pairs in the separate micellar cores, and inserting blue-light-emitting polymers around their periphery. To find out more on how this system works, take a look at Juan Peng‘s communication.
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- Juyoung Yoon and her colleagues from Ewha Womans University, have developed a unique pyrene-based colourimetric sensor that changes colour, from light yellow to pink, in the presence of lysine. More details can be found in the communication.
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An observation reported by Gerhard Erker in ChemComm has opened up a new way of utilising frustrated Lewis pair chemistry. To see what has been uncovered in more detail, download their communication today!
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- Andreas Herrmann and co-workers have made ultra-high molecular weight DNA/polymer hybrid materials using molecular biology techniques. Take a look at the communication and read more about this fascinating advance.
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- Molly Stevens and her colleagues have shown that peptide-modified gold nanoparticles can be enzymatically phosphorylated and rapidly aggregated onto a surface or in solution by action of phosphospecific antibodies. The simple and rapid colorimetric response of the assays makes them an attractive approach for drug-screening applications – so why not download the communication to find out more about this exciting research?
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- QM/MM mechanistic modelling has been used to help understand the role of carbamate reactivity in fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition, as reported in Adrian Mulholland‘s latest communication in ChemComm.
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- Paul O’Brien reports slow temperature growth of crystalline PbS films on plastic substrates by Chemical Vapour Deposition using xanthate. Why not read the communication for further details on the method, as well as looking at the mechanism proposed by the team, with the help of density functional theory calculations.
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- Jeremy Sanders and Ulrich Lüning present the efficient synthesis of a new type of a multi-hydrazone based macrocyclic receptor and investigates its complexation properties with alkali and alkaline earth metal ions using a dynamic combinatorial approach. Read more by downloading the communication today!
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All communications have been made freely available until the 7th March 2011, so why not download the ones that interest you today and let us know what you think in our blog below.
If you have some of your own exciting, high impact research to publish then consider submitting your communication to ChemComm, via our online submission system.
