Chemical Communications Blog

Take a look at this selection of recently published referee-recommended articles – all are free to read* until 17 April.

Printed microelectrodes for scalable, high-areal-capacity lithium–sulfur batteries
Craig Milroy and Arumugam Manthiram
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC10503J, Communication

Lanthanide-based luminescence biolabelling
Mohamadou Sy, Aline Nonat, Niko Hildebrandt and Loïc J. Charbonnière
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00922K, Feature Article

Superior anti-CO poisoning capability: Au-decorated PtFe nanocatalysts for high-performance methanol oxidation
Zhao Cai, Zhiyi Lu, Yongmin Bi, Yaping Li, Yun Kuang and Xiaoming Sun
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC10513G, Communication

Pharmaceutical nanocrystals confined in porous host systems – interfacial effects and amorphous interphases
N. Sonnenberger, N. Anders, Y. Golitsyn, M. Steinhart, D. Enke, K. Saalwächter and M. Beiner
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00962J, Communication
From themed collection Pharmaceutical Solids

Rupture force of cell adhesion ligand tethers modulates biological activities of a cell-laden hydrogel
Min Kyung Lee, Jooyeon Park, Xuefeng Wang, Mehdi Roein-Peikar, Eunkyung Ko, Ellen Qin, Jonghwi Lee, Taekjip Ha and Hyunjoon Kong
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00036C, Communication

High-symmetry hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks: air separation and crystal-to-crystal structural transformation
Dong-Dong Zhou, Yan-Tong Xu, Rui-Biao Lin, Zong-Wen Mo, Wei-Xiong Zhang and Jie-Peng Zhang
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00366D, Communication

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Computational studies have unpicked the surprising stability behind high-energy fluorinating reagent Togni reagent I.

Togni reagents – named after creator Antonio Togni – are trifluoromethylating agents that introduce the CF3 group often found in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. They’re members of a family of benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents that transfer atoms or functional groups loaded onto their oxygen and hypervalent iodine-containing five-membered ring. Read the full article in Chemistry World» 

Read the original journal article in ChemComm – it’s free to access until 21 April 2016:
Why does Togni’s reagent I exist in the high-energy hypervalent iodine form? Re-evaluation of benziodoxole based hypervalent iodine reagents
Tian-Yu Sun, Xiao Wang, Hao Geng, Yaoming Xie, Yun-Dong Wu, Xinhao Zhang and Henry F. Schaefer III 
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00384B, Communication