We are delighted to present this ChemComm themed collection celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Department of Chemistry at IIT Guwahati. This collection brings together invited contributions reporting urgent, novel research of outstanding significance and broad interest across the chemical sciences, spanning core chemistry topics and research at the interfaces of chemistry with other disciplines.
Throughout our more than six decades of publishing, ChemComm has been privileged to showcase cutting-edge research from India, and we are deeply grateful for the continued trust the Indian scientific community places in us.
We hope you enjoy reading the articles in this collection.
Feature Articles
Routray, M. K. Baroi, P. Das, D. Das; The journey of short peptides: from molecules to materials. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (22): 6004–6028. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC05199A
P. Barman, N. Pal, R. Kesarwani, K. P. Bhabak; Stimuli-responsive fluorogenic prodrugs of potent inhibitors targeting overexpressed metabolic enzymes in cancer. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (44): 11014–11033. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00654J
Communications
N. Lhouvum, D. S. Shankar Rao, D. P. Singh, A. S. Achalkumar; Benzotriquinoxaline-based discotic liquid crystals stabilizing room temperature columnar self-assembly with high charge carrier mobility. Chem. Commun.2026; 62 (38): 9642–9646. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00678G
S. Kar, P. K. Maharana, T. Punniyamurthy; Cobalt-catalysed (4+3)-annulation of oxiranes with 4-vinyl indoles: stereospecific access to fused oxepinoindoles. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (11): 3550–3554. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC06979C
S. Srimayee, B. M. Prusty, M. K. Kar, M.Winterhalter, D. Manna; Molecular communication system using Zn2+selective supramolecular nanochannel to induce photoregulated catalysis. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (8): 2682–2685. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC06434A
Vikas, V. Arora, S. Dhole, A. Kumar; Mechanistic studies on the NNN pincer–ruthenium catalysed transformation of ethanol to ethyl acetate. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (12): 3802–3806. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC06881A
A. Das, C. Mukherjee; A cyano-substituted phenoxazine moiety as an organophotoredox catalyst for C–C, C–B and C–P coupling reactions with aryl halides. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (35): 8910–8914. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00635C
H. Bhattacharyya, S.Saha, S. Khamrai, K.Verma, S. Roy, T. Punniyamurthy; Ruthenium-catalyzed site-selective C–H allylation of aryl ketones using Morita–Baylis–Hillman alcohols: access to α-benzyl acrylates. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (18): 5302–5306. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc07391j
H. J. Phukan, A. Samanta, K. Mohar, A. Mondal, R. Dihingia, D. Srimani; Mn(II)-catalyzed switchable synthesis of P(O)–C and P(O)–O bonds from alcohols and diarylphosphine oxides via phospha-Brook rearrangement. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (38): 9676–9679. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc01657j
S. Samantaray, S. Saha, T. Punniyamurthy; Rh-catalyzed chemodivergent [4+1]-annulation/allylation of sulfoxonium ylides with α-methylene-β-lactones: access to α-indanonyl/α-benzyl acrylates. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (3): 874–878. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc05716g
F. Akhtar, S. Dolai, S. Pramanik, S. Bhandari; A plasmon-enhanced fluorescent nanoprobe for ultrasensitive and selective detection of nitroaniline derivatives. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (30): 7746–7749. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc07258a
A. Pal, A. Borah, A. Das; Chromium-catalyzed reductive alkylation of N-heteroarenes using alkyl formates as transfer hydroalkylation reagents.Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (3): 960–964. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc06076a
P. G. Dalai, D. Barik, S. Manna, A. Lokesh, B. K. Patel; Visible-light-mediated β,β-thio- and selenosulfonylation of N-ethyl tertiary amines. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (13): 4076–4079. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc00112b
S. Saha, B. M. Deka, A.K. Guha, B. Mondal; Ligand-induced release of HNO/NO−from a cobalt(ii)-nitrosyl complex. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (36): 9188–9192. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc00661b
P. Mandal, A. N. Panda; Conformation-driven (de)localization of the exciton in 2-phenylpyridine oligomers: non-adiabatic surface hopping dynamics. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (19): 5447–5451. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc00016a
Sk A. Islam, B. Pramanik, D. Grover, B. K. Das, R. Kushwaha, S. Ahmed; Chemically-fueled transient peptide hydrogel enabling programmable time-gated functions. Chem. Commun. 2026; 62 (55): 13723–13727. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc01962e
G. Mukherjee, J. K. Satpathy, D. Bhandary, D. L. Hareendran, A. Draksharapu, Amanullah Sk, A. J. Simaan; Generation and Reactivity of a Mononuclear Copper(III)-Azide Complex Stable at Room Temperature. Chem. Commun. 2026; https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC03266D
