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Top 25 most-downloaded ChemComm articles January–March 2016

25 May 2016

Here are the 25 most-downloaded ChemComm articles from the first quarter of 2016:

The surface chemistry of metal–organic frameworks
Christina V. McGuire and Ross S. Forgan
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5199-5217, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04458D, Feature Article
From themed collection 2015 Emerging Investigators

Radical C–H functionalization to construct heterocyclic compounds
Jin-Tao Yu and Changduo Pan
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 2220-2236, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC08872K, Feature Article

Fluorescent probes for the selective detection of chemical species inside mitochondria
Zheng Xu and Lin Xu
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 1094-1119, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09248E, Feature Article

Rapid synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) nanocrystals in an aqueous system
Yichang Pan, Yunyang Liu, Gaofeng Zeng, Lan Zhao and Zhiping Lai
Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2071-2073, DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05002D, Communication

Nanostructured electrochromic smart windows: traditional materials and NIR-selective plasmonic nanocrystals
Evan L. Runnerstrom, Anna Llordés, Sebastien D. Lounis and Delia J. Milliron
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 10555-10572, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03109A, Feature Article

Reduction of graphene oxide via L-ascorbic acid
Jiali Zhang, Haijun Yang, Guangxia Shen, Ping Cheng, Jingyan Zhang and Shouwu Guo
Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 1112-1114, DOI: 10.1039/B917705A, Communication

Graphene quantum dots: emergent nanolights for bioimaging, sensors, catalysis and photovoltaic devices
Jianhua Shen, Yihua Zhu, Xiaoling Yang and Chunzhong Li
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 3686-3699, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC00110A, Feature Article

Aggregation-induced emission: phenomenon, mechanism and applications
Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam and Ben Zhong Tang
Chem. Commun., 2009, 4332-4353, DOI: 10.1039/B904665H, Feature Article

A facile synthesis of UiO-66, UiO-67 and their derivatives
Michael J. Katz, Zachary J. Brown, Yamil J. Colón, Paul W. Siu, Karl A. Scheidt, Randall Q. Snurr, Joseph T. Hupp and Omar K. Farha
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9449-9451, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46105J, Communication

Production of few-layer phosphorene by liquid exfoliation of black phosphorus
Jack R. Brent, Nicky Savjani, Edward A. Lewis, Sarah J. Haigh, David J. Lewis and Paul O’Brien
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 13338-13341, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05752J, Communication
From themed collection Celebrating the 2016 RSC Prize and Award Winners

All-inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals for photodetector applications
Parthiban Ramasamy, Da-Hye Lim, Bumjin Kim, Seung-Ho Lee, Min-Sang Lee and Jong-Soo Lee
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 2067-2070, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC08643D, Communication

Photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ using heterogeneous catalysts with controlled nanostructures
Shunji Xie, Qinghong Zhang, Guodong Liu and Ye Wang
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 35-59, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC07613G, Feature Article

Preparation and applications of novel composites composed of metal–organic frameworks and two-dimensional materials
Shaozhou Li, Kai Yang, Chaoliang Tan, Xiao Huang, Wei Huang and Hua Zhang
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 1555-1562, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09127F, Feature Article

Aerobic oxidation catalysis with stable radicals
Qun Cao, Laura M. Dornan, Luke Rogan, N. Louise Hughes and Mark J. Muldoon
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 4524-4543, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47081D, Feature Article

Key processes in ruthenium-catalysed olefin metathesis
David J. Nelson, Simone Manzini, César A. Urbina-Blanco and Steven P. Nolan
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 10355-10375, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02515F, Feature Article

Insight into the crystallization of amorphous imine-linked polymer networks to 2D covalent organic frameworks
Brian J. Smith, Anna C. Overholts, Nicky Hwang and William R. Dichtel
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 3690-3693, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC10221A, Communication

Creating a thermally activated delayed fluorescence channel in a single polymer system to enhance exciton utilization efficiency for bluish-green electroluminescence
Jiajia Luo, Guohua Xie, Shaolong Gong, Tianheng Chen and Chuluo Yang
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 2292-2295, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09797E, Communication

Highly crystalline covalent organic frameworks from flexible building blocks
Liqian Xu, San-Yuan Ding, Junmin Liu, Junliang Sun, Wei Wang and Qi-Yu Zheng
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 4706-4709, DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01171C, Communication

Strongly green-photoluminescent graphene quantum dots for bioimaging applications
Shoujun Zhu, Junhu Zhang, Chunyan Qiao, Shijia Tang, Yunfeng Li, Wenjing Yuan, Bo Li, Lu Tian, Fang Liu, Rui Hu, Hainan Gao, Haotong Wei, Hao Zhang, Hongchen Sun and Bai Yang
Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6858-6860, DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11122A, Communication

Synthesis and catalytic properties of MIL-100(Fe), an iron(III) carboxylate with large pores
Patricia Horcajada, Suzy Surblé, Christian Serre, Do-Young Hong, You-Kyong Seo, Jong-San Chang, Jean-Marc Grenèche, Irene Margiolaki and Gérard Férey
Chem. Commun., 2007, 2820-2822, DOI: 10.1039/B704325B, Communication

Pharmaceutical cocrystals: along the path to improved medicines
Naga K. Duggirala, Miranda L. Perry, Örn Almarsson and Michael J. Zaworotko
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 640-655, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC08216A, Feature Article

Photo-click construction of a targetable and activatable two-photon probe imaging protease in apoptosis
Mi Zhou, Jing Hu, Mengmeng Zheng, Qinhua Song, Jinbo Li and Yan Zhang
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 2342-2345, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09973K, Communication

Cobalt(III) catalyzed C-8 selective C–H and C–O coupling of quinoline N-oxide with internal alkynes via C–H activation and oxygen atom transfer
Nagaraju Barsu, Malay Sen, J. Richard Premkumar and Basker Sundararaju
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 1338-1341, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC08736H, Communication

Novel solvent properties of choline chloride/urea mixtures
Andrew P. Abbott, Glen Capper, David L. Davies, Raymond K. Rasheed and Vasuki Tambyrajah
Chem. Commun., 2003, 70-71, DOI: 10.1039/B210714G, Communication

Chemical synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles
Taeghwan Hyeon
Chem. Commun., 2003, 927-934, DOI: 10.1039/B207789B, Feature Article

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Sunset for perovskites?

06 May 2016

Perovskites have arguably transformed solar energy more in the last few years than other technologies have in decades. But British researchers have called into question optimistic predictions of undiscovered perovskites.

Hybrid perovskites are a mix of organic and inorganic ions with the same crystal structure as calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO₃). Halide perovskites are a subset of these structures containing halide ions such as fluoride or chloride. Iodide perovskites such as methylammonium lead iodide (CH₃NH₃PbI₃) can convert sunlight to electricity.

Researchers use a decades-old geometric ‘tolerance factor’ to propose new combinations of ions that will form stable perovskites. Now, Robert Palgrave and his team at University College London, UK, have reassessed the validity of the tolerance factor in predicting new hybrid perovskite structures. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original journal article in Chemical Science – it’s open access:
On the application of the tolerance factor to inorganic and hybrid halide perovskites: a revised system
W. Travis, E. N. K. Glover, H. Bronstein, D. O. Scanlon and R. G. Palgrave
Chem. Sci., 2016, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C5SC04845A, Edge Article

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Iron-rich silicate plays cosmic matchmaker

05 May 2016

Computational chemists in Spain have discovered that iron in cosmic dust grains helps turn hydrogen atoms into molecular hydrogen (H₂).

The average density of the interstellar medium is several billion times less dense than even the best vacuum chambers on Earth. Collisions between hydrogen atoms are therefore rare, and when they do occur, only one out of every 100,000 creates H₂. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

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Does Fe²⁺ in olivine-based interstellar grains play any role in the formation of H₂? Atomistic insights from DFT periodic simulations
J. Navarro-Ruiz, P. Ugliengo, M. Sodupe and A. Rimola
Chem. Commun., 2016, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02313D, Communication

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Caging chemical weapons

14 Apr 2016

Scientists in the UK have developed supramolecular cages that can trap chemical weapon simulants using the hydrophobic effect.

Organophosphorous chemical weapons, such as sarin and soman, interfere with signals between nerve cells, and have recently been used to deadly effect in places such as Syria. Researchers are therefore trying to develop techniques that detect these chemical weapons in the environment, and destroy them. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

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Binding of chemical warfare agent simulants as guests in a coordination cage: contributions to binding and a fluorescence-based response
Christopher G. P. Taylor, Jerico R. Piper and Michael D. Ward
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02021F, Communication

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Macrocyle aromaticity switch is all about that base

12 Apr 2016

Researchers have discovered a macrocyle that they can render aromatic, non-aromatic or anti-aromatic by altering the amount of base they add.

Meso-aryl expanded porphyrins are usually exceedingly twisted structures due to strong hydrogen bonds within them. Even though they contain many conjugated bonds, this twisted structure means that most of these porphyrins are non-aromatic (to be aromatic, a molecule not only needs conjugation, but must also be flat). Previously scientists had added hydrogen ions to disturb hydrogen bonding in porphyrins, causing them to untwist and become aromatic. Here, a team led by Dongho Kim from Yonsei University, Korea, have flattened a porphyrin by removing hydrogen ions. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original research in ChemComm – it’s free to read until 20 May 2016:
Multifaceted [36]octaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1): deprotonation-induced switching among nonaromatic, Möbius aromatic, and Hückel antiaromatic species
Won-Young Cha, Takanori Soya, Takayuki Tanaka, Hirotaka Mori, Yongseok Hong, Sangsu Lee, Kyu Hyung Park, Atsuhiro Osuka and Dongho Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02051H, Communication

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Hot ChemComm articles for March

17 Mar 2016

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

C5CC10503J GA

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

C6CC00922K GA

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

C5CC10513G GA

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

C6CC00962J GA

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

C6CC00036C GA

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

C6CC00366D GA

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Hypervalent iodine reagent’s aversion to conversion

14 Mar 2016

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

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Enzyme mutagenesis sweetens prebiotics

19 Feb 2016

Sugar lumps European scientists have developed an enzyme to cleanly and cheaply produce a healthier sugar with prebiotic properties.

Prebiotics – compounds that nourish the good bacteria in our gut – have become important synthetic targets due to their potential role in preventing diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. There are a limited number currently available for use in food, and most do not have the additional benefit of tasting sweet. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original journal article in ChemComm – it’s free to access until 30 March 2016:
Converting bulk sugars into prebiotics: semi-rational design of a transglucosylase with controlled selectivity
Tom Verhaeghe, Karel De Winter, Magali Berland, Rob De Vreese, Matthias D’hooghe, Bernard Offmann and Tom Desmet
Chem. Commun., 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09940D, Communication

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Solar cells firing on all cylinders

15 Feb 2016

Scientists in china have manufactured cylindrical dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) capable of generating a stable electrical output at different times of the day. Compared to their traditional flat counterparts, if correctly positioned so that the sun moves around their axis, their output is far less dependent of the angle of the sun. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original journal article in ChemComm – it’s free to read* until 22nd March 2016:
Cylindrical dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiency and stability over time and incident angle
Qunwei Tang, Lei Zhang, Benlin He, Liangmin Yu and Peizhi Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC10105K, Communication

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Top 25 ChemComm articles October–December 2015

11 Feb 2016

The 25 most-downloaded ChemComm articles in the fourth quarter of 2015 were as follows:

Design and synthesis of nitrogen-containing calcined polymer/carbon nanotube hybrids that act as a platinum-free oxygen reduction fuel cell catalyst
Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Takeshi Uchinoumi, Kenji Kaneko and Naotoshi Nakashima
Chem. Commun., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11303H, Communication

Improvement of oxygen reduction reaction and methanol tolerance characteristics for PdCo electrocatalysts by Au alloying and CO treatment
Yu-Chen Wei, Chen-Wei Liu and Kuan-Wen Wang
Chem. Commun., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CC15110J, Communication

Ultrasensitive electrochemical immunoassay of proteins based on in situ duple amplification of gold nanoparticle biolabel signals
Xiaoli Qin, Aigui Xu, Ling Liu, Wenfang Deng, Chao Chen, Yueming Tan, Yingchun Fu, Qingji Xie and Shouzhuo Yao
Chem. Commun., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC01439E, Communication

Multifunctional catalysis by Pd-polyoxometalate: one-step conversion of acetone to methyl isobutyl ketone
Robert D. Hetterley, Elena F. Kozhevnikova and Ivan V. Kozhevnikov
Chem. Commun., 2006, DOI: 10.1039/B515325E, Communication

The surface chemistry of metal–organic frameworks
Christina V. McGuire and Ross S. Forgan
Chem. Commun., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04458D, Feature Article
From themed collection 2015 Emerging Investigators

Production of few-layer phosphorene by liquid exfoliation of black phosphorus
Jack R. Brent, Nicky Savjani, Edward A. Lewis, Sarah J. Haigh, David J. Lewis and Paul O’Brien
Chem. Commun., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05752J, Communication

π-Electron rich small molecule sensors for the recognition of nitroaromatics
Sankarasekaran Shanmugaraju and Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
Chem. Commun., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC07513K, Feature Article

Nanostructured electrochromic smart windows: traditional materials and NIR-selective plasmonic nanocrystals
Evan L. Runnerstrom, Anna Llordés, Sebastien D. Lounis and Delia J. Milliron
Chem. Commun., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03109A, Feature Article

Yttrium alkyl complexes with a sterically demanding benzamidinate ligand: synthesis, structure and catalytic ethene polymerisation
Sergio Bambirra, Daan van Leusen, Auke Meetsma, Bart Hessen and Jan H. Teuben
Chem. Commun., 2003, DOI: 10.1039/B208502J, Communication

Graphene quantum dots: emergent nanolights for bioimaging, sensors, catalysis and photovoltaic devices
Jianhua Shen, Yihua Zhu, Xiaoling Yang and Chunzhong Li
Chem. Commun., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC00110A, Feature Article

Reduction of graphene oxide viaL-ascorbic acid
Jiali Zhang, Haijun Yang, Guangxia Shen, Ping Cheng, Jingyan Zhang and Shouwu Guo
Chem. Commun., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/B917705A, Communication

Aggregation-induced emission: phenomenon, mechanism and applications
Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam and Ben Zhong Tang
Chem. Commun., 2009, DOI: 10.1039/B904665H, Feature Article

Key processes in ruthenium-catalysed olefin metathesis
David J. Nelson, Simone Manzini, César A. Urbina-Blanco and Steven P. Nolan
Chem. Commun., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02515F, Feature Article

Recent developments in transition metal carbides and nitrides as hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts
Wei-Fu Chen, James T. Muckerman and Etsuko Fujita
Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC44076A, Feature Article
From themed collection Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

A facile synthesis of UiO-66, UiO-67 and their derivatives
Michael J. Katz, Zachary J. Brown, Yamil J. Colón, Paul W. Siu, Karl A. Scheidt, Randall Q. Snurr, Joseph T. Hupp and Omar K. Farha
Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46105J, Communication

Layered double hydroxides toward electrochemical energy storage and conversion: design, synthesis and applications
Mingfei Shao, Ruikang Zhang, Zhenhua Li, Min Wei, David G. Evans and Xue Duan
Chem. Commun., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC07296D, Feature Article

A superior catalyst with dual redox cycles for the selective reduction of NOx by ammonia
Zhiming Liu, Yang Yi, Junhua Li, Seong Ihl Woo, Baoyi Wang, Xingzhong Cao and Zhuoxin Li
Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC43041C, Communication

Rapid synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) nanocrystals in an aqueous system
Yichang Pan, Yunyang Liu, Gaofeng Zeng, Lan Zhao and Zhiping Lai
Chem. Commun., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05002D, Communication

Aerobic oxidation catalysis with stable radicals
Qun Cao, Laura M. Dornan, Luke Rogan, N. Louise Hughes and Mark J. Muldoon
Chem. Commun., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47081D, Feature Article

Strongly green-photoluminescent graphene quantum dots for bioimaging applications
Shoujun Zhu, Junhu Zhang, Chunyan Qiao, Shijia Tang, Yunfeng Li, Wenjing Yuan, Bo Li, Lu Tian, Fang Liu, Rui Hu, Hainan Gao, Haotong Wei, Hao Zhang, Hongchen Sun and Bai Yang
Chem. Commun., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11122A, Communication

Nano-structured ternary niobium titanium nitrides as durable non-carbon supports for oxygen reduction reaction
Minghui Yang, Abigail Rose Van Wassen, Rohiverth Guarecuco, Héctor D. Abruña and Francis J. DiSalvo
Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45732J, Communication

Chemical synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles
Taeghwan Hyeon
Chem. Commun., 2003, DOI: 10.1039/B207789B, Feature Article

Yolk/shell nanoparticles: new platforms for nanoreactors, drug delivery and lithium-ion batteries
Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao, Jun Song Chen, Xiong Wen (David) Lou, Xianran Xing and Gao Qing (Max) Lu
Chem. Commun., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CC13658E, Feature Article

Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets
Nicolas P. E. Barry and Peter J. Sadler
Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41143E, Feature Article
From themed collection Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry

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