Chemical Communications Blog

Professor Philip P. Power (University of California, Davis) turned 65 in April 2018 and in honour of this anniversary and his immense influence on the field of organometallic chemistry we’re pleased to introduce a new cross-journal themed collection. 

Guest edited by Roland C. Fischer, Michael S. Hill, and David J. Liptrot the collection brings together 27 of Professor Power’s key RSC papers with specially commissioned work for Dalton Transactions and Chem. Commun. by over 45 by his coworkers and protégés.

Read the editorial, in which the guest editors give an overview of Professor Power’s career and highlight some of his contributions to the study of low coordinate systems, multiple bonding, small molecule activation, and London dispersion forces, or read on to check out some of the many hot articles inspired by his work.

1,3,2-Diazaborole-derived carbene complexes of boron

Hunter P. Hickox, Yuzhong Wang, Kaitlin M. Luedecke, Yaoming Xie, Pingrong Wei, Deidrah Carrillo, Nathaniel L. Dominique, Dongtao Cui, Henry F. Schaefer, III and Gregory H. Robinson

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 41-44 10.1039/C7DT04079B   1,3,2-Diazaborole-derived carbene complexes of boron were synthesized via 1,2-hydrogen migration.

A snapshot of inorganic Janovsky complex analogues featuring a nucleophilic boron center

Di Wu, Yongxin Li, Rakesh Ganguly and Rei Kinjo 

Neutral two-dimensional organometallic–organic hybrid polymers based on pentaphosphaferrocene, bipyridyl linkers and CuCl

M. Elsayed Moussa, B. Attenberger, E. V. Peresypkina and  M. Scheer 

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 1014-1017 10.1039/C7DT04286H   The reaction of the Pn ligand complex [Cp*Fe(η5-P5)] (1: Cp* = η5-C5Me5) with CuCl in the presence of 4,4′-bipyridine or 1,2-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene leads to the formation of three unprecedented neutral 2D organometallic–organic hybrid networks.

C–H and H–H activation at a di-titanium centre

Nikolaos Tsoureas, Jennifer C. Green and  F. Geoffrey N. Cloke 

Divergent reactivity of nucleophilic 1-bora-7a-azaindenide anions

Matthew M. Morgan, J. Mikko Rautiainen, Warren E. Piers, Heikki M. Tuononen and Chris Gendy 

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 734-741 10.1039/C7DT04350C   The reactions of 1-bora-7a-azaindenide anions, prepared in moderate to excellent yields by reduction of the appropriate 1-bora-7a-azaindenyl chlorides with KC8 in THF, with alkyl halides and carbon dioxide were studied.

Carbodiimides as catalysts for the reduction of a cadmium hydride complex

D. J. Webb, C. M. Fitchett, M. Lein and J. R. Fulton

All articles in this collection will be free to access until the 19th of June. 

All of the referee-recommended articles below are free to access until 4th May 2018

An umpolung of Lewis acidity/basicity at nitrogen by deprotonation of a cyclic (amino)(aryl)nitrenium cation
Jiliang Zhou, Liu Leo Liu, Levy L. Cao and Douglas W. Stephan
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01331D, Communication

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Aqueous immiscible layered double hydroxides: synthesis, characterisation and molecular dynamics simulation
Kanittika Ruengkajorn, Valentina Erastova, Jean-Charles Buffet, H. Chris Greenwell and Dermot O’Hare
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC00528A, Communication

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Ultrasmall Ru2P nanoparticles on graphene: a highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalyst in both acidic and alkaline media
Tingting Liu, Shuo Wang, Qiuju Zhang, Liang Chen, Weihua Hu and Chang Ming Li
Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 3343-3346
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01166D, Communication

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Catalytically active nanorotor reversibly self-assembled by chemical signaling within an eight-component network
Abir Goswami, Susnata Pramanik and Michael Schmittel
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01496E, Communication

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Impact of partial interpenetration in a hybrid ultramicroporous material on C2H2/C2H4 separation performance
Daniel O’Nolan, David G. Madden, Amrit Kumar, Kai-Jie Chen, Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Ewa Patyk-Kazmierczak, Qing-Yuan Yang, Claire A. Murray, Chiu C. Tang, Brian Space and Michael J. Zaworotko
Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 3488-3491
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01627E, Communication

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On the nature of organic and inorganic centers that bifurcate electrons, coupling exergonic and endergonic oxidation-reduction reactions
John W. Peters, David N. Beratan, Gerrit J. Schut and Michael W. W. Adams
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01530A, Feature Article

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Communications in 2017, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Koji Hirano, Osaka University, ORCID: 0000-0001-9752-1985
Professor Marcel Hollenstein, Institut Pasteur, ORCID: 0000-0003-0263-9206
Professor Yu Sherry Jiang, Harvard Medical School
Professor Joohoon Kim, Kyung Hee University, ORCID: 0000-0003-1481-2440
Dr Matthew Lloyd, University of Bath, ORCID: 0000-0002-4821-4361
Professor Arpad Molnar, University of Szeged, ORCID: 0000-0001-9191-450X
Professor David Nelson, University of Strathclyde, ORCID: 0000-0002-9461-5182
Professor Kyungsoo Oh, Chung-Ang University, ORCID: 0000-0002-4566-6573
Professor Carlos del Pozo, University of Valencia, ORCID: 0000-0002-0947-5999
Professor Jin Xie, Nanjing University, ORCID: 0000-0003-2600-6139

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If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre.

All of the referee-recommended articles below are free to access until 6th April 2018.

Challenges and advances in the computational modeling of biological phosphate hydrolysis
Dušan Petrović, Klaudia Szeler and Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC09504J, Feature Article

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Copper-catalyzed three-component cyclization of amidines, styrenes, and fluoroalkyl halides for the synthesis of modular fluoroalkylated pyrimidines
Xue-Qiang Chu, Bu-Qing Cheng, Yao-Wei Zhang, Danhua Ge, Zhi-Liang Shen and Teck-Peng Loh
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC09571F, Communication

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Encoding matter with regiospecific ¹²C/¹³C isotopic labels
James J. La Clair
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC00080H, Communication

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Unravelling Lawesson’s reagent: the structure of monomeric (4-methoxyphenyl)phosphine disulfide
Artur Mardyukov, Dominik Niedek and Peter R. Schreiner
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC00034D, Communication

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Enhanced hydrogen spillover to fullerene at ambient temperature
Hirotomo Nishihara, Tomoya Simura and Takashi Kyotani
Chem. Commun., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC00265G, Communication

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Spatially resolved coding of λ-orthogonal hydrogels by laser lithography
Rhiannon R. Batchelor, Eva Blasco, Kilian N. R. Wuest, Hongxu Lu, Martin Wegener, Christopher Barner-Kowollik and Martina H. Stenzel
Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 2436-2439
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC09619D, Communication