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ChemComm’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations

ChemComm is publishing its 60th volume in 2024. Over the past 60 years, ChemComm has been the RSC’s most cited journal, and one of the most trusted venues for rapid publication of short communications. In our anniversary year, we recognise the important contributions ChemComm has made, and continues to make, in advancing the chemical sciences.

As part of these celebrations, we’ve brought together a number of special collections highlighting both historical and new work in the journal. Check out all of these collections below, with many more to come as the year develops!

 

ChemComm Emerging Investigators and Pioneering Investigators These annual collections highlight high quality research being carried out by researchers in the early and mid stages of their independent careers, respectively.
ChemComm 60th Anniversary Board Member Collection This special collection highlights the latest work from the pioneering researchers who by serving ChemComm’s Editorial and Advisory boards in the last two decades have together supported the journal in reaching this anniversary milestone.

Throughout the year, we’ll be catching up with these current and former Board Members to discuss their work and reflect on the anniversary. Read the first of these interviews here .

ChemComm 60th Anniversary Authors Collection This collection brings together the latest research from some of our most loyal and dedicated authors. From those marking the beginning of their independent academic career by publishing their first article with us, to the rising stars and established leaders publishing in our yearly ‘Emerging Investigators’ and ‘Pioneering Investigators’ collections, this collection champions the contributions of our worldwide author community.

We are proud many authors choose to support our journal by regularly publishing their best work with us. This collection also features papers from our ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship winners, and our Outstanding Reviewer awardees, whose invaluable feedback has shaped our published content through the years.

ChemComm contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Over the past 60 years, ChemComm has published many important papers with the potential to contribute to a sustainable future.

This collection brings together historic work and more recent reviews published in ChemComm which demonstrate how chemistry can contribute to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals with the aim of ending poverty, improving health and education, all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our natural environment.

ChemComm 60th Anniversary Historic Papers from North America We’ve brought together 60 significant historic papers published in ChemComm from each region. This special collection highlights 60 pioneering papers that were most cited from the researchers in United States and Canada.
ChemComm 60th Anniversary Historic Papers from China This special collection highlights 60 pioneering papers that were among the most cited from researchers based in China. We hope you enjoy revisiting some of the papers that made ChemComm one of your most trusted venues for publication.
ChemComm 60th Anniversary Historic Papers from Japan & South Korea A special collection highlighting 60 pioneering papers that were among the most cited from researchers based in Japan & South Korea. We hope you enjoy this historic collection of the papers that made ChemComm one of your most trusted venues for publication.

ChemComm 60th Anniversary Historic Papers from the United Kingdom

 

This special collection highlights 60 pioneering papers that were most cited from the researchers in the United Kingdom.

 

Be sure to follow our LinkedIn page and X(Twitter) feed for further news on upcoming anniversary celebrations, including further regional collections of historic papers, and some personal reflections from authors and Board Members on what the ChemComm’s anniversary means to them!

 

 

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ChemComm 60th Anniversary Board Member Collection

 

Chemical Communications will be publishing its 60th volume in 2024. Over the past 60 years, ChemComm has been the RSC’s most cited journal, and one of the most trusted venues for rapid publication of short communications. In our anniversary year, we recognise the important contributions ChemComm has made, and continues to make, in advancing the chemical sciences.

As part of these celebrations, we’ve brought together a special collection highlighting the latest work from the pioneering researchers who have supported the journal in reaching this milestone by serving on ChemComm’s Editorial and Advisory boards in the last two decades. Throughout the year, we’ll be catching up with these current and former Board Members to discuss their work and reflect on ChemComm’s 60th anniversary. Check out our first interviews with current Editorial Board chair, Professor Doug Stephan, and Advisory Board member, Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, below!

 

Doug Stephan, born in Hamilton ON, graduated with his BSc at McMaster (1976) and PhD at UWO (1980). After a NATO PDF at Harvard, he began his independent career at the University of Windsor (1982). He was promoted to Associate Professor (1985), full Professor(1992) and named a NSERC Industrial Research Chair (2001), University Professor (2002) and Canada Research Chair (2005). In 2008 he moved to the University of Toronto as a Professor and Canada Research Chair, In 2018, he was appointed University Professor. In 2020, he established an additional satellite laboratory at Ningbo University as a Zhedong Scholar Chair Professor. He was an Associated Editor for Chemical Society Reviews for 6 years, the Chair of the editorial board and is now Chair of the editorial board of Chemical Communications

A world-leading researcher in inorganic chemistry/catalysis, he is best known as the founder of the field of “frustrated Lewis pair” (FLP) chemistry. He has received a number of National and International awards, including Humboldt and Killam Fellowships. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (London), a Corresponding Member of North-Rhein-Westfaelia Academy of the Sciences and Arts (Germany) and was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University, and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at TU Berlin. More recently, he was the recipient of the 2019 J. C. Polanyi Award from NSERC of Canada, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship the 2021 Killam Prize in Science and the 2022 F.A Cotton Award from the American Chemical Society. In 2023, he wqs named the John C. Polanyi Chair in Chemistry at the University of Toronto.

What attracted you to the role as Editorial Board Chair for ChemComm?

There are a number of positives that drew me to this role. Firstly, the journal has a solid reputation for publishing quality communications. The associate editors and board members are great scientists whom I admire, and all of the RSC staff are a pleasure to work with.

How have you seen ChemComm evolve over the years, and what aspects do you find most noteworthy?

I think that ChemComm, like the discipline has evolved in sophistication and rigor.  Years ago, communications were very short reports of new concepts that were worthy of further study, and they were typically followed up with a fuller report. Today, communications go so much further, substantiating claims and providing much more credible proofs of principle. So much so that they most often stand on their own merit.

What is your favourite thing about ChemComm?

I guess the thing I like the most is that as one scans the table of contents of an issue, one can find a very broad range of chemistry. Inorganic organic, materials, polymers, theoretical and physical chemistry are all covered. Thus, even if I do not read all the papers, I feel I am at least aware of important developments outside of my particular area.

In what ways do you think ChemComm stands out among other journals in your field?

As other journals take communications, full papers and numerous reviews, ChemComm stands out as the journal that focuses on  communications. These short but impactful papers cover areas across the discipline of Chemistry and beyond.

Are there ways in which the journal can further support and engage with future generations of scientists?

I think that young (and old) scientists want to engage with quality, quality papers, quality reviewing and quality editors. The sustained focus of ChemComm on these aspects augurs well for continuing engagement of the community through the generations.

I also believe that ChemComm’s efforts to continue to increase their presence and use of social media is critically important. This is a terrific tool for the rapid dissemination of information allowing scientist to ensure that their community is aware of their work.

Could you provide a brief summary of your recent ChemComm publication?

Our recent ChemComm describes a unique synthetic route to phosphorus analogues of β-lactams, exploiting FLP-type reactions.

In your opinion, what are the next steps or potential areas of research that could build upon the findings in this paper?

These compounds have potential to act as antimicrobial agents. We are developing collaborations to evaluate these species and related derivatives.

Read Doug’s full Communication here: Stannyl phosphaketene as a synthon for phosphorus analogues of β-lactams by Yong-an Luo, Zhao Zhao, Ting Chen, Yanguo Li, Yufen Zhao, Douglas Stephan and Yile Wu

Eli Zysman-Colman obtained his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. David N. Harpp as an FCAR scholar, conducting research in physical organic sulfur chemistry.  He then completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one in supramolecular chemistry with Prof. Jay Siegel at the Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich as an FQRNT fellow and the other in inorganic materials chemistry with Prof. Stefan Bernhard at Princeton University as a PCCM fellow.  He joined the department of chemistry at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada as an assistant professor in 2007. In 2013, he moved to the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, UK, where he is presently Professor of Optoelectronic Materials, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a past holder of a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship.  His research program focuses on the rational design of: (I) luminophores for energy-efficient visual displays and flat panel lighting based on organic light emitting diode (OLED) and light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC) device architectures; (II) sensing materials employed in electrochemiluminescence; and (III) photocatalyst developing for use in organic reactions.

What is your favourite thing about ChemComm?

I enjoy the breadth of chemistry covered in Chem. Commun.

Could you provide a brief summary of your recent ChemComm publication?

Our paper demonstrates a new multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitter design, DDiKTa-F wherein we annelate on either side of a fluorene a known MR-TADF moiety that we had previous studied, DiKTa. In doing so, we produced a narrower, brighter and red-shifted emission compared to a previous emitter we had developed, DDiKTa. We then demonstrated its utility as the emitter in an organic-light emitting diode.

Read Eli’s Open Access Communcation article here: A fluorene-bridged double carbonyl/amine multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter for efficient green OLEDs by Sen Wu, Ya-Nan Hu, Dianming Sun, Kai Wang, Xiao-Hong Zhang and Eli Zysman-Colman

 

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ChemComm – Welcome to our new Advisory Board members

This year, we have welcomed twenty new members to our Advisory Board. Learn about each member below.

Brendan Abrahams, University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Abrahams graduated with a PhD in 1989 working in the area of cadmium and mercury coordination chemistry. He was appointed to ongoing teaching-research position within the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 2004. In addition to coordination polymers his current interests include supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering.
Raffaella Buonsanti, EPFL, Switzerland. Professor Buonsanti’s group works at the interface of materials chemistry and catalysis; they focus on developing a fundamental understanding of the chemistry behind the formation of colloidal nanocrystals and they use them as controlled and tunable electrocatalysts for the conversion of small molecule into value-added chemicals
Jyotirmayee Dash, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India. Professor Dash’s research interests are synthesis of natural products, the self-assembly of nucleobases and the recognition and regulation of nucleic acids.
Sujit Ghosh, IISER Pune, India. Professor Ghosh’s major research areas include Luminescent MOFs, Chemical sensors, Pollutants capture, Ion exchange materials, hydrocarbons separation etc. suited for potential applications in the chemical industry and environmental issues.
Robert Gilliard, University of Virginia, USA. The Gilliard laboratory focuses on understanding structure-function relationships in main-group thermochromic, luminescent, and radical materials, as well as the structure and reactivity of low-valent main-group organometallics.
Shaojun Guo, Peking University, China. Professor Guo holds a BS in Materials Chemistry from Jilin University and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are nano/sub-nano/atomic materials for catalysis and energy applications.
Amanda E. Hargrove, Duke University, USA. Professor Hargrove earned her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin followed by an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech. Professor Hargrove’s laboratory focuses on developing small molecule probes to investigate the structure and function of RNA molecules relevant to human disease.
Ilich A. Ibarra, National University of Mexico, Mexico. Professor Ibarra moved in 2014 to Universidad Autónoma de México working as an Assistant Professor. In 2017 he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2019 he was awarded with the “Young Investigators Award in Exact Sciences”, UNAM, Mexico.
Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste, Italy. Professor Marchesan’s research interests lie at the interface between chemistry, biology, and materials science for the development of innovative solutions through the design of nanostructured systems with an eye to the environment (www.marchesanlab.com).
Alexander J. M. Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Professor Miller’s research group takes a mechanism-guided approach to the design and discovery of molecular catalysts for sustainable chemical and fuel synthesis.
Ellen Sletten, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Professor Sletten began her independent career at UCLA in 2015 and has established an interdisciplinary research program that leverages the tools of physical organic chemistry to create new therapeutic and diagnostic technologies.
Mizuki Tada, Nagoya University, Japan. Professor Tada was appointed full professor at Nagoya University in 2013. Her research interests are the areas of heterogeneous catalysis, coordination chemistry, three-dimensional imaging of solid materials using hard X-ray spectroscopy. 
Judy Wu, University of Houston, USA. Professor Wu’s research interests span physical organic chemistry, photochemistry, and supramolecular chemistry. Judy was the recipient of an NSF CARERR award, an NIH-MIRA award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.
Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China. Professor Xie is a recipient of several awards, including L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards, TWAS Prize for Chemistry, IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Nano Research Award. Her research interests focus on the design and synthesis of inorganic functional solids with efforts to modulate their electronic and phonon structures.
Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, China. Professor Zhang’s current research interests are advanced energy materials, including dendrite-free lithium metal anode, lithium sulfur batteries, and electrocatalysis, especially the structure design and full demonstration of advanced energy materials in working devices.
Wenwan Zhong, University of California, Riverside, USA. Professor Zhong’s research is devoted to develop innovative bioanalytical techniques to advance the understanding on how biomolecules function and to improve disease diagnosis and treatment.
Eli Zysman-Colman, University of St. Andrews, UK. Professor Zysman-Colman’s research program focuses on the rational design of: (I) luminophores for energy-efficient visual displays and flat panel lighting based on organic light emitting diode (OLED) and light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC) device architectures; (II) light harvesting dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and organic photovoltaics; (III) sensing materials employed in electrochemiluminescence; and (IV) photocatalysts for organic reactions.
*Appointed but not pictured: Lifeng Chi and Arindam Chowdhury

Read the collection of high-impact articles from our new members: https://rsc.li/advisoryboard2020 Free to access until 21st August.

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Chemical Communications: Editor’s Choice

Be sure to read our Editor’s Choice articles as chosen by Associate Editors Prof. Penny Brothers & Prof. Manfred Scheer!

Both articles are free-to-access until 4th October and can be found alongside our previously chosen articles in our online Editor’s Choice web-collection!

 

NO sorption, in-crystal nitrite and nitrate production with arylamine oxidation in gas–solid single crystal to single crystal reactions” by et al., as chosen by Penny Brothers:

This year marks 100 years since Alfred Werner’s death in 1919, and it is over a century since he won the 2013 Nobel prize for developing the conceptual framework that we now understand as coordination chemistry. Studies on cobalt complexes formed the cornerstone of Werner’s work, and this paper shows they are still relevant and important well into the 21st century, although with some surprising twists.  Single crystals of tetranuclear Co(II) and Co(III) complexes chemisorb nitric oxide (NO) which, after exposure to O2 physisorbed from air, is transformed to nitrite, nitrate and an aryl nitro group in remarkable single crystal to single crystal reactions.  The medical and biological significance of NO and the solventless redox chemistry all occurring in the crystalline phase suggest exciting possibilities for its highly selective capture and conversion.

 

 

Imidazolium-benzimidazolates as convenient sources of donor-functionalised normal and abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes” by et al., as chosen by Manfred Scheer:

Mesomeric betaines are related to N-heterocyclic carbenes because of their interconversion by tautomerisation and therefore can act as “instant carbenes”. The authors established now imidazolium-benzimidazolates as a new and highly versatile “instant carbene” system. Depending on the steric demand of the imidazole N-substituent, normal but also abnormal NHC carbene coordination is observed. Thus, unstable but nevertheless highly interesting species are available starting from stable betainic precursors. Therefore, this paper contributes substantially to the chemistry of normal and abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes.

 

 

 

Find our full Editor’s Choice collection online!

Keep up-to-date with our latest journal news on Twitter @ChemCommun or via our blog!

Learn more about ChemComm online! Submit your latest high impact research here!

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Professor Itaru Hamachi joins as Associate Editor

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Itaru Hamachi from Kyoto University as a new Associate Editor to the ChemComm team and look forward to working with him over the coming years.

Itaru is a chemical biologist with expertise in live-cell organic chemistry, chemical biology, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and supramolecular biomaterials. He is now accepting submissions to ChemComm in the area of chemical biology.

Itaru is looking froward to his new role:

I would like to encourage that new chemistry and chemical approaches between the chemistry and biology interfaces will appear in ChemComm, in order to decipher a lot of chemical-biology problems and also to create novel bio-inspired materials.

About Itaru:

Professor Itaru Hamachi was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1960 and received his Ph.D. in 1988 from Kyoto University under the guidance of the late Professor Iwao Tabushi. Immediately thereafter he joined Kyushu University, where he worked as an Assistant Professor for three years in the Kunitake laboratory before he became an Associate Professor in the Shinkai laboratory in 1992. In 2001, he became a Full Professor at IFOC, Kyushu University and moved to Kyoto University in 2005 where he currently heads the bioorganic chemistry wing.

Professor Hamachi has been a PRESTO investigator for 7 years (from 2000 to 2006) and a team leader of two CREST projects (from 2008 to 2013 and then from 2013 to 2018), which all are supported by the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency.

Submit your next top-notch, high-impact research now to Itaru Hamachi’s Editorial Office.



Itaru’s recent articles in ChemComm and other Royal Society of Chemistry journals include:*

Protein recognition using synthetic small-molecular binders toward optical protein sensing in vitro and in live cells
Ryou Kubota and Itaru Hamachi
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 4454-4471
DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00381K, Review Article

Ligand-directed dibromophenyl benzoate chemistry for rapid and selective acylation of intracellular natural proteins
Yousuke Takaoka, Yuki Nishikawa, Yuki Hashimoto, Kenta Sasaki and Itaru Hamachi
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 3217-3224
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00190K, Edge Article
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Hoechst tagging: a modular strategy to design synthetic fluorescent probes for live-cell nucleus imaging
Akinobu Nakamura, Kazumasa Takigawa, Yasutaka Kurishita, Keiko Kuwata, Manabu Ishida, Yasushi Shimoda, Itaru Hamachi and Shinya Tsukiji
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 6149-6152
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01753F, Communication

*Access is free until 30/09/2016 through a registered RSC account.

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Véronique Gouverneur – our new ChemComm Chair

ChemComm is delighted to announce Professor Véronique Gouverneur as its new Editorial Board Chair.

Professor Véronique Gouverneur (and friend!)

Véronique Gouverneur, who is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, leads a dynamic research group and holds a tutorial fellowship in organic chemistry at Merton College Oxford. She has been internationally recognised for her outstanding and original work in fluorine chemistry, and has recently been awarded the Tetrahedron Chair for 2016. She was also the Blaise Pascal Chair from 2012 to 2014, and is currently holding a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013-2018).

Her research aims to develop new approaches to address long-standing problems in the synthesis of fluorinated analogues of natural products, pharmaceutical drugs and molecular [18F] labelled probes for PET imaging.

Véronique takes on the role from Professor Richard R. Schrock, our previous Chair, to whom we remain extremely grateful for his vision and leadership for ChemComm, throughout a period of exceptional development and continued success for the journal. As he now passes the baton, we look forward to working with Véronique towards an even more exciting and dynamic future for ChemComm.

A very warm welcome to Véronique from all of us here at ChemComm!

Read some of Véronique’s recent publications in ChemComm and other Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

Synthesis and characterization of a novel N–F reagent derived from the ethano-Tröger’s base: 1JFN coupling constants as a signature for the N–F bond
Raul Pereira, Jamie Wolstenhulme, Graham Sandford, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Véronique Gouverneur and Ján Cvengroš
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 1606-1609
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC08375C, Communication

Methylation followed by fluorination of the ethano-Tröger’s base affords a novel N–F reagent more reactive than Selectfluor bis(tetrafluoroborate). This study provides 1JFN coupling constants to characterize the N–F group.
Asymmetric 18F-fluorination for applications in positron emission tomography
Faye Buckingham and Véronique Gouverneur
Chem. Sci., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC04229A, Minireview
OA iconOpen Access

Coordination diversity in hydrogen-bonded homoleptic fluoride–alcohol complexes modulates reactivity
Keary M. Engle, Lukas Pfeifer, George W. Pidgeon, Guy T. Giuffredi, Amber L. Thompson, Robert S. Paton, John M. Brown and Véronique Gouverneur
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 5293-5302
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01812A, Edge Article
OA iconOpen Access

A dual radiolabelling approach for tracking metal complexes: investigating the speciation of copper bis(thiosemicarbazonates) in vitro and in vivo
Rebekka Hueting, Veerle Kersemans, Matthew Tredwell, Bart Cornelissen, Martin Christlieb, Antony D. Gee, Jan Passchier, Sean C. Smart, Véronique Gouverneur, Ruth J. Muschel and Jonathan R. Dilworth
Metallomics, 2015,7, 795-804
DOI: 10.1039/C4MT00330F, Paper

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ChemComm Associate Editor Jonathan Sessler to receive the 2014 MSMLG Award

ChemComm warmly congratulates Associate Editor Jonathan Sessler, who will receive the 2014 MSMLG Award at the 4th International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates (MSMLG2014), to be held in Shanghai, China, from 9-12th November.

Professor Jonathan Sessler
Professor Sessler, of the University of Texas at Austin, is to be recognized for his seminal contributions to colorimetric anion, cation, and neutral substrate sensors, as well as for his work on calixpyrrole-based self-assembly and molecular logic device design.

Professor Seiji Shinkai
The MSMLG Award will also be presented to Professor Seiji ShinkaiChemComm sends sincere congratulations! Professor Shinkai, of Kyushu University, Japan, designed the first molecular machines and played an integral part in the development of various functional calixarenes.  We invite you to check out our recent cross-journal collection of articles – including a good number from ChemComm – especially published in celebration of Seiji Shinkai’s 70th Birthday.

MSMLG2014
The International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates is a biennial conference organized by the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). Over 350 delegates from 25 countries are expected to attend. They will discuss innovative research and development in the fields of molecular sensors and molecular logic gates, molecular recognition and supramolecular self-assembly, and related research areas.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a proud supporter of MSMLG 2014, sponsoring two poster prizes, the winners of which will each receive a hardbound copy of ‘Molecular Logic-based Computation’ from the RSC Books list.

For more information on the conference and to see the line-up of speakers, visit http://www.msmlg2014.org/.

Look out for ChemComm’s upcoming themed collection on Molecular Logic Gates and Information Processing in early 2015!

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ChemComm introduces Rachel Caruso as Associate Editor

We would like give Rachel Caruso, from the University of Melbourne a warm welcome into the ChemComm team as a new Associate Editor.

Rachel is a materials chemist with expertise in the fabrication of advanced porous functional materials. She is now accepting submissions to ChemComm in the area of materials chemistry.

Biography

Rachel completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and group leader at Berlin’s Hahn-Meitner Institute and the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany. She returned to Australia in 2003 to take up an Australian Research Council Fellowship. Since 2008, Rachel has held a joint appointment between the University of Melbourne and CSIRO as an Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Chemistry and as a CEO Science Leader in the division of Materials Science and Engineering. She currently leads an Advanced Porous Materials research group which consists of postdoctoral fellows and PhD students at both the Univeristy of Melbourne and CSIRO.

With over 60 research papers accepted in international journals with high impact factors, Rachel’s publications are extremely well cited and she has had her research displayed on six journal covers.

Submit your next top-notch, high-impact Communication to Rachel Caruso’s Editorial Office

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Erwin Reisner 2014 RSC Award winner

Harrison-Meldola Memorial PrizeHarrison-Meldola Memorial Prize

ChemComm Advisory Board member Erwin Reisner is a Harrison-Meldona Memorial Prize winner. Erwin was awarded this prize for his work in combining molecular synthesis, chemical biology and materials chemistry to develop artificial photosynthesis.

Erwin’s communication ‘Al-doped ZnO inverse opal networks as efficient electron collectors in BiVO4 photoanodes for solar water oxidation’ (C3EE44031A) is part of the ‘Celebrating the 2014 RCS Prize and Award Winners’ themed collection and is free* to access for a limited time only.

You can access papers by other 2014 RSC Prize and Award Winners for free* for a limited time. A full list of winners and more information about RSC Prizes and Awards can be found at: www.rsc.org/awards.

*Access is free until 06.06.14 through a registered RSC account – click here to register

Erwin recent tutorial review describes an emerging technique which allows for the light-dependent activity of Photosystem II adsorbed onto an electrode surface to be studied. This fascinating review can be accessed by clicking the link below.

Protein film photoelectrochemistry of the water oxidation enzyme photosystem II
Masaru Kato, Jenny Z. ZhangNicholas Paul and Erwin Reisner
DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00031E

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Yong-Qiang Tu: ChemComm Editor’s Choice

Yong-Qiang TuMeet our Associate Editor in Organic Chemistry: Yong-Qiang Tu

Professor Yong-Qiang Tu (Lanzhou University, China) handles submissions to Chemical Communications (ChemComm) in organic chemistry.

Yong-Qiang’s research interests centre on tandem rearrangement reactions and their application to the total syntheses of bioactive alkaloids, synthetic studies of biologically active natural products, and the construction of C-C and C-N bonds via C-H functionalisations. We invite you to submit your urgent research to his editorial office.

Read Yong-Qiang’s Editor’s Choice selection of ChemComm articles by clicking on the links below – all articles are FREE for a limited period!

ChemComm is the home of urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences. With a world-renowned reputation for quality and fast times to publication (average of 40 days), ChemComm is the ideal place to publish your research.


Yong-Qiang Tu’s Editor’s Choice:

Enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-brazilin, (−)-brazilein and (+)-brazilide A
Xuequan Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Xiaodong Yang, Jingfeng Zhao and Chengxue Pan  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC42385A

Domino Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation–double cyclization of o-amino cinnamyl derivatives: applications to the formal total syntheses of physostigmine and physovenine
Wen-Hua Chiou, Chien-Lun Kao, Jui-Chi Tsai and Yun-Man Chang  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC43257B

An organocatalytic asymmetric sequential allylic alkylation–cyclization of Morita–Baylis–Hillman carbonates and 3-hydroxyoxindoles
Qi-Lin Wang, Lin Peng, Fei-Ying Wang, Ming-Liang Zhang, Li-Na Jia, Fang Tian, Xiao-Ying Xu and Li-Xin Wang   
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45139A

A modular total synthesis of (±)-trigonoliimine C
B. Narendraprasad Reddy and Chepuri V. Ramana  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45512B

Synthetic modification of salinomycin: selective O-acylation and biological evaluation
Björn Borgström, Xiaoli Huang, Martin Pošta, Cecilia Hegardt, Stina Oredsson and Daniel Strand  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45983G

Highly enantioselective synthesis of chiral 7-ring O- and N-heterocycles by a one-pot nitro-Michael–cyclization tandem reaction
Renate Rohlmann, Constantin-Gabriel Daniliuc and Olga García Mancheño  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47397J

A new versatile approach to synthesise enantioenriched 3-hydroxyoxindoles, 1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran and 3-isochromanone derivatives by a rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric arylation–cyclization sequence
Yi Li, Dong-Xing Zhu and Ming-Hua Xu  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47927G

Enantioselective total synthesis of virosaine A and bubbialidine
Hideki Miyatake-Ondozabal, Linda M. Bannwarta and Karl Gademann
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38783F

A catalytic multicomponent coupling reaction for the enantioselective synthesis of spiroacetals  
Lara Cala, Abraham Mendoza, Francisco J. Fañanás and Félix Rodríguez  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC00118K

An easy access to fluoroalkanes by deoxygenative hydrofluorination of carbonyl compounds via their tosylhydrazones
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