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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2015: Winners and lectures announced

04 Sep 2015

On behalf of the ChemComm Editorial Board, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship: Deanna D’Alessandro (synthetic inorganic chemistry and molecular materials), University of Sydney, Australia, and Yong Sheng Zhao (organic nanophotonic materials), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Congratulations to Deanna and Yong Sheng!

Yong Sheng Zhao

Yong Sheng kicked off his Lectureship tour at the Asian Pacific Conference on Chemistry of Materials (APCCOM) 2015 on 20 August, followed by a presentation at the 6th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ChinaNANO 2015) on 04 September, both events located in Beijing. His tour will culminate at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2nd Asian-European Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics on 27-29 October 2015 in Edinburgh, where he will be awarded with his official Lectureship certificate.

Deanna D'Alessandro

Deanna will deliver her inaugural ChemComm EMI Lecture at a symposium on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Properties and Applications at Pacifichem 2015 in Hawaii this December. Further details of her Lectureship tour, including additional lecture locations, will be announced in due course.

This annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. For information on previous winners see our website.

Also of interest: You can now read the 2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue which highlights research from outstanding up-and-coming scientists. There is a mix of Feature articles and Communications, as well as a Profile of this year’s contributors, with cool photos to spotlight our authors at work or at play – look out for the famed Faraday Loving Cup, some serious curling, the Great Wall of China, and once again, as last year, a pumpkin is involved! You can also take a look at our previous Emerging Investigator issues in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Yong Sheng Zhao presents his first ChemComm EMI Lecture at the APCCOM 2015 in Beijing

Soon to come: We will soon be launching our forthcoming 2016 ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue – watch this space for more details.

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Feihe Huang wins Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize 2015

23 Jun 2015

Congratulations to Prof Feihe Huang from the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, winner of the 2014 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry.

The prize, sponsored by ChemComm, is organised by the committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry and is awarded each year to a young supramolecular chemist.

The Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize is named in honour of the winners of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and recognises significant original and independent work in supramolecular chemistry. Previous winners include Oren Schermann, Tomoki Ogoshi, and Jonathan Nitschke.

Feihe will receive £2000, free registration for the ISMSC meeting in Strasbourg, France, and the opportunity to give a lecture at the ISMSC. He is also giving two additional lectures as part of his prize in Germany, at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and the Free University of Berlin.

Dr May Copsey, Executive Editor of the journal, will be also attending this conference to personally award Feihe with the lectureship. She hopes to meet many ChemComm readers and authors there. Please do let her know if you will be there too!

“Professor Feihe Huang follows in the tradition of other winners and is an excellent supramolecular scientist. He has published over 100 articles as an independent researcher, in top tear journals such as ChemComm,” says Professor Roger Harrison, Associate Professor at Brigham Young University and Secretary of the ISMSC International Scientific Committee. He adds, “He has set himself apart from other chemists by investigating supramolecular polymers and learning how to control their properties.”

Find out more about Feihe Huang by reading his recent research in ChemComm:

Prof Feihe Huang, Winner of the Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize 2015

A water-soluble biphen[3]arene: synthesis, host–guest complexation, and application in controllable self-assembly and controlled release
Jiong Zhou, Guocan Yu, Li Shao, Bin Hua and Feihe Huang
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 4188-4191
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00225G, Communication

Reversible formation of a poly[3]rotaxane based on photo dimerization of an anthracene-capped [3]rotaxane
Peifa Wei, Xuzhou Yan and Feihe Huang
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 14105-14108
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC07044E, Communication

A CO2-responsive pillar[5]arene: synthesis and self-assembly in water
Kecheng Jie, Yong Yao, Xiaodong Chi and Feihe Huang
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 5503-5505
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01704H, Communication

Host–guest complexation induced emission: a pillar[6]arene-based complex with intense fluorescence in dilute solution
Pi Wang, Xuzhou Yan and Feihe Huang
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 5017-5019
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01560F, Communication

We invite you to submit your next communication article to ChemComm!

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ACIN 2015 Conference

29 May 2015

Are you ready for the third International Conference on Advanced Complex Inorganic Nanomaterials? This exciting conference will be held from the 13th to the 17th of July at the University of Namur, in Belgium.

ChemComm proudly sponsors this conference, which will offer an update of recent innovations in both fundamental and applied aspects and to highlight the latest advances and progress in the field of inorganic nanomaterials, such as inorganics, ceramics, hybrids and bio-inspired materials.

Additionally, Can Li, Associate Editor of the journal, will be giving a talk in this fantastic conference, in addition to presenting a ChemComm Poster Prize. He is Professor of Chemical Physics at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

He works on fundamental and applied research in catalysis and making efforts to reveal the essential relationship between catalytic performance and catalyst structure, and try to understand catalysis at various levels including atomic, molecular as well as nanometer scales and to apply these understandings to the designs and the development of practical applications in energy, fine chemicals and environmental sciences.

Read some of his latest articles in ChemComm:

Construction of unique six-coordinated titanium species with an organic amine ligand in titanosilicate and their unprecedented high efficiency for alkene epoxidation
Le Xu, Da-Ding Huang, Chen-Geng Li, Xinyi Ji, Shaoqing Jin, Zhaochi Feng, Fei Xia, Xiaohong Li, Fengtao Fan, Can Li and Peng Wu
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 9010-9013
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC02321A, Communication

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes with metal nanoparticles as counter electrode materials for dye-sensitized solar cells
Yedi Xing, Xiaojia Zheng, Yihui Wu, Mingrun Li, Wen-Hua Zhang and Can Li
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 8146-8149
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC01379H, Communication

Photocatalytic aerobic oxidation of amines to imines on BiVO4 under visible light irradiation
Bo Yuan, Ruifeng Chong, Bao Zhang, Jun Li, Yan Liu and Can Li
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 15593-15596
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC07097F, Communication

Submit your next top-notch, high impact Communication to

Can Li’s Editorial Office

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.

We look forward to seeing you in Namur!

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IRIS-14 Conference

30 Mar 2015

Are you ready for the 14th International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems (IRIS-14) conference? This exciting conference will be held from the 26th to the 31st of July at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Dalton Transactions and ChemComm proudly sponsor this symposium, which supports and reinforces the position of research groups worldwide within the large field of main group chemistry. The topics of the symposium cover all modern aspects of main group chemistry in a wide range of disciplines from material sciences to pure academic aspects of research.

Additionally, Manfreed Scheer, Associate Editor of ChemComm, will be organising this fantastic conference. He is Professor (Chair) of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany).

His research interests include the synthesis and investigation of reactivity patterns of unsubstituted main group element ligands with the focus on the heavier group 15 elements as well as the stabilisation and reactivity of main group compounds consisting of combinations of different elements. The chemistry of highly reactive molecules like P₄, As₄ or compounds containing transition metal group 15 element multiple bonds is of further interest.

Read some of Manfred’s latest articles in ChemComm:

Organometallic polyphosphorus and -arsenic ligands as linkers between pre-assembled linear Cu^I fragments
Martin Fleischmann, Luis Dütsch, Mehdi Elsayed Moussa, Andrea Schindler, Gábor Balázs, Christophe Lescop and Manfred Scheer
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 2893-2895
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC09845E, Communication

Stoichiometry-controlled FeP nanoparticles synthesized from a single source precursor
Cornelia Hunger, Wilfried-Solo Ojo, Susanne Bauer, Shu Xu, Manfred Zabel, Bruno Chaudret, Lise-Marie Lacroix, Manfred Scheer, Céline Nayral and Fabien Delpech
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 11788-11790
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46863A, Communication

P–P bond formation via reductive dimerization of [Cp*Fe(η5-P5)] by divalent samarocenes
Tianshu Li, Michael T. Gamer, Manfred Scheer, Sergey N. Konchenko and Peter W. Roesk
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 2183-2185
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38841G, Communication

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Manfreed Scheer’s Editorial Office

Dr Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor of the journal, will be also attending this conference and she hopes to meet many ChemComm and Dalton Transaction readers and authors there. Please do let her know if you will be there.

We look forward to seeing you in Regensburg!

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ChemComm Associate Editor Jonathan Sessler to receive the 2014 MSMLG Award

05 Nov 2014

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 (MSML G2014), 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 Shinkai – ChemComm 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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Announcing the 24th International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry (OS24)

08 Jul 2014

The Organic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to announce that the 24th International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry (OS24) will take place from 20-23 July 2015. You are invited you to join them at Churchill College, Cambridge for award-winning speakers, evening lectures and extensive opportunities for networking.

The Synthesis in Organic Chemistry conference series is a renowned and long-running flagship event for the international organic chemistry community – a valuable chance to explore the most recent methodologies and strategies in contemporary organic synthesis.

Register your interest to receive updates and deadline alerts for this conference.

The conference will feature 2 poster sessions, and abstract submission is now open – submit your abstract before 14 February 2015.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship Tours

06 Jun 2014

We are pleased to announce the locations of this summer’s ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships tours. They will take place at conferences and universities across Europe, where our winners will showcase their latest research.

Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA)

26 June – 3 July 2014

Imperial College London, UK
University of Bristol, UK
Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS13), Dublin, Ireland

Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London)

7 – 13 July 2014

Universidad del País Vasco-EHU, Bilbao, Spain
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian, Spain
25th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Bordeaux, France

Our annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

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Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at the Spring 2014 RSC Carbohydrate Group Meeting!

13 May 2014

The Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Group held a successful meeting at the University of Bath from Wednesday 30 April–Thursday 1 May.

Three of our journals – ChemComm, Chemical Science and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry – were delighted to sponsor a poster prize each and we would like to join in congratulating the winners. Jerry Turnbull, Chair of the RSC Carbohydrate Group, presented the prizes as follows:

ChemComm Poster Prize
‘Lactose as a ‘Trojan Horse’ for QD Cell Transport’
David Benito-Alifonso
University of Bristol

Chemical Science Poster Prize
‘The Biosynthesis of and Synthetic Approaches to Double C-glycosides’
Kevin Mahone
University of St. Andrews

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Poster Prize
‘L-glucose and D-idose from D-glucose’
Zilei Liu
Oxford University

Left to Right: David Benito-Alifonso; Kevin Mahoney; Zilei Liu; Jerry Turnbull

For more details about the meeting, visit the RSC Carbohydrate 2014 website.

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Chem Sci, ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev poster prizes awarded at J400 chemonostics symposium

06 Dec 2013

Congratulations to our Chemical Science, ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev poster prize winners at Chemonostics: Chemical receptors in the development of simple diagnostic devices, a one-day symposium held in Bath, UK on 28 November 2013. The event, organised by Professor Tony James from the University of Bath, was held to celebrate 400 years of Japan-British relations. Our Editor Dr Robert Eagling was on hand to award the prizes.

J400 at Bath - Chemonostics

(Left to right) Giles Prentice, Rama Byravan, Robert Eagling, Xiaolong Sun

The RSC poster prizes were awarded to:

Giles Prentice (Bath) – Chem Soc Rev poster prize
Rama Byravan (Birmingham) – Chemical Science poster prize
Xiaolong Sun (Bath) – ChemComm poster prize

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

Read J400: our cross-journal online collection celebrating the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations

You may also be interested in our web collection dedicated to Professor Seiji Shinkai on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Mechanochemistry: ChemComm web theme and Faraday Discussion 170 abstracts deadline 12 August

31 Jul 2013

ChemComm Mechanochemistry web collection

We are delighted to present our ChemComm web themed issue on Mechanochemistry: fundamentals and applications in synthesis, guest edited by Stuart James (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Tomislav Friščić (McGill University, Canada). Check out this special online collection now!

Faraday Discussion 170 on Mechanochemistry– deadline for oral abstracts 12 August 2013

We also invite you to submit your oral abstract for Faraday Discussion 170– Mechanochemistry: From Functional Solids to Single Molecules by Monday, 12 August 2013. Stuart and Tomislav co-chair the FD170 Scientific Committee; they are joined by Jon Steed, James Mack, Elena Boldyreva and Carsten Bolm.

Submit your abstract now and register to secure your place at this exciting event!

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