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SU 120: Celebrating 120 Years of Soochow University

24 Aug 2020

Situated in the historical and picturesque city of Suzhou, a metropolis well reputed in the world for its classic gardens, Soochow University (SU) was founded in 1900 and represents one of the first modern universities in China. Soochow University is a top comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, listed as a key university of “Project 211” and a member of “the Double First-Class” Initiative.

The College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science grew out of the Chemistry Department of Soochow University, which was founded in 1914 and was one of the earliest chemistry departments in China. The chemistry research at SU focuses on precision synthesis, micro/nano materials for environmental science, energy and materials, health chemistry and diagnosis, precision catalysis and application as well as green chemistry and chemical engineering. As a result of the scientific and technological innovation strategy “Think Big and Start Small”, Soochow University has harvested fruitful results in chemistry innovation. As indicated by data from Nature Index and Lens in 2017, the field of chemistry at Soochow University headed the list of mainland universities among the global innovative scientific research institutions and universities. Noticeably, both the disciplines of Chemistry and Materials Science at the College are listed in the top 1‰ around the world according to the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI).

“Following the rapid developments in new technology and equipment, today we are living in a golden age of chemistry.” says Prof. Jianlin Yao, Dean of the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University. “Soochow University chemists will continue to work on original innovation, breakthrough techniques and technology transfer in practical application, and all of us are committed to the sustainable development goals of humanity.”

To celebrate the 120^th anniversary, we are sharing a special virtual issue of research articles from Soochow University chemists. Authors across the university have contributed more than 60 articles on topics ranging from synthetic chemistry to biological chemistry and other cross chemistry disciplines. We hereby invite you to read through these selected articles to witness the achievements made by Soochow University in the past few years (2015-2020).

Find the collection online here!

Jianlin Yao

Soochow University

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ChemComm – Welcome to our new Advisory Board members

22 Jul 2020

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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Raffaella Buonsanti and Corinna Schindler: Winners of the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2019!

05 Aug 2019

Raffaella Buonsanti

Raffaella Buonsanti obtained her PhD in Nanochemistry in 2010 at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Salento. Afterwards, she moved to the US where she spent over five years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, first as a postdoc and project scientist at the Molecular Foundry and after as a tenure-track staff scientist in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.

She is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL in Switzerland. Her group works at the interface of materials chemistry and catalysis, using colloidal chemistry tools to synthesize controlled and tunable nanocrystals and to advance the current knowledge on the electrocatalytic conversion of small molecules into value-added chemicals. You can also learn more about Raffaella’s group and research on Twitter @lnce_epfl.

Corinna Schindler

Corinna was awarded her PhD in 2010 at the ETH Zurich, where she worked with Professor Erick M. Carreira on the total synthesis of Banyaside B and Microcin SF608. She has been awarded several honors during her independent career, including a 2016 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, a 2016 NSF CAREER award, a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a 2019 Marion Milligan Mason Award, and a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her group’s research focuses on the development of new synthetic transformations relying on environmentally benign metals and the synthesis of complex molecules of biological importance in cancer treatment and infectious diseases. Find more info about Corinna and her group on Twitter @SchindlerLab.

As part of the Lectureship award, Raffaella and Corinna will each present lectures at three locations over the coming year, with at least one of these events taking place at an international conference. Details of the lectures will be announced in due course but keep an eye on Twitter @ChemCommun for details!

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

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HOT Chemical Communication articles for April

19 Jul 2019

All of the referee-recommended articles below are free to access until 15^th August 2019.

Drastic lattice softening in mixed triazole ligand iron(II) spin crossover nanoparticles
Mario Piedrahita-Bello, Karl Ridier, Mirko Mikolasek, Gábor Molnár, William Nicolazzi, Lionel Salmon* and Azzedine Bousseksou*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4769-4772
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01619H, Communication

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Highly symmetrical, 24-faceted, concave BiVO₄ polyhedron bounded by multiple high-index facets for prominent photocatalytic O₂ evolution under visible light
Jianqiang Hu, Huichao He, Liang Li, Xin Zhou,* Zhaosheng Li,* Qing Shen, Congping Wu, Adullah M. Asiri, Yong Zhou* and Zhigang Zou
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4777-4780
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01366K, Communication

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Controlling the morphological evolution of a particle-stabilized binary-component system
Tao Li,* Jason Klebes, Jure Dobnikar* and Paul S. Clegg
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 5575-5578
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01519A, Communication

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Formation of enantioenriched alkanol with stochastic distribution of enantiomers in the absolute asymmetric synthesis under heterogeneous solid–vapor phase conditions
Yoshiyasu Kaimori, Yui Hiyoshi, Tsuneomi Kawasaki, Arimasa Matsumoto and Kenso Soai*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 5223-5226
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01875A, Communication

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Rapid screening of the hydrogen bonding strength of radicals by electrochemiluminescent probes
Qinghong Xu, Jiali Liang, Xu Teng, Xin Yue, Ming Lei, Caifeng Ding and Chao Lu*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 5563-5566
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01210A, Communication

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Photo-oxygenation inhibits tau amyloid formation
Takanobu Suzuki, Yukiko Hori, Taka Sawazaki, Yusuke Shimizu, Yu Nemoto, Atsuhiko Taniguchi, Shuta Ozawa, Youhei Sohma,* Motomu Kanai* and Taisuke Tomita*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 6165-6168
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01728C, Communication

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ChemComm: Our Vision

28 Jun 2019

Vision statement

“ChemComm is the Royal Society of Chemistry’s most cited journal, and has a long history of publishing exciting new findings of exceptional significance, across the breadth of chemistry.

With its Communication format, we recognise the importance of rapid disclosure of your work, and we are proud that our times to publication remain among the fastest in the field.

Our vision for ChemComm is to maintain our longstanding tradition of quality, trust and fairness, and we encourage you to join our community by publishing your most exciting research with us.”

Véronique Gouverneur, Editorial Board Chair

Scope

ChemComm is committed to publishing findings on new avenues of research, drawn from all major areas of chemical research, from across the world. Main research areas include (but are not limited to):

Analytical chemistry
Biomaterials chemistry
Bioorganic/medicinal chemistry
Catalysis
Chemical Biology
Coordination Chemistry
Crystal Engineering
Energy
Sustainable chemistry
Green chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic materials
Main group chemistry
Nanoscience
Organic chemistry
Organic materials
Organometallics
Physical chemistry
Supramolecular chemistry
Synthetic methodology
Theoretical and computational chemistry

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

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HOT ChemComm articles for March

23 May 2019

All of the referee-recommended articles below are free to access until Friday 21st June 2019.

Amperometric monitoring of vesicular dopamine release using a gold nanocone electrode
Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao, Cong-Hui Xu,* Jing-Juan Xu* and Hong-Yuan Chen
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 3461-3464
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01280J, Communication

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Photo-writing self-erasable phosphorescent images using poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) as a photochemically deoxygenating matrix
Jinxiong Lin, Shigang Wan, Wenfeng Liu and Wei Lu*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4299-4302
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01388A, Communication

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Selective amidation by a photocatalyzed umpolung reaction
Debasish Ghosh, Rajesh Nandi, Saikat Khamarui, Sukla Ghosh and Dilip K. Maiti*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 3883-3886
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01079C, Communication

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A free radical alkylation of quinones with olefins
Shuai Liu, Tong Shen, Zaigang Luo and Zhong-Quan Liu*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4027-4030
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01704F, Communication

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Probing transient non-native states in amyloid beta fiber elongation by NMR
Jeffrey R. Brender, Anirban Ghosh, Samuel A. Kotler, Janarthanan Krishnamoorthy, Swapna Bera, Vanessa Morris, Timir Baran Sil, Kanchan Garai, Bernd Reif, Anirban Bhunia* and Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4483-4486
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01067J, Communication

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A nickel(II)-catalyzed asymmetric intramolecular Alder-ene reaction of 1,7-dienes
Wen Liu, Pengfei Zhou, Jiawen Lang, Shunxi Dong,* Xiaohua Liu and Xiaoming Feng*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4479-4482
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01521C, Communication

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HOT ChemComm articles for February

26 Apr 2019

All of the referee-recommended articles below are free to access until Friday 24^th May.

Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticle as Multifaceted Probe for Tissue Imaging
Yu-Hong Cheng, Toby Siu-Chung Tam, Siu-Leung Chau, Samuel Kin-Man Lai, Ho-Wai Tang, Chun-Nam Lok, Ching-Wan Lam and Kwan-Ming Ng*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 2761-2764
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00356H, Communication

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One-Pot, Modular Approach to Functionalized Ketones via Nucleophilic Addition/Buchwald-Hartwig Amination Strategy
Jorn de Jong, Dorus Heijnen, Hugo Helbert and Ben L. Feringa*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 2908-2911
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC08444K, Communication

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Soft Self-assembled Sub-5 nm Scale Chessboard and Snub-Square Tilings with Oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene) Rods
Constance Nürnberger, Huanjun Lu, Xiangbing Zeng, Feng Liu,* Goran Ungar,* Harald Hahn, Heinrich Lang, Marko Prehm and Carsten Tschierske*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4154-4157
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00494G, Communication

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Dual-Wavelength Lasing from Organic Dye Encapsulated Metal-Organic Framework Microcrystals
Yue Zhang, Haiyun Dong, Yuan Liu, Chunhuan Zhang, Fengqin Hu* and Yong Sheng Zhao*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 3445-3448
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10232E, Communication

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Hybridization Chain Reaction-Based Nanoprobe for Cancer Cell Recognition and Amplified Photodynamic Therapy
Mengyi Xiong, Qiming Rong, Gezhi Kong, Chan Yang, Yan Zhao, Feng-Li Qu,* Xiao-Bing Zhang* and Weihong Tan
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 3065-3068
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10074H, Communication

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Synthesis of Renewable Acetic Acid from CO₂ and Lignin over Ionic Liquid-Based Catalytic System
Huan Wang, Yanfei Zhao, Zhengang Ke, Bo Yu, Ruipeng Li, Yunyan Wu, Zhenpeng Wang, Juanjuan Han and Zhimin Liu*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 3069-3072
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00819E, Communication

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Dr Rafal Klajn’s UK tour as the 2018 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize winner

10 Jul 2018

We are delighted to announce that Dr Rafal Klajn, winner of the ChemComm sponsored 2018 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize, will be giving a series of lectures at UK universities during the week commencing 16^th July 2018.

Rafal began his independent research career in November 2009 at the Weizmann Insitute of Science, Israel, directly after obtaining his PhD degree. His group has worked on nanoscale reactivity and self-assembly – incorporating photo-responsive moieties into nanoporous solids, working with superparamagnetic nanoparticles of various shapes and demonstrating that cubic nanoparticles of iron oxide could spontaneously assemble into helical materials, and developing the concept of “dynamically self-assembling nanoflasks” capable of accelerating chemical reactions using light, working with flexible metal-organic (coordination) cages that can encapsulate diverse organic molecules ranging from fluorescent dyes to nonpolar pharmaceuticals, among other projects.

He is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Organic Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science and now focuses on creating synthetic out-of-equilibrium systems and “life-like” materials, not only to develop innovative functional materials, but also to tackle what he deems as one of the most important and fascinating problems – the origin of life.

As part of the Prize, Rafal presents 3 lectures and we are delighted to announce that 2 of these will be taking place during his UK tour. He will be giving these in conjunction with lectures for the 2017 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Lectureship that was also awarded to him. You can find details for his upcoming UK tour below.

Day	University	Host
Monday 16^th July	University of Bristol	Professor Jonathan Reid
Tuesday 17^th July	Durham University	Professor Jonathan Steed
Wednesday 18^th July	University of Nottingham	Professor David Amabilino
Thursday 19^th July	University of Cambridge	Professor Jonathan Nitschke
Friday 20^th July	University College London (UCL)	Dr Tung Chun Lee

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Meeting of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed

28 Jun 2018

Chemical Communications, Chemical Science and Dalton Transactions are pleased to sponsor the 2018 Meeting of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed (MICRA). This biennial event is being organised by Dr Timothy Easun and Dr Rebecca Melen from Cardiff University, and is taking place on 10 – 12 September 2018 at Cardiff University in Wales.

The meeting brings together junior inorganic chemistry academics from across the UK to help aid their development into independent researchers through networking and exchanging experiences. MICRA 2018 will have exciting talks from experts such as Paul Saines (University of Kent), Timothy Easun (Cardiff University) and Rebecca Melen (Cardiff University).

For more information and to register, go to: https://www.micra2018.com/

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ChemComm poster prize winner at the 16th Symposium for Host-Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry

26 Jun 2018

The 16th Symposium for Host-Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry was held on 2 – 3 June 2018 at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan.

This annual symposium covers all aspects of the chemical sciences related to molecular recognition and supramolecular chemistry, including the discussion of topics around intermolecular interactions. The event included a special lecture by Dr Shigeki Sasaki and invited lectures by Dr Takashi Hayashi and Dr Katsuhiko Ariga.

ChemComm is delighted to announce that the ChemComm poster prize was awarded to Hiroshi Koganezawa from the Tokyo University of Science for a poster entitled ‘Synthesis of [2]Rotaxanes with Spirofluorene and Pyrrole Moieties’.

Well done Hiroshi from everyone at ChemComm!

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Archive for the ‘News’ Category

SU 120: Celebrating 120 Years of Soochow University

ChemComm – Welcome to our new Advisory Board members

Raffaella Buonsanti and Corinna Schindler: Winners of the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2019!

HOT Chemical Communication articles for April

ChemComm: Our Vision

HOT ChemComm articles for March

HOT ChemComm articles for February

Dr Rafal Klajn’s UK tour as the 2018 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize winner

Meeting of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed

ChemComm poster prize winner at the 16th Symposium for Host-Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry

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