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Thank you for giving us your feedback

08 Apr 2014

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who completed our recent survey to give us their feedback on ChemComm. We are delighted that we received over 1900 responses and we have now started to collate and analyze the results. So watch out for further updates and to see how your comments will help shape the future of this prestigious journal.

As the survey has now closed, so has our competition to win 5 of the latest Kindle Fires. The five lucky winners have now been notified and their prizes will soon be winging their way to them – one as far as Australia!

Don’t forget you can now download your favourite ChemComm articles directly to your Kindle – look out for the Send PDF to Kindle symbol on our website.

Anyone wishing to see a list of prize winners should contact us at chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org.

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Will you help shape the future of ChemComm?

03 Mar 2014

Here at the Royal Society of Chemistry we’ve been publishing our journal ChemComm for you and the chemical science community for the last 50 years.

But what do you think of the journal? And should it evolve?

Your opinions really matter to us, so we’ve set up a survey so that you can tell us what you think.

It won’t take long to fill in – and you will be helping to shape the future of this prestigious journal.

And as an added incentive, by completing the survey you will be in with a chance of winning one of 5 of the latest Kindle Fires.

Take part in the survey today.

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Competition Details

The survey opens on 3rd March 2014 and closes at midnight GMT on 31st March 2014.

Individuals who fully complete the survey, and supply a valid email address, will be entered into the prize draw to win one of 5 Kindle Fire HDs.

Only one entry per person will be accepted.

After the survey closes, five winners will be selected at random and will be notified by email. Failure to supply a valid delivery address within seven days of initial notification will automatically disqualify the winner.

No cash alternative to the prizes will be offered.

Royal Society of Chemistry employees and their immediate families are not eligible for the prize draw.

Anyone wishing to see a list of prize winners should contact us at chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org after14th April 2014

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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): ChemComm web-themed issue

11 Feb 2014

We would like to celebrate with our authors and the community our web themed collection entitled “Metal-organic frameworks” recently published in ChemComm.

The issue was Guest Edited by Neil Champness (University of Nottingham, UK), Christian Serre (University of Versailles, France) and Seth Cohen (University of California, San Diego, USA), and contains an impressive collection of articles, including:

Feature Articles:

MOFs for CO₂capture and separation from flue gas mixtures: the effect of multifunctional sites on their adsorption capacity and selectivity
Zhijuan Zhang, Yonggang Zhao, Qihan Gong, Zhong Li and Jing Li
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 653-661, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35561B

Commercial metal–organic frameworks as heterogeneous catalysts
Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy, Mercedes Alvaro and Hermenegildo Garcia
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 11275-11288, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34329K

Communications:

Understanding excess uptake maxima for hydrogen adsorption isotherms in frameworks with rht topology
David Fairen-Jimenez, Yamil J. Colón, Omar K. Farha, Youn-Sang Bae, Joseph T. Hupp and Randall Q. Snurr
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 10496-10498, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35711A

Targeted functionalisation of a hierarchically-structured porous coordination polymer crystal enhances its entire function
Kenji Hirai, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Mikhail Meilikhov, Yoko Sakata, Osami Sakata and Susumu Kitagawa
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6472-6474, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31421E

Take a look at the excellent work published in this themed collection: http://rsc.li/cc-mofs

We encourage you to share the link to this collection with your colleagues.

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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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Nominate a colleague this week: ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships 2014

02 Dec 2013

This week is your last chance to nominate a colleague for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships 2014.

Nominate by Friday 6th December 2013

The lectureships recognise emerging scientists in the early stages of their independent academic career. 2014 marks the 50th volume of ChemComm and in celebration of this very special anniversary we will be awarding three ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships next year. So nominate a colleague today!

To qualify
To be eligible for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, the candidate should have completed their PhD on or after 4th September 2005. The candidate should also have published at least one article in ChemComm during the course of their independent career.

Award details
The recipient of the award will be invited to present a lecture at three different locations over a 12 month period. It is expected that at least one of the locations will be a conference. The recipient will receive a contribution of £1500 towards travel and accommodation costs. S/he will also be presented with a certificate and be asked to contribute a ChemComm Feature Article.

Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send the following details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by Friday 6th December 2013:

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, list of up to five independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents and other indicators of esteem and evidence of independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referees are requested to comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Please note that self nomination is not permitted.

Selection procedure
The ChemComm Editorial Board will draw up a short-list of candidates based on the information provided by the referees and nominator. Short-listed candidates will be asked to provide a supporting statement justifying why they deserve the award. The recipients of the award will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board, and will be announced in Spring 2014.

Previous winners

2013		Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) for synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, who will give a plenary lecture at ISACS 13 in Dublin.
2013		Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London, UK) for biophysical chemistry who will give her Lectureship in 2014.
2012		Professor Hiromitsu Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) – he was presented with his lecture certificate at ICPOC 21.
2011		Dr Scott Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) – Find out about his Emerging Investigator Lecture tour in China.

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Hydrogen adopts alkali metal position

13 Nov 2013

Hydrogen stands in for a lithium in the cubane core of this alkali metal phenolate

Now, Matthew Davidson and colleagues at the University of Bath in the UK have devised an organometallic synthetic strategy to make pseudocubane motifs of ammonium tris(phenol) ligands and lithium or sodium atoms, where one of the metals has been replaced by a hydrogen atom. The hydrogen forms the rarely reported trifurcated 4-centre hydrogen bond. Such an arrangement is not uncommon for the larger alkali metals, which can accommodate higher coordination numbers, but is not preferred by hydrogen.

Davidson says their interest lies in gaining a better understanding of how ligands like amine tris(phenolate) can be used to control reactive metal centres. A thorough comprehension of the coordination chemistry and the ability to draw conceptual similarities between the reactivity of hydrogen and metals as Lewis acids could help advance areas such as organocatalysis.

Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original journal article in ChemComm:

Unprecedented participation of a four-coordinate hydrogen atom in the cubane core of lithium and sodium phenolates
David M. Cousins, Matthew G. Davidson and Daniel García-Vivó
Chem. Commun., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47393G, Communication

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014

18 Oct 2013

We are delighted to invite nominations for ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships 2014. The lectureships, which are awarded annually, will recognise emerging scientists in the early stages of their independent academic career.

2014 marks the 50th volume of ChemComm and in celebration of this very special anniversary we will be awarding three ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships next year. So nominate a colleague today!

Lectureship details
The recipient of the Lectureship will be invited to present a lecture at three different locations over a 12 month period. It is expected that at least one of the locations will be a conference. The recipient will receive a contribution of £1500 towards travel and accommodation costs. S/he will also be presented with a certificate and be asked to contribute a ChemComm Feature Article.

Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send the following details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by Friday 6th December 2013:

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, list of up to five independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents and other indicators of esteem and evidence of independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referees are requested to comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Please note that self nomination is not permitted.

Selection procedure
The ChemComm Editorial Board will draw up a short-list of candidates based on the information provided by the referees and nominator. Short-listed candidates will be asked to provide a supporting statement justifying why they deserve the Lectureship. The recipients of the Lectureship will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board, and will be announced in Spring 2014.

Previous winners

2013		Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) for synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, who will give a plenary lecture at ISACS 13 in Dublin.
2013		Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London, UK) for biophysical chemistry who will give her Lectureship in 2014.
2012		Professor Hiromitsu Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) – he was presented with his lecture certificate at ICPOC 21.
2011		Dr Scott Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) – Find out about his Emerging Investigator Lecture tour in China.

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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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ChemComm’s Impact Factor reaches another record high – 6.3

19 Jun 2013

The latest citation data released by Thomson Reuters reveals that ChemComm‘s Impact Factor has risen once again this year to 6.378.

Coupled with fast publication times and great author service, these impressive trends underline the continuing success of ChemComm as the largest publisher of high quality communications within the general chemistry arena. You can see our most highly cited articles since 2010 listed below.

Thank you to all who have contributed to the journal’s success so far – our authors, referees, readers and Editorial and Advisory Boards – we are very grateful for your support.

We invite you to submit your next urgent Communication to ChemComm.

Find out how other Royal Society of Chemistry journals are ranked in the latest Impact Factor release

Top cited ChemComm articles:

Feature Articles

Pd-catalyzed oxidative coupling with organometallic reagents via C–H activation
Author(s): Chang-Liang Sun, Bi-Jie Li and Zhang-Jie Shi

Gas storage in porous metal–organic frameworks for clean energy applications
Author(s): Shengqian Ma and Hong-Cai Zhou

Porous metal–organic frameworks as platforms for functional applications
Author(s): Hai-Long Jiang and Qiang Xu

Lighting porphyrins and phthalocyanines for molecular photovoltaics
Author(s): M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Gema de la Torre and Tomás Torres

Application of d⁶ transition metal complexes in fluorescence cell imaging
Author(s): Vanesa Fernández-Moreira, Flora L. Thorp-Greenwood and Michael P. Coogan

Percent buried volume for phosphine and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: steric properties in organometallic chemistry
Author(s): Hervé Clavier and Steven P. Nolan

Organic photovoltaics: a chemical approach
Author(s): Juan Luis Delgado, Pierre-Antoine Bouit, Salvatore Filippone, M ^a Ángeles Herranz and Nazario Martín

Communications

Reduction of graphene oxide via L-ascorbic acid
Author(s): Jiali Zhang, Haijun Yang, Guangxia Shen, Ping Cheng, Jingyan Zhang and Shouwu Guo

Silicon nanoparticles–graphene paper composites for Li ion battery anodes
Author(s): Jeong K. Lee, Kurt B. Smith, Cary M. Hayner and Harold H. Kung

Highly selective and ultrasensitive detection of Hg²⁺ based on fluorescence quenching of Au nanoclusters by Hg²⁺–Au⁺ interactions
Author(s): Jianping Xie, Yuangang Zheng and Jackie Y. Ying

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on 2012 Journal Citation Reports^®, (Thomson Reuters, 2013).

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