This week’s CrystEngSelects

Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.

Articles are chosen from:
ChemComm,
CrystEngComm,
Dalton Transactions,
Journal of Materials Chemistry,
New Journal of Chemistry,
Nanoscale,
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
 
David Eisenberg, Jennifer M. Quimby, Edward A. Jackson, Lawrence T. Scott and Roy Shenhar
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03965A, Communication
 
Vjekoslav Štrukil, László Fábián, David G. Reid, Melinda J. Duer, Graham J. Jackson, Mirjana Eckert-Maksić and Tomislav Friščić
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03822A, Communication
 
Pierre Dechambenoit, Sylvie Ferlay, Bertrand Donnio, Daniel Guillon and Mir Wais Hosseini
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03970E, Communication
 
Yaoxin Hu, Xueliang Dong, Jiangpu Nan, Wanqin Jin, Xiaoming Ren, Nanping Xu and Young Moo Lee
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03927F, Communication
 
Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04085A, Communication
 
Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02965C, Communication 
 
Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04095A, Communication
 
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00931H, Communication
 
Dong-Sheng Li, Feng Fu, Jun Zhao, Ya-Pan Wu, Miao Du, Kun Zou, Wen-Wen Dong and Yao-Yu Wang
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00900H, Communication
 
Thomas McGlone, Laia Vilà-Nadal, Haralampos N. Miras, De-Liang Long, Josep M. Poblet and Leroy Cronin
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01327G, Paper
 
Sheng Hu, Jun-Liang Liu, Zhao-Sha Meng, Yan-Zhen Zheng, Yanhua Lan, Annie K. Powell and Ming-Liang Tong
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01062F, Communication
 
Kraig A. Wheeler, Joshua D. Wiseman and Rebecca C. Grove
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00516A, Communication
 
Francesco Madaro, Julian R. Tolchard, Yingda Yu, Mari-Ann Einarsrud and Tor Grande
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00414F, Paper
 
Andrew D. Bond, Katarzyna A. Solanko, Simon Parsons, Sascha Redder and Roland Boese
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00588F, Communication
 
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00308E, Paper
 
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00570C, Communication
 
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00363H, Paper
 
Bin Wang, Guang-Feng Hou, Rui-Qi Meng, Li-Hua Bi, Bao Li and Li-Xin Wu
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00327A, Paper
 
Hyuma Masu, Yuko Sagara, Fumiaki Imabeppu, Hiroaki Takayanagi, Kosuke Katagiri, Masatoshi Kawahata, Masahide Tominaga, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Isao Azumaya
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00301H, Communication
 
Huihui Chen, Rujia Zou, Haihua Chen, Na Wang, Yangang Sun, Qiwei Tian, Jianghong Wu, Zhigang Chen and Junqing Hu
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02476G, Paper
 

Mine Ince, M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Joaquín Barberá and Tomás Torres
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02420A, Paper
 
Marcus Rose, Nicole Klein, Irena Senkovska, Christian Schrage, Philipp Wollmann, Winfried Böhlmann, Bertram Böhringer, Sven Fichtner and Stefan Kaskel
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02998J, Paper
 
Cuimiao Zhang, Ping’ an Ma, Chunxia Li, Guogang Li, Shanshan Huang, Dongmei Yang, Mengmeng Shang, Xiaojiao Kang and Jun Lin
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02948C, Paper
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HOT Article: Understanding biomineral crystals via chromatography

This CrystEngComm Hot article demonstrates that chromatography can be used to look at the interaction between crystals and their impurities so that their impact on crystal growth can be judged.

Ryan E. Sours and colleagues looked at the biomineral crystals calcite and calcium oxolate monohydrate, and assessed the relative binding affinities of various organic impurities.

This manuscript is part of a themed issue on Crystal Growth, guest edited by Professor Jennifer Swift, due for publication early in 2011.

Chromatographic determination of impurity binding affinities on biomineral crystals
Randall C. Mazzarino, Tissa J. Thomas and Ryan E. Sours
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00454E , Paper

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Hot Article: Water tapes in a crystal network

In their recent CrystEngComm Hot Article, Isao Azumaya and colleagues describe how they made a channel-shaped network in the crystalline state from a simple spherical aromatic amide. This channel incorporated water molecules which form a tape-like chain network. Read the article to discover more about these water tapes….

Crystal structure of spherical aromatic amide: pseudopolymorphs and formation of infinite water cluster in the channel structure 

Hyuma Masu, Yuko Sagara, Fumiaki Imabeppu, Hiroaki Takayanagi, Kosuke Katagiri, Masatoshi Kawahata, Masahide Tominaga, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Isao Azumaya
CrystEngComm, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00301H

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This week’s CrystEngSelects

Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.

Articles are chosen from:
ChemComm,
CrystEngComm,
Dalton Transactions,
Journal of Materials Chemistry,
New Journal of Chemistry,
Nanoscale,
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

 

Lise Junker Nielsen, Samuel Eyley, Wim Thielemans and Jonathan W. Aylott
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03470C, Communication
 
Pengfei Gao, Yanna Nuli, Yu-Shi He, Jiazhao Wang, Andrew I. Minett, Jun Yang and Jun Chen
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02870C, Communication
 
Baiyan Li, Guanghua Li, Dan Liu, Yu Peng, Xiaojing Zhou, Jia Hua, Zhan Shi and Shouhua Feng
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00252F, Paper
 
Yasutaka Inubushi, Satoshi Horike, Tomohiro Fukushima, George Akiyama, Ryotaro Matsuda and Susumu Kitagawa
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01294G, Communication
 
Eunhee Jo, Young Ho Jhon, Sang Beom Choi, Jae-Goo Shim, Jun-Han Kim, Ji Hyun Lee, In-Young Lee, Kyung-Ryong Jang and Jaheon Kim
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03224G, Communication
 
Liap Tat Su, Sky Shumao Xie, Jun Guo, Alfred I. Y. Tok and Oleg Vasylkiv
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00296H, Paper
 
Andrea N. Alsobrook, Brad G. Hauser, Joseph T. Hupp, Evgeny V. Alekseev, Wulf Depmeier and Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03507F, Communication
 
Sagarika Bhattacharya, Suraj Mondal, Sujit Sasmal, Hazel A. Sparkes, Judith A. K. Howard, Malabika Nayak and Sasankasekhar Mohanta
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00332H, Paper
 
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02539A, Communication
 
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02214D, Paper
 
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00347F, Communication
 
Shaodong Sun, Chuncai Kong, Dongchu Deng, Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding and Zhimao Yang
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00565G, Communication
 
Yolanda Vasquez, Erin M. Fenton, Victoria F. Chernow and Joanna Aizenberg
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00499E, Communication
 
Hua-Cai Fang, Ying-Ying Ge, Hong-Yang Jia, Shan-Shan Li, Feng Sun, Li-Guo Zhang and Yue-Peng Cai
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00485E, Communication
 
Francesco Madaro, Ragnhild Sæterli, Julian R. Tolchard, Mari-Ann Einarsrud, Randi Holmestad and Tor Grande
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00413H, Paper
 
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00360C, Paper
 
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00426J, Communication
 
Dolores Morales, Julio Pérez, Héctor Martínez-García, Marcos Puerto and Ignacio del Río
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00688B, Communication
 
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00621A, Communication
 
Aniruddh Singh, In Sung Lee, Kitae Kim and Allan S. Myerson
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00030B, Highlight
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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship

ChemComm is delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. Deadline for nominations: 28th February 2011. Visit the ChemComm blog for more information.

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HOT Article: Unexpected hydrogen-bonding

In this CrystEngComm Hot article, Alicia Beatty and coworkers from the University of Missouri have discovered that sterically demanding groups cause different hydrogen-bonding connectivity in certain lamellar solids. The group looked at 3,5-pyrazole dicarboxylic acid and various amines and explored how this effected the packing of the co-crystals.

Exceptions to the rule: new hydrogen-bonded networks from an old reliable
Onome Ugono, Nigam P. Rath and Alicia M. Beatty
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00621A, Communication

FREE TO READ until 1st December

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HOT Article: Magnetic changes in low dimensional spin systems

This CrystEngComm Hot article looks at the changes in the magnetic behaviour of Cu(II)-p-hydroquinoanate polymers that occur with structural modification and the loss of DMF ligands. These findings could lead to a new way of preparing novel spin lattices, adding a new tool to the crystal engineers toolbox.

Thermally induced crystal-to-crystal transformations accompanied by changes in the magnetic properties of a CuII-p-hydroquinonate polymer
Ngoc Hien Phan, Ivan Halasz, Ingo Opahle, Edith Alig, Lothar Fink, Jan W. Bats, Pham Thanh Cong, Hans-Wolfram Lerner, Biprajit Sarkar, Bernd Wolf, Harald O. Jeschke, Michael Lang, Roser Valentí, Robert Dinnebier and Matthias Wagner

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00367K, Communication

FREE TO READ until 1st December 2010

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HOT Article: achiral MOFs?

The formation of a near achiral metal-organic framework from the self assembly of chiral building blocks is investigated in this CrystEngComm Hot article.

MOF formation

Near achiral metal–organic frameworks from conformationally flexible homochiral ligands resulted by the preferential formation of pseudo-inversion center in asymmetric unit
Kyung Seok Jeong, Bo Hyung Lee, Qiaowei Li, Sang Beom Choi, Jaheon Kim and Nakcheol Jeong

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00426J, Communication

READ FOR FREE until 1st December 2010

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Defining the Halogen Bond – IUPAC task group need your input!

How would you define a Halogen Bond?

CrystEngComm authors Pierangelo Metrangolo and Giuseppe Resnati are chairing an IUPAC task group looking at the classification of halogen bonds.

The task group’s objective is to give a modern definition of halogen bonding, which takes into account all current experimental and theoretical pieces of information on both gaseous and condensed halogen-bonded systems in chemical and biological systems.

The group intend the whole community of researchers dealing with the study and use of intermolecular interactions to be involved in this Project. A dedicated web-site has been set-up as a public discussion forum for consideration of public comments. The Project will be featured in major meetings relevant to related fields, in particular at the XXII General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to be held in Madrid, Spain, in 22–29 August 2011. In the second year of the Project, an international symposium open to the public will be organized, for consideration of public comments, presentation, and dissemination of results.

Just before the IUCr Madrid Congress, and a satellite event to it, an international workshop open to the public will be organized in Sigüenza, Guadalajara (August 20-21), for consideration of public comments, presentation, and dissemination of results. For more info contact the scientific secretariat serena.biella@polimi.it or gabriella.cavallo@polimi.it.

The group membership includes Professor Gautam Desiraju (Bangalore, India), founding Editorial Board member, and current Advisory Board member of CrystEngComm and Kari Rissanen (Jyväskylä, Finland), former Advisory Board member of CrystEngComm.

The task group need your input and so we invite you post a comment below to join the discussion and give us your opinion on the definition of a halogen bond.

Follow the links below to read CrystEngComm Highlights with a focus on halogen bonding:

Halogen bonded supramolecular complexes and networks
Kari Rissanen
CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 1107-1113    DOI: 10.1039/B803329N

Combining metals with halogen bonds
Lee Brammer, Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas and Stefano Libri
CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 1712-1727

Anion coordination and anion-templated assembly under halogen bonding control
Pierangelo Metrangolo, Tullio Pilati, Giancarlo Terraneo, Serena Biella and Giuseppe Resnati
CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 1187-1196    DOI: 10.1039/B821300C

   

  

Or read a recent CrystEngComm interview with Task Group Chair Pierangelo Metrangolo here.

 

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November Crystal Clear: Nanoflower power

This month’s Crystal Clear is an eye-catching flower-like crystal. It’s nano size doesn’t stop it from rivalling nature’s chrysanthemums! The flowers are made from hexahedronal petals  of  (Ni3(PO4)2·8H2O) obtained from a simple template-free hydrothermal route.

The striking image is taken from an article in Issue 12 by Huaming Li and coworkers (Xiangtan University, China):

READ FOR FREE until the 30th of November

Controlled synthesis of nickel phosphate hexahedronal and flower-like architectures via a simple template-free hydrothermal route
Journal Article
Hui Wu, Yong Gao and Huaming Li
CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 3607-3611

DOI: 10.1039/C002120B , Paper

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