Love is in the air and also, it would seem, in our journals too. Here’s the general chemistry team’s tips for creating the right chemistry for your Valentine’s Day:
| 1. All you need is love? Not quite, but it’s a good start Gabriele Froböse, Rolf Froböse, Lust and Love Is it more than chemistry?, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2006 |
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2. Say it with flowers Flowerlike supramolecular architectures assembled from C-60 equipped with a pyridine substituent Xuan Zhang, Takashi Nakanishi, Tetsuya Ogawa, Akinori Saeki, Shu Seki, Yanfei Shen, Yusuke Yamauchi and Masayuki Takeuchi, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 8752-8754 |
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3. Put some fizz into your relationship Recent advances in the science of champagne bubbles Gérard Liger-Belair, Guillaume Polidori and Philippe Jeandet, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008, 37, 2490-2511 |
| 4. If you’re really serious, a ring wouldn’t hurt Design synthesis and photocatalytic activity of a novel lilac-like silver-vanadate hybrid solid based on dicyclic rings of [V4O12](4-) with {Ag7}(7+) cluster Yan Hu, Fang Luo and Fangfang Dong, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 761-763 |
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5. And remember: diamonds are a girl’s best friend Playing the surface game-Diels-Alder reactions on diamond nanoparticles Gerald Jarre, Yuejiang Liang, Patrick Betz, Daniel Lang and Anke Krueger, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 544-546 |
| 6. First comes love then comes….? Marriage of porphyrin chemistry with metal-catalysed reactions Hiroshi Shinokubo and Atsuhiro Osuka, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1011-1021 |
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Do you have any more suggestions for forming bonds with your loved one? Post them below to share the love.
Have a happy Valentine’s Day!
Joanne
