Chemical Society Reviews contributor Sason Shaik, who recently published “A tutorial for understanding chemical reactivity through the valence bond approach”, features in our “175 Faces of Chemistry project”. He speaks about “these creatures called orbitals”, and the time when his project destroyed all of his spatulas.
In the countdown to our 175th Anniversary, we are celebrating the achievements of 175 inspirational scientists. Find out more and be inspired.
MOF2014
28 September – 1 October 2014, Kobe, Japan
Deadline of poster abstract submission: 30 June
Our forthcoming Chem Soc Rev themed issue on Metal Organic Frameworks will be promoted at the forthcoming MOF2014 Conference, with all delegates receiving a free USB flash drive with a copy of the whole MOFs themed issue. The guest editors are Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Chair of MOF2014, and (Joe Zhou, Texas A&M University).
Keynote Speakers:
Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun-Yat-Sen University/PRC
Andrew Cooper, University of Liverpool/UK
Roland Fischer, Ruhr-University Bochum/Ger
Jeffrey Long, University of California, Berkeley/USA
George Shimizu, University of Calgary/Can
Myunghyun Paik Suh, Seoul National University/RoK
Qiang Xu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)/Jpn
Omar Yaghi, University of California, Berkeley/USA
Submit your poster abstract for MOF2014
Preview Chem Soc Rev themed issue on Metal Organic Frameworks
Thomson Reuters have just released their latest citation data and Chemical Society Reviews’ (Chem Soc Rev) Impact Factor remains high at 24.892. The journal also sees it’s Immediacy Index rise this year from 5 to almost 8. These impressive figures rank Chem Soc Rev as the #2 review journal within general chemistry.
With a truly international authorship publishing accessible and reader-friendly articles, Chem Soc Rev really is the home of high impact reviews from across the chemical sciences. You can read our most highly cited review articles 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.
Top cited Chem Soc Rev reviews:
Reviews
The chemistry of graphene oxide
Author(s): Daniel R. Dreyer, Sungjin Park, Christopher W. Bielawski and Rodney S. Ruoff
Lanthanide luminescence for functional materials and bio-sciences
Author(s): Svetlana V. Eliseeva and Jean-Claude G. Bünzli
Graphene-based composites
Author(s): Xiao Huang, Xiaoying Qi, Freddy Boey and Hua Zhang
Graphene-based materials in electrochemistry
Author(s): Da Chen, Longhua Tang and Jinghong Li
Towards mild metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation
Author(s): Joanna Wencel-Delord, Thomas Dröge, Fan Liu and Frank Glorius
Thiol-click chemistry: a multifaceted toolbox for small molecule and polymer synthesis
Author(s): Charles E. Hoyle, Andrew B. Lowe and Christopher N. Bowman
Fluorescent and colorimetric probes for detection of thiols
Author(s): Xiaoqiang Chen, Ying Zhou, Xiaojun Peng and Juyoung Yoon
Aggregation-induced emission
Author(s): Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam and Ben Zhong Tang
Tutorial Reviews
Copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) and beyond: new reactivity of copper(I) acetylides
Author(s):Jason E. Hein and Valery V. Fokin
Cu-free click cycloaddition reactions in chemical biology
Author(s): John C. Jewett and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
*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).
Phil Gale
After 3 years, Professor Dirk Guldi has retired from his position as Chair of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board. We would like to sincerely thank Dirk for his dedication and hard work, and we wish him the very best for his new role as Associate Editor for Nanoscale – we are pleased he will be staying within the ‘RSC family’!
We are delighted to announce that Professor Philip A. Gale has been appointed as the new Editorial Board Chair. Phil has been on the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board since 2005, acting as both a Commissioning Editor and most recently as Associate Editor for supramolecular chemistry.
Phil is the Head of Chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK and his research interests focus on the supramolecular chemistry of anionic species and in particular the molecular recognition, sensing and lipid bilayer transport of anionic species.
David Amabilino
We are also pleased to appoint Professor David Amabilino as a new Associate Editor. David has been on the Editorial Board for over 3 years and will now be handling submissions in the areas of supramolecular chemistry, macrocyclic chemistry, self-assembly, chirality and stereochemistry.
David is Research Professor and Vice-Director at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain. He directs a dedicated group of young researchers from different cultural and scientific backgrounds working on key problems in stereochemistry, self-assembly on and off surfaces, and molecular (nano)materials.
Chem Soc Rev now has three Associate Editors handling submissions to the journal:
You can read more about Phil and David’s research in their recent articles:
Anion receptor chemistry
Marco Wenzel, Jennifer R. Hiscock and Philip A. Gale
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012,41, 480-520
DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15257B, Critical Review
Small neutral molecular carriers for selective carboxylate transport
Cally J. E. Haynes, Stuart N. Berry, Joachim Garric, Julie Herniman, Jennifer R. Hiscock, Isabelle L. Kirby, Mark E. Light, Gregory Perkes and Philip A. Gale
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 246-248
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37468D, Communication
Chloride, carboxylate and carbonate transport by ortho-phenylenediamine-based bisureas
Philip A. Gale et. al.
Chem. Sci., 2013,4, 103-117
DOI: 10.1039/C2SC21112B, Edge Article
Twists and turns in the hierarchical self-assembly pathways of a non-amphiphilic chiral supramolecular material
Ion Danila, Flavia Pop, Carlos Escudero, Lise N. Feldborg, Josep Puigmartí-Luis, François Riobé, Narcis Avarvari and David B. Amabilino
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 4552-4554
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC30789H, Communication
Self-assembly of supramolecular wires and cross-junctions and efficient electron tunnelling across them
Josep Puigmartí-Luis, Andrea Minoia, Shengbin Lei, Victor Geskin, Bing Li, Roberto Lazzaroni, Steven De Feyter and David B. Amabilino
Chem. Sci., 2011,2, 1945-1951
DOI: 10.1039/C1SC00330E, Edge Article
We are delighted to present this themed issue of Chem Soc Rev which celebrates 20 years of mesoporous materials.
Guest editors Bénédicte Lebeau, Anne Galarneau and Mika Linden introduce the issue in their Editorial and Charles T. Kresge and Wieslaw J. Roth discuss their contribution to this exciting field in their Highlight article:
Highlight
The discovery of mesoporous molecular sieves from the twenty year perspective
Charles T. Kresge and Wieslaw J. Roth
DOI: 10.1039/C3CS60016E
This bumper issue contains a great collection of Review Articles and Tutorial Reviews which give an excellent overview of the last 20 years since the discovery of mesoporous materials, here is just a selection:
Reviews
Hierarchical porous materials: catalytic applications
Christopher M. A. Parlett , Karen Wilson and Adam F. Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35378D
Synthesis of mesoporous silica nanoparticles
Si-Han Wu, Chung-Yuan Mou and Hong-Ping Lin
DOI: 10.1039/C3CS35405A
Tutorial Reviews
Mesoporosity – a new dimension for zeolites
Karin Möller and Thomas Bein
DOI: 10.1039/C3CS35488A
Anionic surfactant templated mesoporous silicas (AMSs)
Lu Han and Shunai Che
DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35297D
Formation of mesostructured thin films at the air–liquid interface
Karen J. Edler and Bin Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35300H
You can browse all the reviews from this themed issue online – Mesoporous Materials
Chem Soc Rev is pleased to present an exciting themed issue on the Chemistry of functional nanomaterials.
This issue was Guest Edited by Yadong Yin (University of California, Riverside) and Dmitri Talapin (University of Chicago). Take a look at their editorial which introduces the issue:
The chemistry of functional nanomaterials
Yadong Yin and Dmitri Talapin
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2484-2487
The issues contains a collection of 21 Review Articles and Tutorials which showcase some of the prominent research into functional nanomaterials in recent years, here are just a few of those featured:
Tutorials
DNA nanostructure meets nanofabrication
Guomei Zhang, Sumedh P. Surwade, Feng Zhou and Haitao Liu
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2488-2496
Biomolecular specificity controlled nanomaterial synthesis
Chin-Yi Chiu, Lingyan Ruan and Yu Huang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2512-2527
Bottom-up assembly of photonic crystals
Georg von Freymann, Vladimir Kitaev, Bettina V. Lotsch and Geoffrey A. Ozin
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2528-2554
Review Articles
Gold nanorods and their plasmonic properties
Huanjun Chen, Lei Shao, Qian Li and Jianfang Wang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2679-2724
From the bottom up: dimensional control and characterization in molecular monolayers
Shelley A. Claridge, Wei-Ssu Liao, John C. Thomas, Yuxi Zhao, Huan H. Cao, Sarawut Cheunkar, Andrew C. Serino, Anne M. Andrews and Paul S. Weiss
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2725-2745
You can browse all the reviews from this themed issue online – Chemistry of functional nanomaterials
We are delighted to present the Chem Soc Rev themed issue on solar fuels. Guest Editors Siddharth Dasgupta, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Jay R. Winkler and Harry B. Gray introduce the issue in their Editorial:
Editorial: 
Solar fuels
Siddharth Dasgupta, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Jay R. Winkler and Harry B. Gray
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013,42, 2213-2214
The issue contains a collection of high-profile Reviews and Tutorial Reviews which introduce various key areas within solar fuels research. Here are just a selection:
Tutorial
Structure–function analyses of solar fuels catalysts using in situ X-ray scattering
Karen L. Mulfort, Anusree Mukherjee, Oleksandr Kokhan, Pingwu Du and David M. Tiede
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2215-2227
Tutorial
Comparison of primary oxidants for water-oxidation catalysis
Alexander R. Parent, Robert H. Crabtree and Gary W. Brudvig
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2247-2252
Review
Long-lived charge separated states in nanostructured semiconductor photoelectrodes for the production of solar fuels
Alexander J. Cowan and James R. Durrant
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2281-2293
Hua Zhang, Advisory Board member of RSC journals Chem. Soc Rev. and Nanoscale, has been awarded the Small Young Innovator Award for 2012. We congratulate Hua on this achievement!
Hua is Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and won the award “For important contributions to novel low-dimensional nanomaterials.”
His research is highly interdisciplinary and currently focuses on synthesis of 2D nanomaterials and carbon materials (graphene and CNTs) and their applications in a wide range of fields from sensing to clean energy.
You can see some of Hua Zhang’s innovative research in these recent articles:
Xiao Huang, Xiaoying Qi, Freddy Boey and Hua Zhang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012,41, 666-686
DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15078B, Critical Review
Fabrication of nanoelectrode ensembles by electrodepositon of Au nanoparticles on single-layer graphene oxide sheets
Zhijuan Wang, Juan Zhang, Zongyou Yin, Shixin Wu, Daniel Mandler and Hua Zhang
Nanoscale, 2012,4, 2728-2733
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30142C, Paper
Hollow core–shell nanostructure supercapacitor electrodes: gap matters
Cao Guan, Xinhui Xia, Nan Meng, Zhiyuan Zeng, Xiehong Cao, Cesare Soci, Hua Zhang and Hong Jin Fan
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012,5, 9085-9090
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22815G, Paper
Single-layer graphene oxide sheet: a novel substrate for dip-pen nanolithography
Hai Li, Xiehong Cao, Bing Li, Xiaozhu Zhou, Gang Lu, Cipto Liusman, Qiyuan He, Freddy Boey, Subbu S. Venkatraman and Hua Zhang
Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 10070-10072
DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12648B, Communication
From collection Molecule-based surface chemistry
Chem Soc Rev is pleased to invite nominations for the 2013 Emerging Investigator Lectureship. This annual lectureship is given to recognise an emerging scientist who has made a significant contribution to their research field.
Nomination Deadline: 14th December 2012
Nominate now
Previous winners include:
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| 2012 – Xiaogang Liu from the National University of Singapore and Institute of Materials Research Engineering, A*STAR | |
| 2011 – Cristina Nevado from the University of Zurich in Switzerland | |
| 2010 – Shu-Hong Yu from the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei | |
| 2009 – Matt Gaunt from the University of Cambridge in the UK | |
| 2008 – Kazuya Kikuchi from Osaka University in Japan |
Chem. Soc. Rev. is delighted to present its Quasicrystals themed issue, in honour of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, Professor Dan Shechtman.
Guest editor Professor Walter Steurer introduces this themed issue in his editorial Fascinating Quasicrystals.
This themed issue features a fantastic collection of reviews on the topic of quasicrystals, here is just a snapshot:
Tutorial Reviews:
Why are quasicrystals quasiperiodic?
Walter Steurer
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 6719-6729
DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35063G
Electrical and thermal transport properties of icosahedral and decagonal quasicrystals
Janez Dolinšek
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 6730-6744
DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35036J
Critical Review:
Mathematical diffraction of aperiodic structures
Michael Baake and Uwe Grimm
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 6821-6843
DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35120J
Browse the whole Quasicrystals themed issue online.
