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Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award – winner announced

13 Apr 2011

On behalf of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board, I am delighted to announce that Professor Cristina Nevado from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has won the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award.

This annual award recognises an emerging scientist who has made a significant contribution to their research field. The Editorial Board commended Professor Nevado’s contribution to the total synthesis of natural products and new synthetic methodologies, in particular her research on gold catalysis.

Professor Nevado’s award will be presented at a conference later in the year. Details will follow in due course.

You can find out more about Professor Nevado’s exciting research by reading her recent ChemComm communication, which was included in the ChemComm Emerging Investigator issue 2011:

Domino gold-catalyzed rearrangement and fluorination of propargylacetates, Teresa de Haro and Cristina Nevado, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 248-249

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A Sustainable Global Society: How Can Materials Chemistry Help?

31 Mar 2011

A high profile white paper A Sustainable Global Society: How Can Materials Chemistry Help? was launched internationally on 27 March.

The output of the Chemical Sciences and Society Summit (CS3) 2010, which took place in London, September 2010, outlines five key areas in which materials chemists, through collaboration with other scientists, industry and policy makers, can seize exciting opportunities to address global challenges. This project was driven by the RSC and is a collaboration between the chemical societies of China, Germany, Japan, the US, the UK and national funding bodies. Around 30 leading materials chemists from the participating nations participated in CS3 2010 and the white paper is a reflection of the outcome of the summit, in particular their view of the future direction for materials chemistry.

View the official website of the white paper.

Read the 27 March press release.

Also of interest:
Chem Soc Rev themed issue on Hybrid Materials

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Walking molecules

29 Mar 2011

Motor proteins power a plethora of complex tasks inside cells. By walking step by step along polymeric filaments, these molecular motors carry out tasks essential to life. In recent years, biological molecular walkers have been inspiring scientists to develop artifical systems that can mimic their dynamics.

Graphical abstract: Walking molecules In their Chem Soc Rev critical review, David Leigh and Max von Delius from the University of Edinburgh, UK, provide an overview of molecules that can walk along tracks – from naturally occurring walkers from the dynein, myosin and kinesin families to synthetic systems based on DNA or small molecule building blocks.

Download the review today – it’s a big step towards keeping up-to-date with the most exciting research on molecular motors and machines.

Did you know….?
David Leigh is a Chemical Science Associate Editor welcoming submissions of exceptional research in the area of supramolecular chemistry. For more information, visit the Chemical Science website or contact the Editorial Office.

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Rachel O’Reilly joins the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board

26 Feb 2011

I am delighted to announce that Dr Rachel O’Reilly from the University of Warwick, UK, has been appointed as a new Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board member.

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Rachel is an expert in the design, synthesis and application of polymeric materials. She is a strong supporter of RSC journals, including recently contributing to the ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue and guest editing the Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigator issue.

She brings a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board and we look forward to working with her.

If you have an idea for a review or themed issue, let us know. Sign up for the Chem Soc Rev e-alert to be notified when the latest issue is online.

Also of interest:
Cylindrical micelles from the living crystallization-driven self-assembly of poly(lactide)-containing block copolymers
Nikos Petzetakis, Andrew P. Dove and Rachel K. O’Reilly, Chem. Sci., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0SC00596G

Reversible morphological switching of nanostructures in solution
Adam O. Moughton, Joseph P. Patterson and Rachel K. O’Reilly, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 355-357

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The importance of solvent in free radical syntheses

23 Feb 2011

Radical reactions play a large role in organic synthesis; however, chemists are often disappointed when they obtain poor yields. But, say Keith Ingold and colleagues, a judicious choice of solvent could be the solution, if you’ll pardon the pun.

Graphical abstract: The frequently overlooked importance of solvent in free radical syntheses

In their Chem Soc Rev review, rated as ‘hot’ by the referees, the team focus on kinetic solvent effects that often have a dramatic effect on the yield of many radical-based organic syntheses.

Distinguishing the folklore from the facts, this review is essential reading for all students contemplating a career in synthetic organic chemistry (and no doubt many of their supervisors, who may have been perpetuating the myth).

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It’s Valentine’s Day – and we’ve got chemistry!

11 Feb 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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Hybrid materials themed issue now online

03 Feb 2011

This Chem Soc Rev themed issue contains 33 tutorial and critical reviews, highlighting exciting new achievements in hybrid materials research.

Guest editors Clément Sanchez, Kenneth Shea and Susumu Kitagawa introduce the issue and the academic and industrial importance of the field in their Editorial. Download the issue today to keep up-to-date with the latest advances.

If you enjoy this issue, you may also be interested in Advanced Hybrid Materials, a Journal of Materials Chemistry themed issue guest editored by Pierre Rabu and Andreas Taubert.

If you have any comments on this issue or suggestions for future themed issues, or you would like to write a review for the journal, please leave your comments below or contact the Editorial Office.

Will you be at the Hybrid Materials conference in Strasbourg in March? I will be there with a number of copies of this issue. Please let me know if you would like to meet me there.

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Hot articles to warm up winter days

01 Feb 2011

Our referees found these Chem Soc Rev articles particularly interesting. Download them and let us know if you agree. And if you like them, cite them.

Multifunctionality in hybrid magnetic materials based on bimetallic oxalate complexes
Miguel Clemente-León, Eugenio Coronado, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo and Francisco M. Romero
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 473-497

Titanium oxo-clusters: precursors for a Lego-like construction of nanostructured hybrid materials
Laurence Rozes and Clément Sanchez
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 1006-1030

Kinetic subtleties of nitroxide mediated polymerization
Denis Bertin, Didier Gigmes, Sylvain R. A. Marque and Paul Tordo
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00110D

Catalytic C–H amination: the stereoselectivity issue
Florence Collet, Camille Lescot and Philippe Dauban
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00095G

Zebrafish as a good vertebrate model for molecular imaging using fluorescent probes
Sung-Kyun Ko, Xiaoqiang Chen, Juyoung Yoon and Injae Shin
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00118J

Linking heterometallic rings for quantum information processing and amusement
Grigore A. Timco, Thomas B. Faust, Floriana Tuna and Richard E. P. Winpenny
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00151A

Framework-structured weak ferromagnets
Dan-Feng Weng, Zhe-Ming Wang and Song Gao
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00093K

Transition-metal catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling reactions to form C–C bonds involving organometallic reagents as nucleophiles
Wei Shi, Chao Liu and Aiwen Lei
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00125B

Chemomechanics: chemical kinetics for multiscale phenomena
Zhen Huang and Roman Boulatov
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00148A

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Emerging Investigator delivers award lecture at Pacifichem

23 Dec 2010

Professor Shu-Hong Yu (University of Science and Technology of China) gave his Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award lecture at the “Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials Synthesis and Assembly” session at Pacifichem on 16th December. His talk was entitled ‘Bio-inspired Synthesis of Functional Inorganic Materials and Hybrids’.

: Chem Soc Rev Associate Editor Philip Gale and Editor Robert Eagling present Shu-Hong Yu with his award certificate

We are still accepting nominations for the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award. Details of your nominee, including a brief C.V. together with a letter supporting the nomination, should be sent to the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Office by 31st January 2011.

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Welcome to our new Advisory Editorial members!

21 Dec 2010

I am delighted to announce a host of new Chem Soc Rev Advisory Editorial Board members, who join the team on 1st January 2011. All experts in their respective fields, they will help shape the journal’s future and ensure its ongoing success. We look forward to working with them all.

Helen Blackwell (USA)	Clément Sanchez (France)
Anne-Marie Caminade (France)	Mike Scott (USA)
Jeroen Cornelissen (the Netherlands)	Injae Shin (Korea)
Wim Dehaen (Belgium)	James Tucker (UK)
Antonio Echavarren (Spain)	Rein Ulijn (UK)
Duncan Graham (UK)	Peng Wang (China)
Jerome Lacour (Switzerland)	Bert Weckhuysen (the Netherlands)
Ian Manners (UK)	Aaron Wheeler (Canada)
Manfred Martin (Germany)	Haw Yang (USA)
Feliu Maseras (Spain)	Xueming Yang (China)
Hongkun Park (USA)	Eiji Yashima (Japan)
Jon Preece (UK)	Shuli You (China)
Vincent Rotello (USA)	Claudio Zannoni (Italy)

We have also recently appointed two Chem Soc Rev Associate Editors. Find out who….

We’d love to receive your feedback and ideas for Chem Soc Rev. Please leave your comments below or email us.

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