In their Chem Soc Rev critical review, Ivan M. Kempson and Enzo Lombi comb through the evidence and address the questions surrounding hair analysis, to try to discover what the concentrations of different elements in hair can actually relate to.
Download the article to find out what can be detected, what it means and why your age, gender, hair colour and curliness can make a difference.
It gives me great pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board, that the winner of the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Lecture Award is Professor Stephen Leone, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Chemical Dynamics Beamline and Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The Chem Soc Rev Lecture Award is given to honour a scientist who has made a significant contribution to their field over the course of their career. The Editorial Board praised Professor Leone’s varied research career, which has been characterised by the development of a great number of novel methods for probing dynamical processes. These have included infrared emission techniques for ion-molecule chemical dynamics, laser single photon ionisation of gaseous species during epitaxial growth and ultrafast soft X-ray generation and probing.
Professor Leone’s award will be presented at a conference later in the year. Details will follow in due course.
Also of interest:
The direct observation of secondary radical chain chemistry in the heterogeneous reaction of chlorine atoms with submicron squalane droplets
Chen-Lin Liu, Jared D. Smith, Dung L. Che, Musahid Ahmed, Stephen R. Leone and Kevin R. Wilson, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20236G
Who has won the 2011 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator award? Find out…
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
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
This month sees the following articles in ChemSocRev that are in the top ten most accessed:-
C-H functionalization logic in total synthesis
Will R. Gutekunst and Phil S. Baran
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 1976-1991, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00182A, Critical Review
Graphene nanosheet: synthesis, molecular engineering, thin film, hybrids, and energy and analytical applications
Shaojun Guo and Shaojun Dong
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00079E, Critical Review
Cyclodextrin-based inclusion complexation bridging supramolecular chemistry and macromolecular self-assembly
Guosong Chen and Ming Jiang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00153H, Tutorial Review
Applications of advanced hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials: from laboratory to market
Clément Sanchez, Philippe Belleville, Michael Popall and Lionel Nicole
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 696-753, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00136H, Critical Review
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, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00125B, Critical Review
Microporous magnets
Pierre Dechambenoit and Jeffrey R. Long
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00167H, Critical Review
Recent progress in hybrid materials science
Clément Sanchez, Kenneth J. Shea and Susumu Kitagawa
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 471-472, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS90001C, Editorial
Biomimetic smart nanopores and nanochannels
Xu Hou, Wei Guo and Lei Jiang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00053A, Critical Review
Direct Sp3 a-C-H activation and functionalization of alcohol and ether
Shu-Yu Zhang, Fu-Min Zhang and Yong-Qiang Tu
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 1937-1949, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00063A, Tutorial Review
Fluorescent DNA-based enzyme sensors
Nan Dai and Eric T. Kool
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00162G, Critical Review
Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.
Fancy submitting an article to ChemSocRev? Then why not email us today with your suggestions.
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.
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.
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.
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
Dispelling the myth that radical-based syntheses are free from significant solvent effects
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.
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).
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
Reviewing recent progress in this multidisciplinary field
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.
