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Check out this week’s issue of Dalton Transactions, where the outside cover displays work by Nils Metzler-Nolte and colleagues, from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. In their paper they make a ruthenium Tp sandwich bioconjugate, with a structure reminescent of a scorpion.

View the issue, or read the research…

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Microwave-assisted synthesis of the Tp sandwich compound TpRu(p-Br-C6H4Tp) and application of its benzoic acid derivative TpRu(p-(CO2H)-C6H4Tp) in the covalent labelling of biomolecules
Johannes Zagermann, Mariusz Molon and Nils Metzler-Nolte
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 1011-1015
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01121E, Communication

Syntheses, structures and properties of two unusual silver–organic coordination networks: 1D-1D tubular intertwinement and existence of an infinite winding water chain
Bo Li, Shuang-Quan Zang, Can Ji, Chen-Xia Du, Hong-Wei Hou and Thomas C. W. Mak
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 788-792
Cover article – Check out the science behind the art of our most recent cover for Dalton Transactions, volume 40, issue 4 

Two new silver(I) coordination polymers have been constructed from the flexible H3btc and
bridging bpy ligands under different conditions. The results indicate that different coordination modes play a vital role in the assembly of supramolecular architectures. The new polymers represent the  first example of 1D-1D parallel interpenetrated tubular chains in a coordination polymer, and a double-ladder structure, in which an infinite winding water chain has been identified

Chemistry World have spotted Zhilin Wang’s recently published paper in Dalton Transactions.

The researchers work entitled ‘A Zn2+-specific turn-on fluorescent probe for ratiometric sensing of pyrophosphate in both water and blood serum’ is a highly interesting piece using inorganic chemistry to make a promising fluorescent biosensor. See what Chemistry World thought about it and access the rest of the news story or read the original paper.

A Zn2+-specific turn-on fluorescent probe for ratiometric sensing of pyrophosphate in both water and blood serum
Jinghan Wen, Zhirong Geng, Yuxin Yin, Zhong Zhang and Zhilin Wang
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01262A, Paper