NJC is delighted to present this month’s issue. Whether you are a materials scientist, biologist, physicist or medicinal chemist, you are guaranteed to find articles of relevance to your specialist interests.
The outside front cover highlights our latest article by Mathias Tamm and co-workers that deals with the synthesis and the structural characterization of a series of cyclopentadienyl boratabenzene sandwich complexes and their reactivity towards lewis bases such as PMe3. The latter coordinate at the metal center (Zr-L) and not at the boratabenzene ligand (B-L).
Boratatrozircenes: cycloheptatrienyl zirconium boratabenzene sandwich complexes – evaluation of potential η6–η5 hapticity interconversions by Andreas Glöckner, Peng Cui, Yaofeng Chen, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Peter G. Jones and Matthias Tamm; New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1392-1398; DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40059F
The inside front cover was produced by Chaojing Lu and co-workers. In this letter the authors describe a two-step method for the synthesis of Bi2Fe4O9 nanocrystals and their photoelectrochemical properties. Novel Bi2Fe4O9 nanocrystals consisted of nanorods and nanoparticles with dominant facets of (001), (110) and (1-10) were prepared by a solution method. The as prepared products exhibited a photocurrent of 47 ua/cm2 under UV-Vis irradiation and are promising materials for applications in photoelectrodes and solar energy conversion.
Photo-to-current response of Bi2Fe4O9 nanocrystals synthesized through a chemical co-precipitation process by Yongping Li, Yongcheng Zhang, Wanneng Ye, Jianqiang Yu, Chaojing Lu and Linhua Xia; New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1297-1300; DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40039A.
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