We welcome you to January’s “All aboard“ issue of New Journal of Chemistry.
Featuring in this issue:
This month NJC highlights the research of NJC’s Editorial Board members. Sixteen current members of the NJC Editorial Board have contributed 10 research articles and 5 reviews, among them 2 Focus reviews and 3 Perspectives reviews.
In all, the twenty-eight articles in this issue, including Focus and Perspective reviews, Letters and full Papers, feature high-quality, original and significant research works in the areas of coordination and supramolecular chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, sensing, nanostructures, material sciences, electrochemistry, synthetic chemistry, crystallographic engineering and much more.
The outside cover of this month’s issue highlights the work of Debbie Crans and Michael Johnson (USA) on vanadium complexes in water-in-oil reverse micelles.
In their study, the authors were exploring the complexation reaction between a ligand (catechol) and a metal ion (aqueous vanadium(V); [VO2(OH2)4]+) along with the reverse reactions; aquation of the corresponding vanadium(V)–catechol complex.
Stabilization of a vanadium(V)–catechol complex by compartmentalization and reduced solvation inside reverse micelles by Brant G. Lemons, David T. Richens, Ashley Anderson, Myles Sedgwick, Debbie C. Crans and Michael D. Johnson, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 75-81, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40524E.
The inside front cover features work by Takashi Kato and co-workers (Japan) who present the first example of bisphenylsulfone- based molecular assemblies. Thermotropic columnar liquid crystals and fibrous aggregates are formed by 1D self-assembly of sulfonyl moieties through the dipole–dipole interactions.
The electric field alignment of the sulfone-based columnar liquid crystals has been successfully achieved.
Bisphenylsulfone-based molecular assemblies: polar columnar liquid crystals aligned in electric fields and fibrous aggregates in organic solvents by Masafumi Yoshio, Reiku Konishi, Takeshi Sakamoto and Takashi Kato, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 143-147, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40681K
Hot articles in this themed issue:
* Photochromism of novel chromenes constrained to be part of [2.2]paracyclophane: remarkable ‘phane’ effects on the colored o-quinonoid intermediates by Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy, Susovan Mandal and Amrit Kumar, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 82-88, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40575J
* Precursors for pyromellit-bridged silica sol–gel hybrid materials by Stefan Pfeifer, Anke Schwarzer, Dana Schmidt, Erica Brendler, Michael Veith and Edwin Kroke, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 169-180, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40538E
* Self-assembly of graphene oxide on the surface of aluminum foil by Qingye Liu, Meng He, Xiaojuan Xu, Lina Zhang and Junping Yu; New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 181-187, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40493A
* Mixed-solvothermal synthesis, structures, luminescent and surface photovoltage properties of four new transition metal diphosphonates with a 3D supramolecular structure by Hui Tian, Yan-Yu Zhu, Zhen-Gang Sun, Fei Tong, Jiang Zhu, Wei Chu, Shou-Hui Sun and Ming-Jing Zheng, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 212-219, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40737J
* Rapid preparation of high surface area iron oxide and alumina nanoclusters through a soft templating approach of sol–gel precursors by Fernando Hung-Low, Geneva R. Peterson, Marauo Davis and Louisa J. Hope-Weeks, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 245-249, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40781G
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