The front cover this month highlights a collaborative research effort between groups at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, India, and the European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials in Strasbourg, France. The groups of Mula and Ziessel have designed novel dyes that show sustainable lasing activity in polar solvents.
Design and synthesis of sulfobetainic diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) laser dyes by Soumyaditya Mula, Delphine Hablot, Krishna K. Jagtap, Elodie Heyer and Raymond Ziessel, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 303-308. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40569E
A novel thermoregulated ionic liquid, used as the recyclable catalyst and co-solvent in a Knoevenagel condensation, is featured on this month’s inside cover. The group of Prof Jun Luo at Nanjing University of Science and Technology used their new system to synthesize substituted benzylidenes with >90 yields in most cases.
A PEG bridged tertiary amine functionalized ionic liquid exhibiting thermoregulated reversible biphasic behavior with cyclohexane/isopropanol: synthesis and application in Knoevenagel condensation by Jun Luo, Tantan Xin and Yinglei Wang, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 269-273. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40890B
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