An article by Antonio Frontera and co-workers (Universitat de les Illes Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) features on this month’s front cover. In this article, the authors report a theoretical study and Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) analysis of the anion–π binding ability of thiotrithiazyl salts. The anion–π interaction was noticed and described by Woolins and co-workers prior to the original theoretical studies where it was defined and characterized. Therefore, one aim of this manuscript is also to recognize and highlight the manuscript reported by Woolins and co-workers seventeen years ago.
Anion–π interactions in [S4N3]+ rings, Antonio Bauzá, David Quiñonero, Pere M. Deyà and Antonio Frontera, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2636-2641 DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00424D (Article).
The inside cover was produced by Yasuhiro Shiraishi and co-workers (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan), presenting a spiropyran–cholesterol conjugate that behaves as a photoresponsive organogelator and is applicable as a material for information storage writable/erasable by light stimuli.
Spiropyran–cholesterol conjugate as a photoresponsive organogelator, Shigehiro Sumiya, Yasuhiro Shiraishi and Takayuki Hirai, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2642-2647 DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00322A (Article).
Take your pick amongst the 7 letters and 38 full papers that composed this issue of September here.
