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You can now browse the October issue of NJC on the website. The cover highlights a Perspective, by Andreas Schnepf at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which reviews a novel class of cluster compounds in group 14 chemistry, exemplified by Ge_nR_m, to explore the transition from molecular to bulk properties.

Metalloid cluster compounds of germanium: novel structural motives on the way to elemental germanium! by Andreas Schnepf*
New J. Chem., 2010, 34, 2079-2092; DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00263A

We invite you to also take a look at some of the 34 other papers in this issue, covering topics as diverse as: gelation phenomena, sensors, water purification, drug uptake & release, mesoporous & nano materials, catalysis & reaction mechanisms, ionic liquids, aromatic sextet theory, conjugates for tumor imaging, molecular clusters, cyclophanes & cyclodextrins, lectin binding, dendrimers in DSSCs, purification of carbon nanotubes, organic synthesis, partitioning in biphasic systems, optically active supramolecules, paramagnetic complexes.

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The September issue of NJC  is now published. It features a Perspective article by Irene Ling, Yatimah Alias and Colin L. Raston at the University of Western Australia and the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur)  on the use of p-sulfonatocalixarenes as elements for multi-component self-assembly.

Authors discuss the construction and structural diversity of complexes of p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene incorporating imidazolium or pyrrolidinium cations, opening the path towards new startegies in calixarene self-assembly. This work is illustrated on this month’s outside front cover:  

Structural diversity of multi-component self-assembled systems incorporating p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene 

Irene Ling, Yatimah Alias and Colin L. Raston, 

New J. Chem., 2010, DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00317D

NJC Perspective article hot of the press – read it now!

Self-assembly of amphiphilic calixarenes and resorcinarenes in water, Kaisa Helttunen and Patrick Shahgaldian, New J. Chem., 2010, DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00123F

Kaisa Helttunen (University of Jyväskylä) and Patrick Shahgaldian (University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland) present the developments of the chemistry of amphiphilic calixarenes and resorcinarenes with a clear focus on the synthetic paths used for their production and their self-assembly properties in water.

Check out the recent NJC Perspective article by Andreas Schnepf (University of Karlsruhe) on metalloid cluster compounds of germanium.

In this review, the author presents a novel class of cluster compounds in group 14 chemistry, shedding light on the synthesis, structural features and bonding properties of these structures in the borderland between the molecular and solid state. 

Metalloid cluster compounds of germanium: novel structural motives on the way to elemental germanium! Andreas Schnepf, New J. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00263A