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Peer Review and Editorial Responsibility

23 Oct 2013

NJC’s editor shares some insights from the EASE-ISTME meeting in Blankenberge.

Last month I attended the joint meeting of two societies for scientific editors (EASE and ISTME) that took place in the seaside resort town of Blankenberge in Belgium. Two days filled with presentations, discussions and networking attracted about 85 participants from around the world. Most were scientific editors who occupy a variety of positions in the public or private sector or work as freelance editors. But there were also consultants in the publishing field, translators, and an internet content expert.

I was particularly inspired by the presentation of Dr Irene Hames (member of COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics) who was the opening keynote lecturer. Dr Hames spoke on peer review: what is it? what problems does it face? how to improve it? what does the future hold?

Here I will focus on just one aspect of her presentation, adding some of my own views (the full presentation can be viewed here).

Quality peer review, highly valued by authors, depends on reviewers and editors working together. The time and effort furnished by voluntary reviewers are indispensible for the good functioning of the peer review system. Editors expect reviewers to be able to judge the quality of a manuscript, and ideally to give an opinion on the suitability of the work for the particular journal that has sent it out for review. But this is a lot to ask for! It is indeed difficult for any reviewer to master in detail the editorial policies of all journals that they review for so as to determine what is a suitable manuscript for a given journal.

An editor who knows his or her journal well is the best placed to judge what is suitable for publication in the journal. An editor who simply counts “votes” is abdicating their responsibility towards their journal. Editors need to read the manuscript, fashion their own opinion, then analyse the reports they receive to make a decision that takes into consideration their journal’s scope and editorial policy. Reviewers give advice and recommendations, but the final decision rests with the editor, who needs to fully shoulder that responsibility.

The dedication of scientific reviewers allows the peer review system to function. The skill, insight and judgement of the editor are essential factors in making it function well. Peer review does not absolve an editor from taking responsibility for the editorial decisions that she or he makes.

NJC‘s editors all strive to offer fair and impartial peer review of high quality to our authors, while respecting the work of the voluntary peer reviewers.

“Reviewers advise, editors decide.”

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New NJC Hot Articles

09 Oct 2013

By Eva Balentova, deputy editor.

Here are the latest Hot Articles published in NJC, as recommended by the referees. All are FREE to access for one month, so why not take your pick and have a read now?

A new way to tune relative humidity: by saturated ionic liquid aqueous solutions by Yuanyuan Cao, Yu Chen and Tiancheng Mu ; New J. Chem., 2013, Advance Article; DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00661A, Paper

Serendipitous synthetic entrée to tetradehydro analogues of cobalamins by Richard M. Deans, Olga Mass, James R. Diers, David F. Bocian and Jonathan S. Lindsey; New J. Chem., 2013, Advance Article; DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00574G, Paper

Octupolar chimeric compounds built from quinoline caged acetate moieties: a novel approach for 2-photon uncaging of biomolecules by Sébastien Picard, Emilie Genin, Guillaume Clermont, Vincent Hugues, Olivier Mongin and Mireille Blanchard-Desce; New J. Chem., 2013, Advance Article; DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00833A, Paper

Synthesis of novel Mn₃O₄ concave octahedral microcrystals and their anomalous magnetic properties by Yong-Xing Zhang and Yong Jia; New J. Chem., 2013, Advance Article; DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00840A, Letter

Fancy submitting an article to New Journal of Chemistry? Then why not submit to us today.

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Meet our authors of the October issue of NJC

02 Oct 2013

By Yannick Guari, Assistant Editor.

We are pleased to present a selection of our authors of the October issue of NJC. We thank each of them for accepting our invitation and having kindly taken some of their time to answer a few questions for us.

Our first author is Fatima C. Teixeira who is a Researcher at the Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia in Lisboa (Portugal). Her current research interests are in the field of organic chemistry, especially in the synthesis and characterization of heterocyclic compounds containing phosphonate groups. Currently, her research is focused on the preparation of precursors for new materials for proton exchange membranes with high conductivity for fuel cells. In her NJC paper, Fatima and co-workers report on a new strategy for the synthesis of new diphosphonated azaheterocyclic compounds to become precursors for novel membrane materials for fuel cells. Also, the NMR analysis shows, for a benzimidazole derivative, the presence of only one or both tautomeric forms on the NMR timescale, depending on the solvent and concentration of the solution.

When asked what led to the publication of this article at NJC, Fatima responds: “We choose NJC due to its multidisciplinarity, with a broad and diverse readership, fast publishing time and high quality”.

Out of the lab, Fatima likes to spend time with her family, going to cinema, swimming, reading or travelling.

If Fatima could not be a scientist, she will probably be an engineer.

New azaheterocyclic aromatic diphosphonates for hybrid materials for fuel cell applications by Fátima C. Teixeira, C. M. Rangel and António P. S. Teixeira, New J. Chem., 2013,37, 3084-309 DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00585B.

Our next author is Ricardo Gargano, Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Brasilia (Brazil). Ricardo’s research interests focus on electronic structure calculation and kinetic and dynamic of molecular systems.

In this issue of NJC, Ricardo has authored the article An extensive investigation of reactions involved in the nitrogen trifluoride dissociation by Simone S. Ramalho, Wiliam F. da Cunha, Alessandra F. Albernaz, Pedro H. O. Neto, Geraldo Magela e Silva and Ricardo Gargano, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 3244-3251 DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00553D. “The results obtained in our work are of potential use for comparison in future theoretical and experimental works in the NF₃ decomposition mechanism”, explains Ricardo who chooses NJC for publication of this article as NJC publishes innovative, original and significant works in Chemistry.

In his free time, Ricardo loves playing soccer and if he was not a scientist, he would like to be a soccer player.

Closing this month’s author selection, Christophe Den Auwer is Professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in the Institut de Chimie de Nice (France).

His current research interest is radiochemistry – Actinide chemistry in interaction with biotope and human toxicology

He has authored in this NJC issue the paper Multi-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy of thorium, neptunium and plutonium hexacyanoferrate compounds by Thomas Dumas, Marie Christine Charbonnel, Iraida A. Charushnikova, Steven D. Conradson, Clara Fillaux, Christoph Hennig, Philippe Moisy, Sébastien Petit, Andreas C. Scheinost, David K. Shuh, Tolek Tyliszczak and Christophe Den Auwer, New J. Chem., 2013,37, 3003-3016 DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00318C3. “This paper which is part of the PhD thesis of Thomas Dumas describes some fundamental aspects of actinide chemistry. Few years ago when I was at Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) we launched this work on actinide hexacynometallates because the cyanometallate chemistry is so rich.” says Christophe.

Out of the lab, Christophe favourite activities are Mountain hiking and back country skiing.

To the question, If you could not be a scientist but could be anything else, what would you be? Christophe answers “It is of course difficult to answer but I would have liked to work in another type of creating occupation because imagination in science or in artistic fields is the most enjoyable part of our work.”

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Profiles of the 18th ESOC Bursary Awardees

12 Sep 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

We present the winners of the student bursaries at the 18th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, sponsored by New Journal of Chemistry.

NJC, committed to supporting the younger members of the chemistry community, underwrote student bursaries at this summer’s 18th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, held in Marseille this past July. The 8 young awardees, from 8 European countries, are briefly profiled here.

Szilvia Deak is a second year Ph.D. student in the research group of Prof. Ferenc Faigl at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology (Hungary). The group develops novel regio- and stereoselective metallation processes for the synthesis of atropisomeric functionalised biaryls (1-phenylpyrrole derivatives) and optically active heterocyclic compounds (oxiranes, oxetanes, pyrrolidines) as potential chiral ligands and organocatalysts. Szilvia’s poster was entitled “Atropisomeric amino alcohols as new chiral ligands in asymmetric synthesis”.
Paulina Hamankiewicz is currently finishing her Ph.D. thesis on molecular and chiral recognition of organic compounds using carbohydrate derivatives, decorated with urea moieties. She will be graduating from the University of Warsaw (Poland), where she is in the group of Prof. Janusz Jurczak (Laboratory of Stereocontrolled Organic Synthesis). Paulina’s poster: “Benzene, naphthalene, and anthracene urea derivatives as convenient tools for chiral recognition”.
Maria Riala is from the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia (Cyprus). After her undergraduate degree she completed her Ph.D. studies in the Research Laboratory of Fullerene and Supramolecular Chemistry under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Nikos Chronakis and graduated in June 2013. Maria’s research is focused on the synthesis of bis- and trisadducts of C₆₀ with an inherently chiral addition pattern utilizing enantiomerically pure tethers. Maria’s poster: “Synthesis of chiral Th-symmetrical hexakis adducts of C₆₀“.
Ekrem Kaplan is a Masters chemistry student at Istanbul Technical University (Turkey). Under the supervisor of Prof. Esin Hamuryudan, Ekrem is preparing peripheral and non-peripheral substituted manganese(III) phthalocyanine bearing carboxylic side groups and investigating their electrochemical properties. Ekrem’s poster: “Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Carboxylic Acid Functionalized Phthalocyanines”.
Tatiana Dias is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Research Centre at the University of Minho (Portugal) in the group of Prof. Fernanda Proença. The research group’s work is focused on the synthesis of new drug candidates, mainly nitrogen and oxygen-containing heterocyclic structures. Tatiana’s research has been centred on the development of new synthetic methodologies to prepare chromene derivatives to be tested as anticancer agents. Tatiana’s poster at ESOC was “2-Hydroxychalcones and carbon acid derivatives: Reactivity studies in acid media”.
Kostas Voreakos is writing up his Master’s dissertation, after completing his research in the group of Dr. Dimitris Georgiadis of the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). The research group focuses on the design and synthesis of metallopeptidase inhibitors and the development of synthetic methodologies for medicinal applications. Previously, Kostas earned first degrees in both chemistry and food technology. Kostas’s poster at ESOC was entitled “Conformationally Constrained Phosphinic Peptides: Synthesis of α,β-Disubstituted Phosphinyl Propanoates and Development of δ-lactam Phosphinic Surrogates”.	Phosphinic Peptides
Agnese Stikute is a 4th year undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Material Science and Applied Chemistry of Riga Technical University (Latvia). She works in the Institute of Technology of Organic Chemistry/Department of Chemical Technology of Biologically Active Compounds under the supervision of Prof. Mara Jure. Agnese’s research is devoted to the synthesis of analogues of natural antioxidants, focused on the discovery and optimization of the synthesis of cinnamoyl anilines and their derivatives. Agnese’s poster: “Cyclization of monoanilides of arylidene malonic acid”.
Kärt Reitel is a Ph.D. student in Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia). She works in the organic synthesis group under the supervision of Prof. Tõnis Kanger. Kärt’s main research topic is the synthesis of cyclopropane-containing compounds and their application in organocatalytic reactions. Kärt’s ESOC poster was entitled “Aminocatalytic Michael addition of cyclopropane-containing aldehydes to nitroolefins”.

Congratulations to all the awardees! (Check out “who is who” in the photo montage below.)

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Meet Our Authors – September 2013 issue of NJC

10 Sep 2013

By Laurent Vial, Assistant Editor.

Let’s meet the people behind the papers! This month, two authors kindly took some time to answer a few questions for us.

Our first author is Yasuhiro Shiraishi who is Associate Professor at the Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry of Osaka University (Japan). Yasuhiro’s research interests are focused on the design of photocatalysts for selective organic transformations and fluorescent molecular devices driven by light.

The article by Yasuhiro and his co-authors reports the synthesis of a spiropyran-cholesterol that undergoes reversible color and phase transitions upon heat and light stimuli. These properties were successfully applied to the creation of a material for information storage, easily writable and erasable by simple light irradiation.

The interdisciplinary nature of the work, involving polymer chemistry and photochemistry made NJC a logical choice in the authors’ eyes.

Besides being a research scientist, Yasuhiro’s dream job would be professional footballer. And not surprisingly, his primary focus outside of the lab is to raise his two boys to be as good footballers as Leo Messi.

“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

Antonio Frontera is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain). His research is in the field of Theoretical Chemistry, with an emphasis on the study of non covalent interactions.

About his paper, Antonio commented: “Seventeen years ago, pi-facial interactions were described by John D. Woolins and coworkers in thiotrithiazylium salts. Their pioneering work can be considered as the birth of the nowadays well recognized anion–pi interaction and the research published in our manuscript on this topic is dedicated to them.”

The authors chose NJC to publish this research work because the journal is addressed to a cross-disciplinary and wide readership.

Playing basketball in wintertime and fishing in summertime are Antonio’s favorite activities besides chemistry (see the photo: nice catch!). If he could not be a scientific investigator, Antonio would be a private investigator.

“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

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Highlights of the 8th International Dendrimer Symposium

04 Sep 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Dr Ling Peng reports on the IDS-8 meeting, held in Madrid last June.

The 8th International Dendrimer Symposium was successfully held in Madrid on June 23–27 with Prof. Maria Angeles Muñoz-Fernandez as the chair. More than 200 scientists from all over the world participated in IDS-8 to present their latest achievements in dendrimer science.

The meeting opened with the “Ramon Areces” welcome lecture delivered by Prof. Virgil Percec, who depicted a fascinating material genome approach to construct complex dendrimer systems. Using dendritic motifs to create different types of fractal patterns was nicely exemplified by Prof. George Newkome, whereas capitalization on new strategies for dendrimer synthesis was the main focus in the lecture of Prof. René Roy. Prof. Dieter Schlüter reported the synthesis and characterization as well as discontinuities in dendronized polymers, whereas Dr. Anil Patri presented lessons learned from preclinical assessment of dendrimers.

Prof. Donald Tomalia gave a vivid and brief overview on the development of dendrimer science and focused in particular on the dendritic effects, which were further discussed in the lectures of Dr. Anne-Marie Caminade and Dr. Takuzo Aida. The meeting ended with the closing lecture of Dr. Jean-Pierre Majoral, who discussed the dendrimer space in nanomedicine and foresaw a bright future for dendrimers in therapeutic applications.

Poster prizes provided by several sponsors, including NJC, were awarded just before this closing lecture. The NJC laureats were profiled in an earlier post.

It is to note that, beside the excellent scientific program, there was a fantastic social program with a visit of the Prado museum and the Real Madrid stadium as well as the flamenco gala evening.

The next IDS meeting will be hosted by René Roy in Montreal, Canada in 2015. NJC will be there and we look forward to another excellent conference in the fascinating field of dendrimers.

Snapshots from the conference (courtesy of the organizers), including at far left the opening lecture by Virgil Percec (photo courtesy of Don Tomalia).

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Visit September’s issue of NJC.

02 Sep 2013

By Yannick Guari, Assistant Editor.

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.

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Meet Our Authors – August Issue 2013

20 Aug 2013

By Eva Balentova, deputy editor.

Two authors of NJC’s August issue are interviewed for this month’s Meet our Authors feature.

Our first author is Dr. Faina Gelman, who is researcher at the Institute of Geological Survey of Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her current research interests are environmental chemistry and stable isotope analysis. She particularly focuses on development of new analytical tools for stable isotope analysis and their applications for understanding chemical and biochemical transformations of organic compounds.

In their NJC paper, Faina with her colleagues demonstrated determination of bromine kinetic isotope effect on Grignard reagent formation –one of the fundamental reactions of brominated organics. ” Since our work combines novel analytical, theoretical and organic chemistry approaches, we wanted to submit it to a more general-focused journal, such as NJC is, from our point of view” commented on choosing NJC.

And what contemporary scientific issue is she most concerned about: “I am very much concerned about environmental pollution and would like to find an efficient way to treat this problem “she replied. Besides her research activity, Faina likes to spend time with her family.

Bromine kinetic isotope effects: insight into Grignard reagent formation by Lukasz Szatkowski, Agnieszka Dybala-Defratyka, Charlie Batarseh, Jochanan Blum, Ludwik Halicz and Faina Gelman ; New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2241-2244; DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00197K.

The second author is Jürg Hulliger, who is a Professor of chemistry at the University of Berne, Switzerland. His research interest centers on Crystal growth, properties and solid state theory. His contribution to this month’s issue is Focus article that reviews on polar properties of solid molecular matter.”Here we review basic theoretical views on growth induced polarity in molecular crystals giving also all known experimental examples we have by today, which domonstrate polarity Formation. ”

If Jürg could solve any scientific problem, it would be: “Constructing equipment being able to say : a small Crystal of the size of a few 100 nm is (i) superconductive, (ii) is composed of these elements and (iii) shows this crystal structure. Such an Equipment may be used to analyze your combinatorial ceramic samples.”

In the non-lab world, Jürg is fascinated by interior decoration in the style of the 18th century, renovation of antics and art.

A stochastic principle behind polar properties of condensed molecular matter by Jürg Hulliger, Thomas Wüst, Khadidja Brahimi, Matthias Burgener and Hanane Aboulfadl New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2229-2235 DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ40935J

We thanks to Faina and Jürg for accepting our invitation to talk about themselves and their work!

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Three young chemists honoured at the 8th International Dendrimer Symposium

13 Aug 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

NJC Poster Prizes were given to young researchers from Germany, Spain and the US at the IDS8 meeting held in Madrid last June.

New Journal of Chemistry sponsored 3 poster prizes at the 8th International Dendrimer Symposium that took place this summer in Madrid, continuing its support of this series of symposia and the dendrimer community in general.

Guang Zhang is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the group of Klaus Müllen at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. He is conducting research on polyphenylene dendrimers and their applications for fluorescent blue light emitting diodes. Zhang’s poster reported G1 and G2 dendrimers having triphenylamine on the surface and pyrene in the core, which showed promising properties as blue OLED materials. Guang’s reaction to winning the NJC Poster Prize: “It is a great honor for me to receive the prize. It’s also a big surprise that I can have access to NJC for free for one year.”

“Surface Functionalized Polyphenylene Dendrimers for Deep Blue Light Emitting Diodes”
G. Zhang, M. Baumgarten, R. Trattnig, M. Auer, E. J. W. List, K. Müllen

The winner from Spain is Javier Sánchez, who currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, where he also carried out his Ph.D. research in the group of María Ángeles Muñoz Fernández. The focus of Javier’s research is anti-HIV activity, but always with an eye to the potential clinical applications. He explains: “I always try to elucidate the mechanisms by which the different dendrimers behave as they do on the HIV-1 cycle.” The research presented at the conference looked at the anti-HIV activity of different carbosilane dendrimers. After development of the dendrimers they were tested using toxicity assays, inflammatory cytokines induction, HIV infection and cell phenotyping by flow cytommetry. This has led to a dendrimer that as a microbicide has anti-HIV activity for different HIV viral strains.

“Anti-HIV Activity of Thiol-Ene Carbosilane Dendrimers and Potential Topical Microbicide”
J. Sánchez-Rodríguez, L. Díaz, M. Galán, M. Maly, R. Gómez, F. J. de la Mata, J. L. Jiménez, M. A. Muñoz- Fernández

The 3rd winner is from the group of Eric Simanek at Texas Christian University in the USA. Changsuk Lee is now a postdoctoral fellow, after having obtained his Ph.D. under the direction of Daniel Romo at Texas A&M University in 2010. Changsuk works towards the development of drug delivery vehicles by using various sizes and shapes of dendrimers; to date triazine dendrimers are the best delivery vehicles among others tested. The winning poster covered the synthesis of a prodrug platform with paclitaxel, its biodistribution, mice efficacy testing, and molecular dynamic simulations.

“Synthesis and Biological Assessment of a Triazine Dendrimer with 16 Paclitaxel Groups”
C. Lee, S.-T. Lo, J. Lim, V. C. P. da Costa, S. Ramezani, G. M. Pavan, O. Annuziata, X. Sun, E. E. Simanek

Congratulations to all 3 winners, who received a certificate, RSC book and a one-year NJC subscription.

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Your Vacation Reading from NJC

06 Aug 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Highlights of New Journal of Chemistry’s August issue include a Focus review by Jürg Hulliger.

The August issue of New Journal of Chemistry contains 50 articles for your summer reading enjoyment.

Bi-polar states of solid matter.

Among the highlights of this issue, don’t miss the latest Focus review, by the group of Jürg Hulliger at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Using condensed matter theory, the key message that molecular solids can end up in bi-polar states has implications for tissue formation, function and repair. This is an interesting example of how findings in one field might lead to breakthroughs in a very different field.

A stochastic principle behind polar properties of condensed molecular matter by Jürg Hulliger, Thomas Wüst, Khadidja Brahimi, Matthias Burgener and Hanane Aboulfadl, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2229-2235. DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ40935J

Cover for the work of Mikata et al.

The outside and inside front covers feature highly ranked works. This month the striking outside front cover was proposed by the group of Yuji Mikata from Nara Women’s University in Japan. They achieved OFF-ON, ratiometric or ON-OFF responses towards mercury and iron cations by modifying the substitution pattern on their basic molecular skeleton.

Thioether-tethered bisquinoline derivatives as fluorescent probes for mercury(II) and iron(III) ions by Yuji Mikata, Fumie Nakagaki and Kaori Nakanishi, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2236-2240. DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00233K

Cover for the work of Andruh and collaborators.

A collaborative effort by several groups in Romania and France is featured on the inside front cover. They determined the crystal structures and studied the magnetic and photophysical properties of sixteen 3d–4f Schiff-base complexes. The interaction between the two metal ions lead to interesting effects on the properties.

A new synthetic route towards binuclear 3d–4f complexes, using non-compartmental ligands derived from o-vanillin. Syntheses, crystal structures, magnetic and luminescent properties by Masood Sarwar, Augustin M. Madalan, Carmen Tiseanu, Ghenadie Novitchi, Catalin Maxim, Gabriela Marinescu, Dominique Luneau and Marius Andruh, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2280-2292. DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00199G

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Peer Review and Editorial Responsibility

New NJC Hot Articles

Meet our authors of the October issue of NJC

Profiles of the 18th ESOC Bursary Awardees

Meet Our Authors – September 2013 issue of NJC

Highlights of the 8th International Dendrimer Symposium

Visit September’s issue of NJC.

Meet Our Authors – August Issue 2013

Three young chemists honoured at the 8th International Dendrimer Symposium

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