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Summer continues with 6 NJC partner conferences!

06 Aug 2012

New Journal of Chemistry is sponsoring several conferences to be held in Europe during August and September 2012.

Following a busy July, NJC will continue to be visible on the conference scene this month and next. Below are the 6 meetings that NJC is sponsoring.

	Next week Assistant Editor Laurent Vial will represent NJC at the XXVth European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry (ECHC25) chaired by Prof. Laurence M Harwood. The conference takes place on the beautiful campus of Reading University (UK) from August 13–17.
	The Groupe d’Etudes de Chimie Organique (GECO) will meet for the 53rd time in Sévrier on the banks of Annecy Lake in France the last week of August (26th to 31st). Twelve renowned organic chemists from around the world have been invited to animate this in-residence week of seminars.
	In September Managing Editor Denise Parent will be in Spain for two back-to-back conferences. First up, the 3rd International Symposium on Biological Application of Dendrimers organized by Dr. Mª Angeles Muñoz-Fernández. The Biodendrimer symposium will be held in Toledo (Spain) September 5–7 and two NJC Poster Prizes will be awarded at the end of the meeting.
	Then Denise will be off to Valencia (Spain) for the 40th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC40) co-organized by Eugenio Coronado and Santiago Alvarez. Coordination chemists from around the world will take over the Conference Center from September 9–13. NJC is sponsoring the Metals in Medicine (D1) microsymposium taking place on Monday the 10th. The June 2011 themed issue on molecular materials will be available for delegates to take home. You can browse the contents list here.
	At the same time, Laurent will be attending the 6th International Symposium “Supramolecular Systems in Chemistry and Biology”, taking place in Strasbourg September 5–8. This series of biennial symposia involves research groups from France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. Two NJC Poster Prizes will be awarded at the end of the meeting.
	The month will end with the 2nd edition of the Journées André Collet de la Chiralité (JACC). This conference, covering all aspects of chirality, will take place at the Manoir de la Vicomté in Dinard, on the Brittany beach in France, from September 30th to October 4th. NJC is sponsoring a Poster Prize at this conference as well.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you will be attending one of these conferences. We’d be delighted to meet you!

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How good are the crystallisation methods for co-crystals?

23 Jul 2012

By Eva Balentova, deputy editor.

In this NJC Hot paper, Fucke et al. attempt to answer a very important question relating to co-crystal formation and screening. Piroxicam, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, was chosen as a model system and subjected to extensive co-crystal screening using twenty different acids as co-crystal formers, six crystallisation techniques and five solvents. The work explores in comprehensive detail the use of different techniques for obtaining co-crystals and compares their efficacy. The authors offer several thoughts on how their results might usefully be applied to improve co-crystal screens.

How good are the crystallisation methods for co-crystals? A comparative study of piroxicam by Katharina Fucke, Svetlana A. Myz, Tatyana P. Shakhtshneider, Elena V. Boldyreva and Ulrich J. Griesser; New J. Chem., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40093F, Paper

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Read the August issue of NJC

23 Jul 2012

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Find out what is in the latest issue of New Journal of Chemistry. By Ling Peng, Assistant Editor

Welcome to the August 2012 NJC issue!

The outside front cover was created by Dr Frederic Goettmann and co-workers on organic reactivity of alcohols in superheated aqueous salt solutions.

“Organic reactivity of alcohols in superheated aqueous salt solutions: An overview”

by Dr Frederic Goettmann et al.

On the inside front cover, Anna Dolega and colleagues illustrate their research on imidazolium silanethiolates relevant to the active site of cysteine proteases with cooperative effect in a chain of NH⁺—S^– hydrogen bonds.

“Imidazolium silanethiolates relevant to the active site of cysteine proteases. Cooperative effect in a chain of NH⁺—S^– hydrogen bonds”

by Dr Anna Dolega et al.

You can access and read the whole issue 8 of NJC here. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

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Meet Our Authors — July 2012

12 Jul 2012

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Interviews conducted by NJC Assistant Editor Dr. Ling Peng.

Here is a selection of young author profiles from the 2012 July issue of NJC. We thank them most warmly for accepting our invitation and having kindly taken their time to answer a few questions for us.

Our first author is Dr K. Swaminathan Iyer, who is currently an ARC Australian Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the University of Western Australia. He is interested in nanobiotechnology and his contribution to this issue reports a method to develop a nanoscale drug-delivery agent using a block copolymer, with insight into how the drug-delivery vehicle can be monitored via two different imaging techniques, namely MRI and fluorescence imaging. “The most exciting moment in my research is to see a concept germinating into an experimentally verified reality” says Swaminathan. When asked for what the coolest thing about science is, he answered “A never ending opportunity to learn.” After work, cooking is a favoured leisure activity for Swaminathan.

“Multimodal and Multifunctional Stealth Block Copolymer Nanospheres for Sustained Drug Delivery” Cameron W. Evans, Melissa J. Latter, Diwei Ho, Saquib Ahmed M. A. Peerzade, Tristan D. Clemons, Melinda Fitzgerald, Sarah A. Dunlop and K. Swaminathan Iyer, New J. Chem, 2012 , 36, 1457–1462. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40016B.

Dr Lin Xu is a young lecturer in the Chemistry Department at East China Normal University. His research focuses on the field of fluorescent probes and sensors as well as small molecular inhibitors. As a first co-author, he contributed a paper in this issue on a new rhodamine-based fluorescent probe for Hg²⁺. The relevant ensemble can serve as a fluorescent probe for iodide and bromide by metal ion removal and anion ligand exchange, presenting a novel fluorescence sensing mechanism. “Teaching is a holy career. My passion motivates myself to be a good supervisor and a qualified researcher”. Besides teaching and research, he enjoys playing Ping-Pong, a national sport in China. For Dr. Xu, the coolest thing about science is that there is no end to science.

“Fluorescence sensing of iodide and bromide in aqueous solution: anion ligand exchanging and metal ion removing” L. Xu, Y. Xu, W. Zhu, Z. Xu, M. Chen and X. Qian, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1435–1438. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40102A.

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We invite you to visit the July issue of NJC

27 Jun 2012

By Yannick Guari, Assistant Editor.

The outside front cover was produced by Julie P. Harmon and co-workers on novel poly(methyl methacrylate) composites of copper-4,4′-trimethylenedipyridine.

Poly(methyl methacrylate) composites of copper-4,4′-trimethylenedipyridine by Shisi Liu, Ramakanth Ananthoji, Sungyub Han, Bernard Knudsen, Xiao Li, Lukasz Wojtas, Justin Massing, Carmen Valdez Gauthier and Julie P. Harmon New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1449-1456
DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ20745A

On the inside front cover, Swaminathan Iyer and colleagues illustrate their research on multimodal stealth PMMA nanospheres for sustained and pH-dependent drug delivery.

Multimodal and multifunctional stealth polymer nanospheres for sustained drug delivery by Cameron W. Evans, Melissa J. Latter, Diwei Ho, Saquib Ahmed M. A. Peerzade, Tristan D. Clemons, Melinda Fitzgerald, Sarah A. Dunlop and K. Swaminathan Iyer New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1457-1462 DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40016B

Take your pick amongst the 4 Letters and 11 full papers that composed this issue of July here.

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Busy conference season for NJC Editors begins

26 Jun 2012

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

New Journal of Chemistry editors will be in attendance at several conferences in July and August 2012

The summer conference season is about to get into full swing, with NJC editors attending 4 conferences this July. (Next month I’ll write about the conferences coming up later in the summer.)

	Assistant Editor Yannick Guari will represent NJC at the Vth International Conference on Molecular Materials (MolMat), chaired by Dr Guillem Aromí in Barcelona, Spain from July 3–6. NJC will have a stand, where delegates can pick up copies of the June 2011 themed issue on molecular materials. You can browse the contents list here.
	Yannick will then be going on to Toulouse, France for the 18th International Symposium of Homogeneous Catalysis, which will take place July 9–13 with chairs Professors Rinaldo Poli and Philippe Kalck. Contact Yannick if you wish to meet him there, as he’ll only be there for a day or so.
	As for Assistant Editor Laurent Vial, he’ll be attending the 19th International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, being organized by Prof. Koop Lammertsma in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from July 8–12.
	Managing Editor Denise Parent will be in Coimbra, Portugal for the XXIV IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry from July 15-20, which is organized under the direction of Professor Hugh Burrows.

NJC is a sponsor of the first three conferences in the list; please don’t hesitate to contact any of us if you will be attending any these conferences. We’d be delighted to meet you!

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Using imidazolium silanthiolates to simulate the interactions in the active site of cysteine proteases

18 Jun 2012

By Yannick Guari, Assistant Editor.

In this NJC paper, Anna Dolega and co-workers (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) have prepared three imidazolium silanethiolates relevant to the active site of cysteine protease.

By using solid state characterization techniques and modeling, the authors were able to present the first example of proton transfer along the chain of NH^+…S^– hydrogen bonds. A cooperative effect in the chain consisting of silanethiolate and imidazole residues linked by NH^+…S^– hydrogen bond was proposed to be due to the polarization of electron density connected with the increase in the Mulliken partial charge on the sulfur atom.

Imidazolium silanethiolates relevant to the active site of cysteine proteases. A cooperative effect in a chain of NH⁺ S⁻ hydrogen bonds Katarzyna Baranowska, Natalia Piwowarska, Aleksander Herman and Anna Dołęga New J. Chem., 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40114B

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“Naked-eye” detection of chirality

07 Jun 2012

By Laurent Vial, Assistant Editor.

Chiral analysis continues to receive considerable attention since enantiomers often differ in their pharmacological activity and pharmacokinetic profile.

In this NJC letter, Haibing Li and co-workers from Central China Normal University at Wuhan (P.R. China) report a colorimetric sensor that displays a selective and strong response to L-histidine resulting from the agglomeration of silver nanoparticles. The authors believe that the self-assembly of nanoparticles into clusters is an effective approach to improve the sensitivity of chiral detection.

“Chiral colorimetric recognition of amino acids based on silver nanoparticle clusters” Yao Sun, Liang Zhang and Haibing Li, New J. Chem., 2012, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40098G.

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Meet Our Authors – June Issue 2012

07 Jun 2012

By Laurent Vial, Assistant Editor.

This month again, we are very happy to showcase a selection of our authors from the June issue of NJC. Scroll down to meet excellent and experienced scientists who have donated their time to answer a few questions for us.

Our first author is Matthias Tamm, who is Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. His current research interests are focused on Organometallic Chemistry, in particular homogeneous catalysis, alkyne metathesis, frustrated Lewis pairs and cycloheptatrienyl complexes. In a joint contribution to NJC, his group and the group of Prof. Yaofeng Chen (Shanghai) have brought together two comparatively uncommon aromatic p-systems, the formally (!) cationic tropylium ion and the boratabenzene anion, in 16-electron zirconium sandwich complexes. Addition of nucleophiles such as phosphines could have expected to occur either at the boron or at the zirconium atom, with the latter being exclusively observed.

“NJC is a high quality multidisciplinary journal, which continuously publishes excellent organometallic works from everywhere in the world.”, commented Prof. Tamm on choosing the NJC journal to publish this work.

Besides his research activity, Matthias enjoys playing with the kids (photo shows Friedrich, Ferdinand and Mathilde with little Edgar missing), and hiking. When asked: “If you could not be a scientist but could be anything else what would you be?”, Matthias facetiously answered: “Rich?”.

“Boratatrozircenes: cycloheptatrienyl zirconium boratabenzene sandwich complexes – evaluation of potential η6–η5 hapticity interconversions” Andreas Glöckner, Peng Cui, Yaofeng Chen, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Peter G. Jones and Matthias Tamm, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1392-1398. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40059F.

Our next author is Giancarlo Cravotto from the University of Torino (Italy), who is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the Department of Drug Science and Technology. Prof. Cravatto’s research activity is documented by more than 200 scientific peer-reviewed papers, several book chapters and patents. His main research interests are the synthesis of fine chemicals, cyclodextrin derivatives and bioactive compounds. These studies have paved the road to innovative synthetic procedures and the preparation of new catalysts and ionic liquids, exploiting non conventional techniques such as high-intensity ultrasound, microwaves, flow chemistry and ball milling. Prof. Cravotto is Editor of two international journals: Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Elsevier) and Green Processing and Synthesis (De Gruyter).

When asked why did he decide to submit this work to NJC, Giancarlo answered: “NJC covers new fields of research and innovative technologies in a wide scenario of chemical activities. Our paper is an eloquent example of innovative synthetic procedure under non-conventional technique (mechanochemistry).”

“Suzuki cross-couplings of (hetero)aryl chlorides in the solid-state” Giancarlo Cravotto, Davide Garella, Silvia Tagliapietra, Achim Stolle, Stefan Schüßler, Silke E. S. Leonhardt and Bernd Ondruschka, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1304-1307. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40064B.

Chaojing Lu is Professor of Physics and Materials Science at the faculty of the College of Physics Science of Qingdao University in Qingdao, Shandong province (P. R. China). His current research interests are focused on ferroelectric materials of perovskite structure, including the orientation growth of ferroelectric thin films on metal electrodes, in-situ TEM study of ferroelectric domains, and ferroelectric/multiferroic nanomaterials for applications in both photocatalysis and photoelectric conversion. In this NJC Letter, Chaojing and co-workers report the synthesis of Bi₂Fe₄O₉ nanocrystals via a simple chemical co-precipitation method. The nanocrystals display a high photo-to-current conversion efficiency under visible irradiation, which is promising for applications in photoelectrode and solar energy conversion.

The interdisciplinary nature of the work, involving chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, and energy sciences made NJC a logical choice in the authors’ eyes. In addition, they appreciate that “the NJC review and publication processes are pretty fast.”

Outside of the lab, Chaojing’s favorite activity is friendship dancing and mountain climbing. He often climbs both Fushan and Laoshan mountains in Qingdao and enjoys the beautiful scenes of the two mountains very much. He is also easily inebriated in gentler dancing steps and classical dancing music. If he could not be a scientist, Chaojing would be a chef or a surgeon.

“Photo-to-current response of Bi2Fe4O9 nanocrystals synthesized through a chemical co-precipitation process” Yongping Li, Yongcheng Zhang, Wanneng Ye, Jianqiang Yu, Chaojing Lu and Linhua Xia, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1297-1300. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40039A.

Our last chemist for this month is Markus Albrecht, who is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Prof. Albrecht’s research activity lies in the broad field of Supramolecular Chemistry. In collaboration with the group of Prof. Rissanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), this NJC article describes a systematic approach to position anions by directing effects above an electron deficient pi-system.

About NJC, Prof. Albrecht commented that: “NJC gives the opportunity to publish papers which are of interest to chemists in different research areas. In our case we published a physical organic study which is highly relevant to people working in the field of supramolecular chemistry or crystal engineering.”

Playing with his two boys or listening to music are Markus’ favorite activities outside the lab. When asked for an alternative career path, Markus unequivocally answered: “A scientist working somewhere else.”

“Controlling the position of anions relative to a pentafluorophenyl group” Michael Giese, Markus Albrecht, Katharina Wiemer, Arto Valkonen and Kari Rissanen, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1368-1372. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40089H.

Check back next month for more profiles of NJC authors!

Fancy submitting an article to NJC? Then why not submit to us today or alternatively email us your suggestions.

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