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Meet the NJC team

14 Jan 2011

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

The NJC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2011. Find out where you can meet us!

Drs. Denise Parent (Managing Editor), Marie Cote (Deputy Editor), Yannick Guari and Laurent Vial (Assistant Editors)

Here is a selection of the conferences we will be attending:

Journées Chimie de Coordination – 3th-4th February, Angers (France) Meet Marie
PPS-27 – 10th-14th May, Marrakesh (Morocco) Meet Marie
7th International Dendrimer Symposium – 26th June – 1st July, Gaithersburg, MD (USA), Meet Denise
6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry – 3rd-7th July, Brighton (UK) Meet Laurent
19th EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry – 3rd-7th July, Toulouse (France) Meet Yannick
19th International Symposium on the Photophysics and Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds – 3rd-7th July, Strasbourg (France) Meet Marie
ISACS4: Challenges in Renewable Energy – 5th-8th July, Boston (USA) Meet Denise
4th European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences – 31st August – 3rd Sept., Budapest (Hungary), Meet Laurent

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings as it would be lovely to meet you there.

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NJC issue 1, 2011 now published

06 Jan 2011

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

For its January issue, NJC is pleased to showcase its very first Focus article, illustrated on the outside cover. In this inaugural NJC Focus, Robert H. Crabtree, from Yale University, CT, USA, highlights the non-innocent role of ligands in modifying reactivity at a metal centre in an article entitled ‘Multifunctional Ligands in Transition Metal Catalysis’.

Multifunctional Ligands in Transition Metal Catalysis, Robert H. Crabtree, New J. Chem., 2011, 35, 18-23, DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00776E, Focus

New Format

The NJC Focus format is a new and exciting review article type for NJC, in which leading authors in their field are invited to review a research topic of high current interest, focusing on the most important results that have been obtained. The Focus summarizes the key results and identifies where the breakthroughs occurred and their impact. It concludes with the challenges that are currently facing workers in the field and the future directions of research in this area.

NJC issue 1, 2011 inside cover was produced by Jonathan S. Lindsey and colleagues for their article entitled Abiotic formation of uroporphyrinogen and coproporphyrinogen from acyclic reactants. In this article, the authors have looked at the hypothetical pre-biotic synthesis of tetrapyrroles and designed an enzyme free synthesis of nature’s universal precursor to the ‘pigments of life’ (corrins, heme, chlorophylls). Read all about it here.

Abiotic formation of uroporphyrinogen and coproporphyrinogen from acyclic reactants, Jonathan S. Lindsey, Vanampally Chandrashaker, Masahiko Taniguchi and Marcin Ptaszek, New J. Chem., 2011, 35, 65-75, DOI: 10.139/C0NJ00716A, Paper

In Issue 1, also check out the 2011 Editorial, reflecting on this past year’s highlights and looking forward to a successful 2011.
View the issue online: NJC Issue 1, 2011 and read all about the exciting science in the 33 articles we have for you!

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New candidates for G-quadruplexes structures

17 Dec 2010

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

In this NJC Hot Article, Lajos Kovács and colleagues consider the aggregation of 3-methylxanthine via experimental and theoretical approaches and show the formation of quartet sytems, revealing that 3-substituted xanthines could be a previously undescribed quadruplex-forming base.

3-Substituted xanthines as promising candidates for quadruplex formation: computational, synthetic and analytical studies, János Szolomájer, Gábor Paragi, Gyula Batta, Célia Fonseca Guerra, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, Zoltán Kele, Petra Pádár, Zoltán Kupihár and Lajos Kovács, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00612B, Paper

Curious? Why not read all about it here. This NJC paper has been rated as ‘hot’ and is FREE to access to all for a period of four weeks, after a simple registration process at: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/account/register. Let us know your thoughts and comments below!

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NJC Perspectives

09 Dec 2010

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

Check out NJC’s two latest Perspectives now available as advance articles on the web:

Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo and colleagues (City University of Hong-Kong) review recent progress on luminescent iridium(III) polypyridine complexes as probes for chemical and biological molecules using different strategies. The targets include protons, cations and anions, small molecules, nucleic acids, protein molecules. Additionally, the use of these complexes as bioimaging reagents and cellular probes is also highlighted.

Development of luminescent iridium(III) polypyridine complexes as chemical and biological probes, Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo, Steve Po-Yam Li and Kenneth Yin Zhang, New J. Chem., 2011, Adance article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00478B, Perspective

Digestive ripening is addressed by Deepti S. Sidhaye and B. L. V. Prasad in their Perspective entitled: ‘Many manifestations of digestive ripening: monodispersity, superlattices and nanomachining‘, in which the authors provide insights into the digestive ripening method, where simply refluxing a surface active molecule—the digestive ripening agent—with a polydispersed nanoparticle system in an appropriate solvent leads to the formation of highly monodispersed nanoparticles, proving its utility in many new nanoparticle synthetic avenues.

Many manifestations of digestive ripening: monodispersity, superlattices and nanomachining, Deepti S. Sidhaye and B. L. V. Prasad, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00359J, Perspective

Interested? Then why not read these Perspectives today and let us know your thoughts and comments below.

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On the evolution of porphyrinoids biosynthesis

09 Dec 2010

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

In this hot article, Jonathan S. Lindsey and colleagues have looked at the hypothetical pre-biotic synthesis of tetrapyrroles and designed an enzyme free synthesis of nature’s universal precursor to the ‘pigments of life’ (corrins, heme, chlorophylls), in which the abiotic reaction under mild conditions of δ-aminolevulinic acid and the dione shown gives uroporphyrinogen.

Curious about porphyrinoids, prebiotic chemistry and the origins of life? Then why not read the article for free until 7th January 2011 and let us know your thoughts and comments below.

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Hot Article: Breathing ZIFs

09 Dec 2010

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

In this NJC Letter, Farrusseng and coworkers report on the guest-induced reversible gate-opening of a zeolite imidazolate framework (ZIF-7 and ZIF-8) and explore in detail the thermodynamics beyond these phenomena. This Letter was highly rated by the reviewers and selected as a Hot article by the editors, offering FREE access to the article for a period of 4 weeks.

Guest-induced gate-opening of a zeolite imidazolate framework, Sonia Aguado, Gérard Bergeret, Marc Pera Titus, Virginie Moizan, Carlos Nieto-Draghi, Nicolas Bats and David Farrusseng, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00836B, Letter

Interested to know more? Why not download and read the article today! It’s recently been published in NJC and will be freely available to all, until early January 2011

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NJC Issue 12 now published

05 Dec 2010

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

In the December issue, find out more on the latest science published in NJC, featuring an NJC Opinion on molecular set-reset memories by Uwe Pischel and Joakim Andréasson, 2 Perspectives highlighting calixarenes from different angles, and much more in the other 38 articles!

The outside front cover features the Perspective by Kaisa Helttunen (University of Jyväskylä) and Patrick Shahgaldian (University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland) who 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.

Self-assembly of amphiphilic calixarenes and resorcinarenes in water, Kaisa Helttunen and Patrick Shahgaldian, New J. Chem., 2010, 34, 2704-2714 DOI:10.1039/C0NJ00123F

The inside front cover presents work by Janet Blümel et al. on novel linkers for immobilized catalysts. The Rh catalysts immobilized by a rigid linker scaffold, characterized by ¹¹⁹Sn MAS and X-ray analysis, cannot dimerize or touch the silica surface. The batches are recycled 30 times! Deciphering the cover artwork, the substrate and product are in the “liquid phase”, while the catalyst is like a palm or mangrove tree on an island, and cannot dimerize or hang down into the sand. The hydrogen for the catalytic reaction rides in as a cloud, while the Cl of the Wilkinson-type complex features the coconut.

New Linker Systems for Superior Immobilized Catalysts, Björn Beele, Johannes Guenther, Melanie Perera, Michaela Stach, Thomas Oeser and Janet Blüme New J. Chem. 2010, 34, 2729-2731 DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00482K

We hope you enjoy this issue!

If you fancy submitting an article to New Journal of Chemistry, then why not submit to us today or alternatively email us your suggestions.

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NJC Hot Articles: our latest selection

29 Nov 2010

By Marie Cote, Deputy Editor.

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

Design of a Dual Sensing Highly Selective Cyanide Chemodosimeter Based on Pyridinium ring Chemistry Sabir H. Mashraqui, Rupesh Betkar, Mukesh Chandiramani, Carolina Estarellas and Antonio Frontera, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00715C, Letter

Facile synthesis of an ultramicroporous MOF tubular membrane with selectivity towards CO2 Sonia Aguado, Charles-Henri Nicolas, Virginie Moizan-Baslé, Carlos Nieto, Hedi Amrouche, Nicolas Bats, Nathalie Audebrand and David Farrusseng, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00667J , Letter

Synthesis of Mesoporous Metal Complex-Silica Materials and their Use as Solvent-free Catalysts Noemi Linares, Angel E. Sepúlveda, María C. Pacheco, Jesús R. Berenguer, Elena Lalinde, Carmen Nájera and Javier Garcia-Martinez, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00509F , Paper

Inhibition of Peroxidase-Catalyzed Iodination by Thioamides. Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Antithyroid Activity of thioamides Ghada J. Corban, Sotiris K. Hadjikakou, Athanasios C. Tsipis, Maciej Kubicki, T. Bakas and Nick Hadjiliadis, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00626B , Paper

Gelation and Topochemical Polymerization of Peptide Dendrimers V. Haridas, Yogesh K. Sharma, Rhiannon Creasey, Srikanta Sahu, Christopher T. Gibson and Nicolas H. Voelcker, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00544D , Paper

Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) as Templates for the Growth of TiO2: The Effect of Silicon in Coverage and the Positive and Negative Synergies for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Congo Red Dye Huma R. Jafry, Michael V. Liga, Qilin Li and Andrew R. Barron, New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00604A , Paper

Fancy submitting an article to New Journal of Chemistry? Then why not submit to us today or alternatively email us your suggestions.

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