NJC Blog

Dear NJC Authors,

Today many editors and reviewers evaluate manuscripts “on-screen” (whether this be a computer, a tablet or even a smartphone). It is quite difficult to read manuscripts in which the tables and figures are collected at the end, because the reader then has to scroll back-and-forth between two or even three different pages while reading the text. To facilitate the work of the reviewers as well as the editors, the New Journal of Chemistry Editorial Board has recently adopted a new requirement for submissions to NJC.

This new requirement is described below, along with some additional important information that we ask you to read.

The editors and reviewers thank you for your attention to this new submission requirement. If you have any questions please contact the Montpellier editorial office and we will be happy to help you.

New Submission Requirement
All submissions to NJC must include a file of the “integrated manuscript”: this is a file with all of the tables and artwork integrated into the text at the point close to where the table/figure/scheme, etc., is first mentioned.
– Tables should be complete with the table number and title above the table and footnotes below. Please place the table in the text at a point where the entire table can fit on a single page (unless the table is longer than a single page).
– Figures/schemes/charts should have the number and caption below the artwork. Avoid splitting the graphic over two pages (when possible) by placing it appropriately in the text.

Please see the figure below showing proper presentation of a table and a figure within the text.

Submissions to NJC that do not include this “integrated manuscript” file will be un-submitted, and the author will be requested to upload the “integrated manuscript” file to complete the submission.

Figure showing pages of an "integrated manuscript" with table and figure incorporated in the text

Please note that this new policy does not require authors to use the journal template for NJC article types that do not have a limit on their length (regular Papers and Perspective reviews). However, the latest journal template should be used for Letters and Focus reviews, which are limited to 4 and 6 pages, respectively. Please read more about article types below.

Recommendations
To avoid the shifting of inserted graphics/tables during the generation of the pdf file that is read by the editors and reviewers, we suggest to the author to upload a pdf version of their “integrated manuscript” in addition to the native file. The “file designation” to choose when uploading the “integrated manuscript” file(s) is “article”.

When submitting your manuscript, please be sure to select the appropriate “article type” (see the chart below) from the list given during the online manuscript submission process. (A fifth format is also published—Comments—which are meant for scientific comments on a paper previously published in NJC.)

Chart showing the 4 NJC types of original research and review articles and their characteristics

The October outside cover, designed by Marcus Herlitschke (Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Germany) et al., presents their paper in which the first experimental results concerning unusual magnetic properties of FeNCN are reported.

This study reveals the unconventional behaviour of the magnetic parameters below the Néel temperature of 350 K. The comparison of the obtained data with literature data of iron monoxide reveals very similar iron phonon modes with a small softening and a slightly reduced sound velocity. The authors showed that iron monoxide and iron carbodiimide exhibit a similar local iron environment with a mean nearest neighbour distance of about 2.2 Å in an octahedral coordination by oxygen or nitrogen, respectively.

The authors also presented measurements of FeNCN, featuring similarities and differences to the related iron monoxide. In summary, the iron carbodiimide is a particularly attractive target for magnetic investigations using Mössbauer spectroscopy and magnetometry.

Magnetism and lattice dynamics of FeNCN compared to FeO
M. Herlitschke, A. L. Tchougréeff, A. V. Soudackov, B. Klobes, L. Stork, R. Dronskowski and R. P. Hermann.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4670-4677. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00097H.

The inside cover illustrates a paper written by Karl Wallace (University of Southern Mississippi, USA) and his colleagues who are interested in the design of new molecular probes.

The authors have synthesized two coumarin-enamine chemodosimeters which can selectively detect the cyanide ion and investigated the spectroscopic properties in various organic solvents.

An activated coumarin-enamine Michael acceptor for CN−
Aaron B. Davis, Rachel E. Lambert, Frank R. Fronczek, Peter J. Cragg and Karl J. Wallace.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4678-4683. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00862F.

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This month’s outside cover illustrates an article by Prof. Richard Keene (James Cook University, Australia) and co-workers in which they report important observations in the development of multinuclear ruthenium complexes as a new class of anticancer agents.

There has been little success in developing drugs that are active in cancer cell lines resistant to cisplatin. Consequently, there was a need in developing “non-classical” platinum complexes – complexes that can bind DNA differently than cisplatin and its analogues. Thus, multinuclear platinum complexes, where two or more platinum coordination units are linked by a variety of organic ligand bridges, represent a genuinely new class of anticancer drug.

This study shows that it should be possible to optimize cellular uptake and the kinetics of DNA binding, and thereby produce dinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes with significant clinical potential.

Multinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes as anticancer agents
Anil K. Gorle, Alaina J. Ammit, Lynne Wallace, F. Richard Keene and J. Grant Collins.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4049-4059. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00545G.
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Also discover the four Letters comprising this issue:

• Ruthenium supported on MIL-101 as an efficient catalyst for hydrogen generation from hydrolysis of amine boranes

Nan Cao, Teng Liu, Jun Su, Xiaojun Wu, Wei Luo and Gongzhen Cheng.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4032-4035. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00739E.

• Graphene-wrapped single-crystalline Fe3O4 nanorods with superior lithium-storage capabilities

Jinwei Yin, Huimin Shi, Ping Wu, Qingyun Zhu, Hui Wang, Yawen Tang, Yiming Zhou and Tianhong Lu.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4036-4040. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00767K.

• A surfactant-free co-assembly route to fabricate 2D TiO2–WO3 composite inverse opal films for photochromic applications

Hongyu Zhen and Kan Li.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4041-4044. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00768A.

• Facilely constructing 3D porous NiCo2S4 nanonetworks for high-performance supercapacitors

Yang Liu, Jianan Zhang, Shoupei Wang, Kaixi Wang, Zhimin Chen and Qun Xu.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 4045-4048. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00816B.

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This month’s issue begins with a Focus article by Dr Fuwei Li (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and co-workers in which the authors review reactions that introduce carbonyl groups into unactivated heterocycles. They highlight that various heterocycles could be utilized as simple starting materials to generate carbonyl group containing target molecules.

Carbonylative diversification of unactivated heteroaromatic compounds
Rui Lang, Chungu Xia and Fuwei Li.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2732-2738. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00099D.

This month’s front cover illustrates the Letter by Dr Soumen Basak (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India) and co-workers who report an elegant, facile and green protocol for designing dendrimer-like assemblies of multicolor fluorophore-labeled peptides grafted on gold nanoparticles.

According to the authors, multicolour fluorescent labeling of both intra- and extracellular structures is a powerful technique for simultaneous monitoring of multiple complex biochemical processes. These multi-functional nanoparticles have shown great promise as new probes for biomedical imaging and carriers in drug delivery.

A multicolor fluorescent peptide–nanoparticle scaffold: real time uptake and distribution in neuronal cells
Kallol Bera, Shounak Baksi, Moupriya Nag, Subhas Chandra Bera, Debashis Mukhopadhyay and Soumen Basak.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2739-2743. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00265B.

The inside cover was designed by Dr Leigh Loots (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).

Dr Loots and her colleagues demonstrated that the synthesis of novel pyridinium zwitterionic compounds show a great potential as a new class of supramolecular building blocks for the formation of ionic as well as metal-organic frameworks.

Synthesis and solid-state supramolecular chemistry of a series of pyridinium-derived zwitterions
Leigh Loots, Delia A. Haynes and Tanya le Roex.
New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2778-2786. DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00281D.

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