Featured on the front cover of this issue is Separation of enantiomers on diastereomeric right- and left-handed helical poly(phenyl isocyanide)s bearing L-alanine pendants immobilized on silica gel by HPLC by Kazumi Tamura, Toshitaka Miyabe, Hiroki Iida and Eiji Yashima. In the paper diastereomeric left- and right-handed helical polyisocyanides were immobilized on silica gel via chemical bonding. They showed a complementary chiral recognition ability with the reversed elution order for some enantiomers when used as chiral stationary phases for HPLC.
The inside front cover features a communication on Thiol–isocyanate “click” reactions: rapid development of functional polymeric surfaces by Ryan M. Hensarling, Santosh B. Rahane, Arthur P. LeBlanc, Bradley J. Sparks, Evan M. White, Jason Locklin and Derek L. Patton. In the communication which was selected as a Hot Article they report that functional, micropatterned and multicomponent polymer brush surfaces can be rapidly fabricated via base-catalyzed thiol–isocyanate “click” reactions.
The back cover highlights the work of Manabu Tanaka, Masaki Koike, Kenji Miyatake and Masahiro Watanabe. Their paper which was also selected as a Hot Article is entitled Synthesis and properties of anion conductive ionomers containing fluorenyl groups for alkaline fuel cell applications.
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