_tcm18-11409.gif )
New Journal of Chemistry.... the home of new and emerging multidisciplinary work in the chemical sciences.
Hot Articles
Hot Article: A twist to Ostwald's law
11 September 2008
Davey and co-workers from the University of Manchester bring to light a controlled crystallization process in which the stable polymorph of a molecular salt is directly formed from...
Hot Article: Ravels are not knots
11 September 2008
An Australian group has analysed net topology to show that in addition to knots, a novel mode of edge entanglement that they call ravels are possible. These results could give idea...
Hot Article: Switching solvents to switch fluorescence
11 September 2008
A modified cyclodextrin platform shows dual fluorescence that depends on its environment. Jean-Claude Chambron of Dijon University talks about this unusual system and what it can t...
Hot Article: How to make the wolf and lamb co-exist in harmony
22 August 2008
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles were functionalized with two incompatible groups (wolf-and-lamb) to catalyze two different reactions in a one-pot reaction cascade. Victor Lin of Io...
Hot Article: Stereoelectronic effects in controlling solid supramolecular assemblies
23 July 2008
Ronald Castellano talks to NJC about his work exploring the role of stereoelectronic interactions in determining the supramolecular assembled structure of simple piperidones.
Hot Article: Bigger is better!
11 June 2008
Richard Compton talks to NJC about new insights in the size-dependent properties of nanomaterials.
Hot article: 1H NMR to determine the HBA ability of anions in RTILs
16 May 2008
A hydrogen bond accepting ability scale for anions of room temperature ionic liquids has been determined by means of 1H NMR spectroscopy and a solvatochromic UV/vis probe.
Hot article: Acceptorless and reversible dehydrogenation goes solid
16 May 2008
Hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of a cyclic alkane can now be achieved in the solid state, without any need for a hydrogen acceptor.
Hot article: Breaking news, ethanol detected in Bordeaux
03 April 2008
French scientists in Bordeaux present a new type of indiator-displacement-assay based on perfluorocarbon for the detection of ethanol in water.
Hot Article: New perspectives for magnetic resonance imaging
03 April 2008
French Scientists have discovered an iron(II)-based molecular system whose properties offer novel opportunities for the development of more efficient and versatile MRI contrasting ...
Hot Article: Self-assembly of chromophoric aggregates: a photophysical investigation.
03 April 2008
Fluorescence and circular dichroism were used to highlight the role of solvent and of gelator structure in the self-assembly and chirality of fibrillar networks.
Hot Article: Probing silicone-protein interactions
03 April 2008
Phage display technology was used to present a combinatorial library of peptides to a series of model silicone surfaces based on solid molecular cage silsesquioxanes.
Hot article: Would hydrogen go for naked fluorides?
05 February 2008
Chemists in the UK undress fluorides in a virtual porous polymer to investigate hydrogen physisorption.
Hot Article: C60-C60 interactions stabilise self-assemblies
01 February 2008
Chemists in France demonstrate how pi-pi interactions stabilise fullerene-containing non-covalent assemblies with porphyrins.
Hot Article: Size controlled nanoparticles
19 November 2007
The use of mesostructured hybrid silica hosts allowed the synthesis of size-controlled CN-bridged coordination polymer nanoparticles with anomalous magnetic properties.
Hot Article: Mechanical Instability of Gold Nanoparticles during Mercury Amalgamation
08 October 2007
Richard Compton speaks to NJC about his recent investigations into the mechanical instabilty of gold.
Hot Article: Boron carbide revisited
01 June 2007
Roald Hoffmann tells us why boron carbide is non-stoichiometric and on the new method he and his colleagues are developing to study such solids.
Hot Article: Protecting dye from singlet oxygen attack
17 May 2007
Encapsulating a chromophore in a macrocycle protects it from attack by the singlet oxygen it produces for PDT, researchers in the UK have found.
Hot Article: Taking anions and cations for a ride
10 May 2007
The tuned design of two heteroditopic calixarene-based receptors by an Oxford University group results in high selectivity in the binding of ion pairs.
Hot Article: A unique anion for a rare 2D nucleobase structure
02 April 2007
The flat formate anion forces the model base 9-ethylguanine to form extended 2D hydrogen-bonded sheets, researchers at Leiden University have found.
RSS feed