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Contents list for New Journal of Chemistry, issue 11, 2009
Front cover
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2185
DOI: 10.1039/b920933f
Contents and Highlights in Chemical Science
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2187
DOI: 10.1039/b920934b
Letters
Oxidative transformation of thiol groups to disulfide bonds in mesoporous silicas: a diagnostic reaction for probing distribution of organic functional groups
Hsien-Ming Kao, Po-Jui Chiu, Guang-Liang Jheng, Chia-Chun Kao, Chung-Ta Tsai, Shueh-Lin Yau, Hui-Hsu Gavin Tsai and Yi-Kang Chou,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2199
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00389d
A novel reaction route for the oxidative transformation of thiol groups into disulfide bonds, which can serve as a diagnostic reaction for probing the distribution of thiol groups, in mesoporous silica materials with the aid of Cu2+ adsorption is reported for the first time.
Towards molecular batteries: coverage of small aminosilica nanoparticles with ferrocenyl and pentamethylferrocenyl groups and their redox properties
Tetsuro Kusamoto, Jaime Ruiz and Didier Astruc,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2204
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00481e
High coverage of small (12 nm core) aminosilica nanoparticles with ferrocenoyl (300 ± 50) and pentamethylferrocenoyl (250 ± 40) groups yields redox-robust devices with fast heterogeneous electron-transfer during cyclic voltammetry with a diffusion-controlled current.
Papers
Tetrazolyl and tetrazolylidene complexes of gold: a synthetic and structural study
William F. Gabrielli, Stefan D. Nogai, Jean M. McKenzie, Stephanie Cronje and Helgard G. Raubenheimer,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2208
DOI: 10.1039/b907022b
Tetrazolyl complexes of gold form by transmetallation of lithiated tetrazoles or by isocyanide addition to a gold azide. Subsequent alkylation produces carbene complexes. Homoleptic rearrangement and other complications arise.
Privileged structures: synthesis and structural investigations on tricyclic sulfonamides
Maria Altamura, Valentina Fedi, Danilo Giannotti, Paola Paoli and Patrizia Rossi,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2219
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00279k
Customized synthetic procedures for the obtainment of highly functionalizable free sulfonamide tricyclic structures having NH, O, S and SO2 (Z group) in the central seven-membered ring are presented. A correlation between the conformational differences found in the solid-state and gas-phase with the nature of the Z grouping is also suggested.
Photo-switch and INHIBIT logic gate based on two pyrazolone thiosemicarbazone derivatives
Xiangyun Xie, Lang Liu, Dianzeng Jia, Jixi Guo, Dongling Wu and Xiaolin Xie,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2232
DOI: 10.1039/b908326j
An INHIBIT logic gate with OH-, Zn2+ and H+ as binary inputs and an absorption band at 355 nm as the output signal, has been respectively achieved in two novel photochromic compounds containing pyrazolone rings.
Isostructural cage complexes of copper with cadmium or zinc for single source deposition of composite materials
Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Mazhar, Mazhar Hamid, Matthias Zeller, Paul O
Brien, Mohammad A. Malik, James Raftery and Allen D. Hunter,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2241
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00217k
Two heterobimetallic complexes were synthesized and decomposed to thin films of composite material.
Synthesis, in situ spectroelectrochemistry and in situ electrocolorimetry of electrochromic octakis(chloroethylsulfanyl) phthalocyaninatomanganese(III) chloride
Barbaros Akkurt, At
f Koca and Esin Hamuryudan,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2248
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00248k
We report the synthesis, characterization and electrochromic properties of octakis(chloroethylsulfanyl)-substituted manganese(iii) phthalocyanine chloride by electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical and electrocolorimetric techniques.
Preparation of 
-Al2O3 film by high temperature transformation of nanosized -AlOOH precursors
Yannick Mathieu, Loïc Vidal, Valentin Valtchev and Bénédicte Lebeau,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2255
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00351g
A stable colloidal suspension of long ribbon-like boehmite fibers has been slowly evaporated to produce mesoporous boehmite (-AlOOH) and gamma-alumina (-Al2O3) self-supported films.
Photoinduced electron transfer of nanohybrids of carbon nanohorns with amino groups and tetrabenzoic acid porphyrin in aqueous media
Atula S. D. Sandanayaka, Osamu Ito, Takatsugu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Isobe, Eiichi Nakamura, Masako Yudasaka and Sumio Iijima,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2261
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00338j
Photoinduced electron transfer and accumulation of MV
+ observed by the light irradiation of H2P(CO2H)4 nanohybrids with CNH–NH2 in the presence of a sacrificial hole shifter.
Synthesis and reactivity of 1-aryl-9H-thieno[3,4-b]chromon-9-ones
Mikhail M. Krayushkin, Konstantin S. Levchenko, Vladimir N. Yarovenko, Ludmila V. Christoforova, Valery A. Barachevsky, Yury A. Puankov, Tatyana M. Valova, Olga I. Kobeleva and K. Lyssenko,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2267
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00237e
Methods were developed for the synthesis of 1-aryl-9H-thieno[3,4-b]chromon-9-ones (and its modifications) based on the reaction of bromo and dibromo derivatives of 2-methyl-4H-chromon-4-one with thioacetamide in DMF.
Photocatalytic removal of pentachlorophenol by means of an enzyme-like molecular imprinted photocatalyst and inhibition of the generation of highly toxic intermediates
Xiantao Shen, Lihua Zhu, Guoxia Liu, Heqing Tang, Shushen Liu and Weiying Li,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2278
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00255c
An enzyme-like molecular imprinted photocatalyst has been synthesized by using 2,4-dinitrophenol as a substrate analogue of the target pollutant pentachlorophenol. This photocatalyst shows excellent ability in the adsorption, dechlorination and degradation of PCP.
Potentiometric, 1H NMR and ESI-MS investigation on dimethyltin(IV) cation–mercaptocarboxylate interaction in aqueous solution
Paola Cardiano, Ottavia Giuffrè, Anna Napoli and Silvio Sammartano,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2286
DOI: 10.1039/b908114c
The interaction between the dimethyltin(IV) cation with three different mercaptocarboxylic acids (thiolactic, 3-mercaptopropanoic and thiomalic acids) was studied in aqueous solution by potentiometry, 1H NMR spectroscopy and electrospray (ESI) mass spectrometry.
Cyanide-bridged 1D Mn(III)–Fe(III) bimetallic complexes: synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic properties
Hui-Zhong Kou, Zhong-Hai Ni, Cai-Ming Liu, De-Qing Zhang and Ai-Li Cui,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2296
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00316a
The reaction of K[Fe(bpRb)(CN)2] with [Mn(5-X-salen)]ClO4 gives rise to cyanide-bridged neutral one-dimensional complexes. One complex shows slow relaxation of magnetization below 5 K.
The complex-formation behaviour of His residues in the fifth Cu2+ binding site of human prion protein: a close look
Maurizio Remelli, Daniela Valensin, Dimitri Bacco, Ewa Gralka, Remo Guerrini, Caterina Migliorini and Henryk Kozlowski,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2300
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00202b
The behaviour of His-96 and His-111 residues of hPrP as Cu2+ binding sites was deeply investigated by using peptidic analogues containing N
-methyl-His. This substitution allowed to clearly distinguish the two sites in NMR experiments.
Solvatochromism of novel donor–
–acceptor type pyridinium dyes in halogenated and non-halogenated solvents
Yousuke Ooyama, Risa Asada, Shogo Inoue, Kenji Komaguchi, Ichiro Imae and Yutaka Harima,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2311
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00332k
Novel donor––acceptor type pyridinium dyes have shown a bathochromic shift of their absorption band with decreasing dielectric constant (
r) of the solvent, and the bathochromic shifts in halogenated solvents were larger than those in non-halogenated solvents of low r values.
Lewis acid effects on donor–acceptor associations and redox reactions: ternary complexes of heteroaromatic N-oxides with boron trifluoride and organic donors
Yakov P. Nizhnik, Jianjiang Lu, Sergiy V. Rosokha and Jay K. Kochi,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2317
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00205g
Coordination of Lewis acid (BF3) substantially increases the acceptor strength of nitro-substituted N-oxides (NXO) and facilitates the synergetic oxidation of strong organic donors by NXO·BF3 dyads.
Hetero-trinuclear near-infrared (NIR) luminescent Zn2Ln complexes from Salen-type Schiff-base ligands
Weiyu Bi, Tao Wei, Xingqiang Lü, Yani Hui, Jirong Song, Shunsheng Zhao, Wai-Kwok Wong and Richard A. Jones,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2326
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00228f
The simple Salen-type Schiff-base ligands ( H2L1 and H2L2) without the outer O2O2 portion, can bind both 3d and 4f ions, giving the construction of Zn2Ln trinuclear complexes 1–8 with two energy donors for the sensitization of Ln3+ ions.
Supramolecular self-organization in constitutional hybrid materials
Simona Mihai, Adinela Cazacu, Carole Arnal-Herault, Gihane Nasr, Anca Meffre, Arie van der Lee and Mihail Barboiu,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2335
DOI: 10.1039/b908641m
A dynamic reversible interface mediates the structural self-correlation of supramolecular and inorganic domains in hybrid constitutional materials by virtue of their basic constitutional behaviours.
EDA Complexes of N-halosaccharins with N- and O-donor ligands
Darko Dolenc and Barbara Modec,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2344
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00263d
A series of EDA complexes of N-iodosaccharin (NISac) and N-bromosaccharin (NBSac) with nitrogen and oxygen electron-pair donors, NISac·H2O, NISac·THF, NISac·Py, NISac2·Pyz, and NBSac2·Pyz, was prepared and examined by X-ray diffraction and NMR.
A soft chemistry route to prepare hybrid ZnO nanostructured films with a lamellar structure
Benoît P. Pichon, Aude Mezy, Jean-Claude Tedenac, Didier Tichit and Corine Gérardin,
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2350
DOI: 10.1039/b9nj00365g
A simple soft chemistry route allowed growing films of long-range ordered lamellar ZnO/SDS nanostructures. The lamellar phase exhibits a unique interlayer distance, and the presence of the ZnO phase in the confined interlamellar space was evidenced.
Back cover
New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 2355
DOI: 10.1039/b920935m
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