Contents list for Chemical Communications, issue 6, 2004
Front Cover
Feature Article
Chemoselective ligation in glycochemistry
Francesco Peri and Francesco Nicotra,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 623
DOI: 10.1039/b308907j
Communications
Rechargeable Fe(III/VI) super-iron cathodes
Stuart Licht and Ran Tel-Vered,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 628
DOI: 10.1039/b400251b
Sweet success: ionic liquids derived from non-nutritive sweeteners
Elke
B. Carter, Stephanie L. Culver, Phillip A. Fox, Russell D. Goode,
Ioanna Ntai, Morgan D. Tickell, Rachel K. Traylor, Norris W. Hoffman,
James H. Davis and Jr., Chem. Commun., 2004, 630
DOI: 10.1039/b313068a
Stereochemical determination of dictyostatin, a novel microtubule-stabilising macrolide from the marine sponge Corallistidae sp.
Ian Paterson, Robert Britton, Oscar Delgado and Amy E. Wright,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 632
DOI: 10.1039/b316390c
Diastereospecific synthesis of phosphinidene-capped cyclodextrins leading to 
introverted
ligands
Eric Engeldinger, Laurent Poorters, Dominique Armspach, Dominique Matt and Loïc Toupet,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 634
DOI: 10.1039/b315802k
Reversible formation of DNA G-quadruplex hairpin dimers from stilbenediether conjugates
Frederick D. Lewis, Yansheng Wu and Ligang Zhang,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 636
DOI: 10.1039/b315265k
Self-aggregation of reverse bis peptide conjugate derived from the unstructured region of the prion protein
C. Madhavaiah and Sandeep Verma,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 638
DOI: 10.1039/b316793c
Supported nickel bromide catalyst for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) of methyl methacrylate
E. Duquesne, Ph. Degée, J. Habimana and Ph. Dubois,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 640
DOI: 10.1039/b316645g
A design strategy for four-connected coordination frameworks
Oleg
V. Dolomanov, David B. Cordes, Neil R. Champness, Alexander J. Blake,
Lyall R. Hanton, Geoffrey B. Jameson, Martin Schröder and Claire
Wilson, Chem. Commun., 2004, 642
DOI: 10.1039/b315243j
Gauche and staggered forms of diethylamine in solvates of 1,5-dichloro-cis-9,10-diethynyl-9,10-dihydroanthracene-9,10-diol. A case of conformational pseudopolymorphism?
Raju Mondal, Judith A. K. Howard, Rahul Banerjee and Gautam R. Desiraju,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 644
DOI: 10.1039/b316270b
A helical array of pendant fullerenes on a helical poly(phenylacetylene) induced by non-covalent chiral interactions
Tatsuya Nishimura, Sousuke Ohsawa, Katsuhiro Maeda and Eiji Yashima,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 646
DOI: 10.1039/b312511d
Novel hybrid hetero-sandwich architectures via stoichiometric control of host–guest self-organization
Zhi
Yu, Kui Yu, Longli Lai, Kostantin A. Udachin, Haoguo Zhu, Jianqin Tao,
Xiaozeng You, Markus Ströbele, H.-Jürgen Meyer and John A.
Ripmeester, Chem. Commun., 2004, 648
DOI: 10.1039/b313846a
First row wheels, {(tBu3SiS)MX}12(M = Co, X = Cl; M = Ni, X = Br), are common amongst both simpler and more complex aggregates
Orson L. Sydora, Peter T. Wolczanski, Emil B. Lobkovsky, Evan Rumberger and David N. Hendrickson,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 650
DOI: 10.1039/b311212h
Isotopic effects may induce cooperativity in valence tautomeric transition
Olivier Cador, Andrea Dei and Claudio Sangregorio,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 652
DOI: 10.1039/b313049e
Anion control of ligand self-recognition in a triple helical array
Lindsay P. Harding, John C. Jeffery, T. Riis-Johannessen, Craig R. Rice and Zuotao Zeng,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 654
DOI: 10.1039/b313218h
Novel iron-decorated carbon nanorods from fullerene soot
Yongfeng Li, Jieshan Qiu, Yunpeng Wang and Hongzhe Zhang,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 656
DOI: 10.1039/b315552h
How is the CH/
interaction important for molecular recognition?
Suyong Re and Shigeru Nagase,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 658
DOI: 10.1039/b316280j
Palladium(II)- and platinum(II)-catalyzed addition of stabilized carbon nucleophiles to ethylene and propylene
Xiang Wang and Ross A. Widenhoefer,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 660
DOI: 10.1039/b316734h
Novel oxygen storage mechanism based on redox of sulfur in lanthanum oxysulfate/oxysulfide
Masato Machida, Kiyotaka Kawamura and Kazuhiro Ito,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 662
DOI: 10.1039/b315839j
Catalytic
reduction of nitro-group terminated monolayers by Ag nanoparticles; a
novel strategy for site-selective patterning of organic monolayers
Yeoung Uk Seo, Seung Joon Lee and Kwan Kim,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 664
DOI: 10.1039/b400635f
Platinum(II)-bis(9-methyladenine) complexes; N1
N6 migration of Pt(II)vs deamination of coordinated methyladenine
Karel D. Klika and Jorma Arpalahti,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 666
DOI: 10.1039/b315987f
Using Caenorhabditis elegans to probe toxicity of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride based ionic liquids
Richard P. Swatloski, John D. Holbrey, Shermeen B. Memon, Guy A. Caldwell, Kim A. Caldwell and Robin D. Rogers,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 668
DOI: 10.1039/b316491h
Tuning the fluorescence of 1-imino nitroxide pyrene with two chemical inputs: mimicking the performance of an AND gate
Hongmei Wang, Deqing Zhang, Xuefeng Guo, Lingyun Zhu, Zhigang Shuai and Daoben Zhu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 670
DOI: 10.1039/b312360j
Highly diastereoselective synthesis of anti-
-N-benzylamino-
-hydroxyphosphonates
Mario Ordóñez, Ricardo de la Cruz-Cordero, Citlali Quiñónes and Angelina González-Morales,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 672
DOI: 10.1039/b316262a
Superoxide-stable ionic liquids: new and efficient media for electrosynthesis of functional siloxanes
Bruno Martiz, Robert Keyrouz, Said Gmouh, Michel Vaultier and Viatcheslav Jouikov,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 674
DOI: 10.1039/b313832a
Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) characterisation of the hydroformylation of oct-1-ene by dilute Rh–PEt3 catalysts in supercritical carbon dioxide
Steven G. Fiddy, John Evans, Thomas Neisius, Xue-Zhong Sun, Zhang Jie and Michael W. George,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 676
DOI: 10.1039/b311331k
Isolation, dynamic NMR study and X-ray characterisation of a bis sulfonium zirconocene-ate dimer
Esteban Ortega, Nadine Pirio, Philippe Meunier and Bruno Donnadieu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 678
DOI: 10.1039/b312954c
Modifying zeolite particle morphology and size using water/oil/surfactant mixtures as confined domains for zeolite growth
Seungju Lee and Daniel F. Shantz,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 680
DOI: 10.1039/b315646j
Mesoporous silica with Ia3d cubic structure and good thermal stability
Jiebin Pang, J. Eric Hampsey, Qingyuan Hu, Zhiwang Wu, Vijay T. John and Yunfeng Lu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 682
DOI: 10.1039/b316501a
A novel azulene synthesis from the Ramirez ylide involving two different modes of its reaction with activated alkynes
Lee J. Higham, P. Gabriel Kelly, David M. Corr, Helge Müller-Bunz, Brian J. Walker and Declan G. Gilheany,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 684
DOI: 10.1039/b316759c
Unusual chromic and doping behavior of ether substituted polythiophenes
Yu Wang, William B. Euler and Brett L. Lucht,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 686
DOI: 10.1039/b312537h
Reduction of nitroaromatics to arylnitrenium ions by vinyl halide cations
Hao Chen, Xubin Zheng, Pengxiang Yang and R. Graham Cooks,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 688
DOI: 10.1039/b314713d
A
sequential highly stereoselective hydroboration and Suzuki–Miyaura
cross-coupling reaction of fluoroalkylated internal acetylenes: a
practical one-pot synthesis of fluoroalkylated trisubstituted alkenes
Tsutomu Konno, Jungha Chae, Tomoo Tanaka, Takashi Ishihara and Hiroki Yamanaka,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 690
DOI: 10.1039/b316065c
Facile protocol for the highly regioselective and stereodivergent synthesis of substituted bishomoallylic alcohols from esters
Martin Oestreich and Fernando Sempere-Culler,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 692
DOI: 10.1039/b315758j
Phosphabarrelene–rhodium complexes as highly active catalysts for isomerization free hydroformylation of internal alkenes
Bernhard Breit and Evelyn Fuchs,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 694
DOI: 10.1039/b315709a
Metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) of bone mineral like carbonated hydroxyapatite coatings
J. A. Darr, Z. X. Guo, V. Raman, M. Bououdina and I. U. Rehman,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 696
DOI: 10.1039/b312855p
The synthesis of a di-N-heterocyclic carbene-amido complex of palladium(II)
Richard E. Douthwaite, Jennifer Houghton and Benson M. Kariuki,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 698
DOI: 10.1039/b314814a
Living cationic polymerisation of styrene in an ionic liquid
R. Vijayaraghavan and D. R. MacFarlane,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 700
DOI: 10.1039/b315100j
Two
contrasting ethynyl hydroboration pathways in the formation of a novel
tris-hydroboration product from reaction of dimesitylborane with
2,5-diethynylpyridine
Christopher D. Entwistle, Andrei S. Batsanov, Judith A. K. Howard, Mark A. Fox and Todd B. Marder,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 702
DOI: 10.1039/b316250h
Synthesis
and structural characterization of an azatitanacyclobutene: the key
intermediate in the catalytic anti-Markovnikov addition of primary
amines to 
-alkynes
Benjamin D. Ward, Aline Maisse-François, Philip Mountford and Lutz H. Gade,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 704
DOI: 10.1039/b316383k
Exploration of the pentacyano-cyclo-pentadienide ion, C5(CN)5–, as a weakly coordinating anion and potential superacid conjugate base. Silylation and protonation
Christopher Richardson and Christopher A. Reed,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 706
DOI: 10.1039/b316122f
Mixed halo/hydroxy carborane anions: thermally stable platforms for hydronium ion isolation
Daniel J. Stasko, Kevin J. Perzynski and Mark A. Wasil,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 708
DOI: 10.1039/b314475e
Recycling of the homogeneous Co-Jacobsen catalyst through solvent-resistent nanofiltration (SRNF)
S. Aerts, H. Weyten, A. Buekenhoudt, L. E. M. Gevers, I. F. J. Vankelecom and P. A. Jacobs,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 710
DOI: 10.1039/b312580g
A template-free aqueous route to ZnO nanorod arrays with high optical property
Qun Tang, Wenjia Zhou, Jianmin Shen, Wu Zhang, Lingfen Kong and Yitai Qian,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 712
DOI: 10.1039/b313387g
Highly diastereoselective formation of C2-symmetric bis-thioglycoside Pd(II) complexes: the role of the exo anomeric effect
Noureddine Khiar, Cristina S. Araújo, Bélen Suárez, Eleuterio Alvarez and Inmaculada Fernández,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 714
DOI: 10.1039/b313798h
Helical supramolecular host with aquapores anchoring alternate molecules of helical water chains
Arindam Mukherjee, Manas K. Saha, Munirathinam Nethaji and Akhil R. Chakravarty,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 716
DOI: 10.1039/b316275c
Protonic modulation of redox properties in ionisable [2 × 2] grid-like metalloarrays
Lindsay H. Uppadine, Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht and Jean-Marie Lehn,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 718
DOI: 10.1039/b315352e
A novel mixed-valence complex containing CoII2CoIII2 molecular squares with 4,5-imidazoledicarboxylate bridges
Chuan-Feng Wang, En-Qing Gao, Zheng He and Chun-Hua Yan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 720
DOI: 10.1039/b315357f
Enantiopure oxazolidinones as chiral acids in the asymmetric protonation of N-Boc pyrrole derived enolates
David R. Carbery and Timothy J. Donohoe,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 722
DOI: 10.1039/b316719d
A
mild and efficient protocol for the conversion of carboxylic acids to
olefins by a catalytic decarbonylative elimination reaction
Lukas J. Gooßen and Nuria Rodríguez,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 724
DOI: 10.1039/b316613a
Multicomponent redox gradients on photoactive electrode surfaces
Dirk
M. Guldi, Israel Zilbermann, Greg Anderson, Andrew Li, Domenico
Balbinot, Norbert Jux, Maria Hatzimarinaki, Andreas Hirsch and Maurizio
Prato, Chem. Commun., 2004, 726
DOI: 10.1039/b400027g
Nafion–polyfurfuryl alcohol nanocomposite membranes with low methanol permeation
Jin Liu, Huanting Wang, Shaoan Cheng and Kwong-Yu Chan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 728
DOI: 10.1039/b315742c
Kinetic resolution of chiral aminoalkenes via asymmetric hydroamination/cyclisation using binaphtholate yttrium complexes
Denis V. Gribkov and Kai C. Hultzsch,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 730
DOI: 10.1039/b316096c
Selective voltammetric detection of dopamine in the presence of ascorbate
Damien W. M. Arrigan, Mihaela Ghita and Valerio Beni,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 732
DOI: 10.1039/b316493d
An efficient synthesis of organic carbonates: atom economic protocol with a new catalytic system
Bhaskar Veldurthy and François Figueras,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 734
DOI: 10.1039/b316050e
An ordered array of cadmium clusters assembled in zeolite A
Jennifer E. Readman, Peter D. Barker, Ian Gameson, Joseph A. Hriljac, Wuzong Zhou, Peter P. Edwards and Paul A. Anderson,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 736
DOI: 10.1039/b400166d
A pentanuclear yttrium hydroxo cluster as an oxidation catalyst. Catalytic oxidation of aldehydes in the presence of air
Peter W. Roesky, Graciela Canseco-Melchor and Agustino Zulys,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 738
DOI: 10.1039/b315218a
A novel nonanuclear CuII carboxylate-bridged cluster aggregate with an S= 7/2 ground spin state
Muralee Murugesu, Philippa King, Rodolphe Clérac, Christopher E. Anson and Annie K. Powell,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 740
DOI: 10.1039/b316233h
In situ conversion of a Ru metathesis catalyst to an isomerization catalyst
Bernd Schmidt,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 742
DOI: 10.1039/b400229f
Identification of catalyst surface species during asymmetric platinum-catalysed hydrogenation in a supercritical solvent
Michael S. Schneider, Atsushi Urakawa, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Thomas Bürgi and Alfons Baiker,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 744
DOI: 10.1039/b315591a
Communication
High benzene selectivity of uniform sub-nanometre pores of self-ordered mesoporous silicate
Yuko Ueno, Akiyuki Tate, Osamu Niwa, Hao-shen Zhou, Takeo Yamada and Itaru Honma, Chem. Commun., 2004, 746
DOI: 10.1039/b316799b