Contents list for Chemical Communications, issue 17, 2004
Front Cover
Focus
A challenge for green chemistry: designing molecules that readily dissolve in carbon dioxide
E. J. Beckman,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1885
DOI: 10.1039/b404406c
Feature Article
Crystal
engineering of the composition of pharmaceutical phases. Do
pharmaceutical co-crystals represent a new path to improved medicines?
Örn Almarsson and Michael J. Zaworotko,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1889
DOI: 10.1039/b402150a
Communications
The
carbosilane unit as a stable building block for liquid crystal design:
a new class of ferroelectric switching banana-shaped mesogens
Christina Keith, R. Amaranatha Reddy, Harald Hahn, Heinrich Lang and Carsten Tschierske,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1898
DOI: 10.1039/b407890j
Bridge dominated oxidation of a diruthenium 1,3-divinylphenylene complex
Jörg Maurer, Rainer F. Winter, Biprajit Sarkar, Jan Fiedler and Stanislav Záli
,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1900
DOI: 10.1039/b405349d
The first utilization of acidic ionic liquid for preparation of tetraarylporphyrins
Satoshi Kitaoka, Kaoru Nobuoka and Yuichi Ishikawa,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1902
DOI: 10.1039/b404241g
Dendron-grafted sulfur-terminated phenyleneethynylene molecular rods and blue luminescence self-assembly with Au nanoparticles
Tomokazu Tozawa,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1904
DOI: 10.1039/b404010d
Linking cyano-bridged ladders by azide to form a layered metamagnet
Yuan-Zhu Zhang, Song Gao, Hao-Ling Sun, Gang Su, Zhe-Ming Wang and Shi-Wei Zhang,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1906
DOI: 10.1039/b405167j
Functionalisation of a diene-modified hairpin mimic via the Diels–Alder reaction
Rolf Tona and Robert Häner,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1908
DOI: 10.1039/b405223d
Synthesis and vesicle formation of a nido-carborane cluster lipid for boron neutron capture therapy
Hiroyuki Nakamura, Yusuke Miyajima, Toshiaki Takei, Satoshi Kasaoka and Kazuo Maruyama,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1910
DOI: 10.1039/b406141a
An intelligence ink for oxygen
Soo-Keun Lee, Andrew Mills and Anne Lepre,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1912
DOI: 10.1039/b406685e
A
novel solid-phase equivalent to the triflate group and its application
to traceless linking and cross-coupling-release strategies
Andrew N. Cammidge and Zainab Ngaini,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1914
DOI: 10.1039/b408021a
A 
triflate-like
tetrafluoroarylsulfonate linker for multifunctional solid-phase organic synthesis
Jefferson D. Revell and A. Ganesan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1916
DOI: 10.1039/b408166h
Brookite-supported highly stable gold catalytic system for CO oxidation
Wenfu Yan, Bei Chen, Shannon M. Mahurin, Sheng Dai and Steven H. Overbury,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1918
DOI: 10.1039/b405434b
Hexagonal, hollow, aluminium-containing ZSM-5 tubes prepared from mesoporous silica templates
W. Song, R. Kanthasamy, V. H. Grassian and S. C. Larsen,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1920
DOI: 10.1039/b406753c
A simple and highly efficient P,O-type ligand for Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling of aryl halides
Fuk Yee Kwong, Wai Har Lam, Chi Hung Yeung, Kin Shing Chan and Albert S. C. Chan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1922
DOI: 10.1039/b407243j
Solvent free synthesis of polyaniline–clay nanocomposites from mechanochemically intercalated anilinium fluoride
Shoji Yoshimoto, Fumihiko Ohashi, Yasushi Ohnishi and Toru Nonami,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1924
DOI: 10.1039/b403988b
Direct arylation of aromatic C–H bonds catalyzed by Cp*Ir complexes
Ken-ichi Fujita, Mitsuru Nonogawa and Ryohei Yamaguchi,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1926
DOI: 10.1039/b407116f
First catalytic asymmetric synthesis of 
-amino--polyfluoroalkyl ketones via proline-catalysed direct asymmetric carbon–carbon bond formation reaction of polyfluoroalkylated aldimines
Kazumasa Funabiki, Masashi Nagamori, Sakiko Goushi and Masaki Matsui,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1928
DOI: 10.1039/b406000h
A highly efficient gold/silver-catalyzed addition of arenes to imines
Yumei Luo and Chao-Jun Li,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1930
DOI: 10.1039/b404509b
Palladium catalyzed arylation reactions of meta photocycloadducts
Clive S. Penkett, Rupert O. Sims, Richard French, Lauriane Dray, Stephen J. Roome and Peter B. Hitchcock,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1932
DOI: 10.1039/b404816d
CuI-catalyzed coupling reaction of aryl halides with terminal alkynes in the absence of palladium and phosphine
Dawei Ma and Feng Liu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1934
DOI: 10.1039/b407090a
Looking glass inhibitors: L-DMDP, a more potent and specific inhibitor of 
-glucosidases than the enantiomeric natural product DMDP
Chu-Yi
Yu, Naoki Asano, Kyoko Ikeda, Mei-Xiang Wang, Terry D. Butters, Mark R.
Wormald, Raymond A. Dwek, Ana L. Winters, Robert J. Nash and George W.
J. Fleet, Chem. Commun., 2004, 1936
DOI: 10.1039/b406035k
Ionic liquids as catalytic green solvents for cracking reactions
Yong Wang, Haoran Li, Congmin Wang and Hui Jiang,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1938
DOI: 10.1039/b402524e
Template-assisted
self assembly of two lipophilic polyion aggregates derived from sodium
tetraphenyl imidodiphosphinate-complexes containing sodium ions in four
different coordination environments
Perla Román-Bravo, Marcela López-Cardoso, Patricia García y García, Herbert Höpfl and Raymundo Cea-Olivares,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1940
DOI: 10.1039/b406817c
Conversion of [Pt(SRf)2(PPh2 –n(C6F5)n+ 1)2](n= 0 or 1, Rf
C6HF4-4) through carbon–fluorine bond activation to [Pt(SRf)2(1,2-C6F4(SRf)-(PPh2))] and chiral [Pt(SRf)2(1,2-C6F4(SRf)(PPh(C6F5)))]
Luis Villanueva, Maribel Arroyo, Sylvain Bernès and Hugo Torrens,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1942
DOI: 10.1039/b407328b
Ion/molecule reactions of the protonated serine octamer
Scott Gronert, Richard A. J. O'Hair and Adelaide E. Fagin,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1944
DOI: 10.1039/b407721k
A charge transfer-type fluorescent molecular sensor that 
lights up
in the visible upon hydrogen bond-assisted complexation of anions
Anton Kovalchuk, Julia L. Bricks, Günter Reck, Knut Rurack, Burkhard Schulz, Agnieszka Szumna and Hardy Weißhoff,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1946
DOI: 10.1039/b405207b
Direct oxidation of methane to acetic acid catalyzed by Pd2+ and Cu2+ in the presence of molecular oxygen
Mark Zerella, Sudip Mukhopadhyay and Alexis T. Bell,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1948
DOI: 10.1039/b405549g
Initialisation in RAFT-mediated polymerisation of methyl acrylate
J. B. McLeary, J. M. McKenzie, M. P. Tonge, R. D. Sanderson and B. Klumperman,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1950
DOI: 10.1039/b404857a
Phosphoramidic
acid monoesters as phosphorylating agents: steric effects and
reluctance to form monomeric metaphosphate intermediates
Martin J. P. Harger,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1952
DOI: 10.1039/b406896c
Vanadyl complexes bearing bi- and triphenolate chelate ligands: highly active ethylene polymerisation procatalysts
Carl Redshaw, Lee Warford, Sophie H. Dale and Mark R. J. Elsegood,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1954
DOI: 10.1039/b406783e
Bis(benzimidazole)amine
vanadium catalysts for olefin polymerisation and co-polymerisation:
thermally robust, single-site catalysts activated by simple
alkylaluminium reagents
Atanas K. Tomov, Vernon C. Gibson, Damien Zaher, Mark R. J. Elsegood and Sophie H. Dale,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1956
DOI: 10.1039/b407065h
Water addition to a two-electron mixed-valence bimetallic center
Adam S. Veige and Daniel G. Nocera,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1958
DOI: 10.1039/b402426e
One-pot oligosaccharide synthesis: reactivity tuning by post-synthetic modification of aglycon
Lijun Huang, Zhen Wang and Xuefei Huang,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1960
DOI: 10.1039/b405886k
Radical addition of nitrones to acrylates mediated by SmI2: asymmetric synthesis of 
-amino acids employing carbohydrate-based chiral auxiliaries
Sine A. Johannesen, Silvia Albu, Rita G. Hazell and Troels Skrydstrup,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1962
DOI: 10.1039/b405141f
Super-hydrophobic tin oxide nanoflowers
Aicheng Chen, Xinsheng Peng, Kallum Koczkur and Brad Miller,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1964
DOI: 10.1039/b407313d
(Bu3Sn)2–TBAF: a new combination reagent for the reduction and deuteration of aryl bromides and iodides
David C. Harrowven, Ian L. Guy and Michael I. T. Nunn,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1966
DOI: 10.1039/b406103a
KF–Silica as a stationary phase for the chromatographic removal of tin residues from organic compounds
David C. Harrowven and Ian L. Guy,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1968
DOI: 10.1039/b406041e
A new reaction: lead(IV) acetate-mediated oxidative fragmentation of homoallylic alcohols
Marcelo D. Preite and Mauricio A. Cuellar,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1970
DOI: 10.1039/b405986g
Electrochemical
reduction of an imidazolium cation: a convenient preparation of
imidazol-2-ylidenes and their observation in an ionic liquid
Brian Gorodetsky, Taramatee Ramnial, Neil R. Branda and Jason A. C. Clyburne,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1972
DOI: 10.1039/b407386j
A new synthetic route to produce metal zeolites with subnanometric magnetic clusters
Eva M. Barea, Vicente Fornés, Avelino Corma, Patrick Bourges, Emmanuelle Guillon and Victor F. Puntes,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1974
DOI: 10.1039/b407225a
Palladium catalysed cross-coupling reactions of silylamines
Catherine J. Smith, Tessa R. Early, Andrew B. Holmes and Richard E. Shute,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1976
DOI: 10.1039/b406868h
Preparation of primary amine-modified gold nanoparticles and their transfection ability into cultivated cells
Takuro Niidome, Kanako Nakashima, Hironobu Takahashi and Yasuro Niidome,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1978
DOI: 10.1039/b406189f
Thiostannylation of arynes with stannyl sulfides: synthesis and reaction of 2-(arylthio)arylstannanes
Hiroto Yoshida, Tsuguaki Terayama, Joji Ohshita and Atsutaka Kunai,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1980
DOI: 10.1039/b405883f
Darmstadtium carbonyl and carbide resemble platinum carbonyl and carbide
Michael Patzschke and Pekka Pyykkö,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1982
DOI: 10.1039/b405038j
Rhodium catalysed tandem conjugate addition-protonation: an enantioselective synthesis of 2-substituted succinic esters
Rebecca J. Moss, Kelly J. Wadsworth, Christopher J. Chapman and Christopher G. Frost,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1984
DOI: 10.1039/b406905f
High-quality
free-standing and oriented periodic mesoporous organosilica films grown
without a solid substrate at the air–water interface
Sung Soo Park and Chang-Sik Ha,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1986
DOI: 10.1039/b405905k
Super-long continuous Ni nanowires encapsulated in carbon nanotubes
Lunhui Guan, Zujin Shi, Huanjun Li, Liping You and Zhennan Gu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1988
DOI: 10.1039/b405444j
A highly efficient heterogeneous catalytic system for Heck reactions with a palladium colloid layer reduced in situ in the channel of mesoporous silica materials
Liang Li, Jian-lin Shi and Ji-na Yan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1990
DOI: 10.1039/b404916k
Adjustable cavity for host–guest recognition in cofacial bis-porphyrinic tweezer
Régis Rein, Maurice Gross and Nathalie Solladié,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1992
DOI: 10.1039/b406680d
Application of a diphosphinidenecyclobutene ligand in the solvent-free copper-catalysed amination reactions of aryl halides
Anil S. Gajare, Kozo Toyota, Masaaki Yoshifuji and Fumiyuki Ozawa,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1994
DOI: 10.1039/b408232j
Complementary hydrogen-bonding between thymidine-based low molecular-weight gelator and polynucleotide in organic media
Kazunori Sugiyasu, Munenori Numata, Norifumi Fujita, Sun Min Park, Young Ji Yun, Byeang Hyean Kim and Seiji Shinkai,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1996
DOI: 10.1039/b407756n
Preparation
and properties of an ordered, uniform 0.9 nm Ag array assembled in a
nanoporous VSB-1 by a simple soft chemical method
Zhi Chen, Qiuming Gao, Chundong Wu, Meiling Ruan and Jianlin Shi,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 1998
DOI: 10.1039/b404915b
Ionic liquid assisted preparation of nanostructured TiO2 particles
Kyesang Yoo, Hyeok Choi and Dionysios D. Dionysiou,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2000
DOI: 10.1039/b406040g
,-Unsaturated imines from titanium hydroamination and functionalization by rhodium C–H activation
Changsheng Cao, Yahong Li, Yanhui Shi and Aaron L. Odom,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2002
DOI: 10.1039/b405620e
The first oligopeptide derivative of 1
-aminoferrocene-1-carboxylic acid shows helical chirality with antiparallel strands
Lidija Barii
, Maja Dropu
i, Vladimir Rapi, Hans Pritzkow, Sreko I. Kirin and Nils Metzler-Nolte,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2004
DOI: 10.1039/b407771g
A single-enzyme, two-step, one-pot synthesis of N-substituted imidazole derivatives containing a glucose branch via combined acylation/Michael addition reaction
Shi-Ping Yao, De-Shui Lu, Qi Wu, Ying Cai, Shan-Hao Xu and Xian-Fu Lin,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2006
DOI: 10.1039/b405796a
Replacing HCl by solid acids in industrial processes: synthesis of diamino diphenyl methane (DADPM) for producing polyurethanes
Avelino Corma, Pablo Botella and Chris Mitchell,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2008
DOI: 10.1039/b406303a