Contents list for Chemical Communications, issue 18, 2004
Front Cover
Feature Article
Cyclopeptide alkaloids: chemistry and biology
Madeleine M. Joullié and David J. Richard,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2011
DOI: 10.1039/b400334a
Communications
The isomerisation of (Z)-3-[2H1]-phenylprop-2-enone as a measure of the rate of hydroperoxide addition in Weitz–Scheffer and Juliá–Colonna epoxidations
David R. Kelly, Eva Caroff, Robert W. Flood, William Heal and Stanley M. Roberts,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2016
DOI: 10.1039/b404389h
The mechanism of polyleucine catalysed asymmetric epoxidation
David R. Kelly and Stanley M. Roberts,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2018
DOI: 10.1039/b404390c
Chiral amplification by polypeptides and its relevance to prebiotic catalysis
David R. Kelly, Alastair Meek and Stanley M. Roberts,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/b404379k
Reversible
folding/unfolding of linear molecular strands into helical channel-like
complexes upon proton-modulated binding and release of metal ions
Adrian-Mihail Stadler, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Jean-Marie Lehn,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2024
DOI: 10.1039/b407168a
A new approach to bioconjugates for proteins and peptides (
pegylation
) utilising living radical polymerisation
François Lecolley, Lei Tao, Giuseppe Mantovani, Ian Durkin, Sylvie Lautru and David M. Haddleton,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2026
DOI: 10.1039/b407712a
Optical sensing of amine vapors with a series of tin compounds
Evonne A. Baldauff and Jillian M. Buriak,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2028
DOI: 10.1039/b406230b
Synthesis and electropolymerization of novel oligothiophene-functionalized perylene bisimides
Chang-Cheng You, Chantu R. Saha-Möller and Frank Würthner,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2030
DOI: 10.1039/b407551j
Photoinduced production of NAD(P)H from an activated fluorescein–DNA monolayer
Yi-Tao Long, Todd C. Sutherland, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz and Jeremy S. Lee,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2032
DOI: 10.1039/b406689h
Donor–acceptor nanoensembles of soluble carbon nanotubes
Dirk
M. Guldi, G. N. A. Rahman, Jeff Ramey, Massimo Marcaccio, Demis
Paolucci, Francesco Paolucci, Shuhui Qin, Warren T. Ford, Domenico
Balbinot, Norbert Jux, Nikos Tagmatarchis and Maurizio Prato, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2034
DOI: 10.1039/b406933a
Photo-reversible Pb2+-complexation of thermosensitive poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide-co-spiropyran acrylate) in water
Takayuki Suzuki, Tatsuya Kato and Hiraku Shinozaki,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2036
DOI: 10.1039/b407342h
En route to coordination chemistry under confined conditions in a porous capsule: Pr3+ with different coordination shells
Achim Müller, Yunshan Zhou, Lijuan Zhang, Hartmut Bögge, Marc Schmidtmann, Martin Dressel and Joris van Slageren,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2038
DOI: 10.1039/b407753a
Room temperature photochromic liquid crystal [3H]-naphtho[2,1-b]pyrans—photochromism in the mesomorphic state
Michel Frigoli and Georg H. Mehl,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2040
DOI: 10.1039/b407561g
Mono- and bis(tetrathiafulvaleno)hexadehydro[12]annulenes
Kenji Hara, Masashi Hasegawa, Yoshiyuki Kuwatani, Hideo Enozawa and Masahiko Iyoda,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2042
DOI: 10.1039/b407200f
A C3-symmetric molecular scaffold for the construction of large receptors
Gebhard Haberhauer, Thomas Oeser and Frank Rominger,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2044
DOI: 10.1039/b406335j
The three-electron heteropoly blue [P6Mo18O73]11– with a basket-shaped skeleton
Xian-Ming Zhang, Hai-Shun Wu, Fu-Qiang Zhang, Alexander Prikhod'ko, Shigemasa Kuwata and Peter Comba,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2046
DOI: 10.1039/b405931j
Switching between molecular switch types by module rearrangement: Ca2+-enabled, H+-driven 
Off–On–Off
, H+-driven YES and PASS 0 as well as H+, Ca2+-driven AND logic operations
John F. Callan, A. Prasanna de Silva and Nathan D. McClenaghan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2048
DOI: 10.1039/b405909c
Intramolecular exchange interaction in twofold spin-labelled platinum complexes
Christophe Stroh, Marcel Mayor, Carsten von Hänisch and Philippe Turek,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2050
DOI: 10.1039/b407067d
Synthesis of unsymmetrical dibenzoquinoxaline discotic mesogens
E. Johan Foster, Jarret Babuin, Natalie Nguyen and Vance E. Williams,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2052
DOI: 10.1039/b400998c
Drastic increase of selectivity for H2O2 formation in direct oxidation of H2 to H2O2 over supported Pd catalysts due to their bromination
Vasant R. Choudhary, Chanchal Samanta and A. G. Gaikwad,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2054
DOI: 10.1039/b405415f
Practical asymmetric synthesis of 
-hydroxy--trifluoromethylated ketones via the first example of the in situ generation of trifluoro-acetaldehyde and its successive asymmetric carbon–carbon bond formation reaction with chiral imines
Kazumasa Funabiki, Wataru Hashimoto and Masaki Matsui,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2056
DOI: 10.1039/b408226e
A robust, porous, cationic silver(I) 3,5-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazolate framework with a uninodal 49.66 net
Guang Yang and Raphael G. Raptis,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2058
DOI: 10.1039/b404269g
Design of a robust Ru(salen) complex: aziridination with improved turnover number using N-arylsulfonyl azides as precursors
Kazufumi Omura, Tatsuya Uchida, Ryo Irie and Tsutomu Katsuki,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2060
DOI: 10.1039/b407693a
Fabrication and photoluminescence of chemically stable La2O3:Eu3+–La2Sn2O7 core–shell-structured nanoparticles
Eiji Hosono and Shinobu Fujihara,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2062
DOI: 10.1039/b408495k
Mesomorphism of a tetrahedral zinc complex
Raquel Giménez, Ana Belén Manrique, Santiago Uriel, Joaquín Barberá and José Luis Serrano,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2064
DOI: 10.1039/b407652d
Hydrogen bonding effect on photocurrent generation in porphyrin–fullerene photoelectrochemical devices
Hiroshi
Imahori, Jia-Cheng Liu, Kohei Hosomizu, Tomoo Sato, Yukie Mori, Hiroki
Hotta, Yoshihiro Matano, Yasuyuki Araki, Osamu Ito, Norihiko Maruyama
and Shizuo Fujita, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2066
DOI: 10.1039/b404690k
Prolonged luminescence lifetimes of Ru(II) complexes via the multichromophore approach: the excited-state storage element can be on a ligand not involved in the MLCT emitting state
Jianhua Wang, Garry S. Hanan, Frédérique Loiseau and Sebastiano Campagna,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2068
DOI: 10.1039/b405619a
Highly efficient and recyclable heterogeneous asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones in water
Pei Nian Liu, Jin Gen Deng, Yong Qiang Tu and Shao Hua Wang,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2070
DOI: 10.1039/b408533g
A selective and sensitive chemiluminescence reaction of 4,4
(5)-bis[2-(9-anthryloxy)ethylthio]tetrathiafulvalene with singlet oxygen
Guanxin Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Huimin Ma, Deqing Zhang, Jun Li and Daoben Zhu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2072
DOI: 10.1039/b405272b
Reduction
of 1,4-dichlorobut-2-yne by titanocene to a 1,2,3-butatriene. Formation
of a 1-titanacyclopent-3-yne and a
2,5-dititanabicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene
Vladimir
V. Burlakov, Perdita Arndt, Wolfgang Baumann, Anke Spannenberg, Uwe
Rosenthal, Pattiyil Parameswaran and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2074
DOI: 10.1039/b406494a
First stable 7,7,8,8-tetraaryl-o-quinodimethane: isolation, X-ray structure, electrochromic response of 9,10-bis(dianisylmethylene)-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene
Shinichi
Iwashita, Eisuke Ohta, Hiroki Higuchi, Hidetoshi Kawai, Kenshu
Fujiwara, Kazunori Ono, Masami Takenaka and Takanori Suzuki, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2076
DOI: 10.1039/b405837b
A highly congested N,N-dioxide fluorosensor for enantioselective recognition of chiral hydrogen bond donors
Xuefeng Mei and Christian Wolf,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2078
DOI: 10.1039/b407718k
TiS2 nanotubes as the cathode materials of Mg-ion batteries
Zhan-Liang Tao, Li-Na Xu, Xing-Long Gou, Jun Chen and Hua-Tang Yuan,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2080
DOI: 10.1039/b403855j
A highly efficient asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction catalyzed by cationic chiral palladium(II) complexes
Koichi Mikami, Takashi Miyamoto and Manabu Hatano,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2082
DOI: 10.1039/b407250b
A multiple injection method for exerting kinetic control in the synthesis of CdSe nanorods
P. Sreekumari Nair, Karolina P. Fritz and Gregory D. Scholes,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2084
DOI: 10.1039/b409972a
Regioselective and divergent opening of vinyl epoxides with ethoxyacetylene
Per Restorp and Peter Somfai,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2086
DOI: 10.1039/b408610d
Asymmetric radical additions of trialkylboranes to 2H-azirine-3-carboxylates
Erik Risberg, Andreas Fischer and Peter Somfai,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2088
DOI: 10.1039/b408532a
Exciton
interactions in cyanine dye–hyaluronic acid (HA) complex: reversible
and biphasic molecular switching of chromophores induced by random
coil-to-double-helix phase transition of HA
Takashi Sagawa, Haruko Tobata and Hirotaka Ihara,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2090
DOI: 10.1039/b408032g
Metal-peptide nanoassemblies
Mikhail V. Tsurkan and Michael Y. Ogawa,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2092
DOI: 10.1039/b407381a
Dual role for phenylalanine 178 during catalysis by aristolochene synthase
Silvia Forcat and Rudolf K. Allemann,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2094
DOI: 10.1039/b407932a
Synthesis, characterization, and electrical and electrochemical properties of sandwich dilutetium tetraphthalocyanine
Saziye Abdurrahmanoglu, Ahmet Altindal, Ali Riza Özkaya, Mustafa Bulut and Özer Bekaroglu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2096
DOI: 10.1039/b406739h
Stable cycling of graphite in an ionic liquid based electrolyte
Michael Holzapfel, Carsten Jost and Petr Novák,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2098
DOI: 10.1039/b407526a
A general integrated process for synthesizing olefin oxides
Shouli Sun, Ivan M. Lorkovic, Michael Weiss, Jeffrey H. Sherman, Galen D. Stucky, Peter C. Ford and Eric W. McFarland,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2100
DOI: 10.1039/b404982a
One-step preparation of coaxial CdS–ZnS nanowires
Yung-Jung Hsu and Shih-Yuan Lu,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2102
DOI: 10.1039/b403932g
Isomer separation, conformation control of flexible cyclohexanedicarboxylate ligand in cadmium complexes
Wenhua Bi, Rong Cao, Daofeng Sun, Daqiang Yuan, Xing Li, Yanqin Wang, Xiaoju Li and Maochun Hong,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2104
DOI: 10.1039/b407405j
Electrochemical measurement of the interaction of Crotalus adamanteus venom with DMPC vesicles
A. Toby A. Jenkins and Jonathan A. Olds,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2106
DOI: 10.1039/b406799a
Affinity mass spectrometry from a tailored porous silicon surface
Jun-cai Meng, Gary Siuzdak and M. G. Finn,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2108
DOI: 10.1039/b408200a
Synthesis of hybrid dendrimer-star polymers by the RAFT process
Vincent
Darcos, Alex Duréault, Daniel Taton, Yves Gnanou, Patrice Marchand,
Anne-Marie Caminade, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Mathias Destarac and Frédéric
Leising, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2110
DOI: 10.1039/b407508k
State selective electron injection in non-aggregated titanium phthalocyanine sensitised nanocrystalline TiO2 films
Emilio Palomares, M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Saif A. Haque, Tomás Torres and James R. Durrant,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2112
DOI: 10.1039/b407860h
Two polymorphs of a -lactam (trans-13-azabicyclo[10.2.0]tetradecan-14-one). Concomitant crystal polymorphism and isostructurality
László Fábián, Alajos Kálmán, Gyula Argay, Gábor Bernáth and Zsuzsanna Cs. Gyarmati,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2114
DOI: 10.1039/b408505a
Electro-oxidation of glucose at an increased current density at a reducing potential
Nicolas Mano, Fei Mao and Adam Heller,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2116
DOI: 10.1039/b408411j
One-step synthesis of benzyl acetate by gas phase acetoxylation of toluene over highly active and selective Pd–Sb–TiO2 catalysts
A. Benhmid, K. V. Narayana, A. Martin and B. Lücke,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2118
DOI: 10.1039/b406396a
Rapid identification of new bacterial alcohol dehydrogenases for (R)- and (S)-enantioselective reduction of ß-ketoesters
Jie Zhang, Wouter A. Duetz, Bernard Witholt and Zhi Li,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2120
DOI: 10.1039/b407004f
A nanoscale dendrimer-based Fe24 cluster: synthesis and molecular self-assembly
Junfeng Geng, Hongwei Li, Wilhelm T. S. Huck and Brian F. G. Johnson,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2122
DOI: 10.1039/b407717b
First example of ring expansion of activated quinolines and isoquinolines: novel benzoazepines
J. S. Yadav, B. V. Subba Reddy, Manoj Kumar Gupta, A. Prabhakar and B. Jagadeesh,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2124
DOI: 10.1039/b405100a
Facile synthesis of aliphatic hyperbranched polyesters based on diethyl malonate and their irreversible molecular encapsulation
Santimukul Santra and Anil Kumar,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2126
DOI: 10.1039/b404447a
The
selectivity of electrosynthesised polymer membranes depends on the
electrode dimensions: implications for biosensor applications
Colm P. McMahon, Sarah J. Killoran, Sarah M. Kirwan and Robert D. O'Neill,
Chem. Commun., 2004, 2128
DOI: 10.1039/b408051n