Luca Prodi (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40673J), and Robert Crabtree with Odile Eisenstein as co-author (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40659D), have composed two Focus reviews on luminescent chemosensors based on nanoparticles and on hydrogenation catalysis, respectively. Perspective reviews on histidine-rich sequences, lanthanoid hydroxo clusters, and topologically complex molecules are the respective contributions of the groups of Henryk Kozlowski (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40558J), Peter Junk (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40560A) and Jean-Pierre Sauvage (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40555E).
Original research papers on a variety of topics come from Leonard Barbour (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40612H), Debbie Crans (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40524E), Odile Eisenstein (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40624A), George Gokel (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40337D), Fabrizia Grepioni (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40379J), Mir Wais Hosseini (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40657H), Takashi Kato (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40681K), J. Narasimha Moorthy (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40575J), Michael Scott (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40586E) and Jon Steed (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40401J). By considering the reviewers' comments, the editors selected two papers, those by Takashi Kato on aligned liquid crystals and by Debbie Crans, co-authored with Michael Johnson, on vanadium complexes in micelles, for highlighting on the outside and inside front covers of this issue.
In the second half of this issue, composed of spontaneous submissions, we might point out two papers having former Board members—Clément Sanchez and Michael Veith—as co-authors on the papers by Renal Backov (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40527J)and Edwin Kroke (DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40538E).
NJC seeks to publish high quality papers that will interest a broad cross-section of the chemistry research community. We are particularly interested in papers that marry chemistry with other disciplines, such as medicine, physics, materials, or show the applications of chemistry in other fields such as archaeology or art history.
Authors can publish their original research in two formats: short Letters and longer Papers, with no criteria regarding urgency. Two review formats are also proposed, the 6-page Focus and the longer Perspective. The October 2010 editorial (free to access at http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=10.1039/C005530C) gives further details about the formats and the journal's editorial policy.
The Focus reviews were introduced in 2011. The spirit of Focuses is to present, in a concise form, a personal view of a topic that will interest a broad readership. These short reviews are strictly limited to 6 pages in length, to make them readable by all chemists and scientists in related fields. These contributions give a concise introduction of the topic covered and a personal vision, including key achievements and perspectives, drawing on a limited number of references to the most important papers. Focus reviews are not meant to be an exhaustive survey of the literature but are short, informative, useful and attractive to readers. Selected authors are invited to submit Focus reviews. So far, a number of high-profile chemists have been approached and the high percentage of acceptance indicates the attractiveness of this initiative.
The longer Perspectives are meant to provide a more detailed review of a selected area of research through a survey of the work of the author. The author's contribution is put into the context of current and past research, and the author gives a personal perspective on the future of the field. Perspectives have no length limitation, however, they are not expected to be a complete survey of a field.
Both Focus and Perspective reviews are on invitation to the author. Proposals for reviews can be sent to the editors for consideration.
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Fig. 1 ECUST President Xuhong Qian (in the middle of the front row) and his colleagues, Bozhong Mu (at the left in the back row) and Chunyan Bao (at the right end of the front row), welcome members of the NJC Editorial Board to Shanghai during the NJC China Symposia. (Back row, starting 2nd from the left: Board members J. N. Moorthy, Debbie Crans, Helen Hailes, Peter Junk, Len Barbour. Front row, starting 3rd from the left: Board members Odile Eisenstein and Mir Wais Hosseini, Managing Editor Denise Parent.) |
At the 40th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry held in Valencia, Spain, NJC sponsored the Metals in Medicine microsymposium, which included Debbie Crans, a NJC Board member, as one of the invited speakers.
Most recently, Ben Feringa was the NJC Plenary Lecturer at the ERC Grantees Conference held in Strasbourg, France.
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Fig. 2 Outside front cover for the Dendrimers II February 2012 themed issue. |
A number of the short Focus and the longer Perspective reviews were published in 2012. Three of these reviews figure on the list of most downloaded papers (Table 1). Other topics of high interest last year were quantum dots, graphene, and sensors. Congratulations to all of these authors!
DOI (Format) | Title | Authors | NJC vol 36, issue # |
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10.1039/c1nj20658c (Paper) | One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of graphene quantum dots surface-passivated by polyethylene glycol and their photoelectric conversion under near-infrared light | Jianhua Shen, Yihua Zhu, Xiaoling Yang, Jie Zong, Jianmei Zhang and Chunzhong Li | 1 |
10.1039/c2nj20942j (Letter) | One-step ultrasonic synthesis of fluorescent N-doped carbon dots from glucose and their visible-light sensitive photocatalytic ability | Zheng Ma, Hai Ming, Hui Huang, Yang Liu and Zhenhui Kang | 4 |
10.1039/c2nj40068e (Paper) | Nitrogen and boron doped monolayer graphene by chemical vapor deposition using polystyrene, urea and boric acid | Tianru Wu, Honglie Shen, Lei Sun, Bin Cheng, Bin Liu and Jiancang Shen | 6 |
10.1039/c2nj20943h (Paper) | Thiophene-substituted aza-bodipy as a strategic synthon for the design of near-infrared dyes | Quentin Bellier, Fabrice Dalier, Erwann Jeanneau, Olivier Maury and Chantal Andraud | 3 |
10.1039/c2nj20879b (Perspective) | Stimuli sensitive amphiphilic dendrimers | Rajasekhar R. Ramireddy, Krishna R. Raghupathi, Diego Amado Torres and S. Thayumanavan | 2 |
10.1039/c2nj20849k (Focus) | PEG-dendritic block copolymers for biomedical applications | Ana Sousa-Herves, Ricardo Riguera and Eduardo Fernandez-Megia | 2 |
10.1039/c1nj20458k (Perspective) | “Janus” dendrimers: syntheses and properties | Anne-Marie Caminade, Régis Laurent, Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot and Jean-Pierre Majoral | 2 |
10.1039/c2nj20959d (Paper) | ZnO/carbon quantum dots nanocomposites: one-step fabrication and superior photocatalytic ability for toxic gas degradation under visible light at room temperature | Hang Yu, Hengchao Zhang, Hui Huang, Yang Liu, Haitao Li, Hai Ming and Zhenhui Kang | 4 |
10.1039/c2nj20587d (Paper) | Towards efficient polyoxometalate encapsulation in MIL-100(Cr): influence of synthesis conditions | Jana Juan-Alcañiz, Maarten G. Goesten, Enrique V. Ramos-Fernandez, Jorge Gascon and Freek Kapteijn | 4 |
10.1039/c2nj20904g (Paper) | Cation-induced fluorescent excimer emission in calix[4]arene-chemosensors bearing quinoline as a fluorogenic unit: experimental, molecular modeling and crystallographic studies | Subrata Patra, Ravi Gunupuru, Rabindranath Lo, E. Suresh, Bishwajit Ganguly and Parimal Paul | 4 |
More and more authors are choosing NJC to publish their work. For the 4th year in a row, the number of submissions has increased, growing by over 50% in 4 years. Since the late 1990s, the number of submissions to the journal has grown about 6-fold and we are attracting authors from around the world (Fig. 3).
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Fig. 3 Geographical origin of the corresponding author of articles published in NJC in 2012. |
The International Advisory Board will also be expanded, with a number of new appointments to be announced in the near future.
We've made it a priority since 2005 to recognise and reward outstanding young chemists. If you are organising a conference in 2013 or 2014 and would like for NJC to offer support for young chemists, in the form of poster prizes or invited lectureships, then please contact the Editorial Office.
Another issue later in the year will honour Bernard Meunier, an eminent French chemist and former president of the CNRS. He is known for his work on catalytic oxidation, heme and non-heme enzyme chemistry and the development of various medications (against tuberculosis, malaria, and Alzheimer's disease, among others). The guest editor, Azzedine Bousseksou (LCC, Toulouse, France), has invited colleagues of Prof. Meunier to contribute to this issue. If you would like to submit an article dedicated to Bernard Meunier for this issue, please contact the Editorial Office (NJC@univ-montp2.fr), since the issue size is not unlimited.
Readers are critically important to us as well. We encourage you to sign up for the e-alerts (http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/forms/V5profile.asp) so as not to miss a single issue of NJC, to send us your feedback on how we can make the journal better, and to cite NJC articles when relevant to your work.
We wish to thank all of those who contribute to the continuing success of NJC: Editors and Board members, reviewers, authors, and our readers. We wish you all the best in 2013!
Looking forward by looking further—beyond the traditional boundaries—NJC presents chemistry as the central science.
Mir Wais Hosseini
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Denise Parent (CNRS; NJC@univ-montp2.fr) and Jamie Humphrey (RSC Publishing; NJC@rsc.org)
Editors
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Plate1 Denise Parent and Mir Wais Hosseini |
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