Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications: Volume 1993 (1993)

Issue: 1

• Contents pages (pp. P001-P004)
• Editorial (pp. 1-1) Frey, H. M.; Whitington, Peter; Bradley, David
• Front cover (pp. X001-X002)
• Notice to authors, 1992 (pp. 2-5)
• Back cover (pp. X003-X004)
• Michael addition of silylated telluronium allylide to α,β-unsaturated esters: facile and stereoselective synthesis of trimethylsilylvinylcyclopropane derivatives (pp. 7-9) Huang, Yao-Zeng; Tang, Yong; Zhou, Zhang-Lin; Huang, Ji-Ling
• Novel cycloadducts from the reactions of 2,5-dichloro-1,1,1,6,6,6-hexafluoro-3,4-diazahexa-2,4-diene, hexafluoroacetone azine and the azomethine imide, 2-hexafluoroisopropylidene-3-methyl-3-phenyl-5,5-bis(trifiuoromethyl)-tetrahydropyrazol-2-ium-1-ide with quadricyclane (pp. 9-11) Barlow, Michael G.; Suliman, Nadia N.; Tipping, Anthony E.
• Proximal intraannular modifications of calix[4]arene via its spirodienone derivative (pp. 11-13) Aleksiuk, Oleg; Grynszpan, Flavio; Biali, Silvio E.
• Phosphorus polybridged calixarenes (pp. 13-16) Grynszpan, Flavio; Aleksiuk, Oleg; Biali, Silvio E.
• A novel synthesis of 4-cyanoethylisoxazoies (pp. 17-18) Yamauchi, Masashige; Akiyama, Shin-Ichi; Watanabe, Toshio; Okamura, Kimio; Date, Tadamasa
• Strong adsorption of dinitrogen on copper-ion-exchanged mordenite at room temperature (pp. 18-20) Kuroda, Yasushige; Konno, Shin-Ichi; Morimoto, Kazuya; Yoshikawa, Yuzo
• Electrocatalytic generation of C2 and C3 compounds from carbon dioxide on a cobalt complex-immobilized dual-film electrode (pp. 20-21) Ogura, Kotaro; Mine, Kenichi; Yano, Jun; Sugihara, Hideaki
• Synthesis, crystal and molecular structure of calcium oxo ethoxide, [Ca6(µ4-O)2(µ3-OEt)4(OEt)4]·14EtOH (pp. 21-23) Turova, Nataliya Ya.; Turevskaya, Evgeniya P.; Kessler, Vadim G.; Yanovsky, Alexander I.; Struchkov, Yuri T.
• Highly selective stereochemically controlled five-versus six-membered acetal ring cyclisation (pp. 23-25) Leonard, John; Mohialdin, Soad; Reed, Darrell; Ryan, Gary; Jones, Martin F.
• Electrified microheterogeneous catalysis in low ionic strength media (pp. 25-27) Rolison, Debra R.; Stemple, Joseph Z.
• Lipase-catalysed selective deacetylation of peracetylated benzopyranones (pp. 27-29) Parmar, Virinder S.; Prasad, Ashok K.; Sharma, Nawal K.; Vardhan, Anand; Pati, Hari N.; Sharma, Sunil K.; Bisht, Kirpal S.
• Synthesis of the first bimetallic barium yttrium oxo alkoxide: crystal structure of [Y4Ba2(µ6-O)(µ3-OEt)8(dpm)6][dpm = ButC(O)CHC(O)But] (pp. 29-31) Miele, Philippe; Foulon, Jean Dominique; Hovnanian, Nadine; Cot, Louis
• Specific and non-specific interaction between double perfluoroalkyl-chain steroidal glycoside monolayers and cellulase at the air–water interfaces (pp. 31-32) Tian, Yongchi; Lian, Bo; Li, Zhengqiang; Liang, Yingqiu; Lu, Long; Huang, Weiyuan
• Highly selective Pt–Cr/C alloy catalysts for single-step vapour phase hydrogenation of phenol to give cyclohexanone (pp. 33-34) Srinivas, S. T.; Rao, P. Kanta
• Conformational properties of octahydroxy[1.4]metacyclophanes with unsubstituted methylene bridges (pp. 34-35) Konishi, Hisatoshi; Morikawa, Osamu
• Demetallation of a dimolybdenum cyclotetraphosphoxane cage complex and the syntheses of heterobimetallic cages (pp. 35-37) Yang, Haiving; Wong, Edward H.; Rheingold, Arnold L.; Owens-Waltermire, Beth E.
• Crystal structure of a novel mixed valence Mo V –Mo VI heteropolymolybdate cluster: [H3O+]6[Mo57V6O183(NO)6(H2O)18]6–·89H2O (pp. 37-38) Zhang, Shi-Wei; Huang, Gui-Qing; Shao, Mei-Cheng; Tang, You-Qi
• N-hydroxy-N-pivaloylanilines: a new aziridinating agent (pp. 38-40) Pereira, M. Manuela; Santos, Pedro P. O.; Reis, Lucinda V.; Lobo, Ana M.; Prabhakar, Sundaresan
• Synthesis of a large cavity homoleptic thioether cage and its cobalt(III) complex (pp. 40-42) Osvath, Peter; Sargeson, Alan M.
• Surface-supported group 5 metal organometallic compounds for catalytic arene hydrogenation (pp. 42-44) Profilet, Robert D.; Rothwell, Arlene P.; Rothwell, Ian P.
• Synthesis and cocaine receptor affinities of 3-phenyl-2-(3′-methyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole-5′-yl)tropane isomers (pp. 44-46) Carroll, F. Ivy; Abraham, Philip; Kuzemko, Michael A.; Gray, Jeffrey L.; Lewin, Anita H.; Boja, John W.; Kuhar, Michael J.
• Acetylenic derivatives of [Fe2(CO)6(µ-Se2)]: acetylenic bond reduction on a selenium-stabilised Fe2Pt mixed-metal complex (pp. 46-48) Mathur, Pradeep; Hossain, Munkir; Das, Kalyan; Sinha, Umesh C.
• The gas-phase C6H4X– ion (X–= Br–, I–): a halide–benzyne complex (pp. 48-49) Linnert, Harrald V.; Riveros, José M.
• Biotransformation of unsaturated heterocyclic rings by Pseudomonas putida to yield cis-diols (pp. 49-51) Boyd, D. R.; Sharma, N. D.; Boyle, R.; McMurray, B. T.; Evans, T. A.; Malone, J. F.; Dalton, H.; Chima, J.; Sheldrake, G. N.
• Evidence for migration of molecules into the tunnel structure of urea inclusion compounds (pp. 51-53) Mahdyarfar, Ali; Harris, Kenneth D. M.
• A permethylated cyclic fructo-oligosaccharide host that can bind cations in solution (pp. 53-54) Takai, Yoshio; Okumura, Yasuo; Takahashi, Shigetoshi; Sawada, Masami; Kawamura, Mishio; Uchiyama, Takao
• Copper and nickel complexes of the new phosphadithiamacrocycle 1-phenyl-1-phospha-4,7-dithiacyclononane (pp. 54-56) Smith, Raymond J.; Powell, Anne K.; Barnard, Neil; Dilworth, Jonathan R.; Blower, Philip J.
• Disorder in a crystalline form of buckminsterfullerene: C60·4C6H6 (pp. 56-58) Balch, Alan L.; Lee, Joong W.; Noll, Bruce C.; Olmstead, Marilyn M.
• Separation of structural isomers of tetra-tert-butylphthalocyaninatonickel(II) (pp. 58-60) Hanack, Michael; Meng, Diya; Beck, Anton; Sommerauer, Michael; Subramanian, Lakshminarayanapuram R.
• Direct synthesis of a polyoxometallate-pillared layered double hydroxide by coprecipitation (pp. 60-62) Narita, Eiichi; Kaviratna, Padmananda D.; Pinnavaia, Thomas J.
• Stereoselective synthesis of rare (D and L) saccharides by a facile intramolecular rearrangement of hemiacetal heptanolactone alcohols (pp. 62-63) Mereyala, Hari Babu; Guntha, Sreenivasulu
• Elevated temperature gel permeation chromatography and electrochemical behaviour of the C84 fullerene (pp. 63-65) Meier, Mark S.; Guarr, Thomas F.; Selegue, John P.; Vance, Virginia K.
• (E)-β,γ-unsaturated amides from (E)-9-alkenyl-9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane and N,N-dialkyl(dimethylsulfuranylidene)acetamide (pp. 65-66) Deng, Min-Zhi; Li, Nan-Sheng; Huang, Yao-Zeng
• The palladium 4d cooper minimum: its application in assignment of the gas-phase photoelectron spectra of [Pd(η3-C3H5)2] (pp. 67-68) Li, Xiaorong; Bancroft, G. M.; Puddephatt, R. J.; Hu, Y. F.; Liu, Z.; Sutherland, D. G. J.; Tan, K. H.
• Hypercoordinate phosphorus in gold clusters: novel species [P(AuL)6]3+(BF4 –)3 (pp. 69-70) Zeller, Edgar; Schmidbaur, Hubert
• Synthesis of phospholipid headgroups via nucleophilic ring opening of 1,3,2-dioxaphospholanes (pp. 70-72) Kim, Ui T.; Hajdu, Joseph
• Preparation of β-bromodifluoromethyl-functionalized esters, nitrile and ketones via addition of dibromodifluoromethane to electron-deficient alkenes initiated by a CrCl3/Fe bimetal redox system (pp. 72-73) Hu, Chang-Ming; Chen, Jian
• Early precursors in the biosynthesis of cularine-type benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (pp. 73-75) Müller, Martin J.; Zenk, Meinhart H.
• In situ nuclear magnetic resonance study of allyl alcohol conversion on zeolites: evidence for an allyl cation intermediate (pp. 75-76) Munson, Eric J.; Xu, Teng; Haw, James F.
• The simplest process in the growth of carbon clusters: C2 formation from C1 following laser vaporization of graphite (pp. 77-78) Wakisaka, Akihiro; Sato, Hideki; Gaumet, J. J.; Shimizu, Yukio; Tamori, Yukio; Tsuchiya, Masahiro; Tokumaru, Katsumi
• Improved separation in the solvent extraction of lanthanides by β-diketones through a controlled separation of the two donating oxygens (pp. 78-79) Umetani, Shigeo; Kawase, Yusuke; Takahara, Hideki; Le, Quyen Thi Hanh; Matsui, Masakazu
• Keruffaride, a new all-ciscyclopentanepentol-containing metabolite from the okinawan marine sponge luffariella sp. (pp. 79-81) Kobayashi, Jun'Ichi; Zeng, Chun-Min; Ishibashi, Masami
• The mechanism of the mitsunobu reaction and its application to CO2 fixation (pp. 81-82) Kodaka, Masato; Tomohiro, Takenori; Okuno, Hiroaki (Yohmei)
• Linear molecular-mass dependence of second hyperpolarizabilities: lack of polar enhancement in nonconjugated molecules (pp. 83-84) Kost, Daniel; Yeates, Alan T.; Dudis, Douglas S.
• Radical-induced redox and addition reactions with C60 studied by pulse radiolysis (pp. 84-86) Guldi, Dirk M.; Hungerbühler, Hartmut; Janata, Eberhard; Asmus, Klaus-Dieter
• Synthesis of phthalides through palladium-catalysed heteroannulation of acetylenic compounds (pp. 86-88) Kundu, Nitya G.; Pal, Manojit
• Redox behaviour of novel copper(II) crown ether–pyrazole complexes (pp. 88-90) Martens, Constantinus F.; Schenning, Albert P. H. J.; Gebbink, Robertus J. M. Klein; Feiters, Martinus C.; van der Linden, Johannes G. M.; Heck, Jürgen; Nolte, Roeland J. M.
• Functionalized thiophenes: second-order nonlinear optical materials (pp. 90-92) Jen, Alex K-Y.; Rao, V. Pushkara; Wong, K. Y.; Drost, Kevin J.
• Oxalopeptides as core motifs for protein design (pp. 92-94) Ranganathan, Darshan; Vaish, Narendra K.; Shah, Kavita; Roy, Raja; Madhusudanan, K. P.
• Reductive acylation of α-keto azides derived from L-amino acids using N-protected L-aminothiocarboxylic S-acids (pp. 94-96) Mckervey, M. Anthony; O'Sullivan, Michael B.; Myers, Peter L.; Green, Richard H.
• A new hydrosol of gold clusters (pp. 96-98) Duff, Daniel G.; Baiker, Alfons; Edwards, Peter P.
• The oxygenation of the electron-rich triple bond in the complexes [Re2X4(µ-dppm)2][X = Cl or Br; dppm = bis(diphenylphosphino)methane]. Multielectron redox behaviour involving retention of the Re2X4P4 unit (pp. 98-100) Bartley, Stuart L.; Dunbar, Kim R.; Shih, Keng-Yu; Fanwick, Phillip E.; Walton, Richard A.

Issue: 2

• Contents pages (pp. P005-P008)
• Front cover (pp. X005-X006)
• Back cover (pp. X007-X008)
• A convenient synthesis of 2-trifluoromethylpyrroles via base-promoted cyclocondensation of trifluoromethyloxazolones with electron-deficient alkenes (pp. 101-102) Tian, Wei-Sheng; Luo, Yong-Rong; Chen, Yu-Qun; Yu, Ai-Jun
• Kinetic resolution of α-substituted ketones by Wittig reaction using a chiral tricyclic phosphonate (pp. 102-104) Narasaka, Koichi; Hidai, Eri; Hayashi, Yujiro; Gras, Jean-Louis
• Water exchange of intermediates in a non-haem iron, α-ketoglutarate dioxygenase, deacetoxy-/deacetylcephalosporin C synthase (pp. 105-108) Baldwin, Jack E.; Adlington, Robert M.; Crouch, Nicholas P.; Pereira, Inês A. C.; Aplin, Robin T.; Robinson, Carol
• The phenomenology of differently constructed Brønsted-type plots (pp. 109-110) Buncel, E.; Tarkka, R.; Hoz, S.
• 1D- and 2D-NMR studies of the pH effects on the metal-site geometry in nickel(II)–azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (pp. 110-112) Moratal, José-María; Salgado, Jesús; Donaire, Antonio; Jiménez, Hermas R.; Castells, Josep
• Formation of exocyclic olefinic groups via stereoselective nitrosations: a new route towards pendant arm macrocyclic ligands (pp. 113-114) Bernhardt, Paul V.; Comba, Peter
• A polar globular mesogen: synthesis of a tetrasubstituted tribenzosilatrane (pp. 114-115) Soulié, Corinne; Bassoul, Patrick; Simon, Jacques
• Methoxylated benzene sensitized photoformylation of aliphatic primary and secondary amines (pp. 115-116) Bhalerao, U. T.; Sridhar, M.
• Chiral alcoholates in asymmetric synthesis (pp. 116-117) Vadecard, Jérôme; Plaquevent, Jean-Christophe; Duhamel, Lucette; Duhamel, Pierre
• Palladium(II)-catalysed asymmetric acetalization of alkenes (pp. 117-119) Hosokawa, Takahiro; Yamanaka, Toshio; Murahashi, Shun-Ichi
• The stereocontrolled formation of 1,2,3-triols by yeast-mediated transformation of α-keto epoxides (pp. 119-120) Fouché(née van Vuuren), Gerda; Horak, R. Martinus; Meth-Cohn, Otto
• Use of electrospray mass spectrometry to investigate the inhibition of β-lactamases by 6-halogenopenicillanic acids (pp. 121-123) Aplin, Robin T.; Robinson, Carol V.; Schofield, Christopher J.; Waley, Stephen G.
• Building blocks for polymetallic ruthenium(II) and osmium(II) polypyridine luminophores (pp. 123-125) Sahni, Suresh K.; Drew, Michael G. B.; Bell, Thomas W.; Brunschwig, Bruce S.
• Stereocontrolled construction of substituted pyrrolidines based on intramolecular protodesilylation reaction. Enantiospecific synthesis of (–)-kainic acid and (+)-allokainic acid from L-serine (pp. 125-127) Hatakeyama, Susumi; Sugawara, Kazutoshi; Takano, Seiichi
• Hydrogen bonding in a ‘folded’ dimer: the crystal structure of N-hydroxy-5,5-dimethyl-2-pyrrolidone (pp. 128-129) Perkins, M. John; Setchell, Peter K.; Williams, David J.
• Efficient complexation of quaternary ammonium compounds by a new water-soluble macrobicyclic receptor molecule (pp. 129-131) Méric, Robert; Vigneron, Jean-Pierre; Lehn, Jean-Marie
• Synthesis and crystal and molecular structure of (Et4N)2[Mn10O2Cl8{(OCH2)3CMe}6]·4MeOH·2H2O, a Mn II,III mixed-valence cluster with the decametallate core geometry (pp. 131-133) Cavaluzzo, Michael; Chen, Qin; Zubieta, Jon
• Reduction of nitrosobenzene by 2-(α-hydroxyethyl)-3,4-dimethylthiazolium Salts (pp. 133-134) Ferreira, Luisa M.; Chaves, Humberto T.; Lobo, Ana M.; Prabhakar, Sundaresan; Rzepa, Henry S.
• Sigmatropic 1,3-acyl shift in excited state: a novel, stereoselective route to protoilludanoids (pp. 134-136) Singh, Vishwakarma; Porinchu, Mini
• Solvated gold(I) in acetonitrile with inert counterions: a versatile starting material for gold(I) chemistry (pp. 136-137) Kissner, Reinhard; Latal, Petr; Geier, Gerhard
• A new reaction for the preparation of acetylenic alcohols from lactones (pp. 137-138) Yadav, J. S.; Prahlad, V.; Chander, Madhavi C.
• Aerobic oxidations of alkanes and alkenes in the presence of aldehydes catalysed by copper salts (pp. 139-140) Murahashi, Shun-Ichi; Oda, Yoshiaki; Naota, Takeshi; Komiya, Naruyoshi
• Kinetics and mechanism of syn-elimination of ammonia from (2S,3R)-3-methylaspartic acid by methylaspartase (pp. 140-142) Archer, Catherine H.; Gani, David
• Novel ring opening and halogen transfer from platinum(II) to phosphorus in the reaction of [PtCl2(CNR)2](R = But,p-MeOC6H4) with the phosphirene ring PPhCPhCPh. Crystal and molecular structure of the dimeric chlorophosphane complex [PtCl(PClPhCPhCPh)(CNBut)]2 (pp. 142-143) Ajulu, Florence A.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Mathey, François; Michelin, Rino A.; Nixon, John F.; Pombeiro, A. J. L.
• Acid-catalysed thermal rearrangement of γ,δ-unsaturated ketones (pp. 143-145) Srikrishna, Adusumilli; Krishnan, Kathiresan; Vankateswarlu, Somepalli
• Anion inclusion by a calix[4]arene complex: a contrast between tetranuclear gold(I) and copper(I) complexes (pp. 145-147) Xu, Wei; Rourke, Jonathon P.; Vittal, Jagadese J.; Puddephatt, Richard J.
• A novel ring expansion reaction in the reduction of benzylic methoxyamines with lithium aluminium hydride (pp. 147-148) Booth, Susan E.; Jenkins, Paul R.; Swain, Christopher J.
• Strained molecules: crystal structure of 2,2,3-triphenyl-1-azabicyclo[1.1.0]butane (pp. 148-149) Bartnik, Romuald; Cebulska, Zofia; Faure, René
• Identification of sugar degradation intermediates in a metalloporphyrin mediated DNA cleavage resulting from hydroxylation at C-5′ (pp. 149-151) Pratviel, Geneviève; Pitié, Marguerite; Périgaud, Christian; Gosselin, Gilles; Bernadou, Jean; Meunier, Bernard
• Construction of a key intermediate in the asymmetric synthesis of chiral taxanes (pp. 151-152) Boa, Andrew N.; Clark, Jonathan; Jenkins, Paul R.; Lawrence, Nicholas J.
• Crystal engineering: hydrogen-bonded salts of hydroxybenzoic acids for second harmonic generation (pp. 152-156) Aakeröy, Christer B.; Bahra, Gurmit S.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Patell, Yasmin; Seddon, Kenneth R.
• Stereochemistry of allylic alkylation of the tetracarbonyliron complexes of (R)-1-acetyl-5-isopropoxy-3-pyrrolin-2-one (pp. 156-158) Koot, Wim-Jan; Hiemstra, Henk; Speckamp, W. Nico
• A novel synthesis of cyclopenta- and cyclohexa-[d]xanthones from the reaction between cycloalkyl enamines and 2-hydroxyphenylpentene-1,3-diones, and their rearrangement to cyclopenta- and cyclohexa-[a]xanthones (pp. 159-160) Letcher, Roy M.; Yue, Tai-Yuen; Cheung, Kung-Kai
• The 4-protoadamantyl → 2-adamantyl rearrangement; chirality of the 2-adamantyl cation (pp. 160-161) Herpers, Ekkehard; Kirmse, Wolfgang
• Aminoporphyrinic acid as a new template for polypeptide design (pp. 162-163) Nishino, Norikazu; Mihara, Hisakazu; Kiyota, Hiroshi; Kobata, Kelsuke; Fujimoto, Tsutomu
• Activation of terminal alkynes with cis-[RuCl2(Ph2PCH2PPH2)2]: new vinylidene– and acetylide–ruthenium complexes and crystal structures of [(Ph2PCH2PPH2)2(Cl)RuCCH2]PF6 and [(Ph2PCH2PPH2)2(Cl)RuCCH] complexes (pp. 163-165) Haquette, Pierre; Pirio, Nadine; Touchard, Daniel; Toupet, Loïc; Dixneuf, Pierre H.
• Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure analysis of a novel µ4-oxo undeca-osmium carbonyl cluster [Os11(µ4-O)3(CO)30] (pp. 166-167) Ingham, Scott L.; Lewis, Jack; Raithby, Paul R.
• The mechanism of synthesis and the unexpected structure of the cluster [Pt2Re2(µ-CO)2(CO)6(µ-dppm)2](dppm = Ph2PCH2PPh2) (pp. 167-169) Xiao, Jianliang; Vittal, Jagadese J.; Puddephatt, Richard J.
• Retro-Cope eliminations in the synthesis of 1,2,5-oxadiazinanes from allylamines and nitrones: a method for the amination of unactivated alkenes (pp. 169-171) Gravestock, Michael B.; Knight, David W.; Thornton, Steven R.
• Cyclization reactions terminated by enamides and enecarbamates (pp. 171-172) Angle, Steven R.; Frutos, Rogelio P.
• Preparation and characterization of conducting polymers based on 1,3-di(2-thienyl)benzo [c]thiophene (pp. 172-174) Musmanni, S.; Ferraris, J. P.
• Biomimetic synthesis of nazlinin: a structural revision (pp. 174-175) Wanner, Martin J.; Velzel, Arjen W.; Koomen, Gerrit-Jan
• Preparation and X-ray crystal structure of the triply hydrazide-bridged complex [NH2Me2]2[{VCl3}2(µ-NNME2)3]: a species derived from the disproportionation of SiMe3NHNME2 (pp. 175-176) Le Floc'h, Christine; Henderson, Richard A.; Hughes, David L.; Richards, Raymond L.
• Enantiodivergent route to conduritol C via lipase-mediated asymmetrization (pp. 177-178) Takano, Seiichi; Moriya, Minoru; Higashi, Yasuhiro; Ogasawara, Kunio
• Unprecedented carbon–nitrogen bond formation in aqua(ethylenediaminetripropionato)chromium(III) with hydroxycarboxylic acids (pp. 178-179) Sakagami, Narumi; Kaizaki, Sumio
• Microemulsion-based electrosynthesis of polyparaphenylene (pp. 179-181) Phani, K. L. N.; Pitchumani, S.; Ravichandran, S.; Selvan, S. Tamil; Bharathey, S.
• β-Hydroxy sulfoximines as catalysts for the enantioselective alkylation of aldehydes (pp. 182-183) Bolm, Carsten; Müller, Jürgen; Schlingloff, Gunther; Zehnder, Margarets; Neuburger, Markus
• The isolation and X-ray structure determination of an active intermediate in the accelerated sulfur vulcanization of alkenes (pp. 183-184) Versloot, Peter; van Duin, Martin; Haasnoot, Jaap G.; Reedijk, Jan; Spek, Anthony L.
• Promoting effects of Sn on NO dissociation and NO reduction with H2 on Rh–Sn/SiO2 catalysts (pp. 184-185) Tomishige, Keiichi; Asakura, Kiyotaka; Iwasawa, Yasuhiro
• Novel mono-and bis-metallated complexes of dialkyldiaziridines; X-ray diffraction structures of three platinum complexes (pp. 186-187) Adedapo, Adeyemi; Avent, Anthony G.; Carmichael, Duncan; Chaloner, Penny A.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Wagenaar, Audrey
• Aqueous catalytic dimerisation of ethylene: characterization of the reaction intermediates [Ru(CH2CH2)(H2O)5](tos)2 and [Ru(CH2CH2)2(H2O)4](tos)2(tos = toluene-p-sulfonate) (pp. 187-189) Laurenczy, G.; Merbach, A. E.
• Preparation and crystal structures of aluminium hydride adducts with tetrahydrofuran [AlH3·OC4H8]2 and AlH3·2OC4H8 (pp. 189-190) Gorrell, Ian B.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Smith, J. David
• Modelling radical-initiated DNA cleavage by vinyl epoxides (pp. 191-192) Breen, Anthony P.; Murphy, John A.
• Radical-induced DNA cleavage mediated by a vinyl expoxide (pp. 193-194) Breen, Anthony P.; Murphy, John A.
• A novel synthetic metal catalytic system for dehydrogenative oxidation based on redox of polyaniline (pp. 194-195) Hirao, Toshikazu; Higuchi, Masayoshi; Ikeda, Isao; Ohshiro, Yoshiki
• Control of helix–helix association induced by alkali metal ions in α-helical polypeptide having a terminal crown ether (pp. 196-197) Minoura, Norihiko
• Metathesis vs. Polymerization of terminal acetylenes over [W(CBut)(OBut)3] (pp. 197-199) Bray, Alvar; Mortreux, André; Petit, Francis; Petit, Michèle; Szymanska-Buzar, Teresa
• The preparation and characterization of the paramagnetic solid bis(1,2,3,4-trithiazolium)bis(hexafluoroarsenate) containing the dioxygen-like dication diradical ˙+SSSNCCNSSS+˙ (pp. 199-201) Boyle, Paul D.; Parsons, Simon; Passmore, Jack; Wood, Dale J.
• Synthesis of tricarbonyliron(0) complexes of itaconic acid derivatives (pp. 201-203) Alt, Carmen; Griffiths, Siân L.; Marcos, Carlos F.; Salter, Matthew M.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Thomas, Susan E.; Williams, David J.
• 6-S-hydroxyethylated 6-thiocyclodextrins: expandable host molecules (pp. 203-205) Ling, Chang-Chun; Darcy, Raphael
• Stereospecific lysis of a range of β-hydroxy-α-amino acids catalysed by a novel aldolase from Streptomyces amakusaensis (pp. 205-206) Herbert, Richard B.; Wilkinson, Barrie; Ellames, George J.; Kunec, Ellen K.
• Framework coordination chemistry; generalised entry into a new class of supramolecular compounds exemplified by the structures of [Mn2(ebpy)3(NO3)4] n [where ebpy =N,N′-ethylenebis(2-pyridone)] and [Er2(ebpyrr)3(NO3)6] n [where ebpyrr =N,N′-ethyienebis(2-pyrrolidone)] (pp. 207-209) Doyle, Garry A.; Goodgame, David M. L.; Hill, Stuart P. W.; Williams, David J.
• Conversion of adducts formed from tricarbonyl(vinylketene)iron(0) complexes and alkynes into cyclopentenediones and phenols (pp. 209-211) Morris, K. Gail; Saberi, Stephen P.; Thomas, Susan E.
• Reversed chemoselectivity in titanium-induced coupling reactions: syntheses of salvadoricine and diazepam (pp. 211-212) Fürstner, Alois; Jumbam, Denis N.

Issue: 3

• Contents pages (pp. P009-P012)
• Front cover (pp. X009-X010)
• Back cover (pp. X011-X012)
• Overcrowded enes of the tricycloindane-1,3-dione series: interplay of twisting, folding and pyramidalization (pp. 213-215) Stezowski, John J.; Biedermann, P. Ulrich; Hildenbrand, Thomas; Dorsch, John A.; Eckhardt, Craig J.; Agranat, Israel
• Accelerated displacement of duplex DNA strands by a synthetic circular oligodeoxynucleotide (pp. 215-216) Perkins, Thomas A.; Goodman, Joshua L.; Kool, Eric T.
• An expeditious synthesis of highly substituted 1,4-diazepines and their rearrangement into 2H-1,3-oxazines (pp. 217-218) Barluenga, José; Tomáas, Miguel; Bailesteros, Alfredo; Kong, Jian-She; García-Granda, Santiago; Aguirre, Angel
• Synthesis of an (alkylperoxy)-λ3-iodane by the reaction of 1-hydroxy-1λ3,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one with 1,3-bis(trimethylsilyl)-3-methylbut-1-yne (pp. 218-220) Ochiai, Masahito; Ito, Takao; Shiro, Motoo
• Light-induced oxygen incision of C60 (pp. 220-222) Taliani, C.; Ruani, G.; Zamboni, R.; Danieli, R.; Rossini, S.; Denisov, V. N.; Burlakov, V. M.; Negri, F.; Orlandi, G.; Zerbetto, F.
• Electrocatalysis of poly(thionine)-modified electrodes for oxidation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (pp. 222-224) Ohsaka, Takeo; Tanaka, Koichiro; Tokuda, Koichi
• Complete reversal of stereoselectivity in cyclopropanation of 2-arylidene-1-tetralone tricarbonylchromium complexes (pp. 224-226) Ganesh, Sambasivam; Sathe, Kashinath M.; Nandi, Malay; Chakrabarti, Pinak; Sarkar, Amitabha
• A high-resolution synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction study of trans-stilbene in zeolite ZSM-5 (pp. 226-228) Parise, J. B.; Hriljac, J. A.; Cox, D. E.; Corbin, D. R.; Ramamurthy, V.
• Dicarboxylate anion recognition by a redox-responsive ditopic bis(cobalticinium) calix[4]arene receptor molecule (pp. 229-231) Beer, Paul D.; Drew, Michael G. B.; Hazlewood, Clare; Hesek, Dusan; Hodacova, Jana; Stokes, Sally E.
• Intramolecular photocyclisation of molecules containing both 3-phenylcyclopentenone and uracil rings (pp. 231-232) Kavanagh, Pierce V.; Kelly, John M.; McMurry, T. Brian H.; James, John P.
• The reactions of 2,3-epoxyaldehydes with methoxymethylenetriphenylphosphorane. Enantioselective syntheses of (E)-4-hydroxyalk-2-enals (pp. 232-234) Yu, Libing; Wang, Zhiqin
• One step synthesis of acetonitrile from ethanol via ammoxidation over Sb–V–P–O/Al2O3 catalyst (pp. 234-235) Reddy, Benjaram M.; Manohar, Basude
• Synthesis of M2Ag6S4(M = Na, K) in supercritical ethylenediamine solvent: a novel solid containing unusual closed-shell bonding (pp. 235-236) Wood, Paul T.; Pennington, William T.; Kolis, Joseph W.
• A new micelle-forming peptide (pp. 237-238) Mandal, Asit Baran; Jayakumar, Rajadas
• Small depsipeptides as solvent gelators (pp. 238-240) de Vries, Erik J.; Kellogg, Richard M.
• Efficient catalytic epoxidation of alkenes by a manganese porphyrin and periodate in the presence of imidazole (pp. 240-241) Mohajer, Daryoush; Tangestaninejad, Shahram
• Characterization of the first steps in electropolymerization by photocurrent spectroscopy (pp. 241-242) Kankare, Jouko; Vuorinen, Virpi; Alanko, Mika; Lukkari, Jukka
• Self-assembly of a bisporphyrin supramolecular cage induced by molecular recognition between complementary hydrogen bonding sites (pp. 243-245) Drain, C. M.; Fischer, Rüdiger; Nolen, Ernest G.; Lehn, Jean-Marie
• The stereochemistry of the 1,4-elimination of thiocyanic acid from hex-3-ene-2,5-diyl dithiocyanates (pp. 246-248) Schoepfer, Joseph; Eichenberger, Eugen; Neier, Reinhard
• Synthesis and reactivity of bis(η-1,4-di-tert-butylbuta-1,3-diene)cobalt; the X-ray crystal structure of the anionic butadiene sandwich complex [K(18-crown-6)(thf)2][Co(η-C4H4But 2)2] (pp. 248-250) Cloke, F. Geoffrey N.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; McCamley, Andrew
• ‘Nonvertical’ triplet energy transfer to cyclooctatetraene: support for the single-bond torsion mechanism (pp. 250-251) Forward, P. J.; Gorman, A. A.; Hamblett, I.
• High-resolution solid-state 13C and 29Si NMR investigations of the dynamic properties of tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)silane (pp. 251-253) Aliev, Abil E.; Harris, Kenneth D. M.; Apperley, David C.
• The first silica-pillared layered niobate (pp. 253-254) Hou, Wenhua; Peng, Bingcheng; Van, Qijie; Fu, Xiancai; Shi, Gaoquan
• Charge localization by the gegenion: the electronic structure and energies of the alkali metal acetaldehyde enolates (pp. 255-256) Lambert, Christoph; Wu, Yuri-Dong; Schleyer, Paul Von Ragué
• Direct alkylacylation of arenes by alkanes and cycloalkanes in the presence of aprotic superacids (pp. 257-258) Akhrem, Irena; Orlinkov, Alexander; Vol'Pin, Mark
• Dual ion transport during electrochemical switching of conducting polymer bilayers (pp. 258-260) Pyo, Myoungho; Reynolds, John R.
• Agostic Pd ⋯ H+⋯ NHR2 and apical Pd ⋯ NHR2 interactions: the synthesis and structures of [Pd II Cl2(H[9]aneN3)]+, the Pd II –Pd II dimer [(H[9]aneN3)Cl2Pd–PdCl2(H[9]aneN3)]2+, and [Pd(Me3[9]aneN3)(NCMe)2]2+ (pp. 260-262) Blake, Alexander J.; Holder, Alan J.; Roberts, Yvonne V.; Schröder, Martin
• Optical activity of a chiral bicyclic orthoester (pp. 262-263) Davar, Irma; Gedanken, Aharon; Menge, Wiro; Verkade, J. G.
• Michael addition of poly-L-lysine to N-acryloylated sialosides. Syntheses of influenza A virus haemagglutinin inhibitor and group B meningococcal polysaccharide vaccinest (pp. 264-265) Roy, Rene; Pon, Robert A.; Tropper, François D.; Andersson, Fredrik O.
• Metallaoxetene formation by coupling of carbamoyl and difluorocarbene ligands (pp. 266-267) Anderson, Stephen; Hill, Anthony F.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Williams, David J.
• Synthesis and structural characterisation of the first example of a 3, 3′-diphospha-1,1′-biphospholyl ring system; crystal and molecular structure of P4C6But 6 (pp. 267-269) Al-Juaid, Salih S.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Matos, Robson M.; Nixon, John F.
• Efficient synthesis of functionalised ten-membered lactones via acid-catalysed intramolecular reactions of 5-(tetrahydro 2-furyl)pentanoic trifluoroacetic anhydride (pp. 269-270) Grayson, David H.; Roycroft, Edwin D.
• Diels–Alder intramolecular cycloaddition of vinylallenyl cycloalken-3-yl ethers (pp. 270-271) Dulcère, J. P.; Agati, V.; Faure, R.
• Novel tandem rearrangement of a steroidal ring Dcycloadduct derived from 2-chloroacrylonitrile (pp. 271-273) Bull, James R.; Grundler, Claudia; Niven, Margaret L.
• Stereochemical course of ring formation in fumitremorgin B and verruculogen, metabolites of Penicillium verruculosum: investigation into the loss of stereochemical integrity of the geminal methyl groups (pp. 274-275) Vleggaar, Robert; Horak, R. Marthinus; Maharaj, Vinesh J.
• A novel stereoselective synthesis of the macrocycle of haem d1 that establishes its absolute configuration as 2R,7R (pp. 275-277) Micklefield, Jason; Mackman, Richard L.; Aucken, Christopher J.; Beckmann, Marion; Block, Michael H.; Leeper, Finian J.; Battersby, Alan R.
• A facile preparation of rubidium and caesium selenocarboxylates (pp. 277-278) Kawahara, Yasuyuki; Kato, Shinzi; Kanda, Takahiro; Murai, Toshiaki; Ishihara, Hideharu
• Stabilization of a cobalt(II) phthalocyanine oxidation catalyst by intercalation in a layered double hydroxide host (pp. 278-280) Chibwe, Malama; Pinnavaia, Thomas J.
• A facile route to the benzooxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane (2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-2,5-methano-1-benzoxepine) system: application to a short synthesis of filiformin (pp. 281-282) Nath, Asok; Venkateswaran, Ramanathapuram V.
• Detection of octaethylverdohaem π-neutral radical by electrochemical-optical absorption and -ESR measurements (pp. 282-284) Tajima, Kunihiko; Tada, Kohji; Yasui, Akiko; Ohya-Nishiguchi, Hiroaki; Ishizu, Kazuhiko
• The first unsubstituted metallabenzene complex [Ru2(η5-C5Me5)2(η2,η5-C5H5)(SiMe3)] (pp. 284-285) Lin, Wenbin; Wilson, Scott R.; Girolami, Gregory S.
• A radical cyclisation strategy to α-spiro-β-methylene-γ-butyrolactones. Total synthesis of (±)-norbakkenolide-A (pp. 285-288) Srikrishna, Adusumilli; Nagaraju, Sankuratri; Sharma, G. Veera Raghava
• Sterically overcrowded alkenes; a stereospecific photochemical and thermal isomerization of a benzoannulated bithioxanthylidene (pp. 288-290) Feringa, Ben L.; Jager, Wolter F.; de Lange, Ben
• The aquated form of cisplatin selectively attacks at the G[3] site in d(GTG) (pp. 290-291) Garner, Mark; Green, Michael; Boogaard, Nelleke; Reedijk, Jan
• Convergent synthesis of the spiroacetal fragment of milbemycin β1 (pp. 291-292) Rychnovsky, Scott D.; Griesgraber, George
• Cyclopenta-1,2,3-dithiazoles and related compounds (pp. 293-294) Plater, M. John; Rees, Charles W.; Roe, David G.; Torroba, Tomás
• The influence of anchoring substitution in 1,3-amino alcohols on the rate and mechanism of esterification by acetylimidazole and by p-nitrophenyl acetate (pp. 294-295) Steels, Ivan; De Clercq, Pierre J.; Maskill, Howard
• Tetrathiafulvalene as a catalyst for radical–polar crossover reactions (pp. 295-297) Lampard, Christopher; Murphy, John A.; Lewis, Norman
• Photoaddition reaction of 1,2-dialkyl-indoles and -pyrroles to 1-methyl-2-pyridone via proton transfer from the 2-methylene group of the indole or pyrrole (pp. 297-298) Sakurai, Nobuhiro; Ohmiya, Shigeru
• Reactivity of 12π-electron arenothiazines: synthesis and molecular structure of triphenyl[(4,5,6,7-tetrafluoro-1,2λ4δ2,3-benzodithiazol-2-yl)imino]-λ5-phosphane (pp. 298-299) Zibarev, Andrey V.; Gatilov, Yuri V.; Bagryanskaya, Irina Yu.; Maksimov, Alexander M.; Miller, Alexey O.
• Photoreduction of cyanine borate infrared absorbing dyes (pp. 299-301) Matsuoka, Masaru; Hikida, Toshihiko; Murobushi, Katsumi; Hosoda, Yoshikazu
• Synthesis and characterisation of [Ru5C(CO)11(µ2-η2:η2-C6H8-1,4)2]: the first example of cyclohexa-1,4-diene in a bridging coordination mode (pp. 301-302) Dyson, Paul J.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack; Braga, Dario; Sabatino, Piera
• 3-Ylomethylphenylnitrate a novel quartet species having doubly heterogeneous radical sites (N and C atom; S= 1 and 1/2 center) in a π-conjugated molecule (pp. 302-304) Tukada, Hideyuki
• 2-Bromoamides as synthons for pseudopeptides containing aminodicarboxy units (pp. 304-305) D'Angeli, Ferruccio; Marchetti, Paolo; Salvador, Severe; Balboni, Gianfranco
• Synthesis of a 1,3-bis(indoaniline)-derived calix[4]arene as an optical sensor for calcium ion (pp. 305-307) Kubo, Yuji; Hamaguchi, Shin-Ichi; Niimi, Atsuko; Yoshida, Katsuhira; Tokita, Sumio
• Synthesis and structure of a product, formed during DNA nicking with a cyclometallated nuclease, consisting of an adenine bridging two palladium(II) complexes (pp. 307-309) Suggs, J. William; Dube, Michael J.; Nichols, Michael
• Synthesis and structural characterization of a new mineralomimetic ion, [Cd2(CN)7]3– (pp. 309-310) Kitazawa, Takafumi; Takeda, Masuo
• Synthesis and molecular structure of an unsymmetric dimanganese(II) carboxylato complex (pp. 310-311) Osawa, Masahisa; Singh, Udai P.; Tanaka, Masako; Moro-Oka, Yoshihiko; Kitajima, Nobumasa
• First example of a phosphino-phosphinidene complex. Crystal and molecular structure of the novel triruthenium carbonyl cluster complex [Ru3(CO)9(P5C5But 5)] containing a phosphino-phosphinidene, acting as a six-electron donor (pp. 311-313) Bartsch, Rainer; Hitchcock, Pater B.; Nixon, John F.
• Coordinative stabilization of a phosphido-phosphinidene ligand (pp. 313-314) Scherer, Otto J.; Winter, Rainer; Wolmershäuser, Gotthelf
• A tetraphos ligand with C3 symmetry (pp. 314-316) Baker, Michael J.; Pringle, Paul G.
• The regioselective hydroformylation of allyl acetate catalysed by cationic and zwitterionic rhodium complexes (pp. 316-317) Alper, Howard; Zhou, Jian-Quiang
• N–Hvis. C–H activation; a major ligand size effect (pp. 318-319) Schulz, Michael; Milstein, David
• An expeditious stereoselective synthesis of functionalized seven-membered carbocycles by reaction of 2-aminobuta-1,3-dienes with vinylchromium fischer type carbenes (pp. 319-321) Barluenga, José; Aznar, Fernando; Martín, Alfredo; García-Granda, Santiago; Salvadó, Miguel A.; Pertierra, Pilar
• Crystal engineering: helical tubuland diol–phenol cocrystals (pp. 322-323) Ung, Alison T.; Bishop, Roger; Craig, Donald C.; Dance, Ian G.; Scudder, Marcia L.
• Vanadium-catalysed novel oxidation of arylacetic esters for the synthesis of arylglyoxylic esterst (pp. 323-324) Choudary, B. M.; Reddy, G. Vidya Sagar; Rao, K. Koteswara
• A new type of phosphabenzene coordination (pp. 325-326) Arce, Alejandro J.; Deeming, Antony J.; Sanctis, Ysaura De; Manzur, Jorge
• Enantiomerically pure compound synthesis by asymmetric glyoxylate–ene reaction with vinylic sulfides and selenides catalysed by a chiral titanium complex (pp. 327-328) Terada, Masahiro; Matsukawa, Satoru; Mikami, Koichi
• Unprecedented stereoselectivity in the addition of organoiron(II) reagents to cyclohexanone derivatives (pp. 328-330) Reetz, Manfred T.; Stanchev, Stephan
• One-step synthesis of adiponitrile by catalytic ammoxidation over antimony–vanadium phosphorus oxide/γ-alumina catalyst (pp. 330-331) Reddy, B. Mahipal; Manohar, B.
• A fluorescent α-cyclodextrin as a sensor for detecting aliphatic alcohols by dual fluorescence arising from normal planar and twisted intramolecular charge transfer excited states (pp. 331-333) Hamasaki, Keita; Ueno, Akihiko; Toda, Fujio
• One-, two- and three-electron reduction of C60 using the electron-reservoir complex [FeI(C5H5)(C6Me6)] (pp. 333-334) Bossard, Céline; Rigaut, Stéphana; Astruc, Didier; Delville, Marie-Hélène; Félix, Guy; Février-Bouvier, Annie; Amiell, Jean; Flandrois, Serge; Delhaès, Pierre
• Crystal and molecular structure of bismuth( III ) 2,2-dimethylpropanoate (pp. 335-336) Troyanov, Sergey I.; Pisarevsky, Alexander P.

Issue: 4

• Contents pages (pp. P013-P016)
• Front cover (pp. X013-X014)
• Back cover (pp. X015-X016)
• Design of a chemical nuclease model with (Lys)2Cu as the core motif (pp. 337-339) Ranganathan, Darshan; Patel, Bhisma Kumar; Mishra, Rakesh K.
• B-[E-3-(diphenylamino)allyl]diisopinocampheylborane: an excellent reagent for the stereoselective synthesis of anti-β-diphenylamino alcohols (pp. 339-341) Barrett, Anthony G. M.; Seefeld, Mark A.
• Pyruvate decarboxylase: a new enzyme for the production of acyloins by biotransformation (pp. 341-343) Křen, Vladimír; Grout, David H. G.; Dalton, Howard; Hutchinson, David W.; König, Wilfred; Turner, Margaret M.; Dean, Gregory; Thomson, Nicholas
• Control of chelation/nonchelation stereoselections in lanthanide-catalysed aldol reactions (pp. 343-345) Mikami, Koichi; Terada, Masahiro; Nakai, Takeshi
• Novel electron acceptors derived from isothianaphthene (pp. 345-347) Lorcy, Dominique; Robinson, Kerry D.; Okuda, Yoshihiro; Atwood, Jerry L.; Cava, Michael P.
• Carbon clusters vaporized directly from graphite through laser vaporization (pp. 347-348) Wakisaka, Akihiro; Gaumet, J. J.; Shimizu, Yukio; Tamori, Yukio
• Photoreduction of carbon dioxide on zinc sulfide to give four-carbon and two-carbon acids (pp. 349-350) Eggins, Brian R.; Robertson, Peter K. J.; Stewart, John H.; Woods, Elaine
• New unexpected coordination mode of azide acting as a bridging ligand between nickel(II) ions. Synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic properties of [Ni(N3)2(2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-diarnme)] n , and infinite bidimensional polymer (pp. 350-351) Monfort, Montserrat; Ribas, Joan; Solans, Xavier
• Bis-halo N,N-bisdimethylsilylmethylacetamides as dynamic probes for the effect of coordination on reactivity at silicon (pp. 352-353) Bassindale, Alan R.; Borbaruah, Moheswar
• Synthesis of binuclear platinum metal N4O2-compartmental complexes: the structures of the protonated metal-free macrocycle [LH4](PF6)2·MeNO2 and of [Pd2(L)](BF4)2·2MeNO2 (pp. 353-355) Atkins, Andrew J.; Blake, Alexander J.; Schröder, Martin
• Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal and molecular structure of a reduced, arsenic rich heteropolyanion, Na4[Mo4As6O20(OH)2]·9H2O (pp. 356-357) Khan, M. Ishaque; Chen, Qin; Zubieta, Jon
• First C4 bridged mixed-valence iron(II)–iron(III) complex delocalized on the infrared timescale (pp. 357-359) Narvor, Nathalie Le; Lapinte, Claude
• Eclipsed cofacial dimers of metal complexes containing d7–d7 and d8–d8 metal bonds. Crystal structure of bis[bis{(phenanthrene-9,10-diamin)ylato}cobalt(II)] and bis[{(2,3-dicyanoethenediamin)ylato}dicarbonylrhodium(I)] (pp. 359-361) Chern, Shuenn-Shing; Liaw, Ming-Chi; Peng, Shie-Ming
• The reaction of tungsten(VI) alkylidyne complexes with inorganic oxides: involvement of the resulting alkylidene ligand in olefin metathesis (pp. 361-362) Buffon, Regina; Leconte, Michael; Choplin, Agnès; Basset, Jean-Marie
• Chromium(II)-mediated conversion of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes to cyclopropanols (pp. 363-364) Montgomery, David; Reynolds, Karen; Stevenson, Paul
• Synthesis and structure of a new cis-1,3-dihydroxycyclohexane derivative having four convergent hydroxy groups (pp. 364-365) Hayashi, Takashi; Takagi, Hideki; Masuda, Hideki; Ogoshi, Hisanobu
• A novel approach to the histrionicotoxin framework (pp. 366-367) Parsons, Philip J.; Angell, Richard; Naylor, Alan; Tyrell, Elizabeth
• The cation-radical Cope rearrangement of 2,5-diphenylhexa-1,5-dienes under electron ionization (pp. 367-369) Ikeda, Hiroshi; Takasaki, Toshihiko; Takahashi, Yasutake; Miyashi, Tsutomu
• A reversible protecting group for the amide bond in peptides. Use in the synthesis of ‘difficult sequences’ (pp. 369-372) Johnson, T.; Quibell, M.; Owen, D.; Sheppard, R. C.
• 1,3-Azaprotio cyclotransfer. Nitrone-forming oxime–alkyne cyclisations (pp. 372-374) Grigg, Ronald; Perrior, Trevor R.; Sexton, Graham J.; Surendrakumar, Sivagnanasundram; Suzuki, Tekka
• Preparation of substitutes for CFCs. Catalytic properties of chromia for halogen exchange involving hydrogen fluoride and trifluorochloroethane (pp. 374-375) Barrault, J.; Brunet, S.; Requieme, B.; Blanchard, M.
• Novel reactions of alkynes on a coordinatively unsaturated diruthenium centre bridged by thiolate ligands. Syntheses and crystal structures of dinuclear ruthenacyclopentenyl complexes (pp. 375-377) Nishio, Masayuki; Matsuzaka, Hiroyuki; Mizobe, Yasushi; Hidai, Masanobu
• Formation of gold sols using ultrasound (pp. 378-379) Yeung, Stephen Au; Hobson, Rachel; Biggs, Simon; Grieser, Franz
• The absolute configuration of bacillariolides I and II, a new type of cyclopentane icosanoids from a marine diatom (pp. 379-381) Wang, Ronghua; Shimizu, Yuzuru; Steiner, Jorge Rios; Clardy, Jon
• Unusual hexameric structure in the crystal of sodium propylenediaminetetraacetatoeuropium(III) (pp. 381-383) Kabuto, Chizuko; Kabuto, Kuninobu; Sasaki, Yoichi; Nishiyama, Takeshi; Umakoshi, Keisuke
• Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate: a new anion for silylium cations in the condensed phase (pp. 383-384) Lambert, Joseph B.; Zhang, Shizhong
• A new weakly coordinating anion: approaching the silylium (silicenium) ion (pp. 384-386) Xie, Zuowei; Liston, David J.; Jelínek, Tomáš; Mitro, Velia; Bau, Robert; Reed, Christoper A.
• Palladiurn(0)-catalysed transfer hydrogenation of alkynes to cis-alkenes with HCO2H–NEt3 (pp. 386-387) Tani, Kousuke; Ono, Naoya; Okamoto, Sentaro; Sato, Fumie
• Anthracyclinones. Enantioselective synthesis of 9-alkyanthracyclinone via highly diastereocontrolled alkylation of 4-cyanofuranosugars (pp. 388-390) Cousson, Alain; Gouadec, Gwénola Le; Monneret, Claude; Florent, Jean-Claude
• Small molecular gelling agents to harden organic liquids: alkylamide of N-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-valyl-L-valine (pp. 390-392) Hanabusa, Kenji; Tange, Junko; Taguchi, Yoshikazu; Koyama, Toshiki; Shirai, Hirofusa
• A dibasic carbon centre: kinetic and thermodynamic studies on the deprotonation of trans-[MoCl(NCH2CO2Me)(Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2)2]+ (pp. 392-394) Henderson, Richard A.; Ibrahim, Saad K.; Pickett, Christopher J.
• A novel deoxygenation–isomerization reaction of 4-hydroxy-2-ynoic esters and γ-hydroxy-α,β-ynones (pp. 394-395) Guo, Cheng; Lu, Xiyan
• Photocatalytic reactions of acetic acid on platinum-loaded TiO2: ESR evidence of radical intermediates in the photo-Kolbe reaction (pp. 395-396) Kaise, M.; Kondoh, H.; Nishihara, C.; Nozoye, H.; Shindo, H.; Nimura, S.; Kikuchi, O.
• [SeIVS3 VIMo6O33]8––a novel cyclic polar heteropolyanion (pp. 397-399) Robl, Christian; Haake, Karin
• A novel receptor for dicarboxylic acid derivatives (pp. 399-401) Flack, Stephen S.; Chaumette, Jean-Louis; Kilburn, Jeremy D.; Langley, G. John; Webster, Michael
• Electric dichroism evidence for intercalation of optically active [Ru(bpy)2(phi)]2+(phi = 9,10-phenanthrenequinone diimine, bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl) by DNA (pp. 402-403) Naing, Kyaw; Takahashi, Masayuki; Taniguchi, Masahiro; Yamagishi, Akihiko
• Aluminophosphate molecular sieves comprised of hydrated triple crankshaft chains (pp. 403-405) Li, Hong-Xin; Davis, Mark E.; Higgins, John B.; Dessau, Ralph M.
• Selective Markovnikov's addition of trifluoroacetic acid to alkenes using vanadium(V) oxide (pp. 405-407) Choudary, B. M.; Reddy, P. N.
• The first stable 1,2-thiastannete and 1,2-selenastannete: their syntheses and crystal structures (pp. 407-409) Tokitoh, Norihiro; Matsuhashi, Yasusuke; Okazaki, Renji
• Photochemistry of dibenzo-1,4-dioxin: formation of 2,2′-biphenylquinone as an observable intermediate (pp. 409-410) Guan, Bing; Wan, Peter
• A convenient synthesis of dicarboxylic monoesters using isopropenyl esters: synthesis of oxaunomycin derivatives (pp. 410-412) Kita, Yasuyuki; Maeda, Hiroshi; Takahashi, Fumie; Fukui, Seiji
• The C6H6 potential-energy surface: automerization of benzene (pp. 412-414) Merz, Kenneth M.; Scott, Lawrence T.
• Tritiated diimide: a regio- and stereo-selective tritium-labelling reagent (pp. 414-416) Saljoughian, Manouchehr; Williams, Philip G.; Morimoto, Hiromi; Goodlett, David R.; van Breemen, Richard B.
• Covalently attached ferrocene and tetrathiafulvalene redox systems (pp. 417-419) Moore, Adrian J.; Skabara, Peter J.; Bryce, Martin R.; Batsanov, Andrei S.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Daley, Stephen T. A. K.
• The copper–carbon dioxide system, a new mild and selective catalyst for the methoxylation of non-activated aromatic bromides (pp. 419-420) Nobel, D.
• Novel synthesis of substituted cis-bicyclo[3.3.0]octanes via palladium-catalysed cyclisation and subsequent Baeyer–Villiger ring cleavage (pp. 420-422) Heumann, Andreas; Kaldy, Serge; Tenaglia, Alphonse
• Proton control of the conformation of a macrobicyclic ligand (pp. 422-424) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Clase, Howard J.; Errington, William; Stephenson, Neil A.; Wu, Wei; Busch, Daryle H.
• Determination of the relative and absolute configuration of Stigmatellin A by chemical correlation (pp. 424-426) Enders, Dieter; Osborne, Simon
• Pentadecavanadate, V15O42 9–, a new highly condensed fully oxidized isopolyvanadate with kinetic stability in water (pp. 426-428) Hou, Dong; Hagen, Karl S.; Hill, Craig L.
• Corrigenda (pp. 428-428) Collman, James P.; Zhang, Xumu; Lee, Virgil J.; Brauman, John I.; Tsuda, Tetsuo; Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi

Issue: 5

• Contents pages (pp. P017-P020)
• Front cover (pp. X017-X018)
• Back cover (pp. X019-X020)
• trans Ring-fused bicyclic structures by 6-exo-trigonal radical closure: use of the triethylborane–stannane–air system for intramolecular radical addition to aldehydes (pp. 429-430) Clive, Derrick L. J.; Postema, Maarten H. D.
• Preparation of thienyl-substituted fulvalene and tetrathiafulvalene vinylogues as electron donors and conductive complexes derived from one of them (pp. 431-432) Ohta, Akira; Kobayashi, Tomoshige; Kato, Hiroshi
• Synthesis and first hyperpolarizabilities of acceptor-substituted β-apo-8′-carotenal derived compounds (pp. 432-433) Gilmour, Sandra; Marder, Seth R.; Tiemann, Bruce G.; Cheng, Lap-Tak
• Long-range coupling in a mixed-valence diruthenium complexes containing bis-terpyridine ligands of various lengths as bridges (pp. 434-435) Collin, Jean-Paul; Lainé, Philippe; Launay, Jean-Pierre; Sauvage, Jean-Pierre; Sour, Angélique
• Kinetic resolution of (±)-cyclohex-1-enylsilanols by the sharpless asymmetric epoxidation (pp. 436-437) Yamamoto, Keiji; Kawanami, Yukio; Miyazawa, Masahiro
• Photoreaction of thiobenzamide with furans in methahol. Facile construction of the arylpyrrole ring system (pp. 437-438) Oda, Kazuaki; Machida, Minoru
• Cyclodextrin liquid crystals: synthesis and self-organisation of amphiphilic thio-β-cyclodextrins (pp. 438-440) Ling, Chang-Chun; Darcy, Raphael; Risse, Wilhelm
• Designing a non-centrosymmetric crystal: structure of 4′-cyano-2,6-dimethyl-4-hydroxyazobenzene (pp. 440-442) Sarma, Jagarlapudi A. R. P.; Dhurjati, Mudigonda S. K.; Bhanuprakash, K.; Ravikumar, K.
• Oxidation of primary aromatic amines to nitro derivatives catalysed by iron(III) and manganese(III) tetraaryl porphyrins (pp. 442-444) Tollari, Stefano; Vergani, Domenico; Banfi, Stefano; Porta, Francesca
• Lithium- and dimethylaluminium-di-2-pyridyl-phosphides: the first metal diorganophosphides without a metal–phosphorus bond within a contact ion pair (pp. 444-446) Steiner, Alexander; Stalke, Dietmar
• Construction of unusual metal clusters using dicarbon (C2) as a collar. Examples based on permetallabicyclo[2.2.0]hexane frameworks (pp. 446-450) Adams, Chris J.; Bruce, Michael I.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Dual one-centre frontier-orbital interactions in [2 + 2] cycloadditions of ketenes (pp. 450-452) Yamabe, Shinichi; Minato, Tsutomu; Osamura, Yoshihiro
• Near-infrared-absorbing squaraine dyes containing 2,3-dihydroperimidine terminal groups (pp. 452-454) Bello, Kasali A.; Corns, S. Nigel; Griffiths, John
• A heptamethylene bridged superphane of a Co(C5H5)-stabilized cyclobutadiene complex (pp. 454-456) Gleiter, Rolf; Pflästerer, Georg; Nuber, Bernhard
• Morphine recognition by a porphyrin–cyclocholate molecular bowl (pp. 456-458) Bonar-Law, Richard P.; Mackay, Lindsey G.; Sanders, Jeremy K. M.
• exo-Selective acceleration of an intermolecular Diels–Alder reaction by a trimeric porphyrin host (pp. 458-460) Walter, Christopher J.; Anderson, Harry L.; Sanders, Jeremy K. M.
• The oxidation of tantalum with ammonium chloride as an example of a novel route to early transitional metal–nitrogen cluster compounds. Synthesis and crystal structure of (NH4)6[Ta5(NH)4Cl17] (pp. 460-461) Simon, Marcus; Meyer, Gerd
• C(14a)-homo-26-nor-17α-hopanes, a novel and unexpected series of molecular fossils in biodegraded petroleum (pp. 461-463) Trendel, Jean-Michel; Graff, Roland; Wehrung, Patrick; Albrecht, Pierre; Dessort, Daniel; Connan, Jacques
• The synthesis of 6-substituted shikimic acids (pp. 464-465) Sutherland, James K.; Whitehead, Roger C.; Davies, Gareth M.
• Tris-pyrazolyl-borate dihydrogen complexes of ruthenium (pp. 465-467) Halcrow, Malcolm A.; Chaudret, Bruno; Trofimenko, Swiatoslaw
• Cycloaddition of arylchlorocarbenes using ultrasound (pp. 467-468) Bertram, Allan K.; Liu, Michael T. H.
• L-threo-β-hydroxyhistidine, an unprecedented iron(III) ion-binding amino acid in a pyoverdine-type siderophore from Pseudomonas fluorescens 244 (pp. 468-470) Hancock, Diane K.; Coxon, Bruce; Wang, Shi-Yong; White V, Edward; Reeder, Dennis J.; Bellama, Jon M.
• The reaction between the tetrahydridodecacarbonyltetrarhenium cluster and methanol: a fifth-order reaction (pp. 470-472) Wang, Sen Ren; Cheng, Cheu Pyeng
• Reductive activation of dioxygen by a manganese(III) porphyrin–rhodium(III)–formate catalytic system (pp. 472-473) Gosling, Patricia A.; van Esch, Jan H.; Hoffmann, Marion A. M.; Nolte, Roeland J. M.
• Selective formation of propyne by protonation of an allyl complex (pp. 474-476) Oglieve, Kay E.; Henderson, Richard A.
• Nucleophilic fluorination by selective ring opening of α-halooxiranes (pp. 476-477) Duhamel, Pierre; Leblond, Bertrand; Poirier, Jean-Marie
• The synthesis and X-ray structure characterisation of the volatile complexes [Sr(thd)2{Me(OCH2CH2)3OMe}] and [Sr2(thd)4{Me(OCH2CH2)2OMe}2(µ-H2O)](Hthd = 1,1,1,6,6,6-hexamethylheptane-2,4-dione) (pp. 478-480) Drake, Simon R.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Malik, K. M. Abdul; Miller, Stewart A. S.
• A novel calix[4]arene tetraester with fluorescent response to complexation with alkali metal cations (pp. 480-483) Pérez-Jiménez, Consuelo; Harris, Stephen J.; Diamond, Dermot
• Triquinane-derived macrocyclic cyclophane hosts (pp. 483-485) Mehta, Goverdhan; Prabhakar, Chebiyyam; Nethaji, Munirathinam; Venkatesan, Kailasam
• Selective catalytic oxydehydrogenation of methane to Z-but-2-ene on cobalt ferrite (pp. 485-486) Besoukhanova, Cvetana; Uzunova, Elly; Nenova, Veneta
• Effect of the basic function in Co, MgO/C catalysts on the selective oxidation of methane by carbon dioxide (pp. 487-488) Guerrero-Ruiz, A.; Rodríguez-Ramos, I.; Sepüalveda-Escribano, A.
• Corrigendum (pp. 488-488) Cheng, Wen-Lung; Luh, Tien-Yah

Issue: 6

• Contents pages (pp. P021-P024)
• Front cover (pp. X021-X022)
• Back cover (pp. X023-X024)
• Formation of a 4H-cyclopenta-1,2,3-thiadiazole by rearrangement of a transient N-(thionitroso)cyclopenta-2,4-diene-1-imine (pp. 489-491) Christensen, Torben Bo; Jørgensen, Karl Anker; Larsen, Finn Krebs; Martiny, Lars; Møller, Jørgen; Senning, Alexander; Vichi, Lucia
• Unexpected acid-catalysed rearrangement of a vinylcyclopropane derivative (pp. 491-492) Koskinen, Ari M. P.; Muñoz, Luis; Rissanen, Kari
• An unexpected pathway in the palladium-catalysed chemistry of allyl carbonates; the transfer of allyloxycarbonyl groups without loss of CO2 (pp. 492-494) Davis, Anthony P.; Dorgan, Brian J.; Mageean, Eileen R.
• Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of chloro tris(tert-butylimido)manganese (pp. 495-496) Danopoulos, Andreas A.; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Sweet, Tracy; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Synthesis and structure of [V3S2O3(S2CNEt2)3]–: a trinuclear vanadium cluster with bridging vanadyl groups (pp. 496-497) Lin, Fan; Beddoes, Roy L.; Collison, David; Garner, C. David; Mabbs, Frank E.
• Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of a stannaimine (pp. 497-499) Ossig, Günter; Meller, Anton; Freitag, Stefanie; Herbst-Irmer, Regine
• SmCl3-catalysed electrosynthesis of γ-butyrolactones from 3-chloroesters and carbonyl compounds (pp. 499-500) Hebri, Hassan; Duñach, Elisabet; Périchon, Jacques
• A substrate analogue study on clavaminic acid synthase: possible clues to the biosynthetic origin of proclavamic acid (pp. 500-502) Baldwin, Jack E.; Lloyd, Matthew D.; Wha-Son, Byeng; Schofield, Christopher J.; Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaleyb, Keith H.; Nicholson, Neville H.
• The α-deuterium secondary kinetic isotope effect upon the hydrolysis of 2-(p-nitrophenoxy)tetrahydropyran and its relationship to values for the solvolysis of secondary alkyl arenesulfonates and the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of acetals (pp. 503-504) Lee, Won Heui; Maskill, H.; Menneer, Iain D.
• A new type of tungsten(VI) phenylimido alkylidene complex and its triorganotungsten precursor with an O,N-chelating ligand; molecular structures of [W(CH2SiMe3)3(NPh){OCPh2(2-py)}] and [W{CHSiMe3(CH2SiMe3)(NPh){OCPh2(2-py)}](py = pyridine) (pp. 504-506) van der Schaaf, Paul A.; Abbenhuis, Rob A. T. M.; Grove, David M.; Smeets, Wilberth J. J.; Spek, Anthony L.; van Koten, Gerard
• Selective phosphorylation of p-tert-butylcalix[6]arene (pp. 506-508) Janssen, Rob G.; Verboom, Willem; Harkema, Sybolt; van Hummel, Gerrit J.; Reinhoudt, David N.; Pochini, Andrea; Ungaro, Rocco; Prados, Pilar; de Mendoza, Javier
• The synthesis and first X-ray structures of nickel complexes of 1,2,5-thiadiazole-3,4-dithiolate (pp. 508-510) Dyachenko, Oleg A.; Konovalikhin, Sergei V.; Kotov, Alexander I.; Shilov, Georgii V.; Yagubskii, Edouard B.; Faulmann, Christophe; Cassoux, Patrick
• Brønsted acid catalysed electrophilic substitution of indole by allylic alcohols in lithium perchlorate–diethyl ether: application to the total synthesis of yuehchukene (pp. 510-512) Henry, Kenneth J.; Grieco, Paul A.
• First direct observation of neutral radicals in a zeolite at ambient temperature (pp. 512-513) Rhodes, Christopher J.; Reid, Ivan D.; Roduner, Emil
• Biosynthesis of vitamin B12: the structure of factor IV, the oxidized form of precorrin-4 (pp. 513-515) Thibaut, Denis; Debussche, Laurent; Fréchet, Denise; Herman, Frédéric; Vuilhorgne, Marc; Blanche, Francis
• Proof that the biosynthesis of vitamin B12 involves a reduction step in an anaerobic as well as an aerobic organism (pp. 515-517) Ichinose, Koji; Kodera, Masahito; Leeper, Finian J.; Battersby, Alan R.
• Modification of the binding affinity of peptide nucleic acids (PNA). PNA with extended backbones consisting of 2-aminoethyl-β-alanine or 3-aminopropylglycine units (pp. 518-519) Hyrup, Birgitte; Egholm, Michael; Rolland, Marc; Nielsen, Peter E.; Berg, Rolf H.; Buchardt, Ole
• 11,11,12,12-Tetracyano-2,6-anthraquinodimethane (TANT) as a novel extensive electron acceptor (pp. 519-520) Yanagimoto, Tetsuya; Takimiya, Kazuo; Otsubo, Tetsuo; Ogura, Fumio
• Recognition of chirality and residual groups of amino acid esters using new trifunctional chiral porphyrins with C 2 symmetry (pp. 520-522) Mizutani, Tadashi; Ema, Tadashi; Tomita, Takashi; Kuroda, Yasuhisa; Ogoshi, Hisanobu
• Visual observation of salt migration between zeolite and clay in the solid state (pp. 522-523) Yoon, K. B.; Park, Y. S.
• Novel ceramic and organometallic depolymerization products from poly(ferrocenylsilanes)via pyrolysis (pp. 523-525) Tang, Ben-Zhong; Petersen, Ruth; Foucher, Daniel A.; Lough, Alan; Coombs, Neil; Sodhi, Rana; Manners, Ian
• Reversible alkali-metal reduction of C60 in liquid ammonia; first observation of near-infrared spectrum of C5– 60 (pp. 525-527) Fullagar, Wilfred K.; Gentle, Ian R.; Heath, Graham A.; White, John W.
• Evidence for charge localisation by strong hydrogen bonding in fluoride–phenol complexes and its effects on reactivity/selectivity (pp. 527-529) Cork, David G.; Hayashi, Nobuyoshi
• Synthesis and carbonylation of [Pd(Me)(OMe){(S,S)-bdpp}][(S,S)-bdpp =(2S,4S)-2,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)pentane] (pp. 529-531) Tóth, Imre; Elsevier, Cornelis J.
• Stereochemistry of the P–C bond formation in an oxazaphospholidine borane complex (pp. 531-533) Jugé, S.; Stephan, M.; Merdès, R.; Genet, J. P.; Halut-Desportes, S.
• The confinement of buckminsterfullerene in one-dimensional channels (pp. 533-536) Anderson, Michael W.; Shi, Jimin; Leigh, David A.; Moody, Andrew E.; Wade, Frances A.; Hamilton, Bruce; Carr, Stuart W.
• Observation of biphasic kinetics in light-induced spin-state crossover in an iron(II) complex in solution (pp. 536-538) Al-Obaidi, Ala H. R.; McGarvey, John J.; Taylor, K. Paul; Bell, Steven E. J.; Jensen, Kenneth B.; Toftlund, Hans
• Effective molarities from distributions of cyclic oligomers in the synthesis of polythiolactones (pp. 538-540) Cort, Antonella Dalla; Ercolani, Gianfranco; Mandolini, Luigi; Mencarelli, Paolo
• Medium effects in action, visualized by the crystal structures of open and closed forms of a molecular receptor (pp. 540-543) Cesario, Michèle; Guilhem, Jean; Lehn, Jean-Marie; Méric, Robert; Pascard, Claudine; Vigneron, Jean-Pierre
• Direct observation of 9-benzonorbornenyl cations (pp. 543-544) Volz, Heinrich; Shin, Jung-Hyu; Miess, Richard
• Reversible modification of the Si environment in template-free SAPO-34 structure upon hydration-dehydration cycles below ca. 400 K (pp. 544-546) Vomscheid, R.; Briend, M.; Peltre, M. J.; Massiani, P.; Man, P. P.; Barthomeuf, D.
• The X-ray structure of an inclusion complex of heptakis(2,6-di-O-methyl)-β-cyclodextrin with 2-naphthoic acid (pp. 546-547) Harata, Kazuaki
• Electrooxidative coupling of α-heteroatom-substituted organostannanes and organosilanes (pp. 547-549) Yoshida, Jun-ichi; Itoh, Masanori; Isoe, Sachihiko
• Plasma-catalysed surface rearrangement of poly(ethylene) to a poly(propylene) type structure (pp. 549-550) Wells, Rachel K.; Badyal, Jas Pal S.; Drummond, Ian W.; Robinson, Kevin S.; Street, Frank J.
• Syntheses of enantiomerically pure ent-multifidene and related compounds (pp. 551-552) Kramp, Peter; Helmchen, Günter; Holmes, Andrew B.
• Redox-active, functionalised [3]- and [4]-dendralenes (pp. 552-554) Coffin, Malcolm A.; Bryce, Martin R.; Batsanov, Andrei S.; Howard, Judith A. K.
• Synthesis and structure of crystalline [K{Sn(CH2But)3}(η-C6H5Me)3] and the first NMR spectral observation of 119Sn–39K coupling (pp. 554-555) Hitchcock, Peter B.; Lappert, Michael F.; Lawless, Gerard A.; Royo, Beatriz
• Novel synthesis of trans-hydroindenones by thermal reaction of α,ω-bis(diazo)diketones (pp. 556-557) Nakatani, Kazuhiko; Takada, Kazunori; Odagaki, Yoshihiko; Isoe, Sachihiko
• Infrared spectroscopic investigation of titanium in zeolites. A new assignment of the 960 cm–1 band (pp. 557-559) Camblor, M. A.; Corma, A.; Pérez-Pariente, J.
• Removal of dialkylphenols from aqueous effluents by selective adsorption in a novel, large-pore, silica molecular sieve (pp. 559-560) Reddy, K. Ramesh
• Studies on the no-carrier-added synthesis and chemistry of 11C labelled methyl hypofluorite (pp. 561-562) McCarthy, Timothy J.; Bonasera, Thomas A.; Welch, Michael J.; Rozen, Shlomo
• The order–disorder transition of stage-1 graphite fluoroarsenate intercalation compound: the structure of C16AsF6 below 170 K (pp. 562-564) Okino, Fujio; Sugiura, Yoshinori; Touhara, Hidekazu; Simon, Arndt
• Mechanism of polymerization of α,α′-bis(tetrahydrothiophenio)-p-xylene dichloride (pp. 564-566) Cho, Bong Rae; Han, Man So; Suh, Young Sung; Oh, Kwang Jin; Jeon, Seung Jeon
• A novel heterotetranuclear [Cr2 III(µ3-O)2Fe2 III]8+ core and ground-state variability due to molecular spin frustration (pp. 566-568) Chaudhuri, Phalguni; Winter, Manuela; Fleischhauer, Peter; Haase, Wolfgang; Flörke, Ulrich; Haupt, Hans-Jürgen
• Unusual formation of a tricyclic compound from a phosphaalkyne and an arylgermene exhibiting 1,3-diene characteristics (pp. 569-570) Lazraq, Mohamed; Escudié, Jean; Couret, Claude; Bergsträsser, Uwe; Regitz, Manfred
• A new insight into the SRN1 vinylic substitution (pp. 570-571) Galli, Carlo; Gentili, Patrizia
• Very mild and efficient one-pot access to the valuable 2-hydroxybicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-one ring system (pp. 571-572) Ouvrard, Nicole; Ouvrard, Philippe; Rodriguez, Jean; Santelli, Maurice
• trans Deformation of a carbon–carbon triple bond in response to incipient nucleophilic attack: the X-ray crystal structure of ethyl 3-(2-nitrophenyl)propynoate at 150 K (pp. 572-574) Rice, Craig R.; Wallis, John D.
• 1,10-Diaza-4,7,13,16-tetraoxacyclooctadecane-1,10-bis(malonate), a ligand with high Sr2+/Ca2+ and Pb2+/Zn2+ selectivities in aqueous solution (pp. 574-575) Brücher, E.; Györi, B.; Emri, J.; Solymosi, P.; Sztanyik, L. B.; Varga, L.
• Preparation and structure of a disilarhodacycle, fac-[Rh(SiMe2CH2CH2SiMe2)H(PMe3)3] (pp. 576-577) Osakada, Kohtaro; Hataya, Kouji; Nakamura, Yoshiyuki; Tanaka, Masako; Yamamoto, Takakazu
• Novel oxidative ring contraction of dihydroselenopyrans to selenophenes (pp. 577-579) Kataoka, Tadashi; Ohe, Yasuhiro; Umeda, Akira; Iwamura, Tatsunori; Yoshimatsu, Mitsuhiro; Shimizu, Hiroshi
• Oxygen-evolving centre utilizing polymer membrane and trinuclear ruthenium complexes (pp. 579-581) Ramaraj, Ramasamy; Kaneko, Masao
• A novel approach to the synthesis of cyclic oligo- and poly-esters (pp. 581-583) Hodge, Philip; Houghton, Mark P.; Lee, Michael S. K.
• Sol–gel encapsulated transition metal quaternary ammonium ion pairs as highly efficient recyclable catalysts (pp. 583-584) Rosenfeld, Ayelet; Avnir, David; Blum, Jochanan

Issue: 7

• Contents pages (pp. P025-P028)
• Front cover (pp. X025-X026)
• Back cover (pp. X027-X028)
• Synthesis and structural-bonding analysis of the [Ni8(PCMe3∥2(PMe)2(CO)12] n series (n= 0,2–): polyhedral rearrangement of the electron-precise (µ5-Ni)2(µ4-P)2-tetracapped Ni6P2 cuneane framework in the neutral parent into an electron-delocalized noncentred Ni8P4 icosahedral cage in the dianion by a two-electron chemical reduction (pp. 585-587) Rieck, David F.; Rae, A. David; Dahl, Lawrence F.
• Synergistic effect of bialkali-promoted MgO or CaO on oxidative methylation of toluene with methane: a selective route to styrene and ethylbenzene (pp. 587-589) Khan, Ashraf Z.; Ruckenstein, Eli
• Efficient total synthesis of racemic and optically active cyclobut-A and simple analogues (pp. 589-591) Jung, Michael E.; Sledeski, Adam W.
• New lanthanide–hydrogen–transition metal compounds: [{(PMe3)3WH5}2Yb·L3] and [{(η-C5H5)2NbH2}2Yb·L3] where L3=(MeOCH2CH2)2O (pp. 591-593) Green, Malcolm L. H.; Hughes, Andrew K.; Michaelidou, Despo M.; Mountford, Philip
• Stabilization of anilinium in vanadium(V) oxide xerogel and its post-intercalative polymerization to poly(aniline) in air (pp. 593-596) Liu, Y.-J.; DeGroot, D. C.; Schindler, J. L.; Kannewurf, C. R.; Kanatzidis, M. G.
• Separation of enantiomers as differently sized pseudoenantiomeric salts (pp. 596-597) Bergbreiter, David E.; Zhang, Li
• Intramolecular photoreactions of 2-formylbenzamides and 2-formylbenzylamines (pp. 598-599) Kessar, S. V.; Mankotia, Anil K. Singh; Agnihotri, Keshav Rai
• First charge resonance band observed by steady photolysis at room temperature in solution (pp. 599-601) Nagamura, Toshihiko; Tanaka, Akinori; Kawai, Hideki; Sakaguchi, Hiroshi
• A new route to dithiadiazafulvalene derivatives from mesoionic thiazoles. Formation of a ten-membered macrocycle by oxidation with oxygen and in situ generation of a charge transfer complex with tetracyanoquinodimethane (pp. 601-602) Bssaibis, Mohammed; Robert, Albert; Lemaguerès, Pierre; Ouahab, Lahcène; Carliere, Roger; Tallec, André
• Preparation and conductivities of fullerene-doped polyanilines (pp. 603-604) Wei, Yen; Tian, Jing; MacDiarmid, Alan G.; Masters, James G.; Smith, Allan L.; Li, Dayin
• Multifunctional calixarene-derived phosphinites (pp. 604-606) Matt, Dominique; Loeber, Cyrille; Vicens, Jacques; Asfari, Zouhair
• Steric acceleration of intramolecular azide cycloadditions (pp. 607-608) Orlek, Barry S.; Sammes, Peter G.; Weller, David J.
• Butyllithium-induced cyclotrimerisation reactions of organic nitriles: solvent dependency, crystal and solution structures of lithio triazine intermediates and an unexpected rearrangement of dihydrotriazino anions (pp. 608-610) Armstrong, David R.; Clegg, William; MacGregor, Murray; Mulvey, Robert E.; O'Neil, Paul A.
• Oxygen exchange between adsorbed CO2 and MgO surfaces (pp. 610-611) Yanagisawa, Yasunori; Shimodama, Hirohumi; Ito, Akinori
• Epoxidation of cyclohexene with the nascent oxygen generated by electrolysis of water (pp. 611-612) Otsuka, Kiyoshi; Yoshinaka, Masahiro; Yamanaka, Ichiro
• Selective inclusion by cholic acid (pp. 612-614) Caira, Mino R.; Nassimbeni, Luigi R.; Scott, Janet L.
• Concise enantiodivergent synthesis of eutypoxide B (pp. 614-615) Takano, Seiichi; Moriya, Minoru; Ogasawara, Kunio
• Cyclopropanes via nucleophilic attack at the central carbon of (π-allyl)palladium complexes (pp. 615-616) Wilde, Andreas; Otte, Andreas R.; Hoffmann, H. Martin R.
• A highly convergent strategy towards rapamycin. Stereoselective construction of the C8–C18 fragment (pp. 617-618) Piscopio, A. D.; Minowa, N.; Chakraborty, T. K.; Koide, K.; Bertinato, P.; Nicolaou, K. C.
• Stereoselective construction of the C21–C42 fragment of rapamycin (pp. 619-622) Nicolaou, K. C.; Bertinato, P.; Piscopio, A. D.; Chakraborty, T. K.; Minowa, N.
• Assignment of the 27Al and 31P NMR spectra of the aluminophosphate molecular sieve VPI-5 (pp. 622-623) Engelhardt, Günter; Veeman, Wiebren
• Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of cyclooctatetraenyllanthanide alkyl complexes [Li(thf)2{µ-(η2:η8-C8H8)}Ln{CH(SiMe3)2}2](Ln = Y, Sm, Lu; thf = tetrahydrofuran) (pp. 623-625) Schumann, Herbert; Winterfeld, Jörn; Görlitz, Frank H.; Pickardt, J.
• Pyridinediols as HCI receptors; formation of an unusual pyridine·HCI complex in conjunction with the preparation of Lewis acidic titanium(IV) centres (pp. 625-627) Edema, Jilles J. H.; Libbers, Rob; Ridder, Arwin M.; Kellogg, Richard M.; van Bolhuis, Fre; Kooijman, Huub; Spek, Anthony L.
• Laser-jet photolysis of 1,8-bis(substituted-methyl)naphthalenes; the effect of heteroatom leaving groups on the two-photon C–C bond formation (pp. 628-629) Ouchi, Akihiko; Adam, Waldemar
• Ruthenium complex catalysed hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, methanol and methane (pp. 629-631) Tominaga, Ken-ichi; Sasaki, Yoshiyuki; Kawai, Motomitsu; Watanabe, Taiki; Saito, Masahiro
• Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 in water by [Re(bpy)(CO)3Br] and [Re(terpy)(CO)3Br] complexes incorporated into coated nafion membrane (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine; terpy = 2,2′;6′,2″-terpyridine) (pp. 631-633) Yoshida, Tsukasa; Tsutsumida, Koji; Teratani, Shousuke; Yasufuku, Katsutoshi; Kaneko, Masao
• Synthesis and structure of a novel large-pore microporous magnesium-containing aluminophosphate (DAF-1) (pp. 633-635) Wright, Paul A.; Jones, Richard H.; Natarajan, Srinivasan; Bell, Robert G.; Chen, Jiesheng; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Thomas, John Meurig
• Preparation of octakis(3,6-anhydro)-γ-cyclodextrin and characterization of its cation binding ability (pp. 636-637) Yamamura, Hatsuo; Ezuka, Toshishige; Kawase, Yoshitaka; Kawai, Masao; Butsugan, Yasuo; Fujita, Kahee
• Catalytic conversion of (β,γ-unsaturated esters, amides and nitriles into γ-alkoxy or γ-hydroxy α,β-unsaturated derivatives induced by persulfate anion oxidation of diphenyl diselenide (pp. 637-639) Tiecco, Marcello; Testaferri, Lorenzo; Tingoli, Marco; Bagnoli, Luana; Santi, Claudio
• Control of the rheology of concentrated aqueous colloidal systems by steric and hydrophobic forces (pp. 639-641) Leong, Yee-Kwong; Boger, David V.; Scales, Peter J.; Healy, Thomas W.; Buscall, Richard
• The synthesis and conformational analysis of a pair of diastereoisomeric cyclic peptides with cis and transamide bonds, respectively (pp. 641-642) Cumberbatch, Sabrina; North, Michael; Zagotto, Guiseppe
• Synthesis and characterization of vanadium(III) and oxovanadium(IV/V) species with deprotonated amide ligands (pp. 643-645) Kabanos, Themistoklis A.; Keramidas, Anastasios D.; Papaioannou, Aggelos B.; Terzis, Aris
• Grafting of C60 onto polyethylene surfaces (pp. 645-646) Bergbreiter, David E.; Gray, H. Neil
• Selective hydrogen-atom transfer–rearrangement in the norbornene system (pp. 646-647) Kraus, George A.; Andersh, Brad
• Formal preparation of semisynthetic analogues of the cholesterol-lowering agent mevinolin (pp. 647-649) Clive, Derrick L. J.; Zhang, Chengzhi
• Non-aqueous routes to a new polyoxotungstate (pp. 649-651) Errington, R. John; Kerlogue, Martin D.; Richards, David G.
• A novel synthesis of 4-dioxy-2-enones from 1,3-dienes using pyridinium dichromate–tret-butyl hydroperoxide (pp. 651-652) Bhat, Shridhar; Chidambaram, Nallaperumal; Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan
• 2,2′-(Cyclopenten-3,5-diylidene)bis(1,3-dithiole)s: novel electron donors undergoing deprotonation by oxidation (pp. 652-654) Yamashita, Yoshiro; Tanaka, Shoji; Tomura, Masaaki
• X-Ray crystallographic analysis of 2,6-anhydro-N-methyl-D-glycero-D-ido-heptonamide: the first example of a simple glucose analogue with a skew boat structure (pp. 654-656) Watson, Kimberly A.; Mitchell, Edward P.; Johnson, Louise N.; Son, Jong Chan; Bichard, Claire J. F.; Fleet, George W. J.; Ford, Peter; Watkin, David J.; Oikonomakos, Nikos G.
• Novel photocurrent rectification behaviour for a photoconductive cell using the mesogenic 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-n-pentadecylphenyl)porphyrin (pp. 656-658) Shimizu, Yo; Ishikawa, Atsushi; Kusabayashi, Shigekazu; Miya, Masaru; Nagata, Akira
• Photolabilisation of the triphenylphosphine ligand in the aminocarbene complex [(η5-C5H5)Fe(CO)(PPh3)C(NHCH2Ph)Me]+ BF4 – (pp. 658-659) Davies, Stephen G.; Metzler, Michael R.; Yanada, Kazuo; Yanada, Reiko
• Zeolite ZSM-35 synthesized by the ‘kneading’ method in a nonaqueous system (pp. 659-660) Jianquan, Li; Jinxiang, Dong; Guanghuan, Liu; Shunquan, Gong; Feng, Wu

Issue: 8

• Contents pages (pp. P029-P032)
• Front cover (pp. X029-X030)
• Back cover (pp. X031-X032)
• Molecular tapes based on CN ⋯ Cl interactions (pp. 661-662) Reddy, D. Shekhar; Panneerselvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Pilati, Tullio; Desiraju, Gautam R.
• C–H ⋯ N mediated hexagonal network in the crystal structure of the 1 : 1 molecular complex 1,3,5-tricyanobenzene–hexamethylbenzene (pp. 663-664) Reddy, D. Shekhar; Goud, B. Satish; Panneerselvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Desiraju, Gautam R.
• Analysis of vitamin D and its metabolites: derivatization and detection by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (pp. 664-665) Wilson, Stephen R.; Lu, Qingyi; Tulchinsky, Michael L.; Wu, Yunhui
• A general method for iterative cyclopentannulation: sequential use of Claisen rearrangement and radical enyne closure (pp. 666-667) Clive, Derrick L. J.; Manning, Hartford W.
• Electron-transfer catalysis of olefin epoxidation with nitrogen dioxide (dinitrogen tetroxide) (pp. 667-668) Bosch, Eric; Kochi, Jay K.
• Novel double functional group transformation: ‘one-flask’ conversion of 1-nitrocycloalkenes to terminally unsaturated nitriles (pp. 669-670) Tso, Hsi-Hwa; Gilbert, Bryant A.; Hwu, Jih Ru
• Novel dehydrative ring transformation of 1-alkyl-3-aroylpyrrolidines into 1-alkyl-2-aryl-3-methylpyrrole derivatives (pp. 670-671) Mataka, Shuntaro; Kitagawa, Hirohisa; Misumi, Osamu; Tashiro, Masashi; Kamata, Kichinosuke
• A novel family of aprotic organic superacids for low-temperature alkane and cycloalkane transformations (pp. 671-672) Akhrem, Irena; Orlinkov, Alexander; Vol'pin, Mark
• Phosphorus lone pairs stabilization of carbocations: the synthesis and dynamics of unsymmetrical methylene phosphonium ions (pp. 673-674) Heim, Udo; Pritzkow, Hans; Schönberg, Hartmut; Grützmacher, Hansjörg
• Voltammetric response of dopamine at an overoxidised polypyrrole–dodecyl sulfate film coated electrode (pp. 675-676) Gao, Zhiqiang; Chen, Beshen; Zi, Minxian
• SAPO-37: the implications of structure flexibility on acidity (pp. 676-678) Corma, Avelino; Fornes, Vicente; Pérez-Pariente, Joaquin
• Photoinduced novel silylation of CF3-substituted benzenes with disilane and trisilane (pp. 678-680) Kako, Masahiro; Morita, Takahiro; Torihara, Tetsuya; Nakadaira, Yasuhiro
• Synthesis of highly ordered mesoporous materials from a layered polysilicate (pp. 680-682) Inagaki, S.; Fukushima, Y.; Kuroda, K.
• Zirconium dioxide: a new photosensitizer under UV irradiation (pp. 682-683) Ganguly, K. M.; Sarkar, S.; Bhattacharyya, S. N.
• MOCVD growth of boron nitride films from single source III–V precursor (pp. 684-685) Phani, A. Ratna; Devi, G. Sarala; Roy, Sujit; Rao, V. J.
• Hydration effect on titanium linkage to silicalite framework (pp. 685-687) Bonneviot, Laurent; On, Do Trong; Lopez, Annie
• Inclusion of poly(aniline) into MoO3 (pp. 687-689) Bissessur, Rabin; Degroot, Donald C.; Schindler, Jon L.; Kannewurf, Carl R.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
• Extensively conjugated tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)π-electron donors with oligothiophenes spacer groups (pp. 689-691) Roncali, Jean; Giffard, Michel; Frère, Pierre; Jubault, Michel; Gorgues, Alain
• Selective binding and detection of onium ions by lipophilic neutral cyclodextrins (pp. 691-693) Bates, Paul S.; Kataky, Ritu; Parker, David
• Characterisation of the complexation behaviour of lipophilic cyclodextrins by electrospray mass spectrometry (pp. 693-696) Bates, Paul S.; Parker, David; Green, Brian N.
• ω-Mono N-alkylation of linear tetraamines through the reaction of aldehydes and ketones on their tricarbonyl chromium, molybdenum or tungsten complexes (pp. 696-698) Yaouanc, Jean-Jacques; Le Bris, Nathalie; Clément, Jean-Claude; Handel, Henri; des Abbayes, Hervé
• Unusual formation of a methano-bridged didehydro[20]annulenedione. A highly diatropic, dicationic 18π-electron species in D2SO4 (pp. 698-699) Yamamoto, Gaku; Higuchi, Hiroyuki; Asano, Kaori; Ojima, Jūro
• Some Baeyer–Villiger oxidations using a monooxygenase enzyme from Pseudomonas putida NCIMB 10007 (pp. 699-701) Grogan, Gideon; Roberts, Stanley M.; Willetts, Andrew J.
• Mechanism of co-methylation of co corrinoids in the presence of thiols (pp. 701-702) Pratt, John M.; Hamza, Mohamed S. A.; Buist, Gabriel J.
• Enforced coordination of chromium(III) to a thioether donor in an encapsulated complex (pp. 702-704) Bruce, James I.; Gahan, Lawrence R.; Hambley, Trevor W.; Stranger, Robert
• Glycosidation of glycals by 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ) as a catalytic promoter (pp. 704-706) Toshima, Kazunobu; Ishizuka, Toru; Matsuo, Goh; Nakata, Masaya; Kinoshita, Mitsuhiro
• Facile and successive orthometallation in rhenium carbene complex (pp. 706-707) Lu, Kuang-Lieh; Wang, Chen-Mien; Lee, Hsu-Hsiu; Chen, Lih-Chiou; Wen, Yuh-Sheng
• Enantiospecific synthesis of the fluoro and epimeric derivatives of 5′-noraristeromycin (pp. 708-709) Siddiqi, Suhaib M.; Oertel, Frank P.; Chen, Xing; Schneller, Stewart W.
• Radical chain ligand substitution of [(η5-RC5H4)2Fe2(CO)4] with isocyanides induced by Et3B (pp. 709-710) Nakanishi, Saburo; Taniki, Yasushi; Otsuji, Yoshio
• Towards the synthesis of the side chains of brassinolides: diastereodivergent alkoxyaldehyde–ene reaction and nickel-catalysed transformation of vinyl sulfide (pp. 710-712) Mikami, Koichi; Sakuda, Shu-ichi
• A rate-accelerating noncovalently assembled system for thiazolium-catalysed oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate in chloroform–acetonitile (pp. 712-713) Ohshima, Shunji; Tamura, Norio; Nabeshima, Tatsuya; Yano, Yumihiko
• Syntheses and crystal structures of tantalum(IV) amido and imido halide complexes (pp. 714-715) Hoffman, David M.; Suh, Seigi
• Anodic oxidation of di-tert-butyl disulfide: a facile method for the preparation of N-tert-butylamides (pp. 715-717) Elothmani, Driss; Do, Quang Tho; Simonet, Jacques; Le Guillanton, Georges
• Anionic ring-opening polymerization of 1,1,2,2-tetramethyl-1,2-disilacyclopentane (pp. 717-718) Suzuki, Masato; Obayashi, Tatsuhiko; Saegusa, Takeo
• First photosensitized enantiodifferentiating polar addition: anti-markovnikov methanol addition to 1,1-diphenylpropene (pp. 718-720) Inoue, Yoshihisa; Okano, Toshinori; Yamasaki, Noritsugu; Tai, Akira
• Addition and correction (pp. 720-720) Mori, Miwako; Watanuki, Susumi

Issue: 9

• Contents pages (pp. P033-P036)
• Front cover (pp. X033-X034)
• Back cover (pp. X035-X036)
• A new photochemical synthesis of dihydropyrazoles. Novel mode of photocyclization of some 1-iuminobut-3-enes derivatives (pp. 721-722) Armesto, Diego; Horspool, William M.; Mancheño, Maria J.; Ortiz, Maria J.
• New charge-transfer probe for solvent polarity; fluorescent hydrogen-bonding switch (pp. 722-724) Kumar, C. V.; Tolosa, Leah M.
• Unusual type of adsorption isotherm describing capillary condensation without hysteresis (pp. 724-726) Franke, Olaf; Schulz-Ekloff, Günter; Rathouský, Jiří; Stárek, Jindřich; Zukal, Arnošt
• Synthesis of low spin [Mn II (L2)2]I2·2MeOH and [Cu III (L1)]via condensation of S-methylisothiosemicarbazide and pentane-2,4-dione in the presence of air (pp. 726-728) Knof, Ulrich; Weyhermüller, Thomas; Wolter, Thomas; Wieghardt, Karl
• Octopus-porphyrins: their assembly and oxygen-binding in aqueous medium (pp. 728-730) Komatsu, Teruyuki; Nakao, Keisuke; Nishide, Hiroyuki; Tsuchida, Eishun
• Lipid–porphyrin vesicles: morphology and O2 binding in aqueous medium (pp. 730-732) Tsuchida, Eishun; Komatsu, Teruyuki; Arai, Kenji; Nishide, Hiroyuki
• A new synthetic entry to the alkaloids of the mavacurine group. First total synthesis of (±)-2,7-dihydropleiocarpamine (pp. 732-733) Jiménez, Juan-Miguel; Zulaica, Ester; Bennasar, M.-Lluisa; Bosch, Joan
• Alkyl and aryl iodide complexes of silver(I) (pp. 733-735) Powell, John; Horvath, Michael; Lough, Alan
• The effect of varying ground-state aromaticity on the first molecular electronic hyperpolarizabilites of organic donor–acceptor molecules (pp. 735-737) Tiemann, Bruce G.; Cheng, Lap-Tak; Marder, Seth R.
• A concise, general enantioselective synthetic route to 2(R)- and 2(S)-[1′(S)-azido-2-phenylethyl]oxirane and related epoxides (pp. 737-738) Bennett, Frank; Girijavallabhan, Viyyoor M.; Patel, Naginbhai
• Biosynthesis of collectodiol and related polyketide macrodiolides in Cytospora sp. ATTCC 20502: synthesis and metabolism of advanced intermediates (pp. 738-740) O'Neill, John A.; Simpson, Thomas J.; Willis, Christine L.
• Carbene complexes from coordinated bis(diphenylphosphino)methane. Synthesis and X-ray structure determination of the remarkable heterotrimetallic derivative [{Fe(CNPh)4((PPh2)2C)}2Hg]I2 (pp. 740-742) Ruiz, Javier; Arauz, René; Riera, Victor; Vivanco, Marilin; García-Granda, Santiago; Pérez-Carreño, Enrique
• Photodimerizationof (η5-cyclopentadienyl)(η6-dibenzo-p-quinodimethane)ruthenium(II) hexafluorophosphate (pp. 742-743) Glatzhofer, Daniel T.; Liang, Yongwu; Khan, Masood A.
• Platinum complex-catalysed polycondensation of tetrakis(dimethylsilyl)benzene with diynes. Synthesis of thermally stable and conducting polymers (pp. 744-745) Uchimaru, Yuko; Brandl, Paul; Tanaka, Masato; Goto, Midori
• Novel cyclic tetranuclear manganese(II) complex containing two phthalato bridging ligands; X-ray crystal structure of [Mn4(µ-phth)2(bpy)8](CIO4)4·3H2O (H2phth = phthalic acid; bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl) (pp. 745-747) Jiang, Zong-Hui; Ma, Shu-Lin; Liao, Dai-Zheng; Yan, Shi-Ping; Wang, Geng-Lin; Yao, Xin-Kan; Wang, Ru-Ji
• C–H allylic bond cleavage to generate an active hydridopalladium species for the alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes. X-Ray crystal structure of [(Ph3PCH2CHCHPh)4(PdCl6)(SnCl6)] (pp. 747-750) Chenal, Thomas; Naigre, Ruth; Ciprés, Isabelle; Kalck, Philippe; Daran, Jean-Claude; Vaissermann, Jacqueline
• Facile generation of hydroxyl radical by photolyis of pyrimido[5,4-g]pteridinetetrone N-oxides in aqueous solution. A new efficient DNA-photocleaving agent (pp. 750-751) Sako, Magoichi; Nagai, Katsuyuki; Maki, Yoshifumi
• Novel high activity catalyst for partial oxidation of methane to formaldehyde (pp. 751-753) Parmaliana, A.; Frusteri, F.; Mezzapica, A.; Scurrell, M. S.; Giordano, N.
• A novel molecular channel with a hydrogen bond ‘hook’; inclusion phenomena of cholanamide and the crystal structure of a 1:1 complex of cholanamide and 1,4-dioxane (pp. 753-755) Sada, Kazuki; Kondo, Takashi; Miyata, Mikiji; Tamada, Taro; Miki, Kunio
• Intramolecular Michael reaction using trialkylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonates and tertiary amine system: total synthesis of (±)-ricciocarpin A (pp. 755-756) Lhara, Masataka; Suzuki, Shuichi; Taniguchi, Nobuaki; Fukumoto, Keiichiro
• An unusual transition-metal-mediated [2 + 2 + 2] cyclization of functionalized alkenes (pp. 757-758) Cheng, Ming-Huei; Lin, Shie-Hsiung; Chow, Jin-Feng; Lee, Gene-Hsian; Pengb, Shie-Ming; Liu, Rai-Shung
• Synthesis of 3-halomethyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-2,5-methano-1H-2-benzazepines and their rearrangement to 4-halo-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydro-2,6-methano-2-benzazocines (pp. 758-760) Blough, Bruce E.; Mascarella, S. Wayne; Rothman, Richard B.; Carroll, F. Ivy
• Parallel preorganized polyenes: a new skeletal rearrangement (pp. 760-762) Vögtle, Fritz; Schmohel, Erich; Nieger, Martin
• Silicon-tethered radical cyclization and intramolecular Diels–Alder strategies are combined to provide a ready route to highly functionalized decalins (pp. 762-764) López, J. Cristóbal; Gómez, Ana M.; Fraser-Heid, Bert
• Facile synthesis of 2,5-disubstituted furans via palladium complex and perfluorinated resinsulfonic acid catalysed isomerization–dehydration of alkynediols (pp. 764-765) Ji, Jianguo; Lu, Xiyan
• Oxidation of alkanes by barium ruthenate in acetic acid: catalysis by Lewis acids (pp. 766-767) Lau, Tai-Chu; Mak, Chi-Keung
• High mass compounds (up to 12000 u) in coal tars (pp. 767-769) Herod, Alan A.; Kandiyoti, Rafael; Parker, John E.; Johnson, Chris A. F.; John, Philip; Smithc, Gerry P.; Li, C.-Z.
• π-Facial diastereoselectivity in the electrophilic and electrophilic–nucleophilic additions to dimethyl (1R,2R,3S,4S)-bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylate (pp. 769-771) Jones, Graeme R.; Vogel, Pierre
• 12,52,92,132-Tetranitro-1,5,9,13(1,3)-tetrabenzena-3,7,11,15(1,4)-tetrapiperazinacyclo-hexadecaphane, a new host compound (pp. 771-772) Rissanen, Kari; Huuskonen, Juhani; Koskinen, Ari
• Synthesis and structures of homoleptic 2-methylpropane-2-thiolate complexes of samarium and ytterbium (pp. 773-774) Tatsumi, Kazuyuki; Amemiya, Takao; Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki; Tani, Kazuhide
• A mild and convenient method for tritium labelling of activated aromatic compounds using BF3–Et2O and tritiated water (pp. 774-776) McGeady, Paul; Croteau, Rodney
• A novel amino protection–deprotection procedure and its application in solid phase peptide synthesis (pp. 776-777) Bycroft, Barrie W.; Chan, Weng C.; Chhabra, Siri Ram; Teesdale-Spittle, Paul H.; Hardy, Paul M.
• A novel lysine-protecting procedure for continuous flow solid phase synthesis of branched peptides (pp. 778-779) Bycroft, Barrie W.; Chan, Weng C.; Chhabra, Siri Ram; Hone, Neal D.
• Site-specific disulfide bridges in oligodeoxyribonucleotide duplexes containing 6-mercaptopurine and 4-thiothymine bases (pp. 779-780) Milton, John; Connolly, Bernard A.; Nikiforovc, Theo T.; Cosstick, Richard
• Enyne cyclization via photoinduced electron transfer (PET) generated electrophilic selenium species: a new carbon–carbon bond formation strategy (pp. 780-782) Pandey, Ganesh; Sekhar, B. B. V. Soma
• A novel route to usefully functionalised spiro[n.4] systems; application to a formal synthesis of (±)-α-cedrene (pp. 783-784) Ghosh, Subrata; Patra, Debasis; Saha, Goutam
• Crown ether fulleroids and their detection in solution by electrospray MS (pp. 784-786) Wilson, Stephen R.; Wu, Yunhui
• Isolation of a zerovalent iron dinitrogen complex with 1,2-bis(diethylphosphino)ethane ligands (pp. 787-788) Komiya, Sanshiro; Akita, Masatoshi; Yoza, Akira; Kasuga, Noriko; Fukuoka, Atsushi; Kai, Yasushi
• Enantiocontrolled synthesis of optically pure 5-trimethylsilyl- and 5-tributylstannyl-cyclohex-2-enones (pp. 788-789) Takano, Seiichi; Higashi, Yasuhiro; Kamikubo, Takashi; Moriya, Minoru; Ogasawara, Kunio
• Insertion of zirconocene into the carbon–halogen bond of 2-halophosphinines (pp. 789-791) Le Floch, Pascal; Ricard, Louis; Mathey, François
• Application of intramolecular glycosidation to the stereocontrolled synthesis of disaccharides containing α-gluco and α-galacto linkages (pp. 791-792) Bols, Mikael
• Diastereoselective total syntheses of (±)-triptoquinone B and C (pp. 793-794) Shishido, Kozo; Goto, Kiyoto; Tsuda, Asae; Takaishi, Yoshihisa; Shibuya, Masayuki
• Gas-phase synthesis of N-alkenyl-3-hydroxypyrroles by sequential collapse of two dipolar intermediates (pp. 794-795) Hunter, Gordon A.; McNab, Hamish
• Hydroxyl radical adduct at sulfur in substituted organic sulfides stabilized by internal hydrogen bond (pp. 795-797) Bobrowski, Krzysztof; Schdneich, Christian
• Preparation and optical properties of soluble π-conjugated poly(aryleneethynylene) type polymers (pp. 797-798) Yamamoto, Takakazu; Takagi, Masakazu; Kizu, Kenichi; Maruyama, Tsukasa; Kubota, Kenji; Kanbara, Hirohisa; Kurihara, Takashi; Kaino, Toshikuni
• The layer polymer {[Bi(C6H6)Cl3]2}2 ∞ : very weak bismuth–arene bonding in the parent compound of the bismuth analogue of menshutkin complexes (pp. 799-800) Frank, Walter; Schneider, Jürgen; Müller-Becker, Stefan
• Peptide nucleic acids containing adenine or guanine recognize thymine and cytosine in complementary DNA sequences (pp. 800-801) Egholm, Michael; Behrens, Carsten; Christensen, Leif; Berg, Rolf H.; Nielsen, Peter E.; Buchardt, Ole
• Transition metal directed threading of molecular strings into coordinating rings (pp. 801-804) Chambron, Jean-Claude; Dietrich-Buchecker, Christiane O.; Nierengarten, Jean-François; Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
• A dinuclear copper(II) complex bridged simultaneously by end-on azido, bromo and diazole (N2) groups exhibiting strong ferromagnetic exchange. X-Ray structure and magnetic properties (pp. 804-806) Tandon, Santokh S.; Thompson, Laurence K.; Bridson, John N.
• The reaction of thiols with electron-deficient thioaldehydes. A new synthesis of unsymmetrical disulfides (pp. 806-807) Duchenet, Virginia; Vallée, Yannick
• One-step synthesis of 2,3-dihydronaphtho[2,3-b]thiophene-4,9-diones by a new regioselective [3 + 2] photoaddition of photogenerated 2-mercapto-1,4-naphthoquinone with alkenes (pp. 807-809) Suginome, Hiroshi; Kobayashi, Kazuhiro; Konishi, Atsushi; Minakawa, Hiroki; Sakurai, Hideo
• Highly regioselective 7-endo-aryl radical cyclisation: synthesis of octahydro-2H-dibenzo[a,d]cycloheptenes (pp. 809-811) Ghosh, Ajit K.; Ghosh, Keya; Pal, Sitaram; Chatak, Usha Ranjan
• Enantioselective reformatsky reaction with ketones. Asymmetric synthesis of β-(tert-hydroxy)esters (pp. 811-812) Soai, Kenso; Oshio, Atsushi; Saito, Takaki
• Corrigendum (pp. 812-812) Baldwin, Jack E.; Lloyd, Matthew D.; Wha-Son, Byeng; Schofield, Christopher J.; Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaley, Keith H.; Nicholson, Neville H.

Issue: 10

• Contents pages (pp. P037-P040)
• Front cover (pp. X037-X038)
• Back cover (pp. X039-X040)
• Radical cations of quadricyclane and norbornadiene in polar ZSM-5 matrices: thermal retro Diels–Alder reaction (pp. 813-814) Barnabas, Mary V.; Trifunac, Alexander D.
• 1,1-Difluoro-2-triphenylsiloxybuta-1,3-diene as a potentially useful fluorine-containing building block: preparation and [4 + 2] and [2 + 2] cycloadditions (pp. 814-816) Jin, Fuqiang; Xu, Yuanyao; Huang, Weiyuan
• Electron-transfer-catalysed carbonyl substitution in [(arene)Mn(CO)3]+ complexes (pp. 816-818) Neto, Catherine C.; Baer, Carl D.; Chung, Young K.; Sweigart, Dwight A.
• Calix[3]indoles, new macrocyclic tris(indolylmethylene) compounds with 2,7-linkages (pp. 819-821) Black, David St. C.; Bowyer, Michael C.; Kumar, Naresh; Mitchell, Peter S. R.
• Formal syntheses of hepoxilin B3, trioxilin B3 and substances against rice blast disease from D-mannitol (pp. 821-822) Wu, Wen-Lian; Wu, Yu-Lin
• Novel structural principles in poly-lithium chemistry. Predicted structures and stabilities of XLi3, XLi5(X = F, Cl), YLi6(Y = O, S), SLi8 and SLi10 (pp. 822-825) Ivanic, Joseph; Marsden, Colin J.; Hassett, David M.
• Benzylthioethyl group as a base stable/base removable glycosidic protecting group in oligosaccharide synthesis (pp. 825-826) Chan, Tak-Hang; Fei, Chang-Pei
• Preparation and characterisation of noble metal solid sols in poly(methyl methacrylate) (pp. 826-828) Nakao, Yukimichi
• New classes of anion receptor containing charged and neutral transition metal Lewis acidic recognition sites (pp. 828-830) Beer, Paul D.; Dickson, Christian A. P.; Fletcher, Nicholas; Goulden, Alistair J.; Grieve, Alan; Hodacova, Jana; Wear, Trevor
• Molecular-hydrogen, -nitrogen and monohydride derivatives of the structurally characterised dichloro(o-diphenylphosphino-N,N-dimethylaniline)[tris(p-tolyl)phosphine]ruthenium(II) complex (pp. 830-832) Mudalige, D. Chandrika; Rettig, Steven J.; James, Brian R.; Cullen, William R.
• Intramolecular alkoxycobaltation: a novel route to the cobalt–carbon bond in a coenzyme B12 model (pp. 832-834) Kingma, Irene E.; Wiersma, Marten; van der Baan, Juul L.; Balt, Sijbe; Bickelhaupt, Friedrich; de Bolster, Martinus W. G.; Klumpp, Gerhard W.; Spek, Anthony L.
• Novel 4-substituted 4,5-dihydro-3H-(8-amino-6-oxo)pyrrolo[3,4-f][1,3,5]triazepines from(Z)-N 2-(2-amino-1,2-dicyano)formamidine and carbonyl compounds (pp. 834-836) Alves, M. José; Booth, Brian L.; Eastwood, Paul; Pritchard, Robin; Proença, M. Fernanda J. R. P.
• Oxo–nitrosyl polymetalates containing [M(NO)2]2+ units (M = Mo, W) (pp. 836-838) Roh, Soo-Gyun; Proust, Anna; Gouzerh, Pierre; Robert, Francis
• Ring expansion and rearrangement reactions of N-heteroarylmethyl radicals (pp. 839-840) McLellan, Jill F.; McNab, Hamish; Muir, Thomas W.
• Pyrazolo[1,2-a]1,2,3-triazinium-4-olate (pp. 840-842) Blake, Alexander J.; McNab, Hamish; Morrow, Mark; Rataj, Helen
• Facile synthesis of (1,2-dihydrobenzoxazol-2-ylidene)tetracarbonyliron complexes from 2-trimethylsiloxyphenyl isocyanide (pp. 842-844) Hahn, F. Ekkehardt; Tamm, Matthias
• Fluxional ligand migrations in triosmium clusters containing 2-pyridylphosphines (pp. 844-846) Deeming, Antony J.; Smith, Martin B.
• Reactions of halogen(2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenylimino)phosphine complexes with electrophiles and nucleophiies: abstraction or substitution of the halogen (pp. 846-848) Niecke, E.; Nixon, J. F.; Wenderoth, P.; Passos, B. F. Trigo; Nieger, M.
• Ultraviolet absorption spectrum of the benzyl cation observed by the pulse radiolysis of benzyl chloride (pp. 848-849) Fujisaki, Noboru; Comte, Pascal; Gäumann, Tino
• Stereoselective synthesis of Z-enol esters catalysed by [bis(diphenylphosphino)alkane]bis(2-methylpropenyl)ruthenium complexes (pp. 850-851) Doucet, Henri; Höfer, Jürgen; Bruneau, Christian; Dixneuf, Pierre H.
• Reactivity studies on tantalocene(sulfido)hydride Cp′2Ta(S)H (Cp′= ButC5H4): cycloaddition on and protonation of the TaS ligand (pp. 851-852) Brunner, Henri; Kubicki, Marek M.; Leblanc, Jean-Claude; Moise, Claude; Volpato, Florence; Wachter, Joachim
• Micelle formation of Boc-Val-Val-Ile-OMe tripeptide in chloroform and its conformational analysis (pp. 853-855) Jayakumar, R.; Mandal, A. B.; Manoharan, P. T.
• Proton sponge hydrofluoride as a soluble fluoride ion source (pp. 855-856) Chambers, Richard D.; Holmes, Thomas F.; Korn, Stewart R.; Sandford, Graham
• A novel annelation process involving perfluorocycloalkene derivatives (pp. 856-857) Chambers, Richard D.; Korn, Stewart R.; Sandford, Graham
• Determination of the absolute configuration of monosaccharides by a colour change in a chiral cholesteric liquid crystal system (pp. 857-860) James, Tony D.; Harada, Takaaki; Shinkai, Seiji
• An improved synthetic route to huperzine A; new analogues and their inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (pp. 860-862) Kozikowski, Alan P.; Campiani, Giuseppe; Aagaard, Patricia; McKinney, Michael
• Oxidation of olefins to aldehydes using a palladium–copper catalyst (pp. 862-864) Wenzel, Timothy T.
• An expeditious synthesis of a C-disaccharide using a temporary silaketal connection (pp. 864-865) Xin, Van Chao; Mallet, Jean-Maurice; Sinaÿ, Pierre
• Synthesis and structural characterisation of the trinuclear barium disiloxanes [Ba3(OSiPh2OSiPh2O)3(tetraglyme)2] and [Ba3(OSiPh2OSiPh2O)3(hmpa)5(H2O)], containing an unusual Ba3O7 core [tetraglyme = Me(OCH2CH2)4OMe; hmpa =(Me2N)3PO] (pp. 866-868) Darr, Jawwad A.; Drake, Simon R.; Williams, David J.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.
• Spectral shifts in the triplet–triplet absorption spectrum of anthracene in supercritical fluids (pp. 868-869) Roberts, Christopher B.; Brennecke, Joan F.; Chateauneuf, John E.
• Efficient photochemical transformation of spiro[4.n]-2,5-diones to γ-alkylidene γ-butyrolactones: its relevance to photostability of Fredericamycin A (pp. 870-871) Pandey, Bipin; Reddy, Ravinder S.; Kumar, Pradeep
• A novel 2,18-bridged biliverdin derivative (pp. 872-874) Sturrock, Edward D.; Bull, James R.; Kirsch, Ralph E.; Pandey, Ravindra K.; Senge, Mathias O.; Smith, Kevin M.
• Synthesis of unsaturated α-amino acids using the Ramberg–Bäcklund reaction (pp. 874-875) Guo, Zhao-Xia; Schaeffer, Marcel J.; Taylor, Richard J. K.
• Highly oxygenated derivatives of fluorinated C60, and the mode of fragmentation of the fluorinated cage under electron impact lonization conditions (pp. 875-878) Taylor, Roger; Langley, John; Brisdon, Alan K.; Holloway, John H.; Hope, Eric G.; Kroto, Harold W.; Walton, David R. M.
• Reactions of three-electron ση2-prop-2-ynyl ligands formed by deprotonation of four-electron η2-alkyne molybdenum complexes (pp. 879-881) Carfagna, Carla; Green, Michael; Mahon, Mary F.; Rumble, Simon; Woolhouse, Christopher M.
• A model of the cobalamin-independent methionine synthase reaction (pp. 881-882) Hilhorst, Ellen; Chen, Tjoe B. R. A.; Pandit, Upendra K.
• A functional model of manganese catalase. Mass spectrometric and visible spectral evidence for {Mn IV (O)}2 and Mn II Mn IV (O) intermediates (pp. 882-884) Sakiyama, Hiroshi; Ōkawa, Hisashi; Isobe, Ryuichi
• Dilithiated aminoalcohols as homochiral bases (pp. 884-886) Milne, David; Murphy, Patrick J.
• [Fe4Te4(SPri)4]2– and [Fe4Te4(SPri)4]3–, novel Fe4Te4 cluster complexes in different metal oxidation states and [Mn4Te4(TePri)4]4–, the first chalcogenide cubane cluster containing divalent metal ions (pp. 886-888) Stephen, Hans-Oscar; Chen, Changneng; Henkel, Gerald; Griesar, Klaus; Haase, Wolfgang

Issue: 11

• Contents pages (pp. P041-P044)
• Front cover (pp. X041-X042)
• Back cover (pp. X043-X044)
• Control of diastereoselectivity in the nucleophilic epoxidation of 1-arylthro-1-nitroalkenes: synthesis of diastereoisomerically pure γ-hydroxy threonine derivatives (pp. 889-890) Jackson, Richard F. W.; Kirk, Joanna M.; Palmer, Nicholas J.; Waterson, David; Wythes, Martin J.
• Transformation of MFI to β-quartz and coesite under high pressure and high temperature (pp. 891-892) Xiaoyang, Liu; Wenhui, Su; Xudong, Zhao; Yifeng, Wang
• Irreversible binding of dioxygen and other gases to a half-sandwich ruthenium(II) complex: X-ray structure of [Ru(η2-O2)(η5-C5Me5)(Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2)]PF6 (pp. 892-894) Kirchner, Karl; Mauthner, Klaus; Mereiter, Kurt; Schmid, Roland
• Synthesis and proposed framework topology of zeolite SUZ-4 (pp. 894-896) Lawton, Stephen L.; Bennett, J. Michael; Schlenker, John L.; Rubin, Mae K.
• First characterization of a tetrathiomolybdate(V) derivative by EPR, UV–VIS and IR spectroelectrochemistry (pp. 896-897) Schäfer, Roland; Fiedler, Jan; Moscherosch, Michael; Kaim, Wolfgang
• The absence of ‘globe-trotting’ hydrogen on the surfaces of aminated fullerenes: 3-D hydrogen bonding between aminated fullerenes and water revealed (pp. 897-899) Miller, Glen P.; Millar, John M.; Liang, Boming; Uldrich, Shari; Johnston, John E.
• Synthesis and NMR studies of ruthenium(II) mercaptopurine riboside complexes. X-Ray structure of bis(9-β-D-ribofuranosyl-6-rnercaptopurine)bis-(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II) chloride (pp. 899-901) Cini, Renzo; Bozzi, Roberta; Karaulov, Alexander; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Calafat, Antonia M.; Marzilli, Luigi G.
• Stereoselective template-directed C-glycosidation. Synthesis of bicyclic ketooxetanes via intramolecular cyclization reactions of (2-pyridylthio)glycosidic silyl enol ethers (pp. 901-903) Craig, Donald; Munasinghe, V. Ranjit N.
• X-Ray crystal structure of 1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-octa-iso-pentyloxyphthalocyanine (pp. 903-904) Cook, Michael J.; McMurdo, Jim; Powell, Anne K.
• Thermotropic properties of hemicholinium and related lipids (pp. 905-907) Kumaravel, G.; Negulescu, Ioan I.; Gandour, Richard D.
• Synthesis and NMR characterization of tri-n-butyltin tritide (pp. 907-909) Jaiswal, Devendra K.; Andres, Hendrik; Morimoto, Hiromi; Williams, Philip G.
• A novel photocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of (R)-(+)-1,1′-bi-2-naphthol derivatives by oxidative coupling of 3-substituted-2-naphthol with Δ-[Ru(menbpy)3]2+[menbpy = 4,4′-di(1R,2S,5R)-(–)-menthoxycarbonyl-2,2′-bipyridine], which posseses molecular helicity (pp. 909-911) Hamada, Taisuke; Ishida, Hitoshi; Usui, Satoshi; Watanabe, Yoshiro; Tsumura, Kazunori; Ohkubo, Katsutoshi
• Effect of water vapour in the catalytic destruction of cyanogen chloride (pp. 911-912) Agarwal, Sanjay K.; Spivey, James J.; Tevault, David E.
• The effect of catalyst porosity on methane selectivity in the Fischer–Tropsch reaction (pp. 913-914) Lapszewicz, Jacek A.; Loeh, Hans. J.; Chipperfield, Jan R.
• Improvement of separation in the solvent extraction of alkaline earths by the use of 18-crown-6 as a masking reagent (pp. 914-916) Umetani, Shigeo; Matsui, Masakazu; Tsurubou, Shigekazu
• Organoselenium-induced cyclization of γ,δ-alkenimine to nitrogen heterocycles (pp. 916-918) De Kimpe, Norbert; Boelens, Mark
• Direct trifluoromethylthiolation of aryl halides using methyl fluorosulfonyldifluoroacetate and sulfur (pp. 918-919) Chen, Qing-Yun; Duan, Jian-Xing
• 4-Phenyl-1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl: a novel coupling reagent for the formation of E–E bonds (E = C, P, Si) (pp. 919-921) Adamson, Neil; Banister, Arthur J.; Gorrell, Ian B.; Luke, Anthony W.; Rawson, Jeremy M.
• Fluorodenitrations using tetramethylammonium fluoride (pp. 921-922) Boechat, Nubia; Clark, James H.
• Cadmium chloride–magnesium–water: a new system for regioselective transformation of conjugated nitroalkenes to ketocompounds; conversion of 6-nitro-Δ5-steroids to 6-ketosteroids (pp. 922-923) Bordoloi, Manobjyoti
• Reaction of cis-vicinal dimethanesulfonates with Te2–: a method for converting cis-vicinal diols into olefins and its use in the preparation of 2′,3′-didehydro-2′,3′-dideoxynucleosides (pp. 923-924) Clive, Derrick L. J.; Wickens, Philip L.
• Metallomicellanols: incorporation of ruthenium(II)–2,2′: 6′,2″-terpyridine triads into cascade polymers (pp. 925-927) Newkome, George R.; Cardullo, Francesca; Constable, Edwin C.; Moorefield, Charles N.; Thompson, Alexander M. W. Cargill
• Selective labelling of peptides using (dienyl) iron tricarbonyl cations (pp. 928-929) Carver, John A.; Fates, Betty; Kane-Maguire, Leon A. P.
• High ionic conductivity of new polymer electrolytes consisting of polypyridinium, pyridinium and aluminium chloride (pp. 929-931) Watanabe, Masayoshi; Yamada, Shin-Ichiro; Sanui, Kohei; Ogata, Naoya
• Unprecedented formation of a cyclic tetramer from the acidolysis of indene ozonide. Isolation and characterisation of a novel dodecaoxacycloicosane derivative (pp. 931-933) McCullough, Kevin J.; Teshima, Koichi; Nojima, Masatomo
• Reactivity of ruthenium 5,10,15,20-tetramesitylporphyrin towards diazoesters: formation of olefins (pp. 934-935) Collman, J. P.; Rose, E.; Venburg, G. D.
• Synthesis of potential β-turn bicyclic dipeptide mimetics (pp. 935-936) Baldwin, Jack E.; Hulme, Christopher; Schofield, Christopher J.; Edwards, Alison J.
• An unusual Bi–Tri–binuclear sandwich complex formed in the reaction of CuCl2 with the Et2N–N2O2 – ion (pp. 937-939) Christodoulou, Danae; George, Clifford; Keefer, Larry K.
• Planar bisphthalocyanine: a reinvestigation (pp. 939-940) Lelievre, Dominique; Damette, Olivier; Simon, Jacques
• Calcium inside C60 and C70—from coorongite, a precursor of torbanite (pp. 941-942) Rose, Harry R.; Dance, Ian G.; Fisher, Keith J.; Smith, Derek R.; Willett, Gary D.; Wilson, M. A.
• Luminescence properties of rigid rod-like binuclear ruthenium(II)–osmium(II) terpyridine complexes; electronic interaction through phenyl bridges (pp. 942-944) Barigelletti, F.; Flamigni, L.; Balzani, V.; Collin, J.-P.; Sauvage, J.-P.; Sour, A.; Constable, E. C.; Thompson, A. M. W. Cargill
• Protonated tetrathiafulvalene: preparation, isolation and crystal structure of 2-(1,3-dithiol-2-yl)-1,3-dithiol-1-ium tetrafluoroborate (pp. 944-945) Giffard, Michel; Frère, Pierre; Gorgues, Alain; Riou, Amédée; Roncali, Jean; Toupet, Loïc
• Evidence for an isocyanate formation in the alkaline hydrolysis of N 1-alkyl derivatives of chlorpropamide, inhibitors of aldehyde dehydrogenase (pp. 946-947) Bergon, M.; Vigroux, A.; Tisnès, P.
• Isolation of a single-insertion intermediate in the catalytic polymerization of propene by a cationic tris(hydrocarbyl) zirconium complex (pp. 947-949) Pellecchia, Claudio; Grassi, Alfonso; Zambelli, Adolfo
• 2-(1′,3′-Dithiol-2′-ylidene)-5-(thiopyran-4″-ylidene)-1,3,4,6-tetrathiapentalene: a novel bis-fused π-electron donor (pp. 949-951) Misaki, Yohji; Fujiwara, Hideki; Yamabe, Tokio
• Solvation of alanine dipeptide: a quantum mechanical treatment (pp. 951-952) Gould, Ian R.; Hillier, Ian H.
• Self-assembly of [H4(cyclam)]Cl4(cylam = 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) into a 3-D polymeric network with microchannels that sustain a symmetrical 1-D polymer of water molecules (pp. 952-954) Subramanian, S.; Zaworotko, Michael J.
• The chromium trioxide–3,5-dimethylpyrazole complex: a mild and selective reagent for the oxidation of cyclopropyl hydrocarbons (pp. 954-957) Banwell, Martin G.; Haddad, Najiba; Huglin, Julie A.; MacKay, Maureen F.; Reum, Monica E.; Ryan, John H.; Turner (née Herbert), Kathleen A.
• Crystal and molecular structure of a metastable modification of phosphorus pentachloride (pp. 957-958) Finch, Arthur; Fitch, Andrew N.; Gates, Peter N.
• Carboxylic esters radical leaving groups: a new and efficient gas-phase synthesis of benzofurans (pp. 959-960) Black, Michael; Cadogan, J. I. G.; Cartwright, Gary A.; McNab, Hamish; MacPherson, Andrew D.
• Synthesis of branched-chain D-myo-inositols using the [3,3]sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement (pp. 960-961) Augy-Dorey, Sophie; Barton, Derek H. R.; Géro, Stephen D.; Quiclet-Sire, Béatrice; Sagnard, Isabella
• Thermochromic properties of polythiophenes: oligomers vs. polymers (pp. 962-963) Faïd, Karim; Leclerc, Mario
• Reactions of chlorophosphenium salts with 1,1,3,3-tetraalkyl-2-trimethylsilylguanidines. Molecular structures of new heterocyclic systems: [R2NPN{C(NR2)2}]2 2+ and [R2NP{N[C(NR2)2]}]2AlCl3 (pp. 963-965) Romanenko, Vadim D.; Sarina, Tatiana V.; Sanchez, Michel; Chernega, Alexander N.; Rozhenko, Alexander B.; Mazieres, Marie-Rose; Povolotski, Mark I.
• Why does tetramethylammonium oxalate exhibit sublimation? (pp. 965-966) Albert, Barbara; Jansen, Martin
• Chiral induction in aryl radical cyclization to the aldimino functional group (pp. 966-968) Tomaszewski, Mirosław J.; Warkentin, John
• Synthesis and structural characterisation of the mixed lithium–magnesium amide, [{PhCH2(Me2NCH2CH2)N}4Li2Mg]: a new type of magnesiate complex free of a donor solvent as ligand (pp. 969-970) Clegg, William; Henderson, Kenneth W.; Mulvey, Robert E.; O'Neil, Paul A.
• A new catalytic system for the direct oxidation of olefins to 1,2-diols by dioxygen in aqueous medium (pp. 970-972) Benvenuto, Mark A.; Sen, Ayusman
• Synthesis, purification, and characterization of the 1 : 1 addition product of C60 and anthracene (pp. 972-974) Schlueter, John A.; Seaman, Julie M.; Taha, Sharif; Cohen, Harry; Lykke, Keith R.; Wang, H. Hau; Williams, Jack M.
• Stereodirecting substituent effects during enzyme-catalysed synthesis of cis-dihydrodiol metabolites of 1,4-disubstituted benzene substrates (pp. 974-976) Boyd, Derek R.; Sharma, Narain D.; Hand, Mark V.; Groocock, Melanie R.; Kerley, Nuala A.; Dalton, Howard; Chima, Jagdeep; Sheldrake, Gary N.
• Synthesis and characterization of macrocycles as enlarged calix[4]arene analogues (pp. 976-978) Okada, Yukihiro; Kasai, Yoshinori; Ishii, Fuyuhiko; Nishimura, Jun
• 4-Nitro-2-phenyloxazole: an electrophilic dienophile for normal Diels–Alder reactions in the oxazole series (pp. 978-979) Nesi, Rodolfo; Turchi, Stefania; Giomi, Donatella; Papaleo, Sandro
• A simple synthesis of the ripening agent 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (pp. 979-980) Angus, Patricia M.; Golding, Bernard T.; Sargeson, Alan M.
• Corrigendum (pp. 980-980) Kabuto, Chizuko; Kabuto, Kuninobu; Sasaki, Yoichi; Nishiyama, Takeshi; Umakoshi, Keisuke

Issue: 12

• Contents pages (pp. P045-P048)
• Front cover (pp. X045-X046)
• Back cover (pp. X047-X048)
• Divergent change of regioselectivity in nucleophilic addition of electron deficient allylic tin reagents to 4-acylpyridinium salts; selective formation of 4,4-disubstituted 1,4-dihydropyridines (pp. 981-982) Yamaguchi, Ryohei; Mochizuki, Katsunobu; Kozima, Sinpei; Takaya, Hidemasa
• ‘Nonvertical’ triplet energy transfer to a severely non-planar 1,3-diene: proposal of a mechanism based on progressive endothermicity of vertical transfer to individual single-bond torsional levels (pp. 983-984) Gorman, A. A.; Hamblett, I.; Rushton, F. A. P.; Unett, D. J.
• Asymmetric synthesis of fluorinated analogues of 1-deoxynojirimycin (pp. 984-986) Arnone, Alberto; Bravo, Pierfrancesco; Donadelli, Alessandro; Resnati, Giuseppe
• Reactions in thermotropic liquid crystals: epoxidations catalysed by oriented metalloporphyrins (pp. 986-988) Neumann, Ronny; Cohen, Moshe
• Charge-transfer interactions in the intramolecular quenching of carbonyl triplets by β-aryl substituents (pp. 988-990) Leigh, William J.; Banisch, Jo-Ann H.; Workentin, Mark S.
• Electrospray mass spectrometry of the self-assembly of a capped polymetallic complex (pp. 990-993) Leize, Emmanuelie; Van Dorsselaer, Alain; Krämer, Roland; Lehn, Jean-Marie
• A new fluorinated dithiaselenatelluratetrazocinium cation: synthesis, properties and structure (pp. 993-994) Haas, Alois; Pryka, Michael
• Synthesis and size tailoring of colloidal zeolite particles (pp. 994-995) Schoeman, Brian J.; Sterte, Johan; Otterstedt, Jan-Erik
• Facile syntheses of cyclopnellitol and its (1R,6S)-, (1R,2S,6S)-, (2S)-diastereoisomers from (–)-quinic acid (pp. 995-997) Shing, Tony K. M.; Tai, Vincent W.-F.
• Demonstration of a novel method for the controlled deposition of metals onto surfaces by preparation of a Pd–Hg/SiO2 catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes (pp. 997-998) Nadkarni, Durgesh V.; Fry, James L.
• A revised mechanism for the cycioaddition of mesoionic dithioles with heterocumulenes (pp. 998-999) Bssaibis, Mohammed; Roberf, Albert; Souizi, Abdelaziz
• Synthesis and microcrystal structure determination of [Au10(PPh3)7{S2C2(CN)2}2] with monochromatic synchrotron radiation (pp. 1000-1001) Cheetham, Graham M. T.; Harding, Marjorie M.; Haggitt, Jane L.; Mingos, D. Michael P.; Powell, Harold R.
• Unexpected hydantoin formation in the attempted amidation with 2-aminobenzophenone of glyoxylic acid using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (pp. 1001-1002) Bringmann, Gerhard; Mader, Thomas; Peters, Karl; von Schnering, Hans Georg
• Total synthesis of optically active sordaricin methyl ester and its Δ2-derivative (pp. 1002-1004) Kato, Nobuo; Kusakabe, Shigenori; Wu, Xue; Kamitamari, Masashi; Takeshita, Hitoshi
• Tetrakis[(triphenylphosphine)gold(I)](tricyclohexylphosphine)boronium tetrafluoroborate, a novel boron-centred gold cluster (pp. 1005-1006) Blumenthal, Annette; Beruda, Holger; Schmidbaur, Hubert
• Towards the design of tricyclopenta [def, jkl, pqr] triphenylene (‘sumanene’): a ‘bowl-shaped’ hydrocarbon featuring a structural motif present in C60(buckminsterfullerene) (pp. 1006-1008) Mehta, Goverdhan; Shahk, Shailesh R.; Ravikumarc, K.
• Facile and reversible CO insertion into the Ir–CH3 bond of [Ir4(CH3)(CO)8(µ4-η3 3-Ph2PCCPh)(µ-PPh2)] (pp. 1008-1010) Vargas, Maria D.; Pereira, Regina M. S.; Braga, Dario; Grepioni, Fabrizia
• Formation of organocobalt porphyrin complexes by reactions of cobalt(II) porphyrins with azoisobutyronitrile and organic substrates (pp. 1010-1011) Gridnev, Alexei A.; Ittel, Steven D.; Fryd, Michael; Wayland, Bradford B.
• How does the steric effect drive the sugar conformation in the 3′-C-branched nucleosides? (pp. 1011-1014) Plavec, Janez; Garg, Neeraj; Chattopadhyaya, Jyoti
• Photochemical formation and dimerization of a 2,3-cycloheptadien-1-one (pp. 1014-1015) Venugopal, Divakaramenon; Todaro, Louis D.; Margaretha, Paul; Agosta, William C.
• Lipophilic metal (Na, TiIII ZrIV, Rh1 and PdII) complexes derived from the hybrid ligands -or and hor (R = Me2PCH2CBut 2); the X-ray structures of [t[graphic ommitted]Me2)2] and trans-[R[graphic ommitted]H)2] (pp. 1015-1017) Hitchcock, Peter B.; Lappert, Michael F.; Mackinnon, Lain A.
• Calixarenes as hosts in aqueous media: inclusion complexation of ferrocene derivatives by a water-soluble calix[6]arene (pp. 1017-1019) Zhang, Litao; Macías, Alba; Lu, Tianbao; Gordon, Jeffrey I.; Gokel, George W.; Kaifer, Angel E.
• Ligand-induced formation of a triple helical bridge involving O-donor ligands in dimeric lanthanide complexes (pp. 1019-1021) Goodgame, David M. L.; Hill, Stuart P. W.; Williams, David J.
• Preparation and X-ray structures of tridentate (N,N,S) complexes of the diazene trarts-[PhSNC(4-MeC6H4)NNC(4-MeC6H4)NSPh] with platinum and palladium (pp. 1021-1023) Chivers, Tristram; McGregor, Katherine; Parvez, Masood
• Photochemical isomerization of 3-acetylprydines to cyclobuta[c]pyridines involving norrish type II reactions (pp. 1023-1024) Sakamoto, Massami; Fujihira, Mamoru; Takahashi, Masaki; Enomoto, Katsutoshi; Nishimiya, Naoki; Fujita, Tsutomu; Watanabe, Shoji
• Synthesis of ABCtaxoid ring systems via a convergent strategy (pp. 1024-1026) Nicolaou, K. C.; Yang, Zhen; Sorensen, Erik J.; Nakada, Masahisa
• A novel entry to the imidoylketene–oxoketenimine energy surface (pp. 1026-1027) Clarke, David; Mares, Richard W.; McNab, Hamish
• Entrapment and controlled release of xenon in Cd2+-exchanged zeolite rho (pp. 1027-1029) Corbin, David R.; Abrams, Lloyd; Jones, Glover A.; Smith, Matthew L.; Dybowski, Cecil R.; Hriljac, Joseph A.; Parise, John B.
• The synthesis of furan-derived calixarenes (pp. 1029-1031) Musau, Richard M.; Whiting, Andrew
• Facile irreversible thermochromism of a near-infrared azamethine chromophore (pp. 1031-1032) Bello, K.; Griffiths, John; de Wit, P. P.; Erdhuis, E. W. P.
• A concise diastereoselective route to racemic samin, the general furofuran lignan precursor (pp. 1032-1033) Takano, Seiichi; Samizu, Kiyohiro; Ogasawara, Kunio
• An electro-photoswitch: redox switching of the luminescence of a bipyridine metal complex (pp. 1034-1036) Goulle, Véronique; Harriman, Anthony; Lehn, Jean-Marie
• Fluorinated hydroquinones via annulation of fluorovinylcarbene complexes with alkynes (pp. 1036-1037) Dötz, Karl Heinz; Glänzer, Jörg
• Synthesis and reactivity of allenylvinyl cycloalk-2-enyl ethers (pp. 1038-1039) Dulcère, Jean-Pierre; Agati, Valérie; Rodriguez, Jean
• A novel synthesis of (oxodimethylenemethane)-palladium and -platinum complexes (pp. 1039-1040) Ohsuka, Akihiro; Fujimori, Takanobu; Hirao, Toshikazu; Kurosawa, Hideo; Ikeda, Isao

Issue: 13

• Contents pages (pp. P049-P052)
• Front cover (pp. X049-X050)
• Back cover (pp. X051-X052)
• Photolysis of benzyl chloride included in Na Y zeolite: product study evidence for the implication of benzyl cation (pp. 1041-1042) Alvaro, Mercedes; Corma, Avelino; Garcia, Hermenegildo; Miranda, Miguel A.; Primo, Jaime
• Highly chemoselective reactions of zirconacyclopentenes for selective functionalization (pp. 1042-1044) Takahashi, Tamotsu; Aoyagi, Koichiro; Hara, Ryuichiro; Suzuki, Noriyuki
• Effects of the hydrogen-bonded interactions on the thermal cis to trans isomerization of 3,3′-diacetylazobenzene (pp. 1044-1045) Rosengaus, Jacqueline; Willner, Itamar
• New polyaza and polyammonium ferrocene macrocyclic ligands that complex and electrochemically recognise transition metal cations and phosphate anions in water (pp. 1046-1048) Beer, Paul D.; Chen, Zheng; Drew, Michael G. B.; Kingston, Justine; Ogden, Mark; Spencer, Paul
• Synthesis of large single crystals of mordenite from clear homogeneous solutions (pp. 1048-1050) Sun, Yan; Qiu, Shilun; Song, Tianyou; Pang, Wenqin; Yue, Yong
• Pressure-dependent isotope effect in the reaction of silylene (SiH2, 1A1) with acetylene and [2H2]acetylene (pp. 1050-1052) Becerra, Rosa; Frey, H. Monty; Masonb, Ben P.; Walsh, Robin
• Facile synthesis of potent HIV-1 protease inhibitors containing a novel pseudo-symmetric dipeptide isostere (pp. 1052-1053) Sham, Hing L.; Betebenner, David A.; Zhao, Chen; Wideburg, Norman E.; Saldivar, Ayda; Kempf, Dale J.; Plattner, Jacob J.; Norbeck, Daniel W.
• New Enantioselective Reactions catalysed by cinchonidine-modified platinum (pp. 1053-1054) Vermeer, Wilhelmus A. H.; Fulford, Anthony; Johnston, Peter; Wells, Peter B.
• 3,8-Diethynyl-3,8-devinylprotoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester and its haemin (pp. 1054-1056) Jiang, Xuqin; Smith, Kevin M.
• Tetramerization of alkynes on a tungsten(0) centre to form a cyclopentadienylvinylcarbene complex; crystal structure of [W(CO)(PhCCPh){η5-C3Ph3(C5Ph5)}] (pp. 1056-1057) Yeh, Wen-Yann; Peng, Shie-Ming; Lee, Gene-Hsiang
• Methylene insertion into a B–N bond at a cluster surface: crystal structure of 1-Me2N-2-Pri 2N(H)CH2-closo-1-CB11H10 (pp. 1058-1059) Mair, Francis S.; Martin, Avelino; Morris, John H.; Peters, Gavin S.; Spicer, Mark D.
• First synthesis of sulfinyl substituted tricarbonyl(η6-arene)chromium(0) complexes (pp. 1059-1062) Pérez-Encabo, Alfonso; Perrio, Stéphane; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Thomas, Susan E.; Wierzchleyski, Adam T.; Williams, David J.
• Aroylhydrazinatonickel(II) and copper(II) complexes; a new class of metallomesogens (pp. 1062-1063) Abser, Mohammed N.; Bellwood, Martin; Holmes, Michael C.; McCabe, Richard W.
• Efficient and selective labelling of the CFC alternative, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, with 18F in the 1-position (pp. 1064-1065) Aigbirhio, Franklin I.; Pike, Victor W.; Waters, Stephen L.; Makepeace, John; Tanner, Richard J. N.
• Acid-catalysed transformation of α-trifluoromethanesulfonates of γ- and δ-lactones into 2,5-disubstituted homochiral tetrahydrofurans (pp. 1065-1067) Wheatley, Joseph R.; Bichard, Claire J. F.; Mantell, Simon J.; Son, Jong Chan; Hughes, David J.; Fleet, George W. J.; Brown, David
• Novel method for generation of an organotin enolate by the cleavage of diketene with bis(tributyltin) oxide, and its Michael reactions (pp. 1067-1068) Shibata, Ikuya; Nishio, Masahiro; Baba, Akio; Matsuda, Haruo
• Tricyclic ethers from fischer vinylcarbene complexes and β-oxygen-functionalized organolithium compounds (pp. 1068-1070) Barluenga, José; Montserrat, Javier M.; Flórez, Josefa
• Novel photoinduced asymmetric synthesis of Λ-[Co(acac)3] from Co(acac)2(H2O)2 and Hacac catalysed by racemic complexes of Δ- and Λ-[Ru(menbpy)3]2+{menbpy = 4,4′-Di-[(1R,2S,5R)-(–)-menthoxycarbonyl)]-2,2′-bipyridine; Hacac = pentane-2,4-dione} (pp. 1070-1072) Ohkubo, Katsutoshi; Hamada, Taisuke; Watanabe, Megumi
• (Heptafluoro-1,4-cyclohexadien-1-yl)xenon(II) and (nonafluorocyclohexen-l-yl)xenon(II) hexafluoroarsenates: synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and reactivity of the first alkenylxenon(II) compounds (pp. 1072-1074) Frohn, Hermann J.; Bardin, Vadim V.
• N-phthalimidoaziridines by diastereoselective Addition to α,β-unsaturated amides: a route to chiral β-substituted α-hydrazino acid derivatives (pp. 1074-1076) Kapron, James T.; Santarsiero, Bernard D.; Vederas, John C.
• A rapid route to medium to large ring lactones via the thermolysis of dispiro-1,2,4-trioxane derivatives (pp. 1076-1078) Haq, Ahsanul; Kerr, Bernadette; McCullough, Kevin J.
• Supramolecular chemistry of [M(CO)3(µ3-OH)]4(M = Mn, Re): spontaneous strict self-assembly of distorted super-diamondoid networks that are capable of enclathrating acetonitrile (pp. 1078-1079) Copp, Steven B.; Subramanian, S.; Zaworotko, Michael J.
• Different mechanistic and stereochemical courses for the reactions catalysed by type I and type II dehydroquinases (pp. 1080-1081) Harris, Joanna; Kleanthous, Colin; Coggins, John R.; Hawkins, Alastair R.; Abell, Chris
• Specific adsorption of ferrocene-terminated poly(oxyethylene) at self-assembled monolayers of poly(methacrylic acid)-based amphiphiles on gold electrodes (pp. 1081-1083) Niwa, Masazo; Mori, Toshiaki; Higashi, Nobuyuki
• Development of a new amino-protecting group, 2-adamantyloxycarbonyl (2-adoc), and its application to the solid-phase synthesis of protected peptides (pp. 1083-1084) Nishiyama, Yasuhiro; Okada, Yoshio
• NMR differentiation of enantiomeric (+)- and (–)-α-pinene via complexation with cyclodextrins in water (pp. 1085-1086) Botsi, Antigone; Yannakopoulou, Konstantina; Hadjoudis, Eugene; Perly, Bruno
• The first imino-lead complex: synthesis and X-ray characterisation of Pb[µ-NC(But)Ph]3Li·thf (thf = tetrahydrofuran) (pp. 1086-1088) Edwards, Andrew J.; Paver, Michael A.; Raithby, Paul R.; Russell, Christopher A.; Wright, Dominic S.
• A cofacial, dimeric, metallaoxophlorin complex: [lndium(III)(octaethyloxophlorin)]2 (pp. 1088-1090) Balch, Alan L.; Noll, Bruce C.; Olmstead, Marilyn M.; Reid, Steven M.
• Catalytic O- and S-glycosylation of 1-hydroxy sugars (pp. 1090-1091) Lnanaga, Junji; Yokoyama, Yasuo; Hanamoto, Takeshi
• A VO3+ complex incorporating aromatic carboxylate binding: synthesis, structure and metal redox (pp. 1091-1092) Chakravarty, Joydip; Dutta, Somnath; Chakravorty, Animesh
• Relationship between dispersion of vanadia on silica catalysts and selectivity in the conversion of methane into formaldehyde (pp. 1093-1094) Kartheuser, B.; Hodnett, B. K.
• Pressure effect on the esterification of phthalic anhydride in supercritical CO2 (pp. 1094-1095) Ellington, J. Bryan; Brennecke, Joan F.
• Convenient, low energy, solid–liquid metathesis reactions; synthesis of TiN, TiO2, VN, VO2 and Ti x V y N (x+y= 1) (pp. 1095-1096) Hector, A.; Parkin, I. P.
• Interconversion of au I / II / III centres in thioether macrocyclic complexes: the synthesis, structures and redox properties of [Au([18]aneS6)]PF6 and [Au2([15]aneS5)2][B(C6F5)4]2 (pp. 1097-1098) Blake, Alexander J.; Taylor, Anne; Schröder, Martin
• Conversion of nitric oxide into a nitroxide radical using 2,3-dimethylbutadiene and 2,5-dimethylhexadiene (pp. 1099-1100) Gabr, Issam M.; Rai, Uma Shanker; Symons, Martyn C. R.
• Biosynthesis of vitamin B12: structure of precorrin-3B, the trimethylated substrate of the enzyme catalysing ring contraction (pp. 1100-1103) Debussche, Laurent; Thibaut, Denis; Danzer, Martine; Debu, Fabrice; Fréchet, Denise; Herman, Frédéric; Blanche, Francis; Vuilhorgne, Marc
• Phenanthroline-assisted metallation of a porphyrin: copper and silver mixed valence homodinuclear complexes (pp. 1103-1105) Giraudeau, A.; Gisselbrecht, J. P.; Gross, M.; Weiss, J.
• Evidence for rapid ligand redistribution in non-aqueous tungstate chemistry: rational synthesis of the binuclear tungsten oxoalkoxide [W2O5(OMe)4]2– (pp. 1105-1107) Clegg, William; Errington, R. John; Fraser, Kelly A.; Richards, David G.
• Copper-catalysed reaction of arylacetylenes with C,N-diarylnitrones (pp. 1107-1108) Okuro, Kazumi; Enna, Masahiro; Miura, Masahiro; Nomura, Masakatsu

Issue: 14

• Contents pages (pp. P053-P056)
• Front cover (pp. X053-X054)
• Back cover (pp. X055-X056)
• Photoreduction of iron(II)- and manganese(II)-phthalocyanine in the presence of azaferrocene (pp. 1109-1110) Zakrzewski, Janusz; Giannotti, Charles
• Displacement of a bridgehead methanesulfonate with lithium dialkylcuprates: preparation of 13-methylgibberellin A4 (pp. 1111-1112) Penny, Martin; Willis, Christine L.
• Cd(CN)3 –: a novel mineralomimetic infinite chain-like polycyanopolycadmate anion (pp. 1112-1113) Kitazawa, Takafumi; Akiyama, Michiyo; Takahashi, Masashi; Takeda, Masuo
• The conformation of derivatives of O-aryllactic acid used as chiral reagents in structure determination. NMR and X-ray structure analysis of diastereoisomeric menthol esters (pp. 1113-1115) Heumann, Andreas
• Luminescence behaviour of stable europium and terbium complexes of tetraaza phosphinates: efficient through-space energy transfer from phenyl to terbium (pp. 1116-1118) Murru, Marcella; Parker, David; Williams, Gareth; Beeby, Andrew
• Dramatically enhanced second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities in tricyanovinylthiophene derivatives (pp. 1118-1120) Rao, V. Pushkara; Jen, Alex K-Y.; Wong, K. Y.; Drost, Kevin J.
• Evidence of a chiral superstructure in the discotic mesophase of an optically active phthalocyanine (pp. 1120-1122) van Nostrum, Cornelus F.; Bosman, Anton W.; Gelinck, Gerwin H.; Picken, Stephen J.; Schouten, Pieter G.; Warman, John M.; Schouten, Arend-Jan; Nolte, Roeland J. M.
• Anti-organic fouling properties of composite membranes prepared from anion exchange membranes and polypyrrole (pp. 1122-1124) Sata, Toshikatsu
• Dinaphtho[2,1-b; 1′,2′-d]phospholes: a new class of atropisomeric phosphorus ligands (pp. 1124-1125) Dore, Antonio; Fabbri, Davide; Gladiali, Serafino; De Lucchi, Ottorino
• Molybdenum-allyloxo and -allylamido complexes as models for the catalytic surface intermediates of the oxidation of propene to acrolein and acrylonitrile (pp. 1125-1127) Belgacem, Jamal; Kress, Jacky; Osborn, John A.
• Synthesis and structure of a five-coordinate triarylgallium complex (pp. 1127-1129) Coggin, DeAnna K.; Fanwick, Phillip E.; Green, Mark A.
• The dication of 1,4,5,8-tetrakis(dimethylamino)naphthalene: properties, crystal structure and a comparison with the dication of 1,4-bis(dimethylamino)benzene (pp. 1129-1131) Barth, Thomas; Krieger, Glaus; Staab, Heinz A.; Neugebauer, Franz A.
• Synthesis, crystal structure and homogeneous catalytic activity towards ethylene polymerisation of the spirocyclic chromium(II) siloxane [C[graphic ommitted])-µ-Na(thf)2}2](thf = tetrahydrofuran) (pp. 1132-1133) Motevalli, Majid; Sanganee, Mahesh; Savage, Paul D.; Shah, Syed; Sullivan, Alice C.
• Synthesis of a new graphite-like layered material of composition BC3N (pp. 1133-1134) Kawaguchi, Masayuki; Kawashima, Tadayuki
• Reactivity of carboxy esters in gold–thiol monolayers (pp. 1134-1136) Neogi, Partha; Neogi, Sujata; Stirling, Charles J. M.
• 1,3,4,5-Tetramethyl-2-methyleneimidazoline—an ylidic olefin (pp. 1136-1137) Kuhn, Norbert; Bohnen, Hans; Kreutzberg, Jörg; Bläser, Dieter; Boese, Roland
• A linear polymer of copper(II) with water and the carboxy group of L-alanine as bridges (pp. 1137-1139) Davies, Hywel O.; Gillard, Robert D.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Lehmann, Alice
• Intermolecular proton transfer in host–guest crystals: the case of pyrazole included in 1,1-di(2,4-dimethylphenyl)but-2-yn-1-ol, an X-ray and solid-state 13C/15N NMR study (pp. 1139-1142) Toda, Fumio; Tanaka, Koichi; Foces-Foces, Concepción; Llamas-Saiz, Antonio L.; Limbach, Hans-Heinrich; Aguilar-Parrilla, Francisco; Claramunt, Rosa Ma.; López, Concepción; Elguero, José
• An infinite ladder structure of alternating, fused K2N2 rhomboids and KN2 triangles: synthesis and crystallographic characterisation of benzotriazolatopotassium·HMPA (HMPA = hexamethylphosphoric triamide) (pp. 1142-1144) Andrews, Philip C.; Clegg, William; Mulvey, Robert E.; O'Neil, Paul A.; Wilson, Heather M. M.
• Highly thermostable, porous, layered titanoniobate pillared by silica (pp. 1144-1145) Hou, Wenhua; Ma, Jun; Yan, Qijie; Fu, Xiancai
• (5R)-7,8:9,10-Di-O-isopropylidene-2,6-dioxa-4-azaspiro[4,5]decan-3-one: a new chiral spirooxazolidin-2-one derived from D-(+)-galactose for use in asymmetric transformations (pp. 1146-1148) Banks, Malcolm R.; Blake, Alexander J.; Cadogan, J. I. G.; Dawson, Ian M.; Gaur, Suneel; Gosney, Ian; Gould, Robert O.; Grant, Keith J.; Hodgson, Philip K. G.
• Birch reduction of C60—a new appraisal (pp. 1149-1152) Banks, Malcolm R.; Dale, Michael J.; Gosney, Ian; Hodgson, Philip K. G.; Jennings, Richard C. K.; Jones, Anita C.; Lecoultre, Jacques; Langridge-Smith, Patrick R. R.; Maier, John P.; Scrivens, James H.; Smith, Martyn J. C.; Smyth, Christopher J.; Taylor, Alan T.; Thorburn, Paul; Webster, Adrian S.
• Homolytic 1,6-transfer of the Bu3Sn group from allylic carbon to alkoxy oxygen (pp. 1152-1153) Kim, Sunggak; Lim, Kwang Min
• Asymmetric syntheses of β-phenylalanine, α-methyl-β-phenylalanines and derivatives (pp. 1153-1155) Davies, Stephen G.; Garrido, Narciso M.; Ichihara, Osamu; Walters, Lain A. S.
• Sex pheromone biosynthesis in Mamestra brassicae l. (lepidoptera: noctuidae); stereochemistry of the Δ11 desaturation (pp. 1155-1157) Boland, Wilhelm; Frössl, Christian; Schöttler, Michael; Tóth, Miklós
• Lanthanide trifluoromethanesulfonates as reusable catalysts: catalytic Friedel-Crafts acylation (pp. 1157-1158) Kawada, Atsushi; Mitamura, Shuichi; Kobayashi, Shū
• High acid retention properties of composite membranes prepared from anion exchange membranes and poly(pyrrole) (pp. 1159-1160) Sata, Toshikatsu; Kishimoto, Fumito; Ogura, Shinji
• Synthesis of new polymers with polymethacrylate backbone and polythiophene side chains (pp. 1160-1162) Wei, Yen; Hariharan, Ramakrishnan; Bakthavatchalam, R.
• The singlet–triplet gap of the halonitrenium ions NHX+, NX2 + and the halocarbenes CHX, CX2(X = F, Cl, Br, I) (pp. 1162-1164) Gobbi, Alberto; Frenking, Gernot
• Evidence for the allyl and secondary cation intermediate on adsorption of allyl alcohol on H-ZSM-5 zeolite (pp. 1164-1166) Biaglow, A. I.; Gorte, R. J.; White, David
• Isolation and structure of the remarkable human cancer cell growth inhibitors spongistatins 2 and 3 from an eastern indian ocean Spongia sp. (pp. 1166-1168) Pettit, George R.; Cichacz, Zbigniew A.; Gao, Feng; Herald, Cherry L.; Boyd, Michael R.
• New highly strained adamantanophanes (pp. 1168-1170) Lemmerz, R.; Nieger, M.; Vögtle, F.
• Conversion of atmospheric dioxygen to a µ–η2,η2-peroxo bridge in a dinuclear uranium(VI) complex (pp. 1170-1172) Doyle, Garry A.; Goodgame, David M. L.; Sinden, Alistair; Williams, David J.
• Detection of oxidation radicals of 2,3-enediol form of 2,3-dioxoguluno-δ-lactone by pulse radiolysis (pp. 1172-1173) Nakata, Kunihiko; Horii, Hideo; Morita, Naofumi
• Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of the permethyltitanocene hydride–magnesium hydride complex [{(C5Me5)2Ti(µ-H)2)2}2Mg] (pp. 1174-1175) Troyanov, Sergei I.; Varga, Vojtech; Mach, Karel
• Highly selective V-P-O/γ-Al2O3 catalysts in the ammoxidation of toluene to benzonitrile (pp. 1175-1176) Rapolu, Chandra Sekhar Reddy; Panja, Kanta Rao
• Corrigenda (pp. 1176-1176) Ghosh, Ajit K.; Ghosh, Keya; Pal, Sitaram; Chatak, Usha Ranjan; James, Tony D.; Harada, Takaaki; Shinkai, Seiji

Issue: 15

• Contents pages (pp. P057-P060)
• Front cover (pp. X057-X058)
• Back cover (pp. X059-X060)
• Decomposition of the antitumour drug temozolomide in deuteriated phosphate buffer: methyl group transfer is accompanied by deuterium exchange (pp. 1177-1178) Wheelhouse, Richard T.; Stevens, Malcolm F. G.
• Asymmetric synthesis of (3S)-2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyridazine-3-carboxylic acid (pp. 1179-1180) Aspinall, Ian H.; Cowley, Phillip M.; Mitchell, Glynn; Stoodley, Richard J.
• A novel hexavanadate core: synthesis and structure of the mixed valence cluster [V6O8{(OCH2)3CEt}2{(OCH2)2C(CH2OH)(Et)}4]2– and a comparison with the hexametallate core of [V6O13(OMe)3{(OCH2)3CCH2OH}]2– (pp. 1180-1182) Chen, Qin; Zubieta, Jon
• Ti8C12: a polytopal molecule with 36 Ti–C bonds (pp. 1182-1185) Rohmer, Marie-Madeleine; Bénard, Marc; Henriet, Charles; Bo, Carles; Poblet, Josep-M.
• Activation of H2 by chlorocarbonylbis(trimethylphosphine)rhodium(I) labilizes CO and produces the new binuclear complex H(Cl)Rh(PMe3)2(µ-H)(µ-Cl)RH(PMe3)(CO) (pp. 1185-1187) Duckett, Simon B.; Eisenberg, Richard; Goldman, Alan S.
• Anti eliminations of Horner–Wittig intermediates (pp. 1187-1188) Lawrence, Nicholas J.; Muhammad, Faiz
• Sulfoniosilylation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Facile nucleophilic substitution of 3-trialkylsilyloxyalk-2-enylenesulfonium salts (pp. 1188-1189) Kim, Sunggak; Park, Joo Hyeon; Kim, Yong Gil; Lee, Joo Moon
• The use of the novel oxidising reagent triphenylarsine diiodine in the reaction with dicobalt octacarbonyl to produce a new type of complex [(Ph3Asl)2l][Co(AsPh3)l3] (pp. 1190-1191) Godfrey, Stephen M.; Lane, Helen P.; Mackie, Anthony G.; McAuliffe, Charles A.; Pritchard, Robin G.
• The synthesis and low-temperature single crystal X-ray structure of the charge-transfer complex ([9]aneS3)2(l2)4([9]aneS3= 1,4,7-trithiacyclononane) (pp. 1191-1193) Blake, Alexander J.; Gould, Robert O.; Radek, Christian; Schröder, Martin
• Studies in the asymmetric ring opening of an oxabicyclic compound. Catalytic asymmetric induction using (–)-sparteine (pp. 1193-1194) Lautens, Mark; Gajda, Christopher; Chiu, Pauline
• Stereocontrolled syntheses of novel cyclic sulfinates using N-sulfinyl-p-toiuenesulfonamide (pp. 1195-1196) Marson, Charles M.; Giles, Paul R.; Adams, Harry; Bailey, Neil A.
• A neutron diffraction study of acid sites in H-SAPO-37 (pp. 1196-1198) Bull, L. M.; Cheetham, A. K.; Hopkins, P. D.; Powell, B. M.
• Pterin 1H–3H tautomerism and its possible relevance to the binding of folate to dihydrofolate reductase (pp. 1199-1200) Schwalbe, Carl H.; Lowis, David R.; Richards, W. Graham
• Asymmetric total synthesis of (–)-podophyllotoxin (pp. 1200-1201) Bush, Edward J.; Jones, David W.
• Regio- and stereo-selective ring opening of epoxides with amide cuprate reagents (pp. 1201-1203) Yamamoto, Yoshinori; Asao, Naoki; Meguro, Masaki; Tsukada, Naofumi; Nemoto, Hisao; Sadayori, Naoki; Wilson, J. Gerald; Nakamura, Hiroyuki
• Isolation of alkyl- and acyl-palladium complexes containing rigid bidentate nitrogen ligands by stepwise successive insertion of CO and alkenes (pp. 1203-1205) van Asselt, Rob; Gielens, Esther E. C. G.; Rülke, Richard E.; Elsevier, Cornells J.
• Solution structure of the antitumour antibiotic neocarzinostatin, a chromophore–protein complex (pp. 1205-1207) Tanaka, Toshiyuki; Hirama, Masahiro; Fujita, Ken-ichi; Imajo, Seiichi; Ishiguro, Masaji
• Potent solvents for C60 and their utility for the rapid acquisition of 13C NMR data for fullerenes (pp. 1207-1209) Scrivens, Walter A.; Tour, James M.
• Evidence that arginine is a later metabolic intermediate than ornithine in the biosynthesis of clavulanic acid by Streptomyces clavuligerus (pp. 1210-1211) Valentine, Brian P.; Bailey, Christopher R.; Doherty, Andrew; Morris, Jennifer; Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaley, Keith H.; Nicholson, Neville H.
• Two novel arginine derivatives from a mutant of Streptomyces clavuligerus (pp. 1211-1212) Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaley, Keith H.; Fulston, Mark; Nicholson, Neville H.; Tyler, John W.; Edwards, Jeffrey; Holms, Harry; Hamilton, Ian; Mousdale, David M.
• The identification of three new biosynthetic intermediates and one further biosynthetic enzyme in the clavulanic acid pathway (pp. 1212-1214) Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaley, Keith H.; Davison, Mark; Fulston, Mark; Nicholson, Neville H.; Risbridger, Gerald D.; Tyler, John W.
• 3-Acetoxyamino-2-trifluoromethylquinazolin-4(3H)one as an aziridinating agent for alkenes (pp. 1215-1216) Atkinson, Robert S.; Coogan, Michael P.; Cornell, Clive L.
• The synthesis of (+)- and (–)-epibatidine (pp. 1216-1218) Fletcher, Stephen R.; Baker, Raymond; Chambers, Mark S.; Hobbs, Sarah C.; Mitchell, Paul J.
• Generation of radical cations from enamines and their addition to unactivated olefins (pp. 1218-1219) Cossy, Janine; Bouzide, Abderrahim
• Palladium-catalysed dehydration of propynyl alcohols with tin(II) chloride (pp. 1219-1220) Masuyama, Yoshiro; Takahara, Jun P.; Hashimoto, Kazumi; Kurusu, Yasuhiko
• Oxidation of furans with dimethyldioxirane. Interception of malealdehyde and related aldehydes via Wittig reactions (pp. 1220-1222) Adger, Brian J.; Barrett, Collette; Brennan, Joseph; McGuigan, Peter; McKervey, M. Anthony; Tarbit, Brian
• Oxidation of α-diazoketones derived from L-amino acids and dipeptides using dimethyldioxirane. Synthesis and reactions of homochiral N-protected α-amino glyoxals (pp. 1222-1223) Darkins, Paul; McCarthy, Noreen; McKervey, M. Anthony; Ye, Tao
• A highly efficient free radical approach to trisubstituted pyrrolidinones (pp. 1224-1225) Parsons, A. F.; Taylor, R. J. K.
• Tetrathiadiazafulvalenes; preparation and characterisation of cis- and trans-[RCNS2CCS2NCR](R = Me, Ph) (pp. 1226-1227) Oakley, Richard T.; Richardson, John F.; Spence, Rupert E. V. H.
• Charge-transfer complex of a twin donor based on its inclusion ability (pp. 1227-1229) Tachikawa, Tatsuya; Izuoka, Akira; Sugawara, Tadashi
• A unique macrocyclic structure of tetrameric trimethyltin(IV) diphenylphosphinate, [Me3SnO2PPh2]4, containing a sixteen-membered Sn4O8P4 inorganic ring (pp. 1229-1230) Newton, M. Gary; Haiduc, Ionel; King, R. Bruce; Silvestru, Cristian
• Preparation and 13C NMR spectroscopic characterisation of C60Cl6 (pp. 1230-1232) Birkett, Paul R.; Avent, Anthony G.; Darwish, Adam D.; Kroto, Harold W.; Taylor, Roger; Walton, David R. M.
• Reaction pathways for the oligomerization of organic isocyanides by tantalum hydride reagents (pp. 1233-1235) Clark, Janet R.; Fanwick, Phillip E.; Rothwell, Ian P.
• Structure and activity of fibronectin-related peptides: RGDSPASS containing cyclic peptides (pp. 1235-1236) Yamamoto, Yasuo; Sofuku, Shosuke
• A dinuclear zinc hydroxide complex which traps atmospheric carbon dioxide: formation of a tri-zinc complex with a triply bridging carbonate group (pp. 1236-1238) Murthy, Narasappa Narasimha; Karlin, Kenneth D.
• Novel optical resolution methods by inclusion crystallisation in suspension media and by fractional distillation (pp. 1238-1240) Toda, Fumio; Tohi, Yasushi
• Corrigenda (pp. 1240-1240) Shimizu, Yo; Ishikawa, Atsushi; Kusabayashi, Shigekzu; Miya, Masaru; Nagata, Akira; Beer, Paul D.; Dickson, Christian A. P.; Fletcher, Nicholas; Goulden, Alistair J.; Grieve, Alan; Hodacova, Jana; Wear, Trevor; Clive, Derrick L. J.; Postema, Maarten H. D.

Issue: 16

• Contents pages (pp. P061-P064)
• Front cover (pp. X061-X062)
• Back cover (pp. X063-X064)
• Do the structures of phase-transfer catalysts influence dihalogenocarbene–carbenoid selectivities? (pp. 1241-1242) Dehmlow, Eckehard V.; Fastabend, Uwe
• Carbon monoxide hydrogenation over ZrO2 and Cu/ZrO2 (pp. 1242-1244) Sun, Yuhan; Sermon, Paul A.
• Stereochemistry of the catalysed Diels–Alder reaction between cyclopentadiene and dimethyl monothionofumarate; soft versus hard Lewis acids (pp. 1244-1246) Braddock, D. Christopher; Brown, John M.; Guiry, Patrick J.
• In situ NMR and EXAFS studies of the homogeneous alkene oligomerisation catalyst Ni(cod)2–Ph2PCH2C(CF3)2OH (pp. 1246-1248) Andrews, Paul; Evans, John
• Solvent effect and NMR behaviour in a chiral amidophosphine mediated reaction of organocuprate with chalcone (pp. 1248-1249) Kanai, Motomu; Koga, Kenji; Tomioka, Kiyoshi
• Aluminium-27 MAS NMR investigations of sodium aluminates formed from high pH solutions: evidence of a complex polymer containing both four- and six-coordinate aluminium (pp. 1249-1251) Bradley, Susan M.; Hanna, John V.
• A [Fe8S6]4+ cluster as bridging ligand via sulfur in a dinuclear ruthenium complex (pp. 1251-1252) Pohl, Siegfried; Barklage, Walter; Saak, Wolfgang; Opitz, Ulrich
• 13C CPMAS NMR spectra of solid proton-exchanging p-substituted benzoylacetones: observation of 13C, 35,37Cl residual dipolar coupling in the p-chloro derivative (pp. 1253-1254) Cravero, Raquel M.; González-Sierra, Manuel; Fernández, Claudio; Olivieri, Alejandro C.
• A palladium-catalysed stannole synthesis: development and mechanism (pp. 1254-1256) Krause, Jochen; Pluta, Christian; Pörschke, Klaus-R.; Goddard, Richard
• Physisorption of nitrogen and oxygen by MCM-41, a model mesoporous adsorbent (pp. 1257-1258) Branton, Peter J.; Hall, Peter G.; Sing, Kenneth S. W.
• Biosynthesis of the polyether antibiotic monensin A: incorporation of a polyketide chain elongation intermediate (pp. 1258-1260) Patzelt, Heiko; Robinson, John A.
• ‘Caged’ porphyrin: the first dendritic molecule having a core photochemical functionality (pp. 1260-1262) Jin, Ren-Hua; Aida, Takuzo; Inoue, Shohei
• Asymmetric hydrogenation in water by a rhodium complex of sulfonated 2,2′bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthyl (binap) (pp. 1262-1264) Wan, Kam-to; Davis, Mark E.
• Selective macrolactonization using zeolite molecular sieves (pp. 1264-1265) Tatsumi, Takashi; Sakashita, Haru; Asano, Keiko
• A new C–C bond-forming free radical rearrangement (pp. 1265-1267) Crich, David; Yao, Qingwei
• Synthesis, structure and preliminary complexation behaviour of macrocyclic thioureas and ureas (pp. 1267-1269) Rosser, Mark; Parker, David; Ferguson, George; Gallagher, John F.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Yufit, Dmitri S.
• Slippage—an alternative method for assembling [2]rotaxanes (pp. 1269-1274) Ashton, Peter R.; Bělohradský, Martin; Philp, Douglas; Stoddart, J. Fraser
• The self assembly of [2]- and [3]-rotaxanes by slippage (pp. 1274-1277) Ashton, Peter R.; Bělohradský, Martin; Philp, Douglas; Spencer, Neil; Stoddart, J. Fraser
• Samarium(II) iodide-promoted hydroxyalkylations of indole 3-carbonyls. An expedient approach to pyrrolidino[1,2-a]indoles and furo[3,4-b]indoles (pp. 1277-1278) Shiue, Jiann-Shyng; Fang, Jim-Min
• Synthesis of a new unsymmetrical trinucleating macrocycle incorporating both phenolic and pyridine head units: x-ray crystal structure of {[Pb2(L1)(Cl)](ClO4)2} x (pp. 1278-1280) Brooker, Sally; Croucher, Paul D.
• Ab initio investigations of perhydrotriquinacenyl and other bridgehead carbocations (pp. 1280-1282) Mareda, Jiri
• 1,7,13,19-Tetramethyl-3,5,9,11,15,17,21,23-octaazasepticyclo-[11.11.5.57,19·13,23·111,15·117,21]octatriacontane (pp. 1283-1284) Dale, Johannes; Ramming, Christian; Suissa, M. Rachel
• Carbocyclic adenosine phosphates as nucleotide mimics in some enzyme-catalysed reactions (pp. 1284-1285) Le Grand, Darren M.; Roberts, Stanley M.
• Theoretical investigation of the origin of secondary α-deuterium kinetic isotope effects (pp. 1286-1287) Barnes, John A.; Williams, Ian H.
• Isomorphous substitution of Be2+ into ZSM-5 zeolite with ammonium tetrafluoroberyllate (pp. 1287-1288) Han, S.; Schmitt, K. D.; Shihabi, D. S.; Chang, C. D.
• Asymmetric property of an ultrathin polymer film impregnated with amphiphilic polypyridine complex for photocatalytic reduction of viologen (pp. 1288-1290) Yamada, Sunao; Iida, Hiroshi; Matsuo, Taku
• Selective formation of acrylonitrile via oxidative methylation of acetonitrile with methane over superbasic catalysts (pp. 1290-1292) Ruckenstein, Eli; Khan, Ashraf Z.
• Synthesis of 2,3-Di-O-palmitoyl-α,α-trehalose via a novel tri-protected trehalose intermediate (pp. 1292-1293) Wallace, Paul A.; Minnikin, David E.
• Unusual conformational behaviour in the chlorocyclohexane/thiourea inclusion compound: a theoretical rationalization (pp. 1293-1295) Schofield, Patricia A.; Harris, Kenneth D. M.; Shannon, Ian J.; Rennie, Andrew J. O.
• Synthesis of the parent phosphinine and phosphaalkyne by flash thermolysis of vinyldiallyl- and triallyl-phosphine (pp. 1295-1296) Le Floch, Pascal; Mathey, François
• Isolation and characterization of Diels–Alder adducts of C60 with anthracene and cyclopentadiene (pp. 1296-1298) Tsuda, Minoru; Ishida, Takayuki; Nogami, Takashi; Kurono, Sadamu; Ohashi, Mamoru
• A novel route to peroxynitrite anion (pp. 1298-1299) Leis, J. Ramón; Pen̄a, M. Elena; Ríos, Ana
• Novel synthesis of (–)-malyngolide using reactions of alkylidene carbenes (pp. 1299-1300) Ohira, Susumu; Moritani, Masanori; Ida, Takahiro; Yamato, Masatoshi
• Studies on the stereospecificity of the clavaminic acid synthase catalysed hydroxylation reaction (pp. 1301-1302) Baldwin, Jack E.; Merritt, Kirsten D.; Schofield, Christopher J.; Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaley, Keith H.
• Molecular aluminium trihydride, AlH3: generation in a solid noble gas matrix and characterisation by its infrared spectrum and Ab initio calculations (pp. 1302-1304) Kurth, Fabian A.; Eberlein, Robert A.; Schnöckel, Hansgeorg; Downs, Anthony J.; Pulham, Colin R.
• Agelastatin a, a new skeleton cytotoxic alkaloid of the oroidin family. Isolation from the axinellid sponge Agelas dendromorpha of the coral sea (pp. 1305-1306) D'Ambrosio, Michele; Guerriero, Antonio; Debitus, Cécile; Ribes, Olivier; Pusset, Jacques; Leroy, Sandrine; Pietra, Francesco
• Structural principles for copper carbohedrene clusters [Cu x C y ]+ (pp. 1306-1308) Dance, Ian
• Corrigendum (pp. 1308-1308) Musau, Richard M.; Whiting, Andrew

Issue: 17

• Contents pages (pp. P065-P068)
• Front cover (pp. X065-X066)
• Back cover (pp. X067-X068)
• A versatile synthetic route to 1-benzometalloles involving the first examples of several C-unsubstituted benzometalloles (pp. 1309-1310) Kurita, Jyoji; Ishii, Makoto; Yasuike, Shuji; Tsuchiya, Takashi
• Electrochemical studies on Langmuir–Blodgett films of 1-tert-butyl-1,9-dihydrofullerene-60 (pp. 1310-1312) Goldenberg, Leonid M.; Williams, Geoffrey; Bryce, Martin R.; Monkman, Andrew P.; Petty, Michael C.; Hirsch, Andreas; Soi, Antonio
• The selective generation of trans-substituted lithium and sodium ethenesulfenate anions (pp. 1312-1314) Schwan, Adrian L.; Pippert, Mark F.; Pham, Hung H.; Roche, Michael R.
• Origins of regioselectivity in radical reactions of axially twisted anilides (pp. 1314-1317) Curran, Dennis P.; DeMello, Nicholas C.
• Anion-controlled oligomerization of carbon monoxide and norbornene on a palladium(II) centre (pp. 1317-1319) Markies, Bertus A.; Verkerk, Kai A. N.; Rietveld, Marco H. P.; Boersma, Jaap; Kooijman, Huub; Spek, Anthony L.; van Koten, Gerard
• Complete reversal of stereoselectivity in rhodium complex-catalysed hydrosilylation of alk-1-yne (pp. 1319-1320) Takeuchi, Ryo; Tanouchi, Nao
• Tentacled aromatics: from central-ring to outer-ring iron sandwich complexes (pp. 1320-1322) Fillaut, Jean-Luc; Astruc, Didier
• A strongly binding, helically chiral ligand system (pp. 1323-1325) Judice, J. Kevin; Keipert, Steven J.; Cram, Donald J.
• Synthesis and binding properties of a family of potentially chiral spherands (pp. 1325-1327) Judice, J. Kevin; Keipert, Steven J.; Knobler, Carolyn B.; Cram, Donald J.
• A simple synthesis of tetrahydrofuran complexes of lanthanoid trichlorides: convenient substitutes for anhydrous lanthanoid chlorides (pp. 1328-1329) Deacon, Glen B.; Feng, Tiecheng; Nickel, Siegbert; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Palladium-catalysed enantioselective Grignard cross coupling with use of a new ferrocenylaminophosphine ligand (pp. 1329-1330) Jedlicka, Brigitte; Kratky, Christoph; Weissensteiner, Walter; Widhalm, Michael
• Aerobic palladium-catalysed 1,4-cis-diacetoxylation and 1,4-cis-chloroacetoxylation of cyclohexa-1,3-diene using a tetrakis(methoxyhydroquinone)porphyrin (pp. 1331-1332) Grennberg, Helena; Bäckvall, Jan-E.
• Stereocontrolled enantiospecific synthesis of anticapsin: revision of the configuration (pp. 1332-1335) Baldwin, Jack E.; Adlington, Robert M.; Mitchell, Mark B.
• Reversal of the ortho–para-isomer ratios by altering the initial concentration of substrate in the ozone-mediated nitration of chloro- and bromo-benzenes (pp. 1335-1337) Suzuki, Hitomi; Mori, Tadashi; Maeda, Koichi
• Electronic effects in π-facially stereoselective epoxidation of phenyltrifluoromethylpropenol (pp. 1337-1340) Casher, Omer; O'Hagan, David; Rosenkranz, Christian A.; Rzepa, Henry S.; Zaidi, Naveed A.
• Halogen-induced formation of nitrones from oximes and alkenes (pp. 1340-1342) Grigg, Ronald; Hadjisoteriou, Maria; Kennewell, Peter; Markandu, Jasothara; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Formation and stabilisation of the hexa-cyclopentadiene adduct of C60 (pp. 1342-1344) Meidine, Mohamed F.; Roers, Rolf; Langley, G. John; Avent, Anthony G.; Darwish, Adam D.; Firth, Steven; Kroto, Harold W.; Taylor, Roger; Walton, David R. M.
• The preparation and characterization of the mixed valence complex dianion [Mn3(CO)6(µ2-NO2)4(µ2-ONO)2]2– (pp. 1345-1346) Johnson, Brian F. G.; Sieker, Anke; Blake, Alexander J.; Winpenny, Richard E. P.
• Evidence for distinct mechanisms of monocyclic β-lactam biosynthesis (pp. 1346-1347) Mcllwaine, Douglas B.; Townsend, Craig A.
• The reaction of tetramesityldisilene with cyclohexene oxide and cyclohexene sulfide (pp. 1348-1349) Mangette, John E.; Powell, Douglas R.; West, Robert
• A model intermediate for the nucleophilic substitution of (Cp)2Sn; synthesis and structure of (Cp)(Me3Si)2NSn(µ-Cp)Li·pmdeta [Cp = C5H5, pmdeta =(Me2NCH2CH2)2NMe] (pp. 1349-1351) Paver, Michael A.; Russell, Christopher A.; Stalke, Dietmar; Wright, Dominic S.
• Chiral ligands: unambiguous assignment of absolute configuration by NMR spectroscopy (pp. 1352-1354) Bookham, Jonathan L.; McFarlane, William
• Synthesis and evolution of phosphanylcarbene–borane adducts (pp. 1354-1355) Alcaraz, Gilles; Reed, Robert; Baceiredo, Antoine; Bertrand, Guy
• Monometallation of a di(aminoaryl) ether induces a Smiles rearrangement leading to a sodium aryloxide complex: the synthesis and crystal structure of [(MeOCH2CH2)(C6H4NHCH2CH2OMe)NC6H4O·Na]2 (pp. 1355-1357) Cragg-Hine, Ian; Davidson, Matthew G.; Kocian, Oldrich; Kottke, Thomas; Mair, Francis S.; Snaith, Ronald; Stoddart, J. Fraser
• Kinetic isotope effects in the deprotonation of chiral formamidines (pp. 1357-1359) Warmus, Joseph S.; Rodkin, Mikhail A.; Barkley, Robert; Meyers, A. I.
• A new approach to the photochemical trifluoromethylation of aromatic compounds (pp. 1359-1361) Lai, Cuiwei; Mallouk, Thomas E.
• Endohedral barium and strontium fullerenes (pp. 1361-1363) Rose, Harry R.; Dance, Ian G.; Fisher, Keith J.; Smith, Derek R.; Willett, Gary D.; Wilson, Micheal A.
• An unusual Co2-containing anion: synthesis and structure of [(OxS)Ca·4HMPA]+·[(OxS)Co·µ-(OxS)3·CoCl]–[OxS–= C6H4O·(CS)N–; HMPA = OP(NMe2)3] (pp. 1363-1364) Davidson, Matthew G.; Gerloch, Malcolm; Llewellyn, S. Clare; Raithby, Paul R.; Snaith, Ronald
• Novel stereocontrolled syntheses of exocyclic γ-oxovinyltrimethylsilanes. A potential route for stereodefined exocyclic tetrasubstituted alkenes (pp. 1365-1367) Nakatani, Kazuhiko; Izawa, Tomoko; Odagaki, Yoshihiko; Isoe, Sachihiko
• Resolution and asymmetric synthesis of 3-hydroxycarboxylic acids by using (–)-menthone as a chiral template (pp. 1367-1370) Harada, Toshiro; Yoshida, Tetsuya; Kagamihara, Yasuhiro; Oku, Akira
• Biosynthetic generation of the species-specific chirality of limonene in Mentha spicata and Citrus unshiu (pp. 1370-1372) Hiraga, Yoshikazu; Shi, Weixing; Ito, Diana I.; Ohta, Shinji; Suga, Takayuki

Issue: 18

• Contents pages (pp. P069-P072)
• Front cover (pp. X069-X070)
• Back cover (pp. X071-X072)
• Cerium(III) chloride mediated addition of Grignard reagents to nitroalkanes: synthesis of N,N-disubstituted hydroxylamines (pp. 1373-1374) Bartoli, Giuseppe; Marcantoni, Enrico; Petrini, Marino
• Rearrangement of α-hydroxycyclobutanes. Unusual rearrangement of some cyclobutachromanols to a component of the ring system of averufin (pp. 1374-1375) Nath, Asok; Mal, Jayati; Venkateswaran, Ramanathapuram V.
• Structure and magnetic properties of a novel tetranuclear copper(II) complex of an extended bis-phthalazine ligand (pp. 1375-1377) Zhang, Yisheng; Thompson, Laurence K.; Bubenik, Monica; Bridson, John N.
• Nitric oxide reactions with antioxidants in model systems: sterically hindered phenols and α-tocopherol in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles (pp. 1377-1379) Wilcox, Allan L.; Janzen, Edward G.
• Chromium-substituted aluminophosphate-5: a recyclable catalyst for the selective oxidation of secondary alcohols (pp. 1379-1380) Chen, Ji Dong; Dakka, Jihad; Neeleman, Ernst; Sheldon, Roger A.
• New bonding mode of (dithioformato)phosphine ligand: synthesis, reactivity and crystal structure of [W(CO)5(PPh2CS2)]Et4N (pp. 1380-1382) Yih, Kuang-Hway; Lin, Ying-Chih; Cheng, Ming-Chu; Wang, Yu
• Two-component, small molecule gelling agents (pp. 1382-1384) Hanabusa, Kenji; Miki, Toru; Taguchi, Yoshikazu; Koyama, Toshiki; Shirai, Hirofusa
• A novel functional initiator for the synthesis of a living, new asymmetric telechelic poly(isobutylene) (pp. 1384-1385) Gullapalli, Pratap; Heller, J. P.
• Synthesis and structures of the heavier alkali metal alkyls; the X-ray structures of [Na(µ-R)]∞ and [Rb(µ-R)(pmdeta)]2[R = CH(SiMe3)2, pmdeta =(Me2NCH2CH2)2NMe] (pp. 1386-1387) Hitchcock, Peter B.; Lappert, Michael F.; Leung, Wing-Por; Diansheng, Liu; Shun, Tian
• Molecular structure of tetraphenylphosphonium tetracyanooxo(hydrogen cyanide-κN)molybdate(IV) pentahydrate: novel coordination of HCN to a Mo IV centre (pp. 1388-1389) Smit, Jaap P.; Purcell, Walter; Roodt, Andreas; Leipoldt, Johann G.
• Methyl 3-oxo-ω-fluorosulfonylperfluoropentanoate: a versatile trifluoromethylating agent for organic halides (pp. 1389-1391) Chen, Qing-Yun; Duan, Jian-Xing
• π-Face differentiation in Michael reaction to the enone group adjacent to the (η-C5H5)Mo(CO)2(π-allyl) fragment: a new approach to the stereoselective synthesis of 2,3,4,5-tetrasubstituted-tetrahydrofuran compounds (pp. 1391-1393) Lin, Shie-Hsiung; Cheng, Wie-Jye; Liao, Yuan-Lin; Wang, Sue-Lein; Lee, Gene-Hsian; Peng, Shie-Ming; Liu, Rai-Shung
• Facile synthesis of ε-caprolactam by cyclodehydration of 6-aminocaproic acid on adsorbents (pp. 1393-1394) Ogawa, Haruo; Nozawa, Kyoko; Ahn, Pyongkwon
• A new ferrier system: 2-C-acetoxymethylglycals. A covenient entry to 2-C-methylene glycosides (pp. 1394-1395) Booma, C.; Balasubramanian, K. K.
• Dimetallated thioether complexes as building blocks for organometallic coordination polymers and aggregates (pp. 1395-1397) Loeb, Stephen J.; Shimizu, George K. H.
• Unprecedented migration of [Pt(dien)]2+(dien = 1,5-diamino-3-azapentane) from sulfur to guanosine-N7 in S-guanosyl-L-homocysteine (sgh) (pp. 1397-1398) van Boom, Stella S. G. E.; Reedijk, Jan
• Induced thermoresponsive volume changes of poly(methacryloyl L-alanine ethyl ester) hydrogel (pp. 1399-1400) Iijima, Yoko; Hasegawa, Shin; Yoshida, Masaru; Omichi, Hideki; Yonezawa, Noriyuki; Katakai, Ryoichi
• Guest-dependent [Cd(CN)2] n host structures of cadmium cyanide–alcohol clathrates: two new [Cd(CN)2]n frameworks formed with PrnOH and PriOH guests (pp. 1400-1402) Kim, Jaheon; Whang, Dongmok; Lee, Jong In; Kim, Kimoon
• Cellulase-catalysed, stereoselective synthesis of oligosaccharides (pp. 1402-1404) Shoda, Shin-Ichiro; Obata, Kei; Karthaus, Olaf; Kobayashi, Shiro
• Solid-state 195Pt NMR studies of the complexes Pt(en)Clx(en = 1,2-diaminoethane; x= 2, 3 or 4) (pp. 1404-1405) Austin, Elliot J. W.; Barrie, Patrick J.; Clark, Robin J. H.
• Cycloaromatization and DNA cleavage of novel enyne-allene systems (pp. 1406-1407) Toshima, Kazunobu; Ohta, Kazumi; Ohtsuka, Atsuo; Matsumura, Shuichi; Nakata, Masaya
• O,O′-Bistributyltin benzopinacolate (1,1,2,2-tetraphenylethane-1,2-bisolate) as thermal source of tributylstannyl radicals (pp. 1407-1408) Tomaszewski, Mirosław J.; Warkentin, John
• A new route to trienals using 2-substituted 2H-pyran-based Wittig reagents (pp. 1409-1410) Hemming, Karl; Taylor, Richard J. K.
• 4-(Sulfonylamino)phenyl α-D-glucopyranosides as competitive inhibitors of yeast α-glucosidase (pp. 1410-1411) Briggs, Josie C.; Haines, Alan H.; Taylor, Richard J. K.
• Use of steric buttresses to enhance intramolecular cycloadditions (pp. 1412-1413) Orlek, Barry S.; Sammes, Peter G.; Weller, David J.
• Structure study of host–guest molecular association in solution and in the solid state (pp. 1413-1415) Toda, Fumio; Tanaka, Koichi; Ootani, Minoru; Hayashi, Atsuhiro; Miyahara, Ikuko; Hirotsu, Ken
• Mono-η-cyclopentadienyl-benzamidinato compounds of titanium, zirconium and hafnium (pp. 1415-1417) Chernega, Alexandrov N.; Gómez, Rafael; Green, Malcolm L. H.
• Preparation and novel cycloaddition reactions of 7-dimethylamino-1H-azepin-3(2H)-one (pp. 1417-1419) Cartmell, Elise; Mayo, James E.; McNab, Hamish; Sadler, Ian H.
• First synthesis of the 3′-sulfated Lewis trisaccharide, putative ligand for the leucocyte homing receptor (pp. 1419-1420) Lubineau, André; Gallic, Joelle Le; Lemoine, Rémy
• Preparation of a graphite-like structured polymer from 1-phenylpenta-1,3-diyn-5-ol (pp. 1420-1422) Lee, Heung Jae; Shim, Sang Chul
• Isomerization of n-butane over bifunctional platinum-heteropoly compounds in the presence of hydrogen (pp. 1422-1423) Na, Kyutae; Okuhara, Toshio; Misono, Makoto
• Novel enantioselective photocatalysis by chiral, helical ruthenium(II) complexes (pp. 1423-1425) Ohkubo, Katsutoshi; Hamada, Taisuke; Ishida, Hitoshi
• Stereochemistry in the reduction of the CC bond of verbenone with a reductase from the cultured cells of Nicotiana tabacum (pp. 1426-1427) Hirata, Toshifumi; Izumi, Shunsuke; Shimoda, Kei; Hayashi, Masae
• Heterogeneous catalysis of nucleophilic substitution (pp. 1427-1428) Hodson, Lisa F.; Parker, Tom M.; Whittaker, David
• Hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of KSn2(PO4)3 (pp. 1428-1429) Xu, Yaohua; Feng, Shouhua; Pang, Wenqin
• High oxidation state binary transition metal fluorides as selective fluorinating agents (pp. 1429-1430) Dukat, Wolfgang W.; Holloway, John H.; Hope, Eric G.; Rieland, Matthias R.; Townson, Paul J.; Powell, Richard L.
• Silver zeolite 4A modified electrodes: intrazeolite effect (pp. 1430-1432) Li, Jian-Wei; Calzaferri, Gion
• Carbonyl insertion and reductive elimination chemistry of tungsten(II) alkoxides and aryloxides (pp. 1432-1434) Buffin, Brian P.; Arif, Atta M.; Richmond, Thomas G.
• A novel entry to carbenoid species viaβ-ketosulfoxonium ylides (pp. 1434-1435) Baldwin, Jack E.; Adlington, Robert M.; Godfrey, Christopher R. A.; Gollins, David W.; Vaughan, Jason G.
• Synthesis and characterization of a novel dioxygen complex of molybdenum porphyrin (pp. 1436-1438) Tachibana, Junichi; Imamura, Taira; Sasaki, Yoichi
• Addition of MeMgSnBun 3 to terminal enyne; preparation of geometrically pure 2-substituted 1-lodo-1,3-dienes (pp. 1438-1439) Uenishi, Jun'ichi; Kawahama, Reiko; Tanio, Arifumi; Wakabayashi, Shoji
• Light-triggered electrical and optical switching devices (pp. 1439-1442) Gilat, Sylvain L.; Kawai, Stephen H.; Lehn, Jean-Marie
• Synthesis of new metallomesogens containing a metal 4-substituted-piperazine-1 -dithiocarboxylate core (pp. 1442-1444) Hoshino-Miyajima, Naomi
• Novel synthesis of a doubly cyclometallated diruthenium complex with strongly coupled metal centres (pp. 1444-1446) Constable, Edwin C.; Thompson, Alexander M. W. Cargill; Greulich, Stefan
• Micelle-induced release of haem–NO from nitric oxide complex of myoglobin (pp. 1447-1448) Das, Tapan Kanti; Mazumdar, Shyamalava; Mitra, Samaresh
• Chlorocarbonylation of unsaturated substrates catalysed by palladium complexes in the presence of anhydrous HCL (pp. 1448-1450) Bénard, Nathalie; Bonnet, Michel C.; Lécolier, Serge; Tkatchenko, Igor
• An ab initio study on the mechanism of the alkene–isocyanate cycloaddition reaction to form β-lactams (pp. 1450-1452) Cossío, Fernando P.; Lecea, Begoña; Lopez, Xabier; Roa, Guillermo; Arrieta, Ana; Ugalde, Jesus M.
• A novel one-pot synthesis of hyperbranched polyurethanes (pp. 1453-1454) Kumar, Anil; Ramakrishnan, S.
• A new reagent for synthesis of cages for metal ions (pp. 1454-1456) Geue, Rodney J.; Korybut-Daszkiewicz, Bohdan; Sargeson, Alan M.
• A novel acylative cyclization reaction of phenol over modified Y zeolites (pp. 1456-1457) Rao, Y. V. Subba; Kulkarni, S. J.; Subrahmanyam, M.; Rao, A. V. Rama
• A formal synthesis of (±)-compactin (pp. 1457-1458) Hung, Shang-Cheng; Liao, Chun-Chen
• Synthesis of the paramagnetic µ-cyclopentadienylidene dicobalt complexes [(C5R5)Co(µ-C5H4)Co(X)(C5R5)](X = Cl, Br). X-Ray crystal structure of [(C5Me5)Co(µ-C5H4)Co(Br)(C5Me5)] (pp. 1459-1460) Wadepohl, Hubert; Galm, Wolfgang; Pritzkow, Hans; Wolf, Andreas
• 2-Trifluoroacetylthiopyridine–1-hydroxybenzotriazole: a powerful reagent for peptide synthesis (pp. 1461-1462) Schmidt, Ulrich; Griesser, Helmut
• Triarylcarbenium salts highly reducible by primary alcohols (pp. 1462-1463) Wada, Masanori; Mishima, Hisashi; Watanabe, Tetsuya; Natsume, Satoko; Konishi, Hideki; Hayase, Shuichi; Erabi, Tatsuo
• Studies towards streptonigrinoids: formal synthesis of lavendamycin methyl ester (pp. 1463-1464) Ciufolini, Marco A.; Bishop, Michael J.

Issue: 19

• Contents pages (pp. P073-P076)
• Front cover (pp. X073-X074)
• Back cover (pp. X075-X076)
• Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to formic acid using water-soluble rhodium catalyststs (pp. 1465-1466) Gassner, Franz; Leitner, Walter
• Propiolate–olefin–olefin three-component annulation mediated by the addition of stannyl radicals (pp. 1466-1468) Lee, Eun; Hur, Chang Uk; Rhee, Young Ho; Park, Yong Cheol; Kim, Sun Young
• Axially chiral allenylboranes: catalytic asymmetric synthesis by palladium-catalysed hydroboration of but-1-en-3-ynes and their reaction with an aldehyde (pp. 1468-1469) Matsumoto, Yonetatsu; Naito, Masaki; Uozumi, Yasuhiro; Hayashi, Tamio
• Cholic acid derived novel chiral auxiliaries for asymmetric Diels–Alder reactions (pp. 1469-1471) Maitra, Uday; Mathivanan, Packiarajan
• Semibuckminsterfullerene: MNDO study of a hemispherical triindenotriphenylene (pp. 1471-1473) Faust, Rüdiger; Vollhardt, K. Peter C.
• Solid-state supramoecular assembly via C–H ⋯ O hydrogen bonds: crystal structures of the complexes of 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene with dibenzylideneacetone and 2,5-dibenzylidenecyclopentanone (pp. 1473-1475) Biradha, Kumar; Sharma, C. V. Krishnamohan; Panneerselvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Shimoni, Liat; Carrell, H. L.; Zacharias, David E.; Desiraju, Gautam R.
• Stabilization of the tris(2-thienyl)methyl cation by formation of polymethine units. A thiophene S–S intramolecular interaction (pp. 1476-1477) Varea, Teresa; Medio-Simón, Mercedes; Abarca, Belén; Ballesteros, Rafael; Asensio, Gregorio; García-Granda, Santiago; Pérez-Carreño, Enrique; Gómez-Beltrán, Fermín
• A novel rearrangement of cyclobutanes to cyclopropanes; construction of tricyclo[5.4.0.0]undecane and bicyclo[4.1.0]heptane systems (pp. 1477-1479) Ihara, Masataka; Taniguchi, Takahiko; Taniguchi, Nobuaki; Fukumoto, Keiichiro
• [ET]3[NiCl4]·H2O; a metallic conductor containing the NiCl4 2– anion in a distorted square planar geometry [ET = bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene] (pp. 1479-1480) Fitzmaurice, Jonathan C.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Williams, David J.; Woollins, J. Derek
• Calcium–nickel–lithium oxide: a high selectivity catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene (pp. 1480-1481) Zhang, Mingqian; Liu, Junshen; Liu, Chunya; Lan, Renjie; Ji, Lang; Chen, Xiancheng
• Lithium metalloid exchange: reactivity studies of an allenyllithium reagent using an isomeric pair of allenyl and prop-2-ynyl stannanes (pp. 1481-1483) Reich, Hans J.; Mason, J. Derek; Holladay, Johnathan E.
• Solid state and solution structures of dimeric organolithium derivatives of a P2N4S2 ring (pp. 1483-1485) Chivers, Tristram; Edwards, Mark; Hilts, Robert W.; Parvez, Masood; Vollmerhaus, Rainer
• Liquid polymer catalyst immobilized on polymer-coated silica: application to hydroformylation (pp. 1486-1487) Hong, Liang; Ruckenstein, Eli
• Versatile behaviour of the phosphanyl salt (Pri 2N)2 P+CF3SO3 – towards zirconocene derivatives (pp. 1487-1489) Boutonnet, Florence; Zablocka, Maria; Igau, Alain; Majoral, Jean-Pierre; Jaud, Joël; Pietrusiewicz, Kazimierz M.
• Atropisomer-selective 1,1-binapthyl synthesis via chirality transfer from sulfur (pp. 1489-1491) Baker, Robert W.; Pocock, Geoffrey R.; Sargent, Melvyn V.
• Unique pair-to-loop dynamism due to G–G mismatch at the N site in d-(GTTAATNATTAAC): NMR characterization (pp. 1491-1492) Radha, P. K.; Madan, Anup; Hosur, R. V.
• Synthesis of the first examples of 1-benzotellurepines and 1-benzoselenepines (pp. 1493-1494) Sashida, Haruki; Ito, Koichi; Tsuchiya, Takashi
• Dehydrogenation of organolanthanide alkoxides and X-ray crystal structure of reaction product [(C5H5)2 Yb(µ-OCHCCH2)]2 (pp. 1494-1495) Wu, Zhongzhi; Xu, Zheng; You, Xiaozeng; Zhou, Xigen; Xing, Yan; Jin, Zhongsheng
• Electrochemical synthesis of anhydrovinblastine (pp. 1496-1497) Gunić, Esmir; Tabaković, Ibro; Gašić, Miroslav J.
• The absolute configuration of juvenile hormone III bisepoxide (pp. 1497-1498) Herlt, Anthony J.; Rickards, Rodney W.; Thomas, Richard D.; East, Peter D.
• Trigonal prismatic geometry with non-rigid ligands: cobalt(II) complexes of triaza-macrocycles with pendant alcohol arms (pp. 1499-1500) Al-Sagher, Hussein; Fallis, Ian; Farrugia, Louis J.; Peacock, Robert D.
• Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical behaviour of the [Fe4Au(CO)16] n–(n= 1,2,3) clusters. X-Ray structure of [NMe3CH2Ph]2[Fe4Au(CO)16]Cl (pp. 1501-1502) Albano, Vincenzo G.; Aureli, Robert; Lapalucci, Maria Carmela; Laschi, Franco; Longoni, Giuliano; Monari, Magda; Zanello, Piero
• Isolation and characterization of a vanadium ethylidyne complex. The crystal structure of [(Cy2N)2Li(µ3-O)(µ2,η1:η1CMe) an unusual V2LiO cluster (pp. 1503-1504) Gambarotta, Sandro; Edema, Jilles J. H.; Minhas, Ravinder K.
• Synthesis and coordinating properties of a ferrocenophane containing a pyridine unit (pp. 1505-1507) Hall, C. Dennis; Tucker, James H. R.; Chu, Sunny Y. F.; Parkins, Adrian W.; Nyburg, Stanley C.
• The synthesis and characterization of two novel octanuclear mixed-metal clusters: [CrM3O4(O2CEt)8]2Na2(MMo,W) (pp. 1507-1510) Li, Xu; Huang, Liu; Duangcao, Yan; Jinshun, Huang; Qianer, Zhang
• Catalytic oxidation of primary aromatic amines to the corresponding nitroso compounds by H2O2 and [Mo(O)(O2)2(H2O)(hmpa)](hmpa = hexamethylphosphoric triamide) (pp. 1510-1511) Tollari, Stefano; Cuscela, Michaela; Porta, Francesca
• Positively charged crown thioether complexes trans-[Mo(CO)2(syn-Me9[16]aneS4)][OSO2CF3] and trans-[Mo(CO)(OSO2CF3)(syn-Me8H[16]aneS4)]; difference in π acceptor ability between tertiary and secondary sulfonium ions (pp. 1511-1513) Yoshida, Toshikatsu; Adachi, Tomohiro; Sato, Kazuyuki; Baba, Katsumi; Kanokogi, Tomohiro
• Formation of a 1,3-dipolar nitro addition product from the photochemical reaction of 1,2-dimethylnaphthalene and tetranitromethane (pp. 1513-1514) Butts, Craig P.; Calvert, Jane L.; Eberson, Lennart; Hartshorn, Michael P.; Robinson, Ward T.
• Mixed metal spirocyclic metallasiloxanes. Crystal structure of the pyridinolithium{bis(cyclodisiloxanediolato)bis(pyridino)cobalt}pyridinomanganese chloride compound [(Py2Li)-µ-{(Co(OsiPh2OsiPh2O)2·2Py}-µ-MnClPy] (pp. 1514-1515) Abrahams, Isaac; Motevalli, Majid; Shah, Dipti; Sullivan, Alice C.; Thornton, Peter
• The crystal structure of norbornane (pp. 1516-1517) Fitch, Andrew N.; Jobic, Hervé
• Unexpected generation and rearrangement of acetyl benzotriazolyl carbene (pp. 1517-1519) Aitken, R. Alan; Fairhurst, Ian M.; Ford, Adrian; Milne, Paul E. Y.; Russell, Duncan W.; Whittaker, Martin
• A microporous carbon produced by arc-evaporation (pp. 1519-1522) Tsang, Shik Chi; Harris, Peter J. F.; Claridge, John B.; Green, Malcolm L. H.
• Transition metal-carbonyl, -hydrido and -η-cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the fullerene C60 (pp. 1522-1523) Douthwaite, Richard E.; Green, Malcolm L. H.; Stephens, Adam H. H.; Turner, John F. C.
• Double sulfur–carbon bond cleavage of a dithiocarbamate ligand at a molybdenum(VI) centre; synthesis and X-ray structure of the disulfur complex [Mo(NPh)(S2)(edtc)2](edtc = S2CNEt2) (pp. 1524-1525) Coffey, Thérèse A.; Forster, Glyn D.; Hogarth, Graeme
• Design, synthesis and DNA cleaving profiles of hybrids containing the novel enediyne and naturally occurring DNA intercalates (pp. 1525-1527) Toshima, Kazunobu; Ohta, Kazumi; Ohashi, Aya; Nakamura, Takatsugu; Nakata, Masaya; Matsumura, Shuichi
• No significant stereoelectronic effects of isopropyl group in photoaddition of alkylbenzene derivatives with 10-methylacridinium ion via photoinduced electron transfer (pp. 1528-1529) Fujita, Morifumi; Fukuzumi, Shunichi
• β,β-Dichlorovinyldiazonium or dichloro(diazomethyl)carbenium ion? Crystal structure and electron density distribution of β,β-dichlorovinyldiazonium hexachloroantimonate (pp. 1530-1532) Chen, Grace Shiahuy; Glaser, Rainer; Barnes, Charles L.

Issue: 20

• Contents pages (pp. P077-P080)
• Front cover (pp. X077-X078)
• Back cover (pp. X079-X080)
• Metal-induced conversion of a ‘closed’ receptor to an ‘open’ receptor on a p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene diamide derivative; fluorescence detection of a molecular recognition process (pp. 1533-1535) Murakami, Hiroto; Shinkai, Seiji
• Regio-reversal in thermal and photochemical reduction of 10-methylacridinium ion by allylic silanes and stannanes (pp. 1536-1537) Fukuzumi, Shunichi; Fujita, Morifumi; Otera, Junzo
• A trivalent rare earth complex of the heavier chalcogenolates: synthesis and structural characterization of [(Py)2Yb(SeC6H5)2(µ-SeC6H5)2Li(py)2](py = pyridine) (pp. 1537-1538) Berardini, M.; Emge, T. J.; Brennan, J. G.
• Photochemical conversion of xenicane into the crenulatane skeleton with diterpenoids of the brown seaweed Dictyota sp. from the coasts of Senegal (pp. 1539-1539) Guella, Graziano; Pietra, Francesco
• Polyterephthaloylenes: the electrochemical polymerisation of terephthaloyl halides (pp. 1540-1542) Utley, James H. P.; Gao, Yaping; Lines, Robert
• Enantioselective synthesis of homoallylic amines. Evidence of reversible addition of allylzinc bromide to aromatic imines derived from (S)-valine methyl ester and (S)-valinol (pp. 1542-1544) Bocoum, Allaye; Savoia, Diego; Umani-Ronchi, Achille
• Calculation of proton chemical shifts in hydrocarbons (pp. 1544-1545) Abraham, Raymond J.; Edgar, Mark; Griffiths, Lee; Powell, Richard L.
• A study of chemically prepared small metal clusters in the nonmetallic regime (pp. 1545-1547) Kulkarni, Giridhar U.; Aiyer, Hemantkumar N.; Vijayakrishnan, Venugopal; Arunarkavalli, T.; Rao, C. N. R.
• Evidence for formation of DNA-bound protonated porphyrin adducts even at pH 7 (pp. 1547-1548) Pethö, Gabor; Elliott, Nancy B.; Kim, Min Sook; Lin, Mengfen; Dixon, Dabney W.; Marzilli, Luigi G.
• Synthesis and structure of planar-chiral cyclopentadienyl–cobalt(I) complexes: three different chiralities in one molecule (pp. 1549-1550) Uno, Mitsunari; Ando, Katsuhiro; Komatsuzaki, Nobuko; Tanaka, Takanori; Sawada, Masami; Takahashi, Shigetoshi
• Cation recognition properties of polypyrrole 3-substituted by azacrown ethers (pp. 1550-1552) Youssoufi, Hafsa Korri; Hmyene, Mohamed; Garnier, Francis; Delabouglise, Didier
• Titanium silicate molecular sieve (TS-1) induced catalytic cleavage of tosylhydrazones (pp. 1553-1554) Kumar, Pradeep; Hegde, Vishnumurthy R.; Pandey, Bipin; Ravindranathan, T.
• Ring of 12 hydrogen-bonded water molecules in a pyrite-like framework of heptacyanodicuprato(I)cadmate(II)[CdCu2(CN)7]3– (pp. 1555-1556) Nishikiori, Shin-ichi; Iwamoto, Toschitake
• A volatile mixed-metal yttrium–barium compound: synthesis and molecular structure of bay2[µ-och(cf3)2]4(thd)4(thd = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dionato) (pp. 1556-1558) Labrize, Florence; Hubert-Pfalzgraf, Liliane G.; Daran, Jean-Claude; Halut, Sabine
• Structure of carbanions having carbocations as counterions (pp. 1558-1560) Reetz, Manfred T.; Bingel, Carsten; Harms, Klaus
• Dication salt of bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene: preparation and crystal structure of BEDT-TTF(ClO4)2 (pp. 1560-1562) Abboud, Khalil A.; Clevenger, Marvin B.; de Oliveira, Glênisson F.; Talham, Daniel R.
• (NEt4)3[V6O2S4(edt)6]: a model for the adsorption of naked [VO]2+ units on vanadium sulfide surfaces (pp. 1563-1564) York, Keith A.; Folting, Kirsten; Christou, George
• The identification of deuteroetiohaem IX in colorado coal (pp. 1564-1566) Bonnett, Raymond; Ioannou, Stella; Moffat, David C.; Shukina, Elena V.
• New reactions of uranium amide complexes leading to pentavalent and cationic derivatives (pp. 1566-1567) Berthet, Jean-Claude; Ephritikhine, Michel
• Separation of photogenerated redox species in zeolites via ion-exchange (pp. 1568-1569) Dutta, Prabir K.; Borja, Marlon
• New chemistry of pyrrolizin-3-one: a concise route to 3,8-didehydroheliotridin-5-one (pp. 1570-1571) McNab, Hamish; Thornley, Craig
• Synthesis and luminescent properties of a novel tetranuclear copper(I) cluster containing a µ4-sulfur moiety. X-Ray crystal structure of [Cu4(µ-dppm)4(µ4-S)](PF6)2·2Me2CO [dppm = bis(diphenylphosphino)methane] (pp. 1571-1573) Yam, Vivian Wing-Wah; Lee, Wai-Kit; Lai, Ting-Fong
• Stereoselective route to functionalized cis-hydrindanes from tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decan-10-ones. A total synthesis of (±)-coronafacic acid (pp. 1573-1575) Mehta, Goverdhan; Praveen, Marapaka
• Effect of magnesium ion distinguishing between one-step hydrogen- and electron-transfer mechanisms for the reduction of stable neutral radicals by NADH analogues (pp. 1575-1577) Fukuzumi, Shunichi; Tokuda, Yoshihiro; Chiba, Yutaka; Greci, Lucedio; Carloni, Patricia; Damiani, Elisabetta
• Silicone grease as a precursor to a pseudo crown ether ligand: crystal structure of [K+]3[K(Me2SiO)7 +][InH(CH2CMe3)3 –]4 (pp. 1577-1578) Churchill, Melvyn Rowen; Lake, Charles H.; Chao, Sun-Hua L.; Beachley, O. T.
• Inhibitory effect of guest molecules on acid-catalysed ring-opening of β-cyclodextrin (pp. 1578-1580) Hirayama, Fumitoshi; Kurihara, Masahiko; Utsuki, Tadanobu; Uekama, Kaneto
• Synthetic polymer membranes with molecular recognition (pp. 1580-1582) Bamford, Clement; Al-Lamee, Kadem
• Encapsulation of polymers into MoS2 and metal to insulator transition in metastable MoS2 (pp. 1582-1585) Bissessur, Rabin; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Schindler, J. L.; Kannewurf, C. R.
• A novel type of oligofunctional macroheterocycle by reaction of silylidene-phosphanes and -arsanes with 1,6-diisocyanohexane (pp. 1585-1587) Driess, Matthias; Pritzkow, Hans
• Revised structure of brevifoliol and some baccatin VI derivatives (pp. 1587-1589) Appendino, Giovanni; Barboni, Luciano; Gariboldi, Pierluigi; Bombardelli, Ezio; Gabetta, Bruno; Viterbo, Davide
• Structural characterisation of organometallic intercalates of SnSe2 and ZrS2 by neutron and X-ray diffraction (pp. 1589-1591) Wong, Heng-Vee; Evans, John S. O.; Barlow, Stephen; O'Hare, Dermot
• Palladium-catalysed hydrosulfination: synthesis of sulfonic acids and S-alkyl alkanethiosulfonates from alkenes, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen (pp. 1592-1592) Keim, Wilhelm; Herwig, Jürgen

Issue: 21

• Contents pages (pp. P081-P084)
• Front cover (pp. X081-X082)
• Back cover (pp. X083-X084)
• The stereoselective synthesis of unsaturated nine-membered lactones using the Malherbe–Bellus variant of the Claisen rearrangement (pp. 1593-1595) Kling, Marcel R.; McNaughton-Smith, Grant A.; Taylor, Richard J. K.
• Regio- and stereo-controlled methylation of γ-silylallyl phosphates by π-allylpalladium methodology (pp. 1595-1597) Urabe, Hirokazu; Inami, Hiroshi; Sato, Fumie
• An unusually strict product partition of an excited diazirine–carbene system (pp. 1597-1599) Moss, Robert A.; Liu, Weiguo
• New application of peptide cyclization on an oxime resin (the PCOR method): preparation of lanthionine peptides (pp. 1599-1600) Ösapay, George; Goodman, Murray
• Pronounced electronic effects of the allylic amino group on the π-facial stereoselectivity and reactivity in electrophilic additions to double bonds (pp. 1601-1602) Tamaru, Yoshinao; Harayama, Hiroto; Bando, Takashi
• Effect of water on the mechanism of hydrogenations catalysed by rhodium phosphine complexes (pp. 1602-1604) Joó, Ferenc; Csiba, Péter; Bényei, Attila
• Structural links between zeolite-type and clathrate hydrate-type materials: strands of small clusters of water molecules interconnect oligomeric silicate [Si8O18(OH)2]6– anions to generate the 3D host structure of the heteronetwork clathrate [DMPI]6[Si8O18(OH)2]·48.5h2O (DMPI = 1,1-dimethylpiperidinium) (pp. 1604-1606) Wiebcke, Michael; Emmer, Jörg; Felsche, Jürgen
• High performance of iron(III) phosphate for selective oxidation of methanol (pp. 1606-1607) Klissurski, Dimitar; Rives, Vicente; Abadzhjieva, Nevena; Pesheva, Yordanka; Pomonis, Philip; Sdoukos, T.; Petrakis, Dimitris
• High molecular mass polystannanes via dehydropolymerization of di(n-butyl)stannane (pp. 1607-1609) Imori, Toru; Tilley, T. D.
• Reactivity in Z-philic displacements in α-halogenosulfones (pp. 1609-1610) Vernon, Adam; Stirling, Charles J. M.
• Coupling of a 17-electron vinyl complex with chiral recognition: synthesis of the pure diastereoisomers of the bridging bis(carbene) complex [{Fe(C5Me5)(CO)(PMe3)}2{µ–C(OMe)[CH2]2–C(OMe)}][PF6]2 (pp. 1611-1612) Cron, Stephane; Morvan, Virginie; Lapinte, Claude
• 3,4-Dimethylindole-2-carboxylate and 4-(1-hydroxyethyl)quinoline-2-carboxylate activating enzymes from the nosiheptide and thiostrepton producers, Streptomyces actuosus and Streptomyces laurentii (pp. 1612-1614) Smith, Todd M.; Priestley, Nigel D.; Knaggs, Andrew R.; Nguyen, Tom; Floss, Heinz G.
• Competitive reactions of trinitromethanide ion and nitrogen dioxide with radical cations (pp. 1614-1615) Eberson, Lennart; Hartshorn, Michael P.; Svensson, Jan O.
• Molecular sieving of n-butenes by microporous silicoaluminophosphates (pp. 1616-1617) Richter, Manfred; Roost, Udo; Lohse, Ursula
• 2,5-Bis(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)-2,5-dihydrothiophene and its bis(alkylthio) derivatives: a new synthetic approach to thienoquinonoid-extended tetrathiafulvalenes and their conductive complexes (pp. 1617-1619) Takahashi, Kazuko; Nihira, Takayasu; Tomitani, Kensuke
• Synthesis and X-ray structure of hexafluoroacetylacetonatobarium (diethyl ether solvate)[{Ba2(hfa)4·Et2O}∞] (pp. 1619-1621) Drozdov, Andrej; Troyanov, Sergej
• Kinetic resolution of the chiral iron acetyl [Fe(η5-C5H5)(CO)(PPh3)COMe] (pp. 1621-1622) Case-Green, Stephen C.; Costello, James F.; Davies, Stephen G.; Heaton, Nicholas; Hedgecock, Charles J. R.; Prime, Jeremy C.
• Synthesis and second-order nonlinear optical properties of new bipyridyl metal complexes (pp. 1623-1624) Bourgault, M.; Mountassir, C.; Le Bozec, H.; Ledoux, I.; Pucetti, G.; Zyss, J.
• Transition metal-catalysed elimination of unactivated sulfones (pp. 1625-1626) Gai, Yonghua; Jin, Liren; Julia, Marc; Verpeaux, Jean-Noël
• Solid-state interactions in radicals: crystal structures of α- and β-10-phenyl-5(10H)-Phenazinyl (pp. 1626-1628) Barth, Thomas; Kanellakopulos, Basil; Krieger, Claus; Neugebauer, Franz A.
• The first cluster azathiaboranes: isolation and characterisation of eight-vertex hypho-7,8-NSB6H11 and ten-vertex arachno-6,9-NSB8H11 (pp. 1628-1629) Jelínek, Tomás; Kennedy, John D.; Štíbr, Bohumil
• Mediatorless electrocatalysis at a conducting polymer electrode: application to ascorbate and NADH measurement (pp. 1629-1631) Somasundrum, Mithran; Bannister, Joe V.
• The first example of the generation of acylselenenyl halides from Se-arsanyl selenoesters: application to the synthesis of Se-β-oxoalkyl selenoesters (pp. 1631-1632) Kanda, Takahiro; Mizoguchi, Kazuaki; Koike, Tadashi; Murai, Toshiaki; Kato, Shinzi
• Hemilabile P,O-ligands in palladium catalysed C–C linkages: codimerization of ethylene and styrene and cooligomerization of ethylene and carbon monoxide (pp. 1632-1634) Britovsek, George J. P.; Keim, Wilhelm; Mecking, Stefan; Sainz, Daniel; Wagner, Trixie
• Organic synthesis utilizing Beckmann fragmentation: highly stereoselective C–C bond formation in the reaction of 2,3-isopropylidenedioxycyclohexanone oxime esters with organoaluminium reagents (pp. 1634-1636) Fujioka, Hiromichi; Miyazaki, Makoto; Kitagawa, Hidetoshi; Yamanaka, Takeshi; Yamamoto, Hideaki; Takuma, Kazuhiro; Kita, Yasuyuki
• Photosensitized one-electron reductive cleavage of a carbon–selenium bond: a novel chemoselective deselenenylation and phenylselenenyl group transfer radical chain reaction (pp. 1636-1638) Pandey, Ganesh; Rao, K. S. Sesha Poleswara; Sekhar, B. B. V. Soma
• Stereocontrolled synthesis of the hemibrevetoxin ring system via an allylic tin method (pp. 1638-1641) Kadota, Isao; Matsukawa, Yasuhisa; Yamamoto, Yoshinori
• A synthetic strategy for the construction of a novel series of rigid supramolecular triads (pp. 1641-1643) Lawson, James M.; Paddon-Row, Michael N.
• Bimanes. syn-(Hydro, ethynyl)bimane (pp. 1644-1645) Kosower, E. M.; Ben-Shoshan, M.; Goldberg, I.
• Synthesis of cancrinite in a butane-1,3-diol systems (pp. 1645-1646) Liu, Chunhui; Li, Shougui; Tu, Kungang; Xu, Ruren
• A new very mild K2CO3-catalysed one-pot two-carbon ring expansion of cyclopentanones (pp. 1647-1648) Filippini, Marie-Hélène; Rodriguez, Jean; Santelli, Maurice
• First X-ray structure of a monoanionic nickel complex of 1,2,5-thiadiazole-3,4-dithiolate (pp. 1648-1649) Schenk, Stefan; Hawkins, Ian; Wilkes, Stephen B.; Underhill, Allan E.; Kobayashi, Akiko; Kobayashi, Hayao
• Crystallographic, spectroscopic and theoretical studies of an electron-deiocalized Cu(1.5)–Cu(1.5) complex (pp. 1649-1652) Barr, Mary E.; Smith, Paul H.; Antholine, William E.; Spencer, Brock
• Direct evidence for electrochemically induced, reversible, proton transfer involving a quinone/hydroquinone redox couple (pp. 1652-1654) Wang, R.; Keyes, T. E.; Hage, R.; Schmehl, R. H.; Vos, J. G.
• Addition of organochromium reagents to aldehydes, ketones and enones: a low-temperature version of the Nozaki–Hiyama reaction (pp. 1654-1656) Wipf, Peter; Lim, Sungtaek
• A square-planar NiS4 unit with an aliphatic thiolato–thioether donor set: a carbon monoxide dehydrogenase model that binds CO (pp. 1656-1658) Yamamura, Takeshi; Sakurai, Shigeru; Arai, Hiroki; Miyamae, Hiroshi
• The effect of strong NH ⋯ S hydrogen bonds in the copper(I) thiolate complex,(NEt4)2[Cu(o-pabt)3](o-pabt =o-pivaloylaminobenzenethiolato) (pp. 1658-1660) Okamura, Taka-Aki; Ueyama, Norikazu; Nakamura, Akira; Ainscough, Eric W.; Brodie, Andrew M.; Waters, Joyce M.
• Asymmetric synthesis of the β-lactam framework via a three-component coupling reaction (pp. 1660-1662) Asao, Naoki; Tsukada, Naofumi; Yamamoto, Yoshinori
• Polynuclear nickel(II) complexes of N4O2- and N4S2-compartmental macrocycles: the structures of a Ni4O4 cubane cluster and the binuclear nickel(II) complex of a benzenethiolate macrocycle (pp. 1662-1665) Atkins, Andrew J.; Blake, Alexander J.; Schröder, Martin
• Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of H3NCH2CH2NH3[In2(HPO4)4]. A novel octahedral–tetrahedral framework indium phosphate with occluded organic cations (pp. 1665-1667) Dhingra, Sandeep S.; Haushalter, Robert C.
• Unexpected P–O bond formation in the reaction of PPh2Cl with the triiron cluster [PPh4][Fe3(CO)9(µ-H)(µ-CMeCPh)] (pp. 1667-1668) Ros, Josep; Yáñez, Ramón; Torres, María Rosario; Perales, Aurea; Mathieu, René
• Corrigendum (pp. 1668-1668) Nishio, Masayuki; Matsuzaka, Hiroyuki; Mizobe, Yasushi; Hidai, Masanobu

Issue: 22

• Contents pages (pp. P085-P088)
• Front cover (pp. X085-X086)
• Back cover (pp. X087-X088)
• Chiroptical properties of the inherently non-planar nitroamine chromophore in N-nitroaziridines (pp. 1669-1670) Shustov, Gennadii V.; Rauk, Arvi
• Reduction of ruthenium and iron µ-methylene complexes with hydrosilanes producing alkane: a model system for methanation via the Fischer–Tropsch mechanism (pp. 1670-1672) Akita, Munetaka; Oku, Tomoharu; Hua, Ruimao; Moro-oka, Yoshihiko
• Effective asymmetric hydroboration catalysed by a rhodium complex of 1-(2-diphenylphosphino-1-naphthyl)isoquinoline (pp. 1673-1674) Brown, John M.; Hulmes, David I.; Layzell, Timothy P.
• Intramolecular transfer of sulfonyl oxygen to vinylcarbene generated in the reaction of tris(isopropylthio)cyclopropenyl cation with arylsulfinate salts (pp. 1674-1676) Kojima, Hideo; Yamamoto, Kazuhiko; Kinoshita, Yasuo; Inoue, Hiroo
• Single step synthesis of norbornan-2-one dithioacetals from cyclopent-2-en-1-one dithioacetals and dienophiles (pp. 1676-1677) Ohkita, Masakazu; Nishizawa, Osamu; Tsuji, Takashi; Nishida, Shinya
• An improved assay for bacterial luciferase using Ti III (pp. 1677-1679) Jewsbury, Roger A.; Zeng, Jiang
• Dealkylation of some hydrazinium salts bearing ω-haloalkyl substituents by diazacrown ethers (pp. 1679-1680) Tsuchiya, Shinji; Senō, Manabu
• Novel bicyclic oxazolines via nitrile capture of photochemically generated oxyallyl zwitterions (pp. 1681-1682) West, F. G.; Koch, Daniel J.
• ortho-Substituted unsymmetrical biaryls from aryl tert-butyl sulfones (pp. 1682-1683) Clayden, Jonathan; Julia, Marc
• The synthesis and X-ray structural characterisation of an unusual seven-membered diaza-phospha-tetrathia heterocycle (pp. 1684-1685) Bottle, Steven E.; Bott, Raymond C.; Jenkins, Ian D.; Kennard, Colin H. L.; Smith, Graham; Wells, Adam P.
• Hydrogen peroxide oxidations catalysed by metallosilicalite xerogels (pp. 1685-1687) Neumann, Ronny; Chava, Michal; Levin, Michal
• Synthesis of racemic myo-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-O-methylenecarboxylate, a Ca2+-mobilising myo-lnositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate analogue (pp. 1687-1689) Liu, Changsheng; Thomas, Noel F.; Potter, Barry V. L.
• Cyanoanthracene-sensitized photooxidations of N,N-dibenzylhydroxylamine and its derivatives; observation of the Marcus ‘inverted region’ in back electron transfer within geminate radical ion pairs (pp. 1689-1690) Sakurai, Tadamitsu; Yokono, Mayumi; Komiya, Kanako; Masuda, Yasuo; Inoue, Hiroyasu
• One-electron oxidation of 2,2-dimethyl-2-silaindane by potassium 12-tungstocobaltate(III). Lack of evidence for stereoelectronic effects on the cleavage of a β-carbon–silicon bond in an aromatic cation radical (pp. 1691-1692) Baciocchi, Enrico; Bernini, Roberta; Lanzalunga, Osvaldo
• Reaction of CO and tert-butyl isocyanide with the cluster [(C5Me5)3Co3(µ2-H)3(µ3-H)] facile hydrogen transfer to isocyanide forms [(C5Me5)3Co3(µ-H)(µ3-η2-HCNCMe3)] (pp. 1692-1694) Casey, Charles P.; Widenhoefer, Ross A.; Hallenbeck, Susan L.; Gavney, James A.
• Substrate analogue studies on clavaminic acid synthase (pp. 1694-1696) Baldwin, Jack E.; Lee, Victor; Lloyd, Matthew D.; Schofield, Christopher J.; Elson, Stephen W.; Baggaley, Keith H.
• Synthesis and crystal structure of a novel tetranuclear complex of gold(I) with o-carborane derivatives as ligands (pp. 1696-1697) Crespo, Olga; Gimeno, M. Concepción; Jones, Peter G.; Laguna, Antonio
• The oxidation of ethane-1,2-diol resulting from molecular oxygen activation by copper: formation of an oxoethanoate complex precedes carbon–carbon bond cleavage (pp. 1698-1699) Lanfranchi, Maurizio; Prati, Laura; Rossi, Michele; Tiripicchio, Antonio
• Flash vacuum pyrolysis of sulfinyl stabilised phosphorus ylides: generation and reactivity of sulfinylcarbenes (pp. 1699-1700) Aitken, R. Alan; Drysdale, Martin J.; Ryan, Bruce M.
• 4-(N-Methylthioamido)tetrathiafulvalene: a new kappa-phase structure (pp. 1701-1702) Batsanov, Andrei S.; Bryce, Martin R.; Cooke, Graeme; Heaton, Julie N.; Howard, Judith A. K.
• Sodium tri(pyrazol-1-yl)-germanate and -stannate: new tridentate ‘claw-ligands’ containing group 14 metals (pp. 1702-1704) Steiner, Alexander; Stalke, Dietmar
• A general method for the determination of copper(I) equilibria in aqueous solution (pp. 1704-1706) Hefter, Glenn; May, Peter M.; Sipos, Pál
• Transition metal complexes of 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione as efficient mediators for the regeneration of NAD+ in enzymatic synthesis (pp. 1706-1707) Hilt, Gerhard; Steckhan, Eberhard
• Synthesis of cyclopent-2-enones through stepwise [3 + 2] cycloaddition of simple silyl enol ethers and alk-1-ynes (pp. 1708-1709) Yamaguchi, Masahiko; Sehata, Michiru; Hayashi, Akio; Hirama, Masahiro
• Theoretical studies of the M–CO bond lengths and first dissociation energies of the transition metal hexacarbonyls Cr(CO)6, Mo(CO)6 and W(CO)6 (pp. 1709-1711) Ehlers, Andreas W.; Frenking, Gernot
• A new route to α-fluoromethyl- and α-fluoroalkyl-phosphonates (pp. 1711-1712) Patois, Carl; Savignac, Philippe

Issue: 23

• Contents pages (pp. P089-P092)
• Front cover (pp. X089-X090)
• Back cover (pp. X091-X092)
• Azolyl substituted Tröger's bases (pp. 1713-1714) Cerrada, Luisa; Cudero, José; Elguero, José; Pardo, Carmen
• Sedimentary evidence for a diaromatic carotenoid with an unprecedented aromatic substitution pattern (pp. 1715-1716) Hartgers, Walter A.; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Koopmans, Martin P.; de Leeuw, Jan W.
• Selenoether macrocyclic chemistry: trans-[RhCl2([16]aneSe4)]BF4, synthesis, single crystal X-ray structure and 77Se NMR study ([16]aneSe4= 1,5,9,13-tetraselenacyclohexadecane) (pp. 1716-1718) Kelly, Paul F.; Levason, William; Reid, Gillian; Williams, David J.
• Ring-opening polymerization of norbornene using a single crystal of (Bun 4N)2[Mo6O19] as a heterogeneous catalyst (pp. 1718-1719) McCann, Malachy; McDonnell, Deirdre
• Oxidation of α-hydroxy acids by an oxidation-active flavin mimic bearing a bipyridin-6-ylmethyl moiety in the presence of Zn2+ and a base in tert-butyl alcohol (pp. 1719-1721) Yano, Yumihiko; Mitsui, Keita; Ohsawa, Youichi; Kobayashi, Toshitada; Nabeshima, Tatsuya
• Metal centres linked by bis(imido)phenylene ligands. Synthesis and X-ray crystal structures of 1,3- and 1,4-[{cis,trans-WCl2(Ph2PMe)2(CO)}2(µ-NC6H4N)] (pp. 1721-1723) Hogarth, Graeme; Mallors, Ruth L.; Norman, Tim
• Stereochemical control in cyclisation to bicyclic dioxolanes (pp. 1723-1725) Begley, Michael J.; Fletcher, Rodney J.; Murphy, John A.; Sherburn, Michael S.
• Amphiphilic derivatives of fullerenes formed by polymer modification (pp. 1725-1727) Manolova, Nevena; Rashkov, Ilya; Beguin, Frarçois; van Damme, Henri
• Structural and chemical properties of tribenzo-4,7-dihydroacepentalene derivatives and their central pyramidalised double bonds (pp. 1727-1729) Haag, Rainer; Ohlhorst, Björg; Noltemeyer, Matthias; Schuster, Andreas; Kuck, Dietmar; de Meijere, Armin
• [Cu2R2BrLi(thf)3], R = Si(SiMe3)3–a complex containing five-coordinate silicon in a three-centre two-electron bond (thf = tetrahydrofuran) (pp. 1729-1731) Heine, Andreas; Herbst-Irmer, Regine; Stalke, Dietmar
• Lipid–porphyrin fibres: morphology and incorporation into phospholipid vesicle (pp. 1731-1733) Tsuchida, Eishun; Komatsu, Teruyuki; Toyano, Nobuyuki; Kumamoto, Shin-ichi; Nishide, Hiroyuki
• Novel thiophene-based macrocycles related to azacrown ethers (pp. 1733-1734) Barker, John M.; Chaffin, Julie D. E.; Halfpenny, Joan; Huddleston, Patrick R.; Tseki, Potlaki F.
• A potassium-selective sulfide-linked redox-active ferrocene ionophore that exhibits extraordinary electrochemical recognition behaviour (pp. 1735-1737) Beer, Paul D.; Danks, Jonathan P.; Hesek, Dusan; McAleer, Jerome F.
• N ⋯ Br mediated diamondoid network in the crystalline complex carbon tetrabromide: hexamethylenetetramine (pp. 1737-1739) Reddy, D. Shekhar; Craig, Donald C.; Rae, A. David; Desiraju, Gautam R.
• Controlled oxidation of enolates to α-carbonyl radicals and α-carbonyl cations (pp. 1739-1741) Röck, Maik; Schmittel, Michael
• The linear Mn II complex Mn3(5-NO2-salimH)2(OAc)4 provides an alternative structure type for the carboxylate shift in proteins (pp. 1741-1743) Baldwin, Michael J.; Kampf, Jeff W.; Pecoraro, Vincent L.
• Theoretical calculations of benzoquinone redox potentials using the COSMO continuum solvation model (pp. 1743-1744) Rzepa, Henry S.; Suñer, Guillermo A.
• Synthesis of alkylpyrroles via O/N transformation of 2-methylfuran over HZSM-5 zeolite (pp. 1745-1746) Martin, Andreas; Lücke, Bernhard
• Novel trinuclear and dinuclear nickel coordination compounds with a new pentadentate ligand. Crystal structures of [Ni3(bdnol)(EtOH)Cl5] and [Ni2(bdnol)Cl3] (pp. 1746-1748) Bouwman, Elisabeth; Evans, Paul; Kooijman, Huub; Reedijk, Jan; Spek, Anthony L.
• A new synthesis of medium ring and macrocyclic acetylenic lactones from oxabicycloalkenones via their tosylhydrazones (pp. 1748-1749) Mahajan, Jaswant Rai; Resck, Inês Sabioni
• Ruthenium–dihydrogen complexes via C–H cleavage in alk-1-ynes. Crystal structure of [Ru(H2)(CCPh}(dippe)2][BPh4][dippe = 1,2-bis(diisopropylphosphino)ethane] (pp. 1750-1751) Tenorio, Manuel Jiménez; Puerta, M. Carmen; Valerga, Pedro
• Unfavourable orbital overlap at the transition state of a symmetry allowed reaction: a theoretical analysis (pp. 1751-1753) López, R.; Sordo, J. A.; Sordo, T. L.
• Examination of the conformational dynamics of photoregulated Concanavalin A by time-resolved light scattering (pp. 1753-1755) Zahavy, Eran; Rubin, Shai; Willner, Itamar
• A new strategy for the synthesis of cinnoline derivatives (pp. 1756-1757) Scobie, Martin; Tennant, George
• Detection of electrophilic aromatic substitution by addition–elimination using natural abundance deuterium NMR: a pyrrole example (pp. 1757-1758) Rosa, Michael De; Shadle, Robert G.; Foster, Natalie
• Metal ion catalysis in nitrosothiol (RSNO) decomposition (pp. 1758-1759) McAninly, John; Williams, D. Lyn H.; Askew, Stuart C.; Butler, Anthony R.; Russell, Claire
• The conversion of carboxylic acids into isonitriles via selenium-phenyl selenocarbamates (pp. 1760-1761) Barrett, Anthony G. M.; Kwon, Hyok; Wallace, Eli M.
• Conversion of esters to α,α-difluoro ethers using bromine trifluoride (pp. 1761-1762) Rozen, Shlomo; Mishani, Eyal
• Three consecutive allylic sigmatropic [S–O, S–S, S–C] rearrangements of 1,8-bis(allylthio)naphthalene monooxides via transannular interaction (pp. 1762-1763) Furukawa, Naomichi; Shima, Hidetaka; Kimura, Takeshi
• A new route to α-trialkylsilyl aldehydes. The first isolation of α-trimethylsilyl aldehydes (pp. 1763-1765) Duhamel, Lucette; Gralak, Jean; Bouyanzer, Abdelhamid
• Mechanism for the two-bond isomerization in the photoirradiation of 7,9-di-cis-retinal (pp. 1765-1766) Liu, Robert S. H.; Zhu, Yun
• Even more reliable NMR chemical shift computations by the GIAO-MP2 method (pp. 1766-1768) Schleyer, Paul von R.; Gauss, Jürgen; Bühl, Michael; Greatrex, Robert; Fox, Mark A.
• Linear Cu–OH–Cu: magnetic silence for dicopper(II) in trigonal bipyramidal coordination geometry (pp. 1768-1770) Harding, Charlie J.; McKee, Vickie; Nelson, Jane; Lu, Qin
• An excellent electrocatalysis of poly(phenosafranine)-modified electrode for oxidation of reduced β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (pp. 1770-1772) Tanaka, Koichiro; Tokuda, Koichi; Ohsaka, Takeo
• The sesquimetallated lithium cluster resulting from the reaction of a diprotonic NH/OH acid with n-butyllithium (pp. 1773-1774) Lambert, Christoph; Hampel, Frank; Schleyer, Paul von Ragué
• Ruthenium-containing organometallic dendrimers (pp. 1774-1777) Liao, Yi-Hsien; Moss, John R.
• A stable carbene iodine adduct: secondary bonding in 1,3-diethyl-2-iodo-4,5-dimethylimidazolium iodide (pp. 1778-1779) Kuhn, Norbert; Kratz, Thomas; Henkel, Gerald
• 121Sb Mössbauer spectra for crown ether adducts of antimony(III) chloride and molecular structure of SbCl3·12-crown-4 (pp. 1779-1781) Takahashi, Masashi; Kitazawa, Takafumi; Takeda, Masuo
• 3-Nitrochromenes for second order nonlinear optical applications (pp. 1781-1782) Ono, Noboru; Sugi, Kiyoshi; Ogawa, Takuji; Aramaki, Shinji
• Synthesis, structure and properties of a new vanadyl–phenolate derivative as a model for the vanadium(IV) transferrins (pp. 1782-1784) Neves, Ademir; Ceccatto, Augusto S.; Erasmus-Buhr, Claudia; Gehring, Stefan; Haase, Wolfgang; Paulus, Helmut; Nascimento, Otaciro R.; Batista, Alzir A.
• C60 fullerol formation catalysed by quaternary ammonium hydroxides (pp. 1784-1785) Li, Jing; Takeuchi, Atsuo; Ozawa, Masaki; Li, Xinhai; Saigo, Kazuhiko; Kitazawa, Koichi
• A new type of safety-catch linker cleaved by intramolecular activation of an amide anchorage and allowing aqueous processing in solid-phase peptide synthesis (pp. 1786-1788) Sola, Régine; Saguer, Philippe; David, Marie-Laure; Pascal, Robert

Issue: 24

• Contents pages (pp. P093-P096)
• Front cover (pp. X093-X094)
• Back cover (pp. X095-X096)
• A new mode of reactivity for nitrile ylides? (pp. 1789-1790) Groundwater, Paul W.; Morton, Andrew J.; Salter, Rhys
• Studies towards the total synthesis of the marine-derived immunosuppressant discodermolide; asymmetric synthesis of a C1–C8δ-lactone subunit (pp. 1790-1792) Paterson, Ian; Wren, Stephen P.
• The CH ⋯ O hydrogen bond adduct of two trinitromethanes to dioxane (pp. 1792-1793) Bock, Hans; Dienelt, Rüdiger; Schödel, Holger; Havlas, Zdenek
• A novel pyridinium betaine derivative of a phenolic cryptand (pp. 1793-1795) Dolman, Mark; Sutherland, Ian O.
• The preferred U-conformation of m-quinquephenyl. An X-ray crystal structure determination and molecular mechanics study (pp. 1795-1797) Rabideau, Peter W.; Sygula, Andrzej; Dhar, Raj K.; Fronczek, Frank R.
• Thermal decomposition of allylic sulfinic acids: confirmation of a retro-ene mechanism (pp. 1797-1798) King, Malcolm D.; Sue, Rodney E.; White, Rodney H.; Young, David J.
• The reaction of α-diazo-β-hydroxy esters with boron trifluoride (pp. 1798-1800) Pellicciari, Roberto; Natalini, Benedetto; Sadeghpour, Bahman M.; Rosato, Giovanni C.; Ursini, Antonella
• Alkylidenecarbene insertions into aromatic C–H bonds in solution (pp. 1800-1801) Tykwinski, Rik R.; Whiteford, Jeffery A.; Stang, Peter J.
• Periselective, Lewis acid-induced intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction of conjugated carbodiimides: efficient synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles, indolo[2,3-b]quinolines and pyrido[2,3-b]indole (pp. 1802-1803) Saito, Takao; Ohmori, Hiromasa; Ohkubo, Takahiro; Motoki, Shinichi
• Dithio-derivatives of p-quinodimethanes fused with 1,2,5-thiadiazoles: a novel type of π-donor–acceptor system (pp. 1803-1805) Yamashita, Yoshiro; Ono, Katsuhiko; Tanaka, Shoji; Imaeda, Kenichi; Inokuchi, Hiroo; Sano, Mizuka
• Isolation and structure of the powerful human cancer cell growth inhibitors spongistatins 4 and 5 from an African Spirastrella spinispirulifera(porifera) (pp. 1805-1807) Pettit, George R.; Herald, Cherry L.; Cichacz, Zbigniew A.; Gao, Feng; Schmidt, Jean M.; Boyd, Michael R.; Christie, Nigel D.; Boettner, Fred E.
• Activation of metal-bound salicylaldoximes (pp. 1807-1809) Grigg, Julian; Collison, David; Garner, C. David; Helliwell, Madeleine; Tasker, Peter A.; Thorpe, Jacqueline M.
• Reexpansion of collapsed Li-montmorillonites; evidence on the location of Li+ ions (pp. 1809-1811) Trillo, José M.; Alba, María D.; Alvero, Rafael; Castro, Miguel A.
• Novel synthesis of oxacycloalkenylidene complexes and their annulation to an acyl hydroquinone derivative (pp. 1811-1812) Christoffers, Jens; Dötz, Karl Heinz
• Calculated properties of the ‘empty’[AuPH3]2+ 4 and related systems: role of covalent and correlation contributions (pp. 1812-1813) Pyykkö, Pekka; Runeberg, Nino
• Preparative-scale organometallic chemistry in supercritical fluids; isolation of [Cr(CO)5(C2H4)] as a stable solid at room temperature (pp. 1814-1815) Banister, James A.; Howdle, Steven M.; Poliakoff, Martyn
• Synthesis and crystal structure of the novel borosilicate cage compound [B(OSiPh2OSiPh2O)3B] (pp. 1816-1817) O'Dowd, Anna T.; Spalding, Trevor R.; Ferguson, George; Gallagher, John F.; Reed, D.
• Syntheses of the group 15 1-benzoheteroepines, dibenzo[b,d]heteroepines and dibenzo[b,f]heteroepines involving the first isolated examples of arsepines and bismepines (pp. 1817-1819) Yasuike, Shuji; Ohta, Hideo; Shiratori, Shinichi; Kurita, Jyoji; Tsuchiya, Takashi
• Coupling of supramolecular synthesis of ATP with ATP-consuming enzyme systems (pp. 1819-1821) Fenniri, Hicham; Lehn, Jean-Marie
• Evidence for distortion of [FeL3]2+(L = en, amp, bpy, phen) in a Y-type zeolite (pp. 1822-1823) Umemura, Yasushi; Minai, Yoshitaka; Tominaga, Takeshi
• Enantioselective synthesis of a 9,10-seco-taxane derivative via electrophilic epoxy-allylsilane ring closure (pp. 1823-1825) Pettersson, Lars; Frejd, Torbjörn
• Base induced rearrangement of an α-bromophosphonamidate: stereochemistry of ring opening of the azaphosphiridine oxide intermediate as revealed by X-ray crystallography (pp. 1826-1828) Fawcett, John; Harger, Martin J. P.; Russell, David R.; Sreedharan-Menon, Ramesh
• Photoreactivity of conjugated bichromophoric molecules; an unusual dimerization of o-vinylbenzaldehyde (pp. 1828-1829) Kessar, S. V.; Mankotia, A. K. S.
• Convenient synthesis of diene–zirconocenes and regioselective partial reduction of the more highly substituted double bonds of conjugated dienes via complexation with zirconocenes and protonolysis (pp. 1830-1831) Maye, John P.; Negishi, Ei-ichi
• Ester ammoniolysis: a new enzymatic reaction (pp. 1831-1832) de Zoete, Marian C.; Dalen, Alida C. Kock-van; van Rantwijk, Fred; Sheldon, Roger A.
• Asymmetric hydroformylation of styrene by rhodium(I) catalysts with chiral ligands containing sulfur donors (pp. 1833-1834) Claver, Carmen; Castillón, Sergio; Ruiz, Nuria; Delogu, Giovanna; Fabbri, Davide; Gladiali, Serafino
• Selective electrochemical recognition of the dihydrogen phosphate anion in the presence of hydrogen sulfate and chloride ions by new neutral ferrocene anion receptors (pp. 1834-1836) Beer, Paul D.; Chen, Zheng; Goulden, Alistair J.; Graydon, Andrew; Stokes, Sally E.; Wear, Trevor
• The role of central bond torsional motions in the direct cis⇌trans-photoisomerization of conjugated dienes (pp. 1836-1838) Leigh, William J.; Postigo, J. Alberto
• A short, asymmetric synthesis of (–)-pumiliotoxin C (pp. 1838-1839) Comins, Daniel L.; Dehghani, All
• A synthetic approach to squalestatin 1 (pp. 1839-1841) Abdel-Rahman, Hesham; Adams, Joseph P.; Boyes, Alastair L.; Kelly, Mike J.; Mansfield, Darren J.; Procopiou, Panayiotis A.; Roberts, Stanley M.; Slee, Deborah H.; Watson, Nigel S.
• Synthesis of the bicyclic core structure of squalestatin 1 (pp. 1841-1843) Abdel-Rahman, Hesham; Adams, Joseph P.; Boyes, Alastair L.; Kelly, Mike J.; Mansfield, Darren J.; Procopiou, Panayiotis A.; Roberts, Stanley M.; Slee, Deborah H.; Sidebottom, Philip J.; Sik, Vladimir; Watson, Nigel S.
• Intermolecular oxonium–ene reaction: a new entry to stereocontrolled synthesis of tetrahydropyrans (pp. 1843-1844) Mikami, Koichi; Kishino, Hiroyuki
• Novel cationic surfactants derived from metal ion cage complexes: potential anthelmintic agents (pp. 1844-1846) Behm, Carolyn A.; Creaser, Inge I.; Korybut-Daszkiewicz, Bohdan; Geue, Rodney J.; Sargeson, Alan M.; Walker, Glen W.
• Monocyclooctatetraenyl(thiolato)samarium(III) complexes from the reaction of metallic samarium with cyclooctatetraene and diaryldisulfide: crystal structures of [Sm(µ-SPh)(C8H8)(thf)2]2 and [{Sm[µ-S(2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl)(C8H8)(thf)}2] (pp. 1847-1848) Mashima, Kazushi; Nakayama, Yuushou; Kanehisa, Nobuko; Kai, Yasushi; Nakamura, Akira
• Receptors for the hydrazinium ion. Simultaneous first- and second-sphere coordination inside organopalladium crown ether complexes (pp. 1848-1850) Kickham, James E.; Loeb, Stephen J.
• Synthesis and crystal structure of 9,10-disilatriptycenes (pp. 1850-1852) Takahashi, Masaki; Hatano, Ken; Kawada, Yuzo; Koga, Gen; Tokitoh, Norihiro; Okazaki, Renji
• Highly selective hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexene catalysed by a SiO2- or Al2O3-imnnobilized lanthanide catalyst (pp. 1852-1853) Imamura, Hayao; Konishi, Tomohiro; Sakata, Yoshihisa; Tsuchiya, Susumu
• Preparation of alumina-supported platinum catalyst at ambient temperature for selective synthesis of cinnamyl alcohol by liquid-phase cinnamaldehyde hydrogenation (pp. 1853-1854) Arai, Masahiko; Usui, Ken-ichi; Nishiyama, Yoshiyuki
• Structural characterisation of infinite three-dimensional [Cd4(CN)9]– ion (pp. 1855-1856) Kitazawa, Takafumi; Sugisawa, Hisashi; Takeda, Masuo; Iwamoto, Toschitake
• Synthesis and stability of the cyclic sulfamidate of N-trityl-L-serine methyl ester (pp. 1857-1858) Pilkington, Melanie; Wallis, John D.
• Activation of carbonyl function by 1,2-diol; novel asymmetric spirocyclization based on acid-catalysed conjugate addition (pp. 1858-1859) Suemune, Hiroshi; Takahashi, Youichi; Sakai, Kiyoshi
• The 2,3-secochlorin-2,3-dione system (pp. 1860-1861) Adams, Keith R.; Bonnett, Raymond; Burke, Philip J.; Salgado, Antonio; Vallés, Maria Asunción
• Catalytic isomerisation of but-1-ene to 2-methylpropene over solid acids: comparison between DAF-1 and other shape-selective magnesium-containing aluminophosphates and aluminosilicates (pp. 1861-1863) Natarajan, Srinivasan; Wright, Paul A.; Thomas, John Meurig
• Fullerene as an adsorbent for gases and vapours (pp. 1863-1864) Abraham, Michael H.; Du, Chau M.; Grate, Jay W.; McGill, R. Andrew; Shuely, Wendel J.
• Crystal structure of [Rh2(µ2-O2CMe)2{µ2-(CH2)PPh2}{µ2-(C6H4)PPh2}·PPh3]·2CH2Cl2, a compound with a diphenylphosphinomethanide group in a bridging (P,C) coordination (pp. 1864-1865) Borrachero, M. Victoria; Estevan, Francisco; García-Granda, Santiago; Lahuerta, Pascual; Latorre, Julio; Peris, Eduardo; Sanaú, Mercedes
• Synthesis of mono- and di-cationic phosphorus–zirconium species (pp. 1866-1867) Boutonnet, Florence; Zablocka, Maria; Igau, Alain; Majoral, Jean-Pierre; Raynaud, Bernard; Jaud, Joël
• Spectroelectrochemical characterization of a pyrazine-bridged mixed-valent (4d5/4d6) organometallic analogue of the Creutz–Taube ion (pp. 1868-1869) Bruns, Wolfgang; Kaim, Wolfgang; Waldhör, Eberhard; Krejčik, Michael
• Solid-phase synthesis of dendritic sialoside inhibitors of influenza A virus haemagglutinin (pp. 1869-1872) Roy, René; Zanini, Diana; Meunier, Serge J.; Romanowska, Anna
• Coordination chemistry of the tetrametalate core, {M4O16}: syntheses from [V2O2Cl2{(OCH2)2C(R)(CH2OH)}2] and structures of the mixed-metal cluster [V2Mo2O8(OMe)2{(OCH2)3CR}2]2– and the reduced cluster [V4O4(H2O)2(SO4)2{(OCH2)3CR}2]2– (pp. 1872-1874) Chang, Yuanda; Chen, Qin; Khan, M. Ishaque; Salta, Jose; Zubieta, Jon
• Cyclic dimerization of 1,2-unsaturated maltotriose derivatives with iodinium addition; one-pot preparation of a fully methylated 2 A ,2 D -dideoxy-2 A ,2 D -diiodocyclohexasaccharide (pp. 1874-1875) Sakairi, Nobuo; Kuzuhara, Hiroyoshi
• Langmuir–Blodgett films of a water-soluble polysilane based on interfacial polyion complexation (pp. 1876-1877) Seki, Takahiro; Tohnai, Atsushi; Tamaki, Takashi; Ueno, Katsuhiko
• Redox-active organometallic Ir complexes containing biphenyl-2,2′-diyl (pp. 1877-1880) Lu, Zheng; Jun, Chul-Ho; de Gala, Susan R.; Sigalas, Michel; Eisenstein, Odile; Crabtree, Robert H.
• Corrigendum (pp. 1880-1880) Tachibana, Junichi; Imamura, Taira; Sasaki, Yoichi