1. Contents

   Acknowledgments 06 January 2013 Pages: 1137 - 1142

2. Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XIV)

   Acknowledgments 06 January 2013 Pages: 1143 - 1143

3. Mechanism of -O–O- bond activation and catalysis by Ru ^III -pac complexes (pac = polyaminocarboxylate)

   • DEBABRATA CHATTERJEE

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1145 - 1150

   

4. Helical chirality induction of expanded porphyrin analogues

   • JUN-ICHIRO SETSUNE

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1151 - 1163

   

5. Organometallic complexes of the platinum metals: Synthesis, structure, and catalytic applications

   • PIYALI PAUL
   • SAMARESH BHATTACHARYA

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1165 - 1173

   

6. Digestive ripening: a synthetic method par excellence for core–shell, alloy, and composite nanostructured materials

   • SRILAKSHMI P BHASKAR
   • BALAJI R JAGIRDAR

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1175 - 1180

   

7. Electronic structures of ruthenium complexes encircling non-innocent ligand assembly

   • AMIT DAS
   • DIPANWITA DAS
   • GOUTAM KUMAR LAHIRI

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1181 - 1189

   

8. Simple tertiary phosphines to hexaphosphane ligands: Syntheses, transition metal chemistry and their catalytic applications

   • MARAVANJI S BALAKRISHNA
   • SOWMYA RAO
   • BIMBA CHOUBEY

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1191 - 1204

   

9. Reactions of a stable dialkylsilylene and their mechanisms

   • MITSUO KIRA

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1205 - 1215

   

10. Cu(II) complexes of glyco-imino-aromatic conjugates in DNA binding, plasmid cleavage and cell cytotoxicity

    • AMIT KUMAR
    • ATANU MITRA
    • CHEBROLU P RAO

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1217 - 1228

    

11. Cu(I)/Cu(II) templated functional pseudorotaxanes and rotaxanes

    • Subrata Saha
    • Pradyut Ghosh

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1229 - 1237

    

12. Linear, branched and network polysilanes with thienyl/furyl substituted sila-alkyl side chains and their applications for the synthesis of fluorescent silver nanoparticles/clusters

    • RAVI SHANKAR
    • USHARANI SAHOO
    • MANCHAL CHAUDHARY

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1239 - 1244

    

13. Chalcogenated Schiff bases: Complexation with palladium(II) and Suzuki coupling reactions

    • PRADHUMN SINGH
    • G K RAO
    • AJAI K SINGH

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1245 - 1253

    

14. Click-generated triazole based ferrocene-carbohydrate bioconjugates: A highly selective multisignalling probe for Cu(II) ions

    • Arunabha Thakur
    • Sinjinee Sardar
    • Sundargopal Ghosh

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1255 - 1260

    

15. Metal derivatives of heterocyclic-2-thiones: Variable donor ability, C–S rupture and new structural motifs

    • TARLOK S LOBANA
    • RAZIA SULTANA

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1261 - 1268

    

16. Mechanistic studies of copper(II)-mediated oxidation of vic-dioxime to furoxan

    • OINDRILA DAS
    • TAPAN KANTI PAINE

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1269 - 1273

    

17. Crystallization of organically templated phosphomolybdate cluster-based solids from aqueous solution

    • MINAKSHI ASNANI
    • DINESH KUMAR
    • ARUNACHALAM RAMANAN

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1275 - 1286

    

18. Calixarenes: Versatile molecules as molecular sensors for ion recognition study

    • SUBRATA PATRA
    • DEBDEEP MAITY
    • PARIMAL PAUL

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1287 - 1299

    

19. Synthesis, characterization and phosphotriesterase mimetic activity of some Zn(II) and Cu(II) complexes

    • MAMATA SINGH
    • RAY J BUTCHER
    • GOVINDASAMY MUGESH

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1301 - 1313

    

20. Fabrication of optochemical and electrochemical sensors using thin films of porphyrin and phthalocyanine derivatives

    • PALANISAMY KALIMUTHU
    • ARUMUGAM SIVANESAN
    • S ABRAHAM JOHN

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1315 - 1325

    

21. Photocytotoxic lanthanide complexes

    • AKHTAR HUSSAIN
    • AKHIL R CHAKRAVARTY

    OriginalPaper 08 January 2013 Pages: 1327 - 1342

    

22. Computational tools for mechanistic discrimination in the reductive and metathesis coupling reactions mediated by titanium(IV) isopropoxide

    • AKSHAI KUMAR
    • ASHOKA G SAMUELSON

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1343 - 1352

    

23. μ-Phenoxo-μ-pseudohalide and μ-pseudohalide dinuclear, tetranuclear and one-dimensional complexes: magneto-structural correlation and interesting type of solid state isomerism

    • SUJIT SASMAL
    • SASANKASEKHAR MOHANTA

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1353 - 1364

    

24. Study of \(\boldsymbol{\eta}^{\bf 6}\)- cyclic \(\boldsymbol{\pi} \)-perimeter hydrocarbon ruthenium complexes bearing functionalized pyridyl diketones: Isolation of complexes with \(\boldsymbol{\kappa}^\textbf{2}\)-N∩O and \(\boldsymbol{\kappa}^\textbf{4}\)-N∩O bonding modes of ligands

    • SAPHIDABHA L NONGBRI
    • BABULAL DAS
    • MOHAN RAO KOLLIPARA

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1365 - 1375

    

25. Rhomboidal [Cu ₄ ] coordination cluster from self-assembly of two asymmetric phenoxido-bridged Cu ₂ units: Role of μ _1,1 -azido clips

    • AVIJIT SARKAR
    • ALOKE KUMAR GHOSH
    • DEBASHIS RAY

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2013 Pages: 1377 - 1383

    

26. Single crystal growth of europium and ytterbium based intermetallic compounds using metal flux technique

    • SUMANTA SARKAR
    • SEBASTIAN C PETER

    OriginalPaper 08 January 2013 Pages: 1385 - 1390

    

27. Metal azides under pressure: An emerging class of high energy density materials

    • G VAITHEESWARAN
    • K RAMESH BABU

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1391 - 1398

    

28. Mechanism of unusual polymorph transformations in calcium carbonate: Dissolution-recrystallization vs additive-mediated nucleation

    • ARPITA SARKAR
    • SAMIRAN MAHAPATRA

    OriginalPaper 08 January 2013 Pages: 1399 - 1404

    

29. Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxic activity of palladium (II) carbohydrate complexes

    • S BHAVYA DEEPTHI
    • RAJIV TRIVEDI
    • SURESH K BHARGAVA

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2013 Pages: 1405 - 1413

    

30. Subject Index

    Acknowledgments 06 January 2013 Pages: 1415 - 1438

31. Author Index

    Acknowledgments 06 January 2013 Pages: 1439 - 1450