1. CONTENTS

   Acknowledgments 18 August 2013 Pages: 697 - 703

2. Team Change at the Journal of Chemical Sciences

   Acknowledgments 18 August 2013 Pages: 705 - 705

3. NO₂-induced synthesis of nitrato-iron(III) porphyrin with diverse coordination mode and the formation of isoporphyrin^‡

   • JAGANNATH BHUYAN
   • SABYASACHI SARKAR

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 707 - 714

   

4. Syntheses, molecular and crystalline architectures, and luminescence behaviour of terephthalate bridged heptacoordinated dinuclear lead(II) complexes containing a pentadentate N-donor Schiff base

   • SUBHASIS ROY
   • SOMNATH CHOUBEY
   • BARINDRA KUMAR GHOSH

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 715 - 721

   

5. Synthesis, molecular and crystalline architectures, and properties of a mononuclear complex [Co ^II (benzidine) ₂ (NCS) ₂ (OH ₂ ) ₂ ]

   • SUBHASISH KUNDU
   • SUBHASIS ROY
   • BARINDRA KUMAR GHOSH

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 723 - 730

   

6. A new one-pot synthesis of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles from aryl nitriles, hydroxylamine and crotonoyl chloride

   • MASOUMEH ZAKERI
   • MAJID M HERAVI
   • EBRAHIM ABOUZARI-LOTF

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 731 - 735

   

7. A simple synthesis of E-9-aryl-5-arylidene-1-oxo-1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8-octahydroxanthenes and their lower analogues from E,E-α,α′-diarylidenecycloalkanones

   • SWATI SAMANTA
   • ARPITA DAS GUPTA
   • ASOK K MALLIK

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 737 - 743

   

8. Phenylboronic acid catalysed synthesis of 1,5-benzodiazepines via cyclocondensation of o-phenylenediamine and ketones

   • SANTOSH V GOSWAMI
   • PRASHANT B THORAT
   • SUDHAKAR R BHUSARE

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 745 - 749

   

9. Synthesis of amidoalkyl naphthol via Ritter-type reaction catalysed by heteropolyanion-based ionic liquid

   • FANG DONG
   • JIANG CHENNING
   • YANG JINMING

   OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 751 - 754

   

10. Synthesis of novel N-, S-substituted-polyhalo-1, 3-butadienes and crystal structure of dibutadienyl homopiperazine

    • NAHIDE GULSAH DENIZ
    • CEMIL IBIS

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 755 - 764

    

11. Antileishmanial polyphenols from Corymbia maculata

    • JASMEEN SIDANA
    • DINESH NEERADI
    • INDER PAL SINGH

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 765 - 775

    

12. Synthesis and transformations of 4H-chromene 4-hydroxy-2H-pyran-2-one and 4H-chromene 4-hydroxycoumarin conjugates

    • H SURYA PRAKASH RAO
    • VENKATA SWAMY TANGETI

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 777 - 790

    

13. Synthesis and characterization of poly(2-ethylhexyl acrylate) prepared via atom transfer radical polymerization, reverse atom transfer radical polymerization and radical polymerization

    • DHRUBA JYOTI HALOI
    • BISHNU PRASAD KOIRY
    • NIKHIL KUMAR SINGHA

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 791 - 797

    

14. One-pot synthesis of new series 3,4,5-trisubstituted–dihydroisoxazoline derivatives via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides with chalcones

    • RAAD KASIM YHYA
    • K M LOKANATHA RAI
    • EBRAHEEM ABDU MUSAD

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 799 - 806

    

15. Microwave-assisted silica-promoted solvent-free synthesis of triazoloquinazolinone and benzimidazoquinazolinones

    • G KRISHNAMURTHY
    • K V JAGANNATH

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 807 - 811

    

16. The Pd(0) nanoparticles stabilized by collagen fibres as a recyclable heterogeneous catalyst for the Stille reaction under aerobic condition

    • BABAK MOHAMMADI-AGHDAM
    • SIAVASH BAHARI
    • RAHIM MOLAEI

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 813 - 817

    

17. Study of TiO₂ nanoparticle phase alteration and its catalytic effect on the chemoselective N-sulphonylation of amines and urazoles

    • DAVOOD AZARIFAR
    • FATEMEH SOLEIMANEI
    • BABAK JALEH

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 819 - 826

    

18. Efficient, green and solvent-free synthesis of tetrasubstituted imidazoles using SbCl₃/SiO₂ as heterogeneous catalyst

    • JAVAD SAFARI
    • SOHEILA GANDOMI-RAVANDI
    • SIMIN NASEH

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 827 - 833

    

19. Sulphamic acid-functionalized magnetic Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles as recyclable catalyst for synthesis of imidazoles under microwave irradiation

    • JAVAD SAFARI
    • ZOHRE ZARNEGAR

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 835 - 841

    

20. Brønsted acidic ionic liquid catalysis: An efficient and eco-friendly synthesis of novel fused pyrano pyrimidinones and their antimicrobial activity

    • JANARDHAN BANOTHU
    • RAJITHA GALI
    • RAJITHA BAVANTULA

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 843 - 849

    

21. Calcined eggshell (CES): An efficient natural catalyst for Knoevenagel condensation under aqueous condition

    • SURESH PATIL
    • SWATI D JADHAV
    • M B DESHMUKH

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 851 - 857

    

22. Synthesis, characterization and photo-epoxidation performance of Au-loaded photocatalysts

    • VAN-HUY NGUYEN
    • HSIANG-YU CHAN
    • JEFFREY C S WU

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 859 - 867

    

23. Binding of reactive organophosphate by oximes via hydrogen bond

    • ANDREA PAPPALARDO
    • MARIA E AMATO
    • GIUSEPPE TRUSSO SFRAZZETTO

    BriefCommunication 22 August 2013 Pages: 869 - 873

    

24. Activity, stability and kinetic parameters for α-chymotrypsin catalysed reactions in AOT/isooctane reverse micelles with nonionic and zwitterionic mixed surfactants

    • SANTOSH KUMAR VERMA
    • KALLOL K GHOSH

    OriginalPaper 22 August 2013 Pages: 875 - 882

    

25. Molecular aggregation, solvato- and acidochromic properties of symmetrical ketocyanines

    • TAREK FAYED
    • MOHAMMED EL-MORSI
    • MARWA EL-NAHASS

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 883 - 894

    

26. Quasi-classical trajectory study of the reaction N(⁴S) + H₂ and its reverse reaction: Role of initial vibrational and rotational excitations in chemical stereodynamics

    • JUAN ZHANG
    • SHUNLE DONG

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 895 - 903

    

27. Inductive effect of methyl group in a series of methylated indoles: A graph theoretical analysis in the light of density functional theory and correlation with experimental charge transfer transition energies

    • AMIT S TIWARY
    • ASOK K MUKHERJEE

    OriginalPaper 22 August 2013 Pages: 905 - 912

    

28. Analysis of torsional barrier height of HSNO as the simplest S-nitrosothiol

    • REZA FAZAELI
    • MOHAMMAD SOLIMANNEJAD
    • ABDOLVAHAB SEIF

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 913 - 917

    

29. Theoretical investigation on crystal structure, detonation performance and thermal stability of a high density cage hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane derivative

    • LI XIAO-HONG
    • CUI HONG-LING
    • ZHANG XIAN-ZHOU

    OriginalPaper 22 August 2013 Pages: 919 - 925

    

30. Ab initio study on the paths of oxygen abstraction of hydrogen trioxide (HO₃) molecule in the HO₃ + SO₂ reaction

    • R BAGHERZADEH
    • SATTAR EBRAHIMI
    • MOEIN GOODARZI

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 927 - 932

    

31. Evaluation of intramolecular charge transfer state of 4-N, N-dimethylamino cinnamaldehyde using time-dependent density functional theory

    • SURAJIT GHOSH
    • K V S GIRISH
    • SUBHADIP GHOSH

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 933 - 938

    

32. Theoretical study of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the halo derivatives of 1-amino-3-imino-prop-1-ene

    • SAEEDREZA EMAMIAN
    • SAYYED FARAMARZ TAYYARI

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 939 - 948

    

33. Density functional theory, natural bond orbital and quantum theory of atoms in molecule analyses on the hydrogen bonding interactions in tryptophan-water complexes

    • XIQIAN NIU
    • ZHENGGUO HUANG
    • LINGFEI GUO

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2013 Pages: 949 - 958