Journal of Chemical Sciences [Formerly: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Chemical Sciences)] Volume 122, 2010 CONTENTS 2nd International Symposium on Materials Chemistry (ISMC-2008) Foreword 5 Multidimensional potential of boron-containing molecules in functional materials Wolfgang Kaim and Narayan S. Hosmane 7–18 Magnetic behaviour in metal–organic frameworks — Some recent examples Partha Mahata, Debajit Sarma and Srinivasan Natarajan 19–35 Synthesis, structure and electrical conductivity of fulvalenium salts of cobalt bis(dicarbollide) anion and its derivatives Vladimir Bregadze, Igor Sivaev, Irina Lobanova, Olga Kazheva, Grigorii Alexandrov, Andrey Kravchenko, Vladimir Starodub, Lev Buravov, Lev Titov and Oleg Dyachenko 37–41 Superconductivity at 31⋅3 K in Yb-doped La(O/F)FeAs superconductors J Prakash, S J Singh, S Patnaik and A K Ganguli 43–46 Molecular tailoring approach for exploring structures, energetics and properties of clusters Shridhar R Gadre, K V Jovan Jose and Anuja P Rahalkar 47–56 Development of gas sensors using ZnO nanostructures S K Gupta, Aditee Joshi and Manmeet Kaur 57–62 One-pot, three-component synthesis of highly substituted pyridines and 1,4-dihydropyridines by using nanocrystalline magnesium oxide M Lakshmi Kantam, Koosam Mahendar and Suresh Bhargava 63–69 Microwave-assisted low temperature synthesis of sodium zirconium phosphate (NZP) and the leachability of some selected fission products incorporated in its structure – A case study of leachability of cesium A H Naik, S B Deb, A B Chalke, M K Saxena, K L Ramakumar, V Venugopal and S R Dharwadkar 71–82 Kinetics of solid state phase transformations: Measurement and modelling of some basic issues S Raju and E Mohandas 83–89 Perspective Articles Emerging trends at the interface of chemistry and biology: Applications to the design of human therapeutics Santanu Bhattacharya and Raghavan Varadarajan 97–107 Supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering Ashwini Nangia 295–310 i ii Volume Contents Lewis acidic metal catalysed organic transformations by designed multi-component structures and assemblies Afsar Ali, Amit P Singh and Rajeev Gupta 311–320 Interplay between multiple length and time scales in complex chemical systems Biman Bagchi and Charusita Chakravarty 459–470 Full Papers Ternary mixtures of alkyltriphenylphosphonium bromides (C12TPB, C14TPB and C16TPB) in aqueous medium: their interfacial, bulk and fluorescence quenching behaviour Gargi Basu Ray, Soumen Ghosh and Satya P Moulik 109–117 Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical properties of 2,8-diaryl-dibenzothiophene derivatives for organic electronics Pabitra K Nayak, Neeraj Agarwal and N Periasamy 119–124 Synthesis of novel spiro-β-lactams Renu Arora, P Venugopalan and S S Bari 125–135 Suzuki–Miyaura, Mizoroki–Heck carbon–carbon coupling and hydrogenation reactions catalysed II I t by Pd and Rh complexes containing cyclodiphosphazane cis-{ BuNP(OC6H4OMe-o)}2 Sasmita Mohanty and Maravanji S Balakrishna 137–142 Copper-catalysed N-arylation of arylsulfonamides with aryl bromides and aryl iodides using KF/Al2O3 Rahman Hosseinzadeh, Mahmood Tajbakhsh, Maryam Mohadjerani and Mohammad Alikarami 143–148 Palladium-catalysed ortho arylation of acetanilides Guo-Zhen Zhang, Cheng-Qun Chen, Xin-Hua Feng and Guo-Sheng Huang 149–155 Synthesis and conformational features of sym N,N′,N″-triarylguanidines Kanniyappan Gopi, Brijesh Rathi and Natesan Thirupathi 157–167 Synthesis, evaluation and molecular modelling studies of some novel 3-(3,4-dihydroisoquinolin- 2(1H)-yl)-N-(substituted-phenyl) propanamides as HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors S Murugesan, Swastika Ganguly and Giovanni Maga 169–176 Synthesis, characterization and anti-bacterial activity of 5-(alkenyl)-2-amino- and 2-(alkenyl)-5- phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles Mudasir R Banday, Rayees H Mattoo and Abdul Rauf 177–182 Microwave-assisted synthesis of photochromic fulgides Sivasankaran Nithyanandan, Chinnusamy Saravanan, Sengodan Senthil and Palaninathan Kannan 183–188 An environmentally benign three component one-pot synthesis of amidoalkyl naphthols using H4SiW12O40 as a recyclable catalyst Amit R Supale and Gavisiddappa S Gokavi 189–192 Vapour phase synthesis of salol over solid acids via transesterification S Z Mohamed Shamshuddin and N Nagaraju 193–201 Development of 3-methoxy-4-benzyloxybenzyl alcohol (MBBA) resin as polymer-supported synthesis support: Preparation and benzyl ether cleavage by DDQ oxidation Qiang Huang , Bao-Zhong Zheng and Quan Long 203–207 Volume Contents iii Controlled release of 5-flurouracil from biomedical polyurethanes Reddy Seetharamareddy Harisha, Kallappa Mahadevappa Hosamani, Rangappa Sangappa Keri, Namdev Shelke, Vijay Kumar Wadi and Tejaraj M Aminabhavi 209–216 A new chromogenic agent for iron(III): Synthesis, structure and spectroscopic studies Chandrama Basu, Santanu Chowdhury, Helen Stoeckli-Evans and Soma Mukherjee 217–223 Pulse radiolytic studies on cis-dichlorobis(1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione)Cobalt(III) complex Vitthal A Kawade, Smita Ghosh, Avinash V Sapre and Avinash S Kumbhar 225–232 Structural and electrochemical properties of β-tetrabromo-meso-tetrakis(4-alkyloxyphenyl) porphyrins and their metal complexes P Bhyrappa and C Arunkumar 233–238 Synthesis, characterization and spectrochemical studies on a few binuclear μ-oxo molybdenum(V) complexes of pyrimidine derived Schiff-base ligands Samik Gupta, Somnath Roy, Tarak Nath Mandal, Kinsuk Das, Sangita Ray, Ray J Butcher and Susanta Kumar Kar 239–245 DNA minor groove binding of small molecules: Experimental and computational evidence Prateek Pandya, Md Maidul Islam, G Suresh Kumar, B Jayaram and Surat Kumar 247–257 + A comparative study of the spectroscopic features of the low-lying electronic states of H2F and + H2Cl ions Anjan Chattopadhyay 259–269 Direct electrochemistry of hemoglobin entrapped in dextran film on carbon ionic liquid electrode Xiaoqing Li, Yan Wang, Xiaoying Sun, Tianrong Zhan and Wei Sun 271–278 Influence of magnetic field on the electrodeposition of Ni–Co alloy Mehdi Ebadi, W J Basirun and Yatimah Alias 279–285 Errata 287 Anaerobic DNA cleavage in red light by dicopper(II) complexes on disulphide bond activation Debojyoti Lahiri, Ritankar Majumdar, Ashis K Patra and Akhil R Chakravarty 321–333 Studies on electron transfer reactions: Reduction of heteropoly 10-tungstodivanadophosphate by thioglycolic acid in aqueous medium Ponnusamy Sami, Natarajan Mariselvi, Kandasamy Venkateshwari, Arunachalam Sarathi and Kasi Rajasekaran 335–340 Adsorption of DOPC vesicles on hydrophobic substrates in the presence of electrolytes: A QCM and reflectometry study G Edward Gnana Jothi, S Kamatchi and A Dhathathreyan 341–348 Physicochemistry of hexadecylammonium bromide and its methyl and ethanolic head group analogues in buffered aqueous and gelatin solution Debolina Mitra and Satya P Moulik 349–362 A theoretical study of the carbenoids LiCH2X (X = Cl, Br, I) cyclopropanation reaction with ketene Xing Hui Zhang, Fu Long Zhang and Zhi Yuan Geng 363–369 Thermal and hydrothermal stability of ZrMCM-41 mesoporous molecular sieves obtained by microwave irradiation T S Jiang, Y H Li, X P Zhou, Q Zhao and H B Yin 371–379 iv Volume Contents A solid-polymer-electrolyte direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) with Pt–Ru nanoparticles supported onto poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and polystyrene sulphonic acid polymer composite as anode K K Tintula, S Pitchumani, P Sridhar and A K Shukla 381–389 Studies on interaction between CdTe quantum dots and α-chymotrypsin by molecular spectroscopy Jianniao Tian, Shengzhi Wei, Yanchun Zhao, Rongjun Liu and Shulin Zhao 391–400 Electrochemical investigation of NO at single-wall carbon nanotubes modified electrodes Tingliang Xia, Hongmei Bi and Keying Shi 401–408 Synthesis and characterization of N-phosphorylated thioureas RNHC(S)NHP(O)(OiPr)2 (R = 2- MeC6H4, 2,6-Me2C6H3, 2,4,6-Me3C6H2) Damir A Safin, Maria G Babashkina, Michael Bolte and Axel Klein 409–413 An efficient one-pot synthesis of novel pyrazolophthalazinyl spirooxindoles Gnanamani Shanthi and Paramasivan T Perumal 415–421 Titanium(III) chloride mediated synthesis of furan derivatives: Synthesis of (±)-evodone S K Mandal, M Paira and S C Roy 423–426 Multicomponent, solvent-free synthesis of 12-aryl-8,9,10,12-tetrahydrobenzo[a]-xanthen-11-one derivatives catalysed by cyanuric chloride Zhan-Hui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Shu-Hong Yang, Hong-Juan Wang and Jia Deng 427–432 Total synthesis of (±)-divanillyltetrahydrofuran ferulate Ya-Mu Xia, Jia You and Qi Wang 433–436 A novel and an efficient catalyst for one-pot synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted imidazoles by using microwave irradiation under solvent-free conditions Javad Safari, Shiva Dehghan Khalili and Sayed Hossein Banitaba 437–441 Synthesis and antiulcer activity of 2-[5-substituted-1-H-benzo(d) imidazol-2-yl sulfinyl]methyl-3- substituted quinazoline-4-(3H) ones Avinash Patil, Swastika Ganguly and Sanjay Surana 443–450 Editor’s note 451 Study of multi-site chemical exchange in solution state by NMR: 1D experiments with multiply selective excitation Samanwita Pal 471–480 Excited state intramolecular charge transfer reaction of 4-(morpholenyl) benzonitrile in solution: Effects of hetero atom in the donor moiety Tuhin Pradhan, Harun Al Rasid Gazi and Ranjit Biswas 481–490 – + A quantum-classical simulation of the nuclear dynamics in NO2 and C6H6 with realistic model Hamiltonian Subhankar Sardar, Amit Kumar Paul and Satrajit Adhikari 491–510 NIR–FT Raman, FT–IR and surface-enhanced Raman