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Based in Europe Chemistry¡ªA European Journal increases the visibility of European chemistry and attracts authors and readers from around the world.
All manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and electronic processing ensures accurate reproduction of text and data, plus short publication times.
An additional Concepts section provides nonspecialist readers with a useful conceptual guide to unfamiliar areas and experts with new angles on familiar problems.
Volume 15. 36 Issues in 2009.
Notice to Authors 2009
General Information
Chemistry¡ªA European Journal was founded by the German Chemical Society and VCH. It is now jointly owned by the chemical societies of Austria (GÖCh), Belgium (SRC and KVCV), the Czech Republic (ČSCH), France (SFC), Germany (GDCh), Greece (AGS), Hungary (MKE), Italy (SCI), the Netherlands (KNCV), Poland (PTCh), Portugal (SPQ), Spain (RSEQ), and Sweden (SCS), and is published by Wiley-VCH. The journal publishes 48 issues per year and contains papers from all fields of chemistry.
Contributions should be in English, but may be accompanied by an abstract in the language of the authors. The correspondence author will receive page proofs (in most cases as compressed PDF files). The correspondence author will also receive a complementary copy of the journal and a reprint PDF file, restricted to 25 printouts, free of charge. Manuscripts will be edited with a view to brevity and clarity. Queries regarding manuscripts should be sent to chemistry@wiley-vch.de.
All contributions are subject to peer review.
Corrections after "Early View" and before issue publication will be accepted only if formal aspects or "misprints" are concerned. For all other corrections, such as those regarding scientifically incorrect or incomplete information, a Corrigendum has to be submitted. Please contact the Editorial Office in such cases.
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Categories of Contributions
1. Reviews and Minireviews
Reviews and Minireviews deal with topics of current interest in any of the areas covered by Chemistry¡ªA European Journal. Rather than an assemblage of detailed information with a complete literature survey, a critically selected treatment of the material is desired. Unsolved problems and possible developments should also be discussed.
Reviews and Minireviews should be divided into numbered sections. Cross-references in the text refer to these section numbers. The review starts with a Lead-in or Abstract (ca. 1000characters, no references). This text should not be a mere summary but rather should¡ªtogether with a frontispiece picture¡ªarouse the readers' interest. The Introduction should primarily introduce the nonspecialist to the subject as clearly as possible. A Review or Minireview should conclude with a Summary and Outlook section, in which the achievements and new challenges for the subject are presented succinctly. In addition, a biographical sketch (500-700 characters) and a portrait-quality black-and-white photograph of each author, as well as a graphical suggestion for the first page of the Review or Minireview (frontispiece; 18 cm wide¡Á19.5 cm high), a graphical abstract for the table of contents, and keywords should be submitted.
A Review should consist of a maximum of 40 pages (approximately 65000 characters) of main text, footnotes, literature citations, tables, and legends.
A Minireview should present current topics in a concise review style and consist of a maximum of 15 pages (approximately 25000 characters) of main text, footnotes, literature citations, tables, and legends. Minireviews offer the flexibility to treat topics at a time, and in a suitable manner, when a Review would still be premature or inappropriate.
2. Concepts
Concepts are short articles emphasizing the general concepts that have guided important developments in a specific area and their implications for future research. The reference section should only include the key papers that have contributed to conceptual advances in the field under review, rather than being fully comprehensive. The author should aim to provide the nonspecialist reader with a useful guide and the expert with a new angle on a familiar problem. Although Concept articles are generally written upon invitation of the Editor, unsolicited manuscripts are also welcome.
Concept articles may be organized as the author wishes, but should include a very short Abstract (400 characters; an additional version in the authors' native language may also be included) that succinctly describes the concepts under discussion. A graphical suggestion for the first page of the Concept (frontispiece; 18 cm wide¡Á19.5 cm high), a graphical abstract for the table of contents and keywords should also be provided. Articles should consist of around 10 single-spaced pages of text (including references, tables, and legends). The liberal use of schemes and figures is encouraged.
3. Communications and Full Papers
Communications and Full Papers present results of experimental or theoretical studies of general interest or great importance to the development of a specific area of research. A short text justifying why the manuscript should appear in Chemistry¡ªA European Journal should be submitted. The essential findings presented in a Communication or Full Paper or significant parts of them may not already have appeared in print or in electronic online systems (for example, in online resources, in reviews, proceedings, or preprints). Contributions that are too specialized for the general readership of Chemistry¡ªA European Journal will be returned to the authors without further external review (ca. 25%). All other Contributions are sent to two or more independent referees. Authors are welcome to suggest referees. Detailed information that could be of importance to the referees, but that is unlikely to be of interest to the reader can be submitted as an enclosure or clearly marked as Supporting Information. Only articles that have already been published in a scientific journal should be cited. The citation should be fair and informative but not excessive. Copies of cited publications not yet available publicly should be submitted along with the manuscript. Unpublished results and lectures should only be cited in exceptional circumstances.
Inclusive of all references, footnotes, and tables, a Communication should be no longer than approximately 10000 characters. Chemical formulae, figures, and schemes may also be added. Longer Communications will be accepted only if their quality warrants special consideration, and a written justification of their length is provided. Communications should not be divided into sections. However, experimental details can be summarized separately under the heading Experimental Section or Computational Methods. The first paragraph of a Communication should give an introduction to enable readers unfamiliar with the subject to become acquainted with the importance of the results presented. In the final paragraph the results should be summarized succinctly, and one sentence should be devoted to their significance and, if appropriate, to remaining challenges.
A Communication returned to the author for revision should be returned to the editorial office within three weeks. If more time is needed the editor must be informed.
Full Papers, which generally contain an Experimental Section and/or Computational Methods, have no length restrictions. However, the editorial office requests that space be used thoughtfully and economically (e.g., additional experimental data for derivatives and intermediates can be placed in the Supporting Information). Chemistry¡ªA European Journal will not publish Full Papers that consist mainly of results reported in previous Communications with an added experimental section. Full Papers contain an Abstract, which should be brief (600¨C1000 characters) and not too technical, and an Introduction that includes relevant references. The presentation of Results and Discussion may be combined or kept separate. These sections may be further divided by subheadings.
4. Correspondence
Critical comments on publications in Chemistry¡ªA European Journal are welcome if they contribute to scientific discussion. The author of the publication to which the Correspondence pertains will have the opportunity to reply. This reply will be sent to the author of the Correspondence.
5. Corrigenda
Scientifically incorrect or incomplete information in published articles should be corrected in a Corrigendum¡ªwhich is as short as possible. Corrigenda are printed directly after the Table of Contents. We request that authors submit the Corrigendum electronically like any other article through manuscriptXpress and that they cite the publication to be corrected as well as its "digital object identifier" (DOI).
Original Manuscript Submission
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MS Word templates for Concepts, Reviews, Minireviews, Communications, and Full Papers are available on our homepage in the section "For Authors". Please only use these templates for the original submission of your contribution. Please prepare the final revised version of accepted contributions ("Production Data") as described in the Checklist.
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Preparation of Production Data
If you submitted your original manuscript by manuscriptXpress, you should upload your production data after acceptance through your homepage. To do this you need to prepare an archive (zip, sit, or tar); this should contain the text file and the separate graphics files, with a separate Supporting Information file, if applicable. You should then upload this through the ¡°Manuscripts for Production¡± menu on your personal homepage; the link will also appear on your To Do list. Further details will be provided on acceptance of the manuscript. If you did not submit your paper online you can submit the files electronically by e-mail to chemistry@wiley-vch.de. In your cover letter, please inform us of the type of operating system (e.g., Windows, Mac) and the programs (with version) used to create the graphical material. Not all graphics programs are suitable for use by our Printer; please consult the Chemistry¡ªA European Journal Checklist (available as a PDF file on www.chemeurj.org). If possible, the standard Symbol font should be used to create Greek letters, rather than special characters or graphics embedded in the text.
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Organization of Full Papers
We can process your manuscript faster if you lay it out as described below.
Title page: Title; authors' names with academic titles, an asterisk denotes the correspondence author(s); affiliations of all the authors, including the full postal address, fax number, and e-mail address of the correspondence author(s); series title, number, and reference to previous paper(s) in the series, if applicable; dedication, if applicable.
Abstract should be brief (600¨C2000 characters) and not too technical. An additional version of the abstract in the authors' native language may also be supplied. When written in a non-Roman alphabet, this must be in a camera-ready form: the text must fit into a single column 8.5 cm wide; type size 2 mm (7 point); about 4 mm between lines (single-spaced).
Introduction should include relevant references.
Results and Discussion may be combined or kept separate and may be further divided by subheadings. This section should not be cluttered with technical details. Abbreviations and acronyms should be used sparingly and consistently. Where they first appear in the text, they should¡ªapart from the most common ones, such as NMR, IR, and UV¡ªbe defined; you may prefer to explain large numbers of abbreviations and acronyms in a footnote on the first page.
Experimental Section should be given in sufficient detail to enable others to repeat your work. In theoretical papers, technical details such as computational methods should likewise be confined to an appropriately named section.
In so far as practical, authors should use a systematic name (IUPAC or Chemical Abstracts) for each title compound in the Experimental Section. Please do not use computer programs to generate elaborate systematic names or use long, multiline compound names; for the sake of clarity general descriptors such as compound 2, dendrimer 3, or alcohol 4 should be used.
Equipment and conditions used for the measurement of physical data should be described at the beginning of the Experimental Section. Quantities of reactants, solvents, etc. should be included in parentheses (e.g., triphenylstannyl chloride (0.964 g, 2.5 mmol) in toluene (20 mL)) rather than in the running text. Physical data should be quoted with decimal points and negative exponents (e.g., 25.8 JK−1mol−1). The purity of all new compounds should be verified by elemental analysis, to an accuracy of within ¡À0.4%. In special cases, for instance, when the compound is unstable or not available in sufficient quantities for complete analysis, the exact relative molecular mass obtained from a high-resolution mass spectrum and a clean 13C NMR spectrum (as Supporting Information for inspection by the referees) should be supplied.
Detailed presentation of physical data: Rf=0.38 (CHCl3/MeOH 9:1); m.p./b.p. 20¡ãC; [¦Á]D20=−13.5 (c=0.2 in acetone); 1H NMR (200 MHz, [D8]THF, 25¡ãC, TMS): ¦Ä=1.33 (q, 3J(H,H)=8 Hz, 2H; CH2), 0.92 ppm (t, 3J(H,H)=8 Hz, 3H; CH3); 13C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3, 25¡ãC, TMS): ¦Ä=72.5 (CCH), 26.8 (s; CH3), 6.5 ppm (d, 1J(C,P)=156.9 Hz; CHP); IR (Nujol): ¦Í˜=1780, 1790 cm−1 (C=O); UV/Vis (n-hexane): ¦Ëmax (¦Å)=320 (5000), 270 nm (12000 mol-1dm3cm-1); MS (70 eV): m/z (%): 108 (20) [M+], 107 (60) [M+−H], 91 (100) [C7H7+]; elemental analysis calcd (%) for C20H32N2O5: C 63.14, H 8.48, N 7.36; found: C 62.88, H 8.41, N 7.44. Please give data in this order.
Acknowledgments
References: In the text the numbers should be typed in square brackets as superscripts (e.g., Wittig[3]) and, if applicable, after punctuation. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI), available on our homepage in the section "For Authors". Please follow the examples below.
Journals: [1] a) B. M. Trost, Chem. Eur. J. 1998, 4, 2405¨C2412; b) H. J. Ache, Angew. Chem. 1989, 101, 1¨C21; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1989, 28, 1¨C20; c) H. Frey, Angew. Chem. 1998, 110, 2313¨C2318; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1998, 37, 2193¨C2197.
[2] a) A. Kraft, Chem. Commun. 1996, 77¨C79, and references therein; b) Sci. Am. 1984, 250(4), 7¨C8; c) B. Krebs, H. U. H¨¹rter, Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A 1981, 37, 163.
Books: Without editor: [3] E. Wingender, Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes, VCH, Weinheim, 1993, p. 215. With editor: [4] T. D. Tullius in Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry, Vol. 5 (Eds.: J. L. Atwood, J. E. D. Davies, D. D. MacNicol, F. Vögtle, K. S. Suslick), Pergamon, Oxford, 1996, pp. 317¨C343.
Miscellaneous: [5] a) C. R. A. Botta (Bayer AG), DE-B 2235093, 1973 [Chem. Abstr. 1974, 80, 55356c]; b) A. Student, PhD thesis, University of Newcastle (UK), 1991; c) G. Maas, Methoden Org. Chem. (Houben-Weyl) 4th ed. 1952, Vol. E21/1, pp. 379¨C397; d) ¡°Synthesis in Biochemistry¡±: R. Robinson, J. Chem. Soc. 1936, 1079; e) S. Novick, ¡°Biography of Rotational Spectra for Weakly Bound Complexes¡±, to be found under http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem.bios/vdw.html, 1999; f) G. M. Sheldrick, SHELXS-96, Program for the Solution of Crystal Structures, University of Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany), 1996.
Legends: Each figure and scheme should have a legend; in the revised manuscript these should be listed together at the end of the reference section of the text file rather than being included with the drawings in the graphics files.
Tables must have a brief title and should only be subdivided by three horizontal lines (head rule, neck rule, foot rule). Footnotes in tables are denoted [a], [b], [c], etc.
Illustrations (structural formulae, figures, schemes) should, if possible, be designed for reduction to a one-column format (8.5 cm wide). The maximum width is the two-column format (17.5 cm wide). For optimum reproduction, illustrations should be larger than the desired final size. We recommend: font for script, Helvetica; size of lettering, 3¨C3.5 mm; total maximum width, 14 cm (or 28 cm for two-column width) for 60% reduction.
Please also refer to our templates (currently ChemDraw only) available on our homepage in the section "For Authors".
Italicize symbols of physical quantities, but not their units (e.g., T for temperature, in contrast to T for the unit Tesla, but K as unit; J, but Hz; a, but nm), stereochemical information (cis, Z, R, etc.), locants (N-methyl, tert-butyl) and symmetry (C2v). Chemical formulae should be numbered with boldface Arabic numerals (e.g., 1). Labels of axes are to be separated from their units by a slash (e.g., T/K) and the upper and right-hand lines joining the axes are to be removed. Abbreviations such as Me, Et, nBu, iPr, sBu, tBu and Ph (not ¦Õ) may be used in formulae. General substituents should be indicated by R1, R2 (not R2, which means 2R) or R, R¡ä (not R'). The spatial arrangement of the substituents should be indicated by hatched lines and solid wedges. A minus sign must be as long as the crossbar of a plus sign. Microscopy images (optical, electron, or scanning probe) should always contain a scale bar.
Part of the additional costs for the reproduction of color figures must be paid by the author (details will be provided after acceptance of the manuscript). As a result of the production process, the Web and print versions of the manuscript must be identical. Therefore, it is not possible for the manuscript to contain color only in the Web version.
Cover picture/frontispiece: We encourage authors to submit pictures for the cover page and for frontispieces.
Graphical abstract: A short text with an eye-catching headline for the table of contents should be included as the last page and saved as part of the main text. It should tempt browsers to read the article, and so need not summarize the entire paper. Graphics (formulae, part of a figure) should be kept small and must be explicitly referred to in the text. Color graphics for the table of contents are free. Templates indicating the appropriate sizes for table of contents graphics are available on our homepage in the section "For Authors".
Crystal Structure Analysis
Authors must deposit their data before submitting their manuscripts or update data already available, so that referees can retrieve the information directly from the database. Please use the free online Checkcif service provided by the International Union of Crystallography and submit the Checkcif report along with your manuscript. Please ensure that the data deposited with the database are identical to those in the manuscript.
If a crystal structure analysis is not an essential part of the paper, only a footnote is required indicating where the detailed results can be found. Otherwise, the following data should be given in the manuscript: crystal dimensions, crystal system, space group, unit cell dimensions and volume, ¦Ñcalcd, 2¦Èmax, radiation, wavelength, scan mode, temperature of measurement, no. of measured and independent reflections, no. of reflections included in refinement, ¦Ò limits, whether and how Lorentzian polarization and absorption corrections were performed (¦Ì, min/max transmission), method of structure solution and program, method of refinement and program, no. of parameters, treatment of H atoms. R, wR, whether refined against |F| or |F2|, residual electron density, and the database in which the detailed results are deposited. An ORTEP-type plot will not be reproduced when it merely serves to confirm the structure of a synthetic intermediate.
For organic and organometallic compounds: Send your data including author and journal details in CIF format as a plain text ASCII file by email to the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ (UK); tel: (+44)1223-336-408; fax: (+44)1223-336-033; e-mail: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk; see also WWW: www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/conts/depositing.html). The data will be assigned a registry number, which should be included with the following standard text in the manuscript: "CCDC-¡ contain(s) the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper. These data can be obtained free of charge from The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data_request/cif."
For inorganic compounds: The Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe only accepts data deposited in electronic form (in CIF format). Send the data by e-mail (or on disk) to FIZ, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen (Germany); tel: (+49)7247-808-205; fax: (+49)7247-808-666; e-mail: crysdata@fiz-karlsruhe.de; WWW: www.fiz-karlsruhe.de under "Products". You will be given a CSD number, which should be included with the following standard text in the manuscript: "Further details of the crystal structure investigation(s) can be obtained from the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (fax: (+49)7247-808-666; e-mail: crysdata@fiz-karlsruhe.de) on quoting the depository number CSD-. . ."
Supporting Information
All material that is intended to be published only online as Supporting Information should be presented succinctly (in English). This material undergoes the peer review process and must therefore be included with the original submission. The author bears full responsibility for the content of the Supporting Information. Color and animated multimedia applications are welcome and published online at no cost to the author or reader. Please refer to such applications in the article itself where appropriate (see Supporting Information).
In addition, the standard text:
Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.2009xxxxx.
should be added as a footnote after the addresses. Supporting Information should not include crystallographic data that are available from CCDC or FIZ.
To submit multimedia files that exceed 5 MB in size, please save them on your web server, but do not link to them. Send us the URL so we can download the files and make them available to referees and, if accepted, to readers. Please use suitable compression technology to avoid exceedingly large movie files (>10 MB) for the benefit of referees' and readers' bandwidth and storage capacity. Also, please make sure that your movies are saved in a common format (such as MPEG, AVI, QuickTime, GIF) that can be played on at least two different computer platforms (out of Windows/MacOS/Linux). Smaller files can simply be sent as an e-mail attachment.
Basic Keyword List
An interjournal online browsing facility has been developed for the readers of the Wiley-VCH journals Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ChemBioChem, Chemistry¡ªA European Journal, Chemistry¡ªAn Asian Journal, ChemMedChem, ChemPhysChem, ChemSusChem, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Small, and ZAAC. This enables you to move between lists of thematically related contributions by a mouse click.
We have compiled a common keyword catalogue that is available in the "For Authors" section. To assist you in finding keywords, they are listed according to category. As with all such records, a few guidelines facilitate its use, and these are briefly explained below:
- At least two of the maximum of five keywords assigned to an article must come from this list.
- Named reactions will be incorporated only in exceptional cases. Generally the reaction type is selected instead. For example, Diels¨CAlder reactions will be found under "cycloadditions" and Claisen rearrangements under "rearrangements".
- Heteroanalogues of compounds are mainly classified under the C variants, for example, (hetero)cumulenes, (hetero)dienes. A few aza and phospha derivatives are exceptions.
- Compounds with inorganic components that are central to the article are listed under the element, for instance, iron complexes under "iron" and the type of ligand. Some group names like ¡°alkali metals¡± exist alongside the names of important members of the group like "lithium". In such cases the group name is used for these members only when comparative studies are described. The members not appearing separately are also categorized under the group name.
- A keyword in the form "N ligand" is only chosen if a considerable portion of the paper deals with the coordination of any ligand ligating through the atom concerned (in the example, nitrogen).
- Spectroscopic methods are assigned as keywords only if the article is about the method itself or if the spectroscopic technique has made an important contribution to the problem under investigation.
- "Structure elucidation" is intended only if the crux of the paper is a structural elucidation or if a combination of several spectroscopic techniques were needed for conclusive solution of the structure.
- An attempt has been made to avoid synonyms and to select more general concepts rather than specialized terms. Thus the term "double-decker complexes" is excluded in favor of "sandwich complexes". See also points 2. and 3. in these guidelines.
- Enzymes should be assigned to one of the six main enzyme classes.
This list will be a "living" catalogue to be flexible enough to absorb the new developments in chemistry. We therefore welcome all suggestions from our readers and authors that might improve its user-friendliness. The current version may be found on the internet under the following address: www.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/keyword.php
