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Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability: change of publishing arrangements

We are pleased to announce that Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability will now be published by Taylor and Francis.
With immediate effect, please direct all submissions and enquiries regarding the journal to andrew.kelly@tandf.co.uk

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Designing new scaffolds consisting of hepta-annulated heterocycles

Dendrimers are key components in the quest to build smart nanodevices for applications in a diverse range of areas including biology and medicine. The synthesis of such macromolecules has attracted the imagination of scientists, and it has already generated a large library with varied backbones.

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Boldness of urban Australian magpies and local traffic volume

In order to successfully colonise the urban environment, birds must be able tolerate pedestrian and vehicle proximity, because exhibiting a strong fleeing response each time that a harmless traffic stimulus is encountered would be maladaptive. 

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Investigation of heavy metal mobility and availability by the BCR sequential extraction procedure: relationship between soil properties and heavy metals availability  

Surface soil and corn cob samples were collected from 15 different agricultural fields of Çanakkale, Turkey, and were analysed to determine the concentration of Cd, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn. BCR sequential extraction was used to extract the binding forms of the metals in the soil samples. 

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Towards understanding the role of Lewis acid on the regioselectivity and mechanism for the acetylation reaction of 2‑benzoxazolinone with acetyl chloride: a DFT study

This paper in Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism is a theoretical study of the role of the Lewis acid on the regioselectivity in the acylation reaction of 2‑benzoxazolinone with acetyl chloride and has been carried out through DFT calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G** level of theory. 

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Unpaired electrons as probes of catalytic systems

In the December issue of Science Progress, an overview is provided of the importance of molecular species containing unpaired electrons in catalytic systems, as revealed using ESR spectroscopy. The review aims to demonstrate the considerable extent of scientific progress that has been made in this broad topic during the past few decades.

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