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August 1, 2007
Volume 129, Issue 30
Pages 9248-9532
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A Bell-Shaped Mn11Gd2 Single-Molecule Magnet

Valeriu M. Mereacre, Ayuk M. Ako, Rodolphe Clérac, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, George Filoti, Juan Bartolomé, Christopher E. Anson, and Annie K. Powell
pp 9248–9249
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071073m

Slow Electron Injection on Ru−Phthalocyanine Sensitized TiO2

Ana Morandeira, Ismael López-Duarte, M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Brian O'Regan, Chris Shuttle, Nor A. Haji-Zainulabidin, Tomás Torres, Emilio Palomares, and James R. Durrant
pp 9250–9251
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0722980

Direct Adsorption and Detection of Proteins, Including Ferritin, onto Microlens Array Patterned Bioarrays

Feng Zhang, Richard J. Gates, Vincent S. Smentkowski, Sriram Natarajan, Bruce K. Gale, Richard K. Watt, Matthew C. Asplund, and Matthew R. Linford
pp 9252–9253
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072250m

Boronyls as Key Structural Units in Boron Oxide Clusters:  B(BO)2- and B(BO)3-

Hua-Jin Zhai, Si-Dian Li, and Lai-Sheng Wang
pp 9254–9255
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072611y

Additive-Free Synthesis of Poly(phenylene oxide):  Aerobic Oxidative Polymerization in a Base-Condensed Dendrimer Capsule

Kimihisa Yamamoto, Yuki Kawana, Masahiro Tsuji, Misa Hayashi, and Takane Imaoka
pp 9256–9257
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0727518

Synthetic Small Molecules that Induce Neurogenesis in Skeletal Muscle

Darren R. Williams, Myung-Ryul Lee, Young-Ah Song, Sung-Kyun Ko, Gun-Hee Kim, and Injae Shin
pp 9258–9259
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072817z
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Self-Aggregation of Spin-Labeled Alamethicin in ePC Vesicles Studied by Pulsed Electron−Electron Double Resonance

Alexander D. Milov, Rimma I. Samoilova, Yuri D. Tsvetkov, Fernando Formaggio, Claudio Toniolo, and Jan Raap
pp 9260–9261
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072851d

Thermodynamics of Xenon Binding to Cryptophane in Water and Human Plasma

P. Aru Hill, Qian Wei, Roderic G. Eckenhoff, and Ivan J. Dmochowski
pp 9262–9263
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072965p

Combining Surface Chemistry with a FRET-Based Biosensor to Study the Dynamics of RhoA GTPase Activation in Cells on Patterned Substrates

Louis Hodgson, Eugene W. L. Chan, Klaus M. Hahn, and Muhammad N. Yousaf
pp 9264–9265
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072900m

Gas-Phase Reactions of ClMn(H2O)+ with Polar and Nonpolar Hydrocarbons in a Mass Spectrometer

Penggao Duan, Mingkun Fu, David S. Pinkston, Steven C. Habicht, and Hilkka I. Kenttämaa
pp 9266–9267
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073270r

Control of Supramolecular Rectangle Self-Assembly with a Molecular Template

Shan-Shan Li, Hui-Juan Yan, Li-Jun Wan, Hai-Bo Yang, Brian H. Northrop, and Peter J. Stang
pp 9268–9269
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0733282

An Ordered Assembly of Filled Nanoscale Tubules of Europium Seleno-silicate in the Crystal Structure of a Quaternary Compound

Amitava Choudhury and Peter K. Dorhout
pp 9270–9271
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073335q

Ultrafast Electronic Relaxation in Guanosine is Promoted by Hydrogen Bonding with Cytidine

Nina K. Schwalb and Friedrich Temps
pp 9272–9273
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073448+

Coupling of Liquid Crystals to Silica Nanoparticles

Vincent Rachet, Khalid Lahlil, Mathieu Bérard, Thierry Gacoin, and Jean-Pierre Boilot
pp 9274–9275
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0735608

Molecular Engineering of Coaxial Donor−Acceptor Heterojunction by Coassembly of Two Different Hexabenzocoronenes:  Graphitic Nanotubes with Enhanced Photoconducting Properties

Yohei Yamamoto, Takanori Fukushima, Akinori Saeki, Shu Seki, Seiichi Tagawa, Noriyuki Ishii, and Takuzo Aida
pp 9276–9277
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073577q

Detection of Transient Intermediates in the Metal-Dependent Nonoxidative Decarboxylation Catalyzed by α-Amino-β-Carboxymuconate-ε-Semialdehyde Decarboxylase

Tingfeng Li, John K. Ma, Jonathan P. Hosler, Victor L. Davidson, and Aimin Liu
pp 9278–9279
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073648l

Kinetic Solvent Effects on the Reaction of an Aromatic Ketone π,π* Triplet with Phenol. Rate-Retarding and Rate-Accelerating Effects of Hydrogen-Bond Acceptor Solvents

Raquel E. Galian, Grzegorz Litwinienko, Julia Pérez-Prieto, and Keith U. Ingold
pp 9280–9281
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071716y

Evidence for Mixed-Ion Clusters in Metallocene Catalysts:  Influence on Ligand Exchange Dynamics and Catalyst Activity

Carlos Alonso-Moreno, Simon J. Lancaster, Cristiano Zuccaccia, Alceo Macchioni, and Manfred Bochmann
pp 9282–9283
Publication Date (Web): July 06, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072028h

Dinitrogen Activation at Ambient Temperatures:  New Modes of H2 and PhSiH3 Additions for an “End-On-Bridged” [Ta(IV)]2(μ-η1:η1-N2) Complex and for the Bis(μ-nitrido) [Ta(V)(μ-N)]2 Product Derived from Facile NN Bond Cleavage

Masakazu Hirotsu, Philip P. Fontaine, Albert Epshteyn, Peter Y. Zavalij, and Lawrence R. Sita
pp 9284–9285
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072248v

Methyl Transfer from Methylcobaloxime to (Triphos)Ni(PPh3):  Relevance to the Mechanism of Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase

Nathan A. Eckert, William G. Dougherty, Glenn P. A. Yap, and Charles G. Riordan
pp 9286–9287
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072063o

Ultraviolet-Assisted Curing of Polycrystalline Pure-Silica Zeolites:  Hydrophobization, Functionalization, and Cross-Linking of Grains

Salvador Eslava, Francesca Iacopi, Mikhail R. Baklanov, Christine E. A. Kirschhock, Karen Maex, and Johan A. Martens
pp 9288–9289
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0723737

Influence of Hydrostatic Pressure and Cosolutes on RNA Tertiary Structure

Christopher D. Downey, Ryan L. Crisman, Theodore W. Randolph, and Arthur Pardi
pp 9290–9291
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072179k

Increased Paramagnetic Effect of a Lanthanide Protein Probe by Two-Point Attachment

Peter H. J. Keizers, Jean F. Desreux, Mark Overhand, and Marcellus Ubbink
pp 9292–9293
Publication Date (Web): July 04, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0725201

Differentiating Metabolites Formed from de Novo Synthesis versus Macromolecule Decomposition

Jie Yuan and Joshua D. Rabinowitz
pp 9294–9295
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072997c

Relative Binding Affinities of Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphatase Inhibitors Calculated Using a Quantum Mechanics-Based Free Energy Perturbation Method

M. Rami Reddy and Mark D. Erion
pp 9296–9297
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072905j

Base-Promoted Tautomerization of Imidazole Ligands to N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Subsequent Transmetalation Reaction

Javier Ruiz and Bernabé F. Perandones
pp 9298–9299
Publication Date (Web): July 04, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073144n

Enantioselective Addition of Activated Terminal Alkynes to 1-Acylpyridinium Salts Catalyzed by Cu−Bis(oxazoline) Complexes

Zhankui Sun, Shouyun Yu, Zuoding Ding, and Dawei Ma
pp 9300–9301
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0734849

Rhodium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Desymmetrization of meso-3,5-Dimethyl Glutaric Anhydride:  A General Strategy to syn-Deoxypolypropionate Synthons

Matthew J. Cook and Tomislav Rovis
pp 9302–9303
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja073269s

A New Mechanism for Benzopyrone Formation in Aromatic Polyketide Biosynthesis

Wenjun Zhang, Burkhardt I. Wilke, Jixun Zhan, Kenji Watanabe, Christopher N. Boddy, and Yi Tang
pp 9304–9305
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0736919

ARTICLES

Biosynthesis of Pentangular Polyphenols:  Deductions from the Benastatin and Griseorhodin Pathways

Gerald Lackner, Angéla Schenk, Zhongli Xu, Kathrin Reinhardt, Zeynep S. Yunt, Jörn Piel, and Christian Hertweck
pp 9306–9312
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0718624

[1]Molybdarenophanes:  Strained Metallarenophanes with Aluminum, Gallium, and Silicon in Bridging Positions

Clinton L. Lund, Jörg A. Schachner, J. Wilson Quail, and Jens Müller
pp 9313–9320
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072747w

Photosensitized Oxidative DNA Damage:  From Hole Injection to Chemical Product Formation and Strand Cleavage

Byeong Hwa Yun, Young Ae Lee, Seog K. Kim, Vladimir Kuzmin, Alexander Kolbanovskiy, Peter C. Dedon, Nicholas E. Geacintov, and Vladimir Shafirovich
pp 9321–9332
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja066954s

Toward Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Fluorescence Quantum Efficiency:  Role of Duschinsky Rotation

Qian Peng, Yuanping Yi, Zhigang Shuai, and Jiushu Shao
pp 9333–9339
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja067946e

Structural Characterization and Biological Evaluation of Small Interfering RNAs Containing Cyclohexenyl Nucleosides

Koen Nauwelaerts, Michael Fisher, Matheus Froeyen, Eveline Lescrinier, Arthur Van Aerschot, Dong Xu, Robert DeLong, Hyumin Kang, Rudolph L. Juliano, and Piet Herdewijn
pp 9340–9348
Publication Date (Web): July 06, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja067047q

Dendron Arrays for the Force-Based Detection of DNA Hybridization Events

Yu Jin Jung, Bong Jin Hong, Wenke Zhang, Saul J. B. Tendler, Philip M. Williams, Stephanie Allen, and Joon Won Park
pp 9349–9355
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0676105

Experimental Electron Density of the Complex Carbides Sc3[Fe(C2)2] and Sc3[Co(C2)2]

Benjamin Rohrmoser, Georg Eickerling, Manuel Presnitz, Wolfgang Scherer, Volker Eyert, Rolf-Dieter Hoffmann, Ute Ch. Rodewald, Christian Vogt, and Rainer Pöttgen
pp 9356–9365
Publication Date (Web): July 06, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja068137y

Hydroxy-Terminated Organic Semiconductor-Based Field-Effect Transistors for Phosphonate Vapor Detection

Jia Huang, Joseph Miragliotta, Alan Becknell, and Howard E. Katz
pp 9366–9376
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja068964z

Limits on Variations in Protein Backbone Dynamics from Precise Measurements of Scalar Couplings

Beat Vögeli, Jinfa Ying, Alexander Grishaev, and Ad Bax
pp 9377–9385
Publication Date (Web): July 04, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja070324o

Fatty Acid Chemistry at the Oil−Water Interface:  Self-Propelled Oil Droplets

Martin M. Hanczyc, Taro Toyota, Takashi Ikegami, Norman Packard, and Tadashi Sugawara
pp 9386–9391
Publication Date (Web): July 06, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0706955
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Effective Modulation of DNA Duplex Stability by Reversible Transition Metal Complex Formation in the Minor Groove

Marcin Kalek, Andreas S. Madsen, and Jesper Wengel
pp 9392–9400
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071076z

Preparation of Nanocomposites of Metals, Metal Oxides, and Carbon Nanotubes via Self-Assembly

Jing Li, Songbai Tang, Li Lu, and Hua Chun Zeng
pp 9401–9409
Publication Date (Web): July 06, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071122v

Polyfunctional Inorganic−Organic Hybrid Materials:  An Unusual Kind of NLO Active Layered Mixed Metal Oxalates with Tunable Magnetic Properties and Very Large Second Harmonic Generation

Elena Cariati, Roberto Macchi, Dominique Roberto, Renato Ugo, Simona Galli, Nicola Casati, Piero Macchi, Angelo Sironi, Lapo Bogani, Andrea Caneschi, and Dante Gatteschi
pp 9410–9420
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0710712

Modified Active Site Coordination in a Clinical Mutant of Sulfite Oxidase

Christian J. Doonan, Heather L. Wilson, K. V. Rajagopalan, Robert M. Garrett, Brian Bennett, Roger C. Prince, and Graham N. George
pp 9421–9428
Publication Date (Web): July 04, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071402a

Fluorescence, XPS, and TOF-SIMS Surface Chemical State Image Analysis of DNA Microarrays

Chi-Ying Lee, Gregory M. Harbers, David W. Grainger, Lara J. Gamble, and David G. Castner
pp 9429–9438
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071879m

Photochromic Dibenzobarrlenes:  Long-Lived Triplet Biradical Intermediates

Meledathu C. Sajimon, Danaboyina Ramaiah, Cherumuttathu H. Suresh, Waldemar Adam, Frederick D. Lewis, and Manapurathu V. George
pp 9439–9445
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0719125

Depth Profiling of Water Molecules at the Liquid−Liquid Interface Using a Combined Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Approach

Dave S. Walker and Geraldine L. Richmond
pp 9446–9451
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja071740b

Liquid Crystal Behavior of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Biological Hyaluronic Acid Solutions

Simon E. Moulton, Maryse Maugey, Philippe Poulin, and Gordon G. Wallace
pp 9452–9457
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072160h

Serine versus Threonine Glycosylation:  The Methyl Group Causes a Drastic Alteration on the Carbohydrate Orientation and on the Surrounding Water Shell

Francisco Corzana, Jesús H. Busto, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, Marisa García de Luis, Juan L. Asensio, Jesús Jiménez-Barbero, Jesús M. Peregrina, and Alberto Avenoza
pp 9458–9467
Publication Date (Web): July 07, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072181b

Modulation of Heme Redox Potential in the Cytochrome c6 Family

Jonathan A. R. Worrall, Beatrix G. Schlarb-Ridley, Torsten Reda, Maria J. Marcaida, Robert J. Moorlen, Juergen Wastl, Judy Hirst, Derek S. Bendall, Ben F. Luisi, and Christopher J. Howe
pp 9468–9475
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072346g

Principle and Mechanism of Direct Porphyrin Metalation:  Joint Experimental and Theoretical Investigation

Tatyana E. Shubina, Hubertus Marbach, Ken Flechtner, Andreas Kretschmann, Norbert Jux, Florian Buchner, Hans-Peter Steinrück, Timothy Clark, and J. Michael Gottfried
pp 9476–9483
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072360t

“Switching On” the Properties of Single-Molecule Magnetism in Triangular Manganese(III) Complexes

Theocharis C. Stamatatos, Dolos Foguet-Albiol, Sheng-Chiang Lee, Constantinos C. Stoumpos, Catherine P. Raptopoulou, Aris Terzis, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Stephen O. Hill, Spyros P. Perlepes, and George Christou
pp 9484–9499
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072194p

Surface Ligand Dynamics in Growth of Nanocrystals

Narayan Pradhan, Danielle Reifsnyder, Renguo Xie, Jose Aldana, and Xiaogang Peng
pp 9500–9509
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0725089

IR Spectroscopic Observation of Molecular Transport through Pt@CoO Yolk−Shell Nanostructures

Sunhee Kim, Yadong Yin, A. Paul Alivisatos, Gabor A. Somorjai, and John T. Yates, Jr.
pp 9510–9513
Publication Date (Web): July 06, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072588g

Separating Degenerate 1H Transitions in Methyl Group Probes for Single-Quantum 1H-CPMG Relaxation Dispersion NMR Spectroscopy

Vitali Tugarinov and Lewis E. Kay
pp 9514–9521
Publication Date (Web): July 12, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja0726456

Synthesis of Highly Ordered Mesoporous Crystalline WS2 and MoS2 via a High-Temperature Reductive Sulfuration Route

Yifeng Shi, Ying Wan, Ruili Liu, Bo Tu, and Dongyuan Zhao
pp 9522–9531
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ja072910n

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

Organic Azide Inhibitors of Cysteine Proteases [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 12396−12397].

Giang Thanh Le, Giovanni Abbenante, Praveen K. Madala, Huy N. Hoang, and David P. Fairlie
p 9532
Publication Date (Web): July 11, 2007 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ja076897i
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