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pp 1315-1323 November 2013 Regular Articles

Structure and properties of SmCu$_{6−x}$In$_{6+x}$ (𝑥 = 0, 1, 2)

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pp 1325-1338 November 2013 Regular Articles

Self-assembled 1-octadecyl-1H-benzimidazole film on copper surface for corrosion protection

B V Appa Rao M Marsihma Reddy

pp 1339-1345 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis of substituted guanidines using Zn-Al hydrotalcite catalyst

Lakshmi Kantam Mannepalli Venkanna Dupati Swarna Jaya Vallabha Manorama Sunkara V

pp 1347-1357 November 2013 Regular Articles

A selective nanocatalyst for an efficient Ugi reaction: Magnetically recoverable Cu(acac)₂/NH₂-T/SiO₂@Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles

Monireh Ghavami Maryam Koohi Mohammad Zaman Kassaee

pp 1359-1364 November 2013 Regular Articles

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Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani Somayeh Mousavi Negar Lashgari Alireza Badiei

pp 1365-1374 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis and characterization of bimetallic nanocatalysts and their application in selective hydrogenation of citral to unsaturated alcohols

S A Ananthan R Suresh K Giribabu V Narayanan

pp 1375-1383 November 2013 Regular Articles

Role of vanadium and pyridine in heteropolycompounds for selective oxidation of alcohols with hydrogen peroxide

Valeria Palermo Paula I Villabrille Patricia G Vázquez Carmen V Cáceres Pietro Tundo Gustavo P Romanelli

pp 1385-1393 November 2013 Regular Articles

Activity of B(OEt)₃-MCM-41 catalyst in the MPV reduction of crotonaldehyde

Burcu Uysal

pp 1395-1403 November 2013 Regular Articles

Purification and characterization of laccase from Coriolopsis floccosa MTCC-1177 and its use in the selective oxidation of aromatic methyl group to aldehyde without mediators

P K Chaurasia A Yadav R S S Yadav S Yadava

pp 1405-1417 November 2013 Regular Articles

Reactivity of allenylphosphonates and allenylphosphine oxides toward 9-chloroacridines and acridone- A facile route to new 𝑁-substituted acridones

A Leela Siva Kumari Venu Srinivas K C Kumara Swamy

pp 1419-1428 November 2013 Regular Articles

Chemistry of phosphorus ylides 31: Reaction of azidocoumarin with active phosphonium ylides, synthesis and antitumour activities of chromenones

Soher S Maigali Mansoura A Abd-El-Maksoud Fouad M Soliman

pp 1429-1434 November 2013 Regular Articles

Effect of charged microenvironment on the electrochemistry of [Fe₂S₂(OC₆H₅)₄]²⁻ cluster

Dhanada Sarmah Diganta Kumar Das

pp 1435-1443 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis, optical and thermal behaviour of palladium(II) complexes with 4-(4-alkoxy-2-hydroxybenzylideneamino)azobenzene

Boon-Teck Heng Guan-Yeow Yeap Daisuke Takeuchi

pp 1445-1453 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis, structural characterization and biological activity of a trinuclear zinc(II) complex: DNA interaction study and antimicrobial activity

Bhaskar Biswas Niranjan Kole Moumita Patra Shampa Dutta Mousumi Ganguly

pp 1455-1461 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis, characterization and ion recognition studies of lower rim 1,3-di{rhodamine} conjugate of calix[4]arene

Jugun Prakash Chinta Jayaraman Dessingou Chebrolu Pulla Rao

pp 1463-1470 November 2013 Regular Articles

Two expedient ‘one-pot’ methods for synthesis of 𝛽-aryl-𝛽-mercaptoketones over anhydrous potassium carbonate or amberlyst-15 catalyst

Chayan Guha Rina Mondal Rammohan Pal Asok K Mallik

pp 1471-1480 November 2013 Regular Articles

Efficient one-pot four-component synthesis of fused thiazolopyridin-2-ones in ionic liquid

Prashant Singh Kamlesh Kumari Gaurav Kaithwas Gaurav Kaithwas

pp 1481-1486 November 2013 Regular Articles

Tandem synthesis of 𝑁,𝑁'-alkylidenebisamides promoted by nano-SnCl₄.SiO₂

Bibi Fatemeh Mirjalili Mohammad Ali Mirhoseini

pp 1487-1491 November 2013 Regular Articles

Hard and soft electrophilic and nucleophilic dissymmetry of 𝛼-oxoketenedithioacetals and 𝑝-nitro-𝑜-phenylenediamine exploited to achieve the regioselectivity in the synthesis of 2-thiomethyl ether substituted isomer of the privileged nucleus of 1,5-benzodiazepines over to its 4-substituted isomers

Priyanka Chaudhary Aarti Gupta Pragati Devi Dharma Kishore

pp 1493-1496 November 2013 Regular Articles

Environment friendly chemoselective deprotection of acetonides and cleavage of acetals and ketals in aqueous medium without using any catalyst or organic solvent

S Mukherjee A Sengupta S C Roy

pp 1497-1501 November 2013 Regular Articles

Efficient example of cross-linked polymeric catalysed synthesis of 7𝐻-benzo[ℎ]indeno[1,2-𝑏]quinolin-8-one and 8𝐻-naphtho[2,3-ℎ]indeno[1,2-𝑏]quinolin-9-one

Reza Sandaroos Mehdi Vadi Saman Damavandi

pp 1503-1510 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis of new 4,6-disubstituted-1,3-oxazinan-2-one analogues

Arun Jyoti Borah Prodeep Phukan

pp 1511-1515 November 2013 Regular Articles

Synthesis, characterization and thermal properties of thiosalicylate ionic liquids

Cecilia Devi Wilfred Fadwa Babiker Mustafa

pp 1517-1522 November 2013 Regular Articles

Green and expeditious synthesis of 1,8-dioxodecahydroacridine derivatives catalysed by protic pyridinium ionic liquid

Heshmatollah Alinezhad Mahmood Tajbakhsh Mohammad Norouzi Saeed Baghery Jamshid Rakhtshah

pp 1523-1527 November 2013 Regular Articles

Recyclable L-proline organocatalyst forWieland-Miescher ketone synthesis

Vivek Srivastava

pp 1529-1534 November 2013 Regular Articles

1, 3-Dipolar cycloaddition reactions: Synthesis of 5-benzyl-1-(2',4'-dibromophenyl)-3-(4"-substituted phenyl)-3a,4,6,6a-tetrahydro-1𝐻, 5𝐻-pyrrolo[3,4-𝑐]pyrazole-4,6-dione derivatives

Manpreet Kaur Baldev Singh Baljit Singh

pp 1535-1542 November 2013 Regular Articles

Bis-(1𝐻-2-benzopyran-1-one) derivatives: Synthesis and antimicrobial evaluation

Poonam Kumar Koppula Nalini Purohit

pp 1543-1553 November 2013 Regular Articles

Zn(OTf)₂-catalysed indolylation and pyrrolylation of isatins: Efficient synthesis and biochemical assay of 3,3-di(heteroaryl)oxindoles

C Praveen S Narendiran P Dheenkumar P T Perumal

pp 1555-1571 November 2013 Regular Articles

Design, synthesis and computational validation of novel benzimidazole/indole-based PPARα and PPARγ partial agonists

Raman K Verma Prithwish Ghosh Vijay Kumar Lalit K Wadhwa

pp 1573-1594 November 2013 Regular Articles

Facile green synthesis and potent antimicrobial efficacy of 𝛽-aminoheteronapthol via tailored Betti’s protocol and their bis-aryl hydrazone click products

K M Khandarkar M D Shanti M Ahmed J S Meshram

pp 1595-1606 November 2013 Regular Articles

Interaction of vitamins B3 and C and their radicals with (5, 0) single-walled boron nitride nanotube for use as biosensor or in drug delivery

Davood Farmanzadeh Samereh Ghazanfary

pp 1607-1618 November 2013 Regular Articles

Adsorption of parent nitrosamine on the nanocrystaline M-ZSM-5 zeolite: A density functional study

Hossein Roohi Mahjoubeh Jahantab

pp 1619-1627 November 2013 Regular Articles

Stochastic optimization-based study of dimerization kinetics

Srijeeta Talukder Shrabani Sen Ralf Metzler Suman K Banik Pinaki Chaudhury

pp 1629-1637 November 2013 Regular Articles

First principle study of the interaction of elemental Hg with small neutral, anionic and cationic Pd$_n$ (𝑛 = 1-6) clusters

Shamoon Ahmad Siddiqui Nadir Bouarissa

pp 1639-1647 November 2013 Regular Articles

Hydrogen binding effect on charged P$_{2n}$ (𝑛 = 1-7) clusters

Zhicong Fang Xiangjun Kuang

pp 1649-1676 November 2013

Subject Index

pp 1677-1690 November 2013

Author Index