Archive for October, 2010

Announcement: New NPR Editorial Board Chair

We are delighted to announce that Professor Brad Moore (University of California, San Diego, US) will take position as the Chair of the Natural Product Reports Editorial Board in January 2011. Brad has been a part of the NPR Editorial Board since 2005.

Professor Marcel Jaspars, the current Chair, will retire from his post at the end of 2010. Marcel joined the Editorial Board in 2003 and became Chair in 2007. In the past 4 years Marcel has overseen significant growth in the journal, both in the number of quality articles published and in the topics covered in the journal. The Editorial team would like to thank Marcel for all his work on NPR over the past eight years.

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NPR Lecture Award 2011 – nominations now open!

Nominations are now open for the 2011 NPR Lecture Award.

Anyone can make a nomination for the award. Simply send the name of the person you would like to nominate, along with a brief justification, to the Editor, Dr Richard Kelly. All nominations should be received by Monday 6th December.

The NPR Lecture Award is an annual event which is held at an international meeting of the recipient’s choosing. The recipient will be someone who has made significant research contribution to natural products chemistry in its broadest sense. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges, who will announce the result in early 2011.

Previous winners of the award include John Blunt of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Jason Micklefield of the University of Manchester, UK. The 2010 winner – Chris Walsh, from Harvard Medical School, US – will be delivering his lecture at the Pacifichem meeting in December 2010.

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Highlights of NPR Issue 11

Issue 11 of Natural Product Reports is now published on line.

In this new issue, you will find interesting reviews on diterpenoids, pigments of fungi, the roles of flavones, moeromycin family antibiotics, Kdo monossacharide, indole alkaloids, sesquiterpenoids and the bioprospect for microbial antituberculosis leads.

A very diverse and informative issue on natural product reports.

I hope you like it.

Read it here.

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Natural Products in OBC

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover natural product chemistry. We will try to keep you updated, although the safest bet is for you to sign up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) and receive the table of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

The latest NP articles have been collated here.

If you want to see your natural products article featured on this blog you can submit it here.

Strategies for the synthesis of bioactive pyran naphthoquinones
Vitor Francisco Ferreira, Sabrina Baptista Ferreira and Fernando de Carvalho da Silva
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00277A, Perspective

Highly efficient macrolactonization of ω-hydroxy acids using benzotriazole esters: synthesis of Sansalvamide A
José Antonio Morales-Serna, Ericka Sánchez, Ricardo Velázquez, Jorge Bernal, Eréndira García-Ríos, Rubén Gaviño, Guillermo Negrón-Silva and Jorge Cárdenas
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00161A, Paper

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