Archive for February, 2015

Natural Products in OBC – our latest selection

16 Feb 2015

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover a variety of natural product chemistry.

We try to keep you updated here, although signing up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) means you will receive the tables of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

Improved synthesis of the super antioxidant, ergothioneine, and its biosynthetic pathway intermediates
Peguy Lutete Khonde and Anwar Jardine
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1415-1419
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02023E, Paper

The development and use of a general route to brassinolide, its biosynthetic precursors, metabolites and analogues
A. L. Hurski, Yu. V. Ermolovich, V. N. Zhabinskii and V. A. Khripach
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1446-1452
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02197E, Paper

Divergolide congeners illuminate alternative reaction channels for ansamycin diversification
Ling Ding, Jakob Franke and Christian Hertweck
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1618-1623
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02244K, Communication

Construction of the tricyclic core of steenkrotin-type diterpenoids via intramolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition
Jun Xuan, Saiyong Pan, Yuanbao Zhang, Bin Ye and Hanfeng Ding
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1643-1646
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02439G, Communication

Synthesis, and QSAR analysis of anti-oncological active spiro-alkaloids
Adel S. Girgis, Siva S. Panda, I. S. Ahmed Farag, A. M. El-Shabiny, A. M. Moustafa, Nasser S. M. Ismail, Girinath G. Pillai, Chandramukhi S. Panda, C. Dennis Hall and Alan R. Katritzky
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1741-1753
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02149E, Paper

Studies towards the synthesis of bielschowskysin. Construction of the highly functionalized bicyclo[3.2.0]heptane segment
Anupam Jana, Sujit Mondal and Subrata Ghosh
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1846-1859
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02182G, Paper

The chemical biology of dimethylsulfoniopropionate
Jeroen S. Dickschat, Patrick Rabe and Christian A. Citron
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1954-1968
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02407A, Review Article

Synthesis and antimalarial evaluation of amide and urea derivatives based on the thiaplakortone A natural product scaffold
Brett D. Schwartz, Tina S. Skinner-Adams, Katherine T. Andrews, Mark J. Coster, Michael D. Edstein, Donna MacKenzie, Susan A. Charman, Maria Koltun, Scott Blundell, Anna Campbell, Rebecca H. Pouwer, Ronald J. Quinn, Karren D. Beattie, Peter C. Healy and Rohan A. Davis
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1558-1570
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01849D, Paper

We hope you enjoy this selection! Let us know what you think…
… and why not submit your latest natural product research to OBC today?

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Meet the NPR team – See where and when you can meet us in 2015

09 Feb 2015

A selection of conferences the journal will be attending in 2015.

The Natural Product Reports team will be attending a number of conferences in 2015 and we would be delighted to meet you there.

We’re also the team behind NPR’s sister journals OBC, MedChemComm, and Molecular BioSystems, so we’ll happily discuss your interdisciplinary research work. In fact, many of our authors choose to publish their research across all of these titles.

Spring

National symposium on Chemical Biology 18-19 February 2015, Mysore, India. Meet Deeksha Gupta.

Directing Biosynthesis IV 25 – 27th March 2015, Norwich, UK. Meet Marie Cote.

MedChemComm, 27-30 April 2015, Hyderabad, India. Meet Deeksha Gupta.

Grassmere Heterocyclic meeting 7th – 11th May, 2015, Grassmere, UK. Meet James Anson.

Summer

Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Chemistry Symposium Series 1st – 5th June 2015, Sendai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan. Meet Rich Kelly

American Peptide Symposium 20th – 25th June 2015, Orlando, Florida. Meet Rich Kelly.

ISMSC 28th June – 2nd July 2015, Strasbourg, France. Meet Marie Cote.

7th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, July 5 – 8th, Tokyo, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

ESOC 2015 12th – 16th July 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. Meet Marie Cote.

RSC Organic Synthesis 20th – 23rd July 2015, Cambridge, UK. Meet James Anson.

9th CCS National Organic Chemistry conference, 31st July to 3rd August 2015, Changchun, China. Meet Guanqun Song.

9th National Chemical Biology conference, August, Tianjin, China. Meet Guanqun Song.

250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition 16th – 20th August 2015, Boston, USA.

25th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Conference (August 23-28) in Santa Barbara, USA. Meet Jennifer Lee.

Autumn

18th RSC/SCI medicinal chemistry conference 13th – 16th September 2015, Cambridge, UK. Meet James Anson.

26th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, 24 – 26th September, Ehime, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

13th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry , 9th – 13th November, Kyoto, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

Tateshina Conference, 13th – 15th November, Tateshina, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

BMOS-16 15th – 19th November 2015, Buzios, Brazil. Meet Rich Kelly.

Winter

Pacifichem 15th – 20th December 2015, Hawaii, USA. Meet Marie Cote.

Let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings, as we would be happy to meet you there!

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