Archive for October, 2015

2016 RSC Prizes and Awards in Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology now open for nomination

The 2016 RSC Prizes and Awards are now open for nomination!

Nominations will close on 15 January 2016.


For more than 140 years, our Prizes and Awards programme has been acknowledging and celebrating exceptional talent in the chemical sciences, and with your support we are hoping that 2016 will even more successful!

Last year’s winners include Chemists such as Prof. Wilfred van der Donk (University of Illinois), Prof. Tim Donohoe (University of Oxford), Prof. Shuli You (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry), Prof. Philip Gale (University of Southampton), Prof. Herman Overkleeft (Leiden University), Prof. Alison Ashcroft and Prof. Sheena Radford (University of Leeds).

This year we have 63 prizes and awards open for nominations of individuals, teams and organisations covering the breadth of the chemical sciences across academia, education and industry.

This year’s prizes in the field of Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology include:

CBID (Chemistry Biology Interface Division) awards –

Organic Awards –

For 2016 our Longstaff Prize is also open – since 1881 we have awarded this prize once every three years to one of our members who has achieved the most to advance the science of chemistry.

Submit your suggestions now!

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Natural Products in OBC – our latest selection

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:

Benjamin K. W. Chung and Andrei K. Yudin
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01115A, Review Article


Raju S. Thombal and Vrushali H. Jadhav
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01276G, Paper

U. A. Kshirsagar
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01379H, Review Article

Mostafa E. Rateb, Yin Zhai, Emmanuelle Ehrner, Christopher M. Rath, Xiaoling Wang, Jioji Tabudravu, Rainer Ebel, Mervin Bibb, Kwaku Kyeremeh, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Kui Hong, Marcel Jaspars and Hai Deng
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01269D, Paper

Laura K. Smith and Ian R. Baxendale
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01524C, Review Article

Russell B. Williams, Mark O’Neil-Johnson, Antony J. Williams, Patrick Wheeler, Rostislav Pol and Arvin Moser
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01713K, Comment

Ichiro Hayakawa, Tomomi Nakamura, Osamu Ohno, Kiyotake Suenaga and Hideo Kigoshi

DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01488C, Paper

Haibo Tan, Hongxin Liu, Xinzheng Chen, Huiyu Chen and Shengxiang Qiu
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01636C, Paper

James McNulty, Kunal Keskar, Hilary A. Jenkins, Nick H. Werstiuk, Claudia Bordón, Robert Yolken and Lorraine Jones-Brando
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01506E, Paper

We hope you enjoy this selection!
Why not submit your latest natural product research to OBC today?
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