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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 your best bet is for you to sign up to OBC’s e-alert (free service), and receive the tables of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

The first total synthesis of nhatrangin A
Ahmed Kamal and Saidi Reddy Vangala  
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40252E, Paper

A stereoselective approach for the southeast segment (C1–C16) of (+)-sorangicin A
Y. Sridhar and P. Srihari
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40985F, Paper

An efficient chemical synthesis of carboxylate-isostere analogs of daptomycin
Sabesan Yoganathan, Ning Yin, Yong He, Michael F. Mesleh, Yu Gui Gu and Scott J. Miller  
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40924D, Paper

Sesterterpene glycinyl-lactams: a new class of glycine receptor modulator from Australian marine sponges of the genus Psammocinia
Walter Balansa, Robiul Islam, Frank Fontaine, Andrew M. Piggott, Hua Zhang, Xue Xiao, Timothy I. Webb, Daniel F. Gilbert, Joseph W. Lynch and Robert J. Capon
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40861B, Paper

Humulane-type sesquiterpenoids from Pilea cavaleriei subsp. crenata
Cang-Song Liao, Chun-Ping Tang, Sheng Yao and Yang Ye  
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40872H, Paper

Directed studies towards the total synthesis of (+)-13-deoxytedanolide: simple and convenient synthesis of the C8–C16 fragment
Sébastien Meiries, Alexandra Bartoli, Mélanie Decostanzi, Jean-Luc Parrain and Laurent Commeiras
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40674A, Paper

The cascade radical cyclisation approach to prenylated alkaloids: synthesis of stephacidin A and notoamide B
Nigel S. Simpkins, Ilias Pavlakos, Michael D. Weller and Louise Male
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB40979A, Paper

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Natural Product Reports Impact Factor rises to 10.178!

Thomson Reuters have just released their 2012 Journal Citation Reports®  and Natural Product Reports is #1 in both the Chemistry: Medicinal and Chemistry: Organic categories with an impact factor figure of 10.178!

With a truly international authorship publishing accessible and reader-friendly articles, NPR is the home of high impact, critical reviews in natural products research and related areas. The scope of the journal is broad and many reviews discuss the role of natural products in the wider bioinorganic, bioorganic and chemical biology communities. Areas covered include enzymology, nucleic acids, genetics, chemical ecology, carbohydrates, primary and secondary metabolism and analytical techniques.

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Natural Product Reports’ key features:

  • An excellent and professional service
  • International editorial board, authorship and readership
  • Indexed in MEDLINE and other major databases
  • Free use of colour when it enhances the scientific understanding 

This is why Natural Product Reports is the leading journal in its field!

Thank you to all the authors, referees, readers and the members of our Editorial and Advisory Boards for your continued support which has led to this fantastic result.

The successes of all of RSC journals’ in the recent impact factor release can be found here, highlighting the quality of our publications.

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