Top 10 Communication articles from Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

OBC celebrates its 10th year of publication in 2012, so over the coming weeks we’ll be bringing you some of the ‘Top 10’s’ from the journal – keep checking back for more!

Below are the top 10 cited OBC Communications ever – take a look and let us know what your favourites are:

A donor–acceptor substituted molecular motor: unidirectional rotation driven by visible light
Richard A. van Delden, Nagatoshi Koumura, Annemarie Schoevaars, Auke Meetsma and Ben L. Feringa
DOI: 10.1039/B209378B

The small peptide-catalyzed direct asymmetric aldol reaction in water
Pawel Dziedzic, Weibiao Zou, Jonas Háfren and Armando Córdova
DOI: 10.1039/B515880J

Improving conversion and enantioselectivity in hydrogenation by combining different monodentate phosphoramidites; a new combinatorial approach in asymmetric catalysis
Diego Peña, Adriaan J. Minnaard, Jeroen A. F. Boogers, André H. M. de Vries, Johannes G. de Vries and Ben L. Feringa
DOI: 10.1039/B302097E

Accelerated asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones in water
Xiaofeng Wu, Xiaoguang Li, William Hems, Frank King and Jianliang Xiao
DOI: 10.1039/B403627A

Direct asymmetric three-component organocatalytic anti-selective Mannich reactions in a purely aqueous system
Lili Cheng, Xiaoyu Wu and Yixin Lu
DOI: 10.1039/B701579H

A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) chemosensor for Zn(II)
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, T. Clive Lee and Raman Parkesh
DOI: 10.1039/B309569J

Enantioselective construction of quaternary carbon centre catalysed by bifunctional organocatalyst
Tian-Yu Liu, Jun Long, Bang-Jing Li, Lin Jiang, Rui Li, Yong Wu, Li-Sheng Ding and Ying-Chun Chen
DOI: 10.1039/B605871J

A chiral molecular recognition approach to the formation of optically active quaternary centres in aza-Henry reactions
Kristian Rahbek Knudsen and Karl Anker Jørgensen
DOI: 10.1039/B500618J

Direct palladium-catalyzed alkenylation, benzylation and alkylation of ethyl oxazole-4-carboxylate with alkenyl-, benzyl- and alkyl halides
Cécile Verrier, Christophe Hoarau and Francis Marsais
DOI: 10.1039/B816374J

Organocatalytic asymmetric epoxidation reactions in water–alcohol solutions
Wei Zhuang, Mauro Marigo and Karl Anker Jørgensen
DOI: 10.1039/B512542A

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