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HOT Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles

The following Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles have all been recommened by the reviewers of the articles as being particularly interesting or particularly significant research. These have all been made free to access until 20th April 2015. The order they appear in the list holds no special meaning or ranking.

Silver catalysed decarboxylative alkylation and acylation of pyrimidines in aqueous media
Wen-Peng Mai, Bin Sun, Li-Qin You, Liang-Ru Yang, Pu Mao, Jin-Wei Yuan, Yong-Mei Xiao and Ling-Bo Qu
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02524E

10.1039/C4OB02524E


Templating carbohydrate-functionalised polymer-scaffolded dynamic combinatorial libraries with lectins
Clare S. Mahon, Martin A. Fascione, Chadamas Sakonsinsiri, Tom E. McAllister, W. Bruce Turnbull and David A. Fulton
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02587C

10.1039/C4OB02587C


Oxidative asymmetric umpolung alkylation of Evans’ β-ketoimides using dialkylzinc nucleophiles
Tom A. Targel, Jayprakash N. Kumar, O. Svetlana Shneider, Sukanta Bar, Natalia Fridman, Shimon Maximenko and Alex M. Szpilman
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02601B

10.1039/C4OB02601B


Cyclopropanation using flow-generated diazo compounds
Nuria M. Roda, Duc N. Tran, Claudio Battilocchio, Ricardo Labes, Richard J. Ingham, Joel M. Hawkins and Steven V. Ley
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00019J, Communication

10.1039/C5OB00019J


Supramolecular control of transition metal complexes in water by a hydrophobic cavity: a bio-inspired strategy
Olivia Bistri and Olivia Reinaud
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02511C

10.1039/C4OB02511C


Cyclopenta[b]naphthalene cyanoacrylate dyes: synthesis and evaluation as fluorescent molecular rotors
Laura S. Kocsis, Kristyna M. Elbel, Billie A. Hardigree, Kay M. Brummond, Mark A. Haidekker and Emmanuel A. Theodorakis
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02563F

10.1039/C4OB02563F


Chiral nanostructuring of multivalent macrocycles in solution and on surfaces
Marco Caricato, Arnaud Delforge, Davide Bonifazi, Daniele Dondi, Andrea Mazzanti and Dario Pasini
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02643H

10.1039/C4OB02643H


Physicochemical studies on the copper(II) binding by glycated collagen telopeptides
Meder Kamalov, Paul W. R. Harris, Christian G. Hartinger, Gordon M. Miskelly, Garth J. S. Cooper and Margaret A. Brimble
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02536A
Regiodivergent Lewis base-promoted O- to C-carboxyl transfer of furanyl carbonates
Craig D. Campbell, Caroline Joannesse, Louis C. Morrill, Douglas Philp and Andrew D. Smith
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02629B

10.1039/C4OB02536A


Total syntheses of five uvacalols: structural validation of uvacalol A, uvacalol B and uvacalol C and disproval of the structures of uvacalol E and uvacalol G
Adiyala Vidyasagar and Kana M. Sureshan
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Direct biosynthetic cyclization of a distorted paracyclophane highlighted by double isotopic labelling of L-tyrosine
Alexandre Ear, Séverine Amand, Florent Blanchard, Alain Blond, Lionel Dubost, Didier Buisson and Bastien Nay
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00114E

10.1039/C5OB00114E


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HOT Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles

The following Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles have all been recommened by the reviewers of the articles as being particularly interesting or particularly significant research. These have all been made free to access until 16th March 2015. The order they appear in the list holds no special meaning or ranking.

E. coli cells expressing the Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenase ‘MO14’ (ro03437) from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 catalyse the gram-scale resolution of a bicyclic ketone in a fermentor
Benjamin D. Summers, Muhiadin Omar, Thomas O. Ronson, Jared Cartwright, Michael Lloyd and Gideon Grogan
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01441C, Paper
From themed collection In Celebration of Richard Taylor’s 65th Birthday

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Synthesis of unsaturated phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphates and the effects of substrate unsaturation on SopB phosphatase activity
Samuel Furse, LokHang Mak, Edward W. Tate, Richard H. Templer, Oscar Ces, Rüdiger Woscholski and Piers R. J. Gaffney
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02258K, Paper

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A microwave-assisted multicomponent synthesis of substituted 3,4-dihydroquinazolinones
Marc Y. Stevens, Krzysztof Wieckowski, Peng Wu, Rajiv T. Sawant and Luke R. Odell
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02417F, Paper

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Near-instant surface-selective fluorogenic protein quantification using sulfonated triarylmethane dyes and fluorogen activating proteins
Qi Yan, Brigitte F. Schmidt, Lydia A. Perkins, Matharishwan Naganbabu, Saumya Saurabh, Susan K. Andreko and Marcel P. Bruchez
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02309A, Paper

C4OB02309A GA


Bacterial patterning controlled by light exposure
Willem A. Velema, Jan Pieter van der Berg, Wiktor Szymanski, Arnold J. M. Driessen and Ben L. Feringa
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02483D, Communication

C4OB02483D GA


Exploring the scope of the isothiourea-mediated synthesis of dihydropyridinones
Pei-Pei Yeh, David S. B. Daniels, Charlene Fallan, Eoin Gould, Carmen Simal, James E. Taylor, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and Andrew D. Smith
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02408G, Paper

C4OB02408G GA


Energy transfer between amphiphilic porphyrin polymer shells and upconverting nanoparticle cores in water-dispersible nano-assemblies
T. Wu, S. Kaur and N. R. Branda
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02401J, Paper

C4OB02401J GA


Copper-catalyzed oxidative alkenylation of thioethers via Csp3–H functionalization
Hao Cao, Dong Liu, Chao Liu, Xinquan Hu and Aiwen Lei
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02564D, Communication

C4OB02564D GA


Volatiles from nineteen recently genome sequenced actinomycetes
Christian A. Citron, Lena Barra, Joachim Wink and Jeroen S. Dickschat
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02609H, Paper

C4OB02609H GA


Functional chromatographic technique for natural product isolation
Eric C. Lau, Damian J. Mason, Nicole Eichhorst, Pearce Engelder, Celestina Mesa, E. M. Kithsiri Wijeratne, G. M. Kamal B. Gunaherath, A. A. Leslie Gunatilaka, James J. La Clair and Eli Chapman
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02292K, Communication

C4OB02292K GA

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

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

The Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 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 OBC’s sister journals MedChemComm, Natural Product Reports, 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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HOT Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles

The following Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles have all been recommened by the reviewers of the articles as being particularly interesting or particularly significant research. These have all been made free to access until 15th February 2015. The order they appear in the list holds no special meaning or ranking.

Cationic azacryptands as selective three-way DNA junction binding agents
Jana Novotna, Aurelien Laguerre, Anton Granzhan, Marc Pirrotta, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou and David Monchaud  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01846J, Paper

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Efficient merging of copper and photoredox catalysis for the asymmetric cross-dehydrogenative-coupling of alkynes and tetrahydroisoquinolines
Inna Perepichka, Soumen Kundu, Zoë Hearne and Chao-Jun Li  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02138J, Paper

C4OB02138J GA


A peptide topological template for the dispersion of [60]fullerene in water
S. Bartocci, D. Mazzier, A. Moretto and M. Mba  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02102A, Communication
From themed collection Supramolecular Chemistry in Water

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6-Substituted 1,2-benzoxathiine-2,2-dioxides are isoform-selective inhibitors of human carbonic anhydrases IX, XII and VA
Muhammet Tanc, Fabrizio Carta, Andrea Scozzafava and Claudiu T. Supuran  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02155J, Communication

C4OB02155J GA


Artificial metalloenzymes for the diastereoselective reduction of NAD+ to NAD2H
Tommaso Quinto, Daniel Häussinger, Valentin Köhler and Thomas R. Ward  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02071E, Communication
From themed collection Supramolecular Chemistry in Water

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Design and synthesis of fluorescent 7-deazaadenosine nucleosides containing π-extended diarylacetylene motifs
Sara De Ornellas, John M. Slattery, Robert M. Edkins, Andrew Beeby, Christoph G. Baumann and Ian J. S. Fairlamb  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02081B, Communication

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One-pot quadruple/triple reaction sequence: a useful tool for the synthesis of natural products
K. Kashinath and D. Srinivasa Reddy  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02143F, Perspective

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Indole-based novel small molecules for the modulation of bacterial signalling pathways
Nripendra Nath Biswas, Samuel K. Kutty, Nicolas Barraud, George M. Iskander, Renate Griffith, Scott A. Rice, Mark Willcox, David StC. Black and Naresh Kumar  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02096K, Paper

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Carbocycles from donor–acceptor cyclopropanes
Huck K. Grover, Michael R. Emmett and Michael A. Kerr  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02117G, Review Article

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Synthesis of isoxazolidine-containing uridine derivatives as caprazamycin analogues
Mayumi Yamaguchi, Akira Matsuda and Satoshi Ichikawa  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02142H, Paper

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What are your colleagues reading in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry?

The articles below are the most read Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles in July, August and September 2014.

Marine natural products-inspired phenylmethylene hydantoins with potent in vitro and in vivo antitumor activities via suppression of Brk and FAK signaling
Asmaa A. Sallam, Mohamed M. Mohyeldin, Ahmed I. Foudah, Mohamed R. Akl, Sami Nazzal, Sharon A. Meyer, Yong-Yu Liu and Khalid A. El Sayed 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00553H

Watsonianone A–C, anti-plasmodial β-triketones from the Australian tree, Corymbia watsoniana
Anthony R. Carroll, Vicky M. Avery, Sandra Duffy, Paul I. Forster and Gordon P. Guymer 
DOI: 10.1039/C2OB26931G

Pyridostatin analogues promote telomere dysfunction and long-term growth inhibition in human cancer cells
Sebastian Müller, Deborah A. Sanders, Marco Di Antonio, Stephanos Matsis, Jean-François Riou, Raphaël Rodriguez and Shankar Balasubramanian 
DOI: 10.1039/C2OB25830G

Synthesis, characterization and biological evaluation of carboranylmethylbenzo[b]acridones as novel agents for boron neutron capture therapy
A. Filipa F. da Silva, Raquel S. G. R. Seixas, Artur M. S. Silva, Joana Coimbra, Ana C. Fernandes, Joana P. Santos, António Matos, José Rino, Isabel Santos and Fernanda Marques 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00644E

Organic synthetic transformations using organic dyes as photoredox catalysts
Shunichi Fukuzumi and Kei Ohkubo 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00843J

Copper-catalysed direct radical alkenylation of alkyl bromides
Xu Zhang, Hong Yi, Zhixiong Liao, Guoting Zhang, Chao Fan, Chu Qin, Jie Liu and Aiwen Lei 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00813H

Metal-free oxidative olefination of primary amines with benzylic C–H bonds through direct deamination and C–H bond activation
Liang Gong, Li-Juan Xing, Tong Xu, Xue-Ping Zhu, Wen Zhou, Ning Kang and Bin Wang 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01025F

Recent advances in trifluoromethylation of organic compounds using Umemoto’s reagents
Cai Zhang 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00671B

An efficient route to synthesize isatins by metal-free, iodine-catalyzed sequential C(sp3)–H oxidation and intramolecular C–N bond formation of 2′-aminoacetophenones
Venkatachalam Rajeshkumar, Selvaraj Chandrasekar and Govindasamy Sekar 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01564A

Amino acid chirons: a tool for asymmetric synthesis of heterocycles
Priyanka Singh, Krishnananda Samanta, Sanjit Kumar Das and Gautam Panda 
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00943F

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HOT Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles

The following Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles have all been recommened by the reviewers of the articles as being particularly interesting or particularly significant research. These have all been made free to access until 31st December 2014. The order they appear in the list holds no special meaning or ranking.

Catalytic asymmetric desymmetrization approaches to enantioenriched cyclopentanes
Madhu Sudan Manna and Santanu Mukherjee  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01649A, Perspective

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Corrin-based chemosensors for the ASSURED detection of endogenous cyanide
Felix Zelder and Lucas Tivana  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01889C, Perspective


An efficient synthetic route to 1,3-bis(arylethynyl)isobenzofuran using alkoxybenzocyclobutenone as a reactive platform
Kenta Asahina, Suguru Matsuoka, Ryosuke Nakayama and Toshiyuki Hamura  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02012J, Communication

C4OB02012J GA


Cationic azacryptands as selective three-way DNA junction binding agents
Jana Novotna, Aurelien Laguerre, Anton Granzhan, Marc Pirrotta, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou and David Monchaud  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01846J, Paper

C4OB01846J GA


An efficient reagent for covalent introduction of alkynes into proteins
Jie Zhang, Dejun Ma, Dawei Du, Zhen Xi and Long Yi  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01873G, Communication

C4OB01873G GA


Efficient merging of copper and photoredox catalysis for the asymmetric cross-dehydrogenative-coupling of alkynes and tetrahydroisoquinolines
Inna Perepichka, Soumen Kundu, Zoë Hearne and Chao-Jun Li  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02138J, Paper

C4OB02138J GA


Naphthalene diimides as red fluorescent pH sensors for functional cell imaging
Filippo Doria, Marco Folini, Vincenzo Grande, Graziella Cimino-Reale, Nadia Zaffaroni and Mauro Freccero  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02054E, Paper

C4OB02054E GA

A peptide topological template for the dispersion of [60]fullerene in water
S. Bartocci, D. Mazzier, A. Moretto and M. Mba  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02102A, Communication
C4OB02102A GA

6-Substituted 1,2-benzoxathiine-2,2-dioxides are isoform-selective inhibitors of human carbonic anhydrases IX, XII and VA
Muhammet Tanc, Fabrizio Carta, Andrea Scozzafava and Claudiu T. Supuran  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02155J, Communication
C4OB02155J GA

The rapid synthesis of oxazolines and their heterogeneous oxidation to oxazoles under flow conditions
Steffen Glöckner, Duc N. Tran, Richard J. Ingham, Sabine Fenner, Zoe E. Wilson, Claudio Battilocchio and Steven V. Ley  
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02105C, Paper
From themed collection Recent Advances in Flow Synthesis and Continuous Processing
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