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Take a stroll down memory lane with Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry on our 10th anniversary

In our continued countdown to Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry‘s 10th anniversary issue we have had a look back at some of the art work that has appeared on our covers through the years. Below are the front covers of issue 1 and the work that featured on them for each year since the inception of OBC. What’s your favourite?

These stylish old school covers (right) were originally seen in 2003 & 2004 on volumes 1 & 2 respectively.

Volume 3:
Free: New chiral anion mediated asymmetric chemistry
Jérôme Lacour and Richard Frantz
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 15–19
DOI: 10.1039/B413554G

Volume 4:
Free: Artificial ribonucleases
Teija Niittymäki and Harri Lönnberg
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 15–25
DOI: 10.1039/B509022A

Volume 5:
Free: Synthesis of protein–polymer conjugates
Karina L. Heredia and Heather D. Maynard
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 45–53
DOI: 10.1039/B612355D

Volume 6:
Free:
Metallo-nucleosides: synthesis and biological evaluation of hexacarbonyl dicobalt 5-alkynyl-2′-deoxyuridines
Craig D. Sergeant et al.

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 73–80
DOI: 10.1039/B713371E

Volume 7:
Free:
Chemical approach toward efficient DNA methylation analysis
Akimitsu Okamoto
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 21–26
DOI: 10.1039/B813595A

Volume 8:
Free:
Synthesis and biological evaluation of phosphatidylinositol phosphate affinity probes
Stuart J. Conway et al.

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 66–76
DOI: 10.1039/B913399B

Volume 9:
Free:
Practical access to highly enantioenriched quaternary carbon Michael adducts using simple organocatalysts
Thomas C. Nugent, Mohammad Shoaib and Amna Shoaib
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 52–56
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00822B

Volume 10:
Free:
Synthesis of enantioenriched γ-quaternary cycloheptenones using a combined allylic alkylation/Stork–Danheiser approach: preparation of mono-, bi-, and tricyclic systems
Nathan B. Bennett et al.

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 56–59
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06189E

All of these articles are FREE to access so if you missed them the first time round why not have a read now. In fact, why not have a look at the whole of the issue? All the content from each issue 1 is now FREE to access so dive in and enjoy:

Volume: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

  • Do you have a favourite cover from our 10 years? Why not share it with us by leaving a comment below.

 

  •  Interested in having your work featured on a cover? Submit your work to us and show us your artwork.

 

  •  Missed our other 10th anniversary posts? Take a look here for some of our top cited work.
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Countdown to OBC’s 10th anniversary continues with tin and aluminium!

Continuing our countdown to OBC’s 10th anniversary issue, we’ve collected together 10 tin and aluminium related articles published in the journal. Why? An old tradition in the UK is to give gifts of made of symbolic materials on significant wedding anniversaries, and the metals associated with a 10th wedding anniversary are tin and aluminium. Now, we don’t have any trinkets for you, but why not take a look at some of these interesting tin and aluminium-themed articles!

Effective 1,5-, 1,6- and 1,7-remote stereocontrol in reactions of alkoxy- and hydroxy-substituted allylstannanes with aldehydes
John S. Carey, Somhairle MacCormick, Steven J. Stanway, Aphiwat Teerawutgulrag and Eric J. Thomas
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB01084G

A selective, cell-permeable fluorescent probe for Al3+ in living cells
Lina Wang, Wenwu Qin, Xiaoliang Tang, Wei Dou, Weisheng Liu, Qingfeng Teng and Xiaojun Yao
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00123F, Paper

Microwave-assisted regioselective ring opening of non-activated aziridines by lithium aluminium hydride
Sonja Stanković, Matthias D’hooghe and Norbert De Kimpe
DOI: 10.1039/C004960C

Synthesis of Biginelli dihydropyrimidinone derivatives with various substituents on aluminium-planted mesoporous silica catalyst
Hiroaki Murata, Haruro Ishitani and Masakazu Iwamoto
DOI: 10.1039/B920821F, Paper

Intramolecular carbolithiation reactions for the preparation of 3-alkenylpyrrolidines
Iain Coldham, Kathy N. Price and Richard E. Rathmell
DOI: 10.1039/B303670G

Rapid methylation on carbon frameworks useful for the synthesis of 11CH3-incorporated PET tracers: Pd(0)-mediated rapid coupling of methyl iodide with an alkenyltributylstannane leading to a 1-methylalkene
Takamitsu Hosoya, Kengo Sumi, Hisashi Doi, Masahiro Wakao and Masaaki Suzuki
DOI: 10.1039/B515215A

Aluminium triflate: a remarkable Lewis acid catalyst for the ring opening of epoxides by alcohols
D. Bradley G. Williams and Michelle Lawton
DOI: 10.1039/B508924G

Cyclizative radical carbonylations of azaenynes by TTMSS and hexanethiol leading to α-silyl- and thiomethylene lactams. Insights into the E/Z stereoselectivities
Mami Tojino, Noboru Otsuka, Takahide Fukuyama, Hiroshi Matsubara, Carl H. Schiesser, Hiroki Kuriyama, Hironari Miyazato, Satoshi Minakata, Mitsuo Komatsu and Ilhyong Ryu
DOI: 10.1039/B309944J

Photochemical intramolecular aromatic substitutions of the imidazol-2-yl radical are superior to those mediated by Bu3SnH
Mairéad A. Clyne and Fawaz Aldabbagh
DOI: 10.1039/B512729G

On the use of mixtures of organotin species for catalytic enantioselective ketone allylation—a detective story
Anthony Cunningham, Vijaya Mokal-Parekh, Claire Wilson and Simon Woodward
DOI: 10.1039/B313384B

Missed our other 10th anniversary posts? Take a look here for some of our top cited work.

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Top 10 Perspective articles from Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Continuing with our countdown to OBC’s 10th anniversary celebratory issue we’ve made the top cited* Perpsective articles from the journal free to access for one week:

1. Recognition and activation by ureas and thioureas: stereoselective reactions using ureas and thioureas as hydrogen-bonding donors
Yoshiji Takemoto
DOI: 10.1039/B511216H

2. Bifunctional transition metal-based molecular catalysts for asymmetric syntheses
Takao Ikariya,  Kunihiko Murata and Ryoji Noyori
DOI: 10.1039/B513564H

3. Analysis of the reactions used for the preparation of drug candidate molecules
John S. Carey,  David Laffan, Colin Thomson and Mike T. Williams
DOI: 10.1039/B602413K

4. Density functional theory with dispersion corrections for supramolecular structures, aggregates, and complexes of (bio)organic molecules
Stefan Grimme,  Jens Antony, Tobias Schwabe and Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld
DOI: 10.1039/B615319B

5. Mechanistic aspects of transition metal catalysed 1,6-diene and 1,6-enyne cycloisomerisation reactions
Guy C. Lloyd-Jones
DOI: 10.1039/B209175P

6. Multivalency in supramolecular chemistry and nanofabrication
Alart Mulder,  Jurriaan Huskens and David N. Reinhoudt
DOI: 10.1039/B413971B

7. Porphyrin–fullerene linked systems as artificial photosynthetic mimics
Hiroshi Imahori
2004, DOI: 10.1039/B403024A

8. Ru complexes bearing bidentate carbenes: from innocent curiosity to uniquely effective catalysts for olefin metathesis
Amir H. Hoveyda,  Dennis G. Gillingham,  Joshua J. Van Veldhuizen,  Osamu Kataoka,  Steven B. Garber,  Jason S. Kingsbury and Joseph P. A. Harrity
DOI: 10.1039/B311496C

9. Molecular similarity: a key technique in molecular informatics
Andreas Bender and Robert C. Glen
DOI: 10.1039/B409813G

10. DNA-programmed assembly of nanostructures
Kurt V. Gothelf and Thomas H. LaBean
DOI: 10.1039/B510551J

  • Interested in joining in with a Perspective article for OBC? Why not get in contact – we’d love to hear your ideas.

*Top cited Perspective articles according to ISI on the 1st of February 2012

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Top 10 Emerging Area articles from Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Continuing with our countdown to OBC’s 10th anniversary celebratory issue we’ve made the top cited Emerging Area articles from the journal free to access for one week:

Asymmetric organocatalysis
Jayasree Seayad and Benjamin List
DOI: 10.1039/B415217B

The golden gate to catalysis
Anja Hoffmann-Röder and Norbert Krause
DOI: 10.1039/B416516K

Organocatalysis: asymmetric cascade reactions catalysed by chiral secondary amines
Xinhong Yu and Wei Wang
DOI: 10.1039/B800245M

A hitchhiker’s guide to G-quadruplex ligands
David Monchaud and Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou
DOI: 10.1039/B714772B

Advanced organic synthesis using microreactor technology
Batoul Ahmed-Omer, Johan C. Brandt and Thomas Wirth
DOI: 10.1039/B615072A

Diversity-oriented synthesis; a challenge for synthetic chemists
David R. Spring
DOI: 10.1039/B310752N

“Frustrated Lewis pairs”: a concept for new reactivity and catalysis
Douglas W. Stephan
DOI: 10.1039/B802575B

Synthesis of protein–polymer conjugates
Karina L. Heredia and Heather D. Maynard
DOI: 10.1039/B612355D

Catalytic asymmetric hydroamination of non-activated olefins
Kai C. Hultzsch
DOI: 10.1039/B418521H

Out of the oil bath and into the oven—microwave-assisted combinatorial chemistry heats up
Helen E. Blackwell
DOI: 10.1039/B301432K

Want to write a new emerging area that you think is going to be big in the future? Why not get in contact – we’d love to hear your ideas.

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Countdown to OBC 10th Anniversary continues


As you know, we are celebrating the journal’s 10th Anniversary, and counting down the Top 10 most cited Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry research works from our different formats, according to ISI*. This week, find out which are our most cited ever Full Papers.

In addition all of these articles will be FREE for you to read until the end of next week.

10. Tandem oxidation processes for the preparation of nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic and heterocyclic compounds
Steven A. Raw,  Cecilia D. Wilfred and Richard J. K. Taylor
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2004, 2, 788-796 DOI: 10.1039/B315689C

9. Novel molecular drug carrier: encapsulation of oxaliplatin in cucurbit[7]uril and its effects on stability and reactivity of the drug
Young Jin Jeon, Soo-Young Kim, Young Ho Ko, Shigeru Sakamoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Kimoon Kim
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 2122-2125 DOI: 10.1039/B504487A

8. Organocatalytic enantioselective indole alkylations of α,β-unsaturated ketones
Wei Chen,  Wei Du,  Lei Yue,  Rui Li,  Yong Wu,  Li-Sheng Ding and Ying-Chun Chen
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 816-821 DOI: 10.1039/B616504D

7. Promoting laccase activity towards non-phenolic substrates: a mechanistic investigation with some laccase–mediator systems
Paola Baiocco,  Anna Maria Barreca,  Maura Fabbrini,  Carlo Galli and Patrizia Gentili
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003, 1, 191-197 DOI: 10.1039/B208951C

6. Synthesis and photophysical evaluation of charge neutral thiourea or urea based fluorescent PET sensors for bis-carboxylates and pyrophosphate
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson,  Anthony P. Davis,  John E. O’Brien and Mark Glynn
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 48-56 DOI: 10.1039/B409018G

5. Nitrophenyl derivatives of pyrrole 2,5-diamides: structural behaviour, anion binding and colour change signalled deprotonation
Salvatore Camiolo,  Philip A. Gale,  Michael B. Hursthouse and Mark E. Light
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003, 1, 741-744 DOI: 10.1039/B210848H

4. Comparison of topological descriptors for similarity-based virtual screening using multiple bioactive reference structures
Jérôme Hert,  Peter Willett,  David J. Wilton,  Pierre Acklin,  Kamal Azzaoui,  Edgar Jacoby and Ansgar Schuffenhauer
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2004, 2, 3256-3266 DOI: 10.1039/B409865J

3. Design, synthesis and photophysical studies of simple fluorescent anion PET sensors using charge neutral thiourea receptors
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson,  Anthony P. Davis,  Gillian M. Hussey,  Juliann Tierney and Mark Glynn
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2004, 2, 1856-1863 DOI: 10.1039/B404706K

2. Urea vs. thiourea in anion recognition
David Esteban Gómez,  Luigi Fabbrizzi,  Maurizio Licchelli and Enrico Monzani
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 1495-1500 DOI: 10.1039/B500123D

1. Organocatalysis with proline derivatives: improved catalysts for the asymmetric Mannich, nitro-Michael and aldol reactions
Alexander J. A. Cobb,  David M. Shaw,  Deborah A. Longbottom,  Johan B. Gold and Steven V. Ley
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 84-96 DOI: 10.1039/B414742A

Why do you think these papers have been so highly cited? Do you remember when these articles were first published? Perhaps they had an impact on your own research? We’d love to find out more – tell us by posting a comment on the blog in the box below……

Have you missed the Top 10 cited OBC communications? Find them in our earlier post here.

*Top cited articles according to ISI on the 1st of February 2012

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Top 10 Communication articles from Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

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

If you have highly important work that would benefit from urgent publication in synthetic, biomolecular or physical organic chemistry why not consider submitting a Communication article to OBC? Find out more…

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OBC celebrates its 10th year of publication

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We can’t quite believe it but this year Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry is going to be 10 years old!

To celebrate this we will be publishing an issue later this year that features some of the best work by chemists from across the broad scope of the journal, many of whom have served on our Editorial or Advisory Boards over the years.

Leading up to the issue we’ll be bringing you some of our ‘Top 10s’ from the journal…watch this space!

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