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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship: Marina Kuimova

Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London) was a recipient of the 2013 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship.

Marina has just completed her lectureship tour which took place in three locations in Europe from 7 – 13 July:

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ChemComm Lectureship recipient Marina Kuimova giving her lecture at the IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry

Our annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

Professor Louise Berben (University of California Davis, USA) was the other recipient of the lectureship last year and we have just announced the 2014 winners – look out for further details of their lectureship tours soon.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship: Louise Berben

Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) was one of the recipients of the 2013 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships.

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ChemComm Lectureship recipient Louise Berben with Deputy Editor Jane Hordern

Louise has just completed her lectureship tour which took her to Imperial College London and the University of Bristol in the UK; she concluded her tour by giving a plenary lecture at Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS13), in Dublin, Ireland. Congratulations Louise!

Our annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

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Announcing the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Issue 2015

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming 2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue. This special issue, now in its fifth year, will showcase the high quality research being carried out by international researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. 

If you are interested in submitting to the issue please contact the ChemComm Editorial Office in the first instance. Please note that authors must not have featured in a previous ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue. The deadline for submission is 31 October 2014.

This annual issue is dedicated to profiling the very best research from scientists in the early stages of their independent careers from across the chemical sciences. We hope to feature principal investigators whose work has the potential to influence future directions in science or result in new and exciting developments.

Also of interest:

Browse the 2014 Emerging Investigators issue

Find out more about the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship – awarded annually to exceptional scientists in the early-stage of their independent career.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship Tours

We are pleased to announce the locations of this summer’s ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships tours. They will take place at conferences and universities across Europe, where our winners will showcase their latest research.

louiseProfessor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA)

26 June – 3 July 2014

Imperial College London, UK
University of Bristol, UK
Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS13), Dublin, Ireland

Marina KuimovaDr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London)

7 – 13 July 2014

Universidad del País Vasco-EHU, Bilbao, Spain
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian, Spain
25th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Bordeaux, France

Our annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014: Winners announced

On behalf of the ChemComm Editorial Board we are delighted to announce the winners of the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014.

To mark the 50th volume of ChemComm we have awarded three Lectureships this year. The 2014 winners are: Xinliang Feng, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (advanced organic materials), Tomislav Friščić, McGill University (organic chemistry) and Simon M. Humphrey, University of Texas (inorganic chemistry). Congratulations to the winners!

This annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.  Further details of the Lectureship tours, including lecture locations, will be announced in due course.  For information on previous winners see our website.

Also of interest: You can now read the 2014 Emerging Investigators Issue – which highlights research from outstanding up-and-coming scientists. There are a mix of Feature Articles and Communications, as well as an Editorial showcasing the authors – which includes some fun photos… look out for a giant pumpkin and R2D2!

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ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue 2014

CoverWe are delighted to announce the publication of the 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue.

Now in its fourth year, we have been overwhelmed by the community’s positive response to this issue. It showcases up-and-coming scientists who are internationally recognised for making outstanding contributions to their respective fields. 

There are a mix of Feature Articles and Communications, as well as an Editorial showcasing the authors – which includes some fun photos… look out for a giant pumpkin and R2D2!  You can also take a look at our previous issues in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

View the whole Emerging Investigators collection today.

We invite you to submit your next communication article to ChemComm.

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Bath to host 2014 RSC Carbohydrate Meeting: 30 Apr-1 May

The University of Bath will host Spring 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Group Meeting from Wednesday 30 April – Thursday 1 May.

On Wednesday evening, the 2014 RSC Haworth Memorial Lecture will be delivered by David Crich, Schaap Professor of Organic Chemistry at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

The Meeting will also include the Inaugural Buchanan Award Lecture in honour of J Grant Buchanan, a former Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Department of Chemistry here at Bath, who died two years ago on 17 April 2012, at the age of 85. Grant was a great researcher and educator, and is remembered fondly for his infectious enthusiasm, collegiality and warm humanity.

 

The full programme of speakers for the Meeting is available online.

Local delegates are free to attend the lectures and are also encouraged to submit posters.

There will be a number of poster prizes awarded:

  • Chemical Science Poster Prize – Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing
    Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions in Infectious Diseases (including certificate from Chemical Science)
  • Chem Comm Poster Prize – Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing
    Boronic Acids in Saccharide Recognition (including certificate from Chem Comm)
  • OBC Poster Prize – Sponsored by Asynt
    DrySyn heating block starter kit (including certificate from OBC)

For further information about the Meeting, please contact the local Organising Committee – Tony James and Steve Bull or email: carbohydrate@bath.ac.uk

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Thank you for giving us your feedback

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who completed our recent survey to give us their feedback on ChemComm. We are delighted that we received over 1900 responses and we have now started to collate and analyze the results. So watch out for further updates and to see how your comments will help shape the future of this prestigious journal.

As the survey has now closed, so has our competition to win 5 of the latest Kindle Fires. The five lucky winners have now been notified and their prizes will soon be winging their way to them – one as far as Australia!

Don’t forget you can now download your favourite ChemComm articles directly to your Kindle – look out for the Send PDF to Kindle symbol on our website.

Anyone wishing to see a list of prize winners should contact us at chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org.

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Yong-Qiang Tu: ChemComm Editor’s Choice

Yong-Qiang TuMeet our Associate Editor in Organic Chemistry: Yong-Qiang Tu

Professor Yong-Qiang Tu (Lanzhou University, China) handles submissions to Chemical Communications (ChemComm) in organic chemistry.

Yong-Qiang’s research interests centre on tandem rearrangement reactions and their application to the total syntheses of bioactive alkaloids, synthetic studies of biologically active natural products, and the construction of C-C and C-N bonds via C-H functionalisations. We invite you to submit your urgent research to his editorial office.

Read Yong-Qiang’s Editor’s Choice selection of ChemComm articles by clicking on the links below – all articles are FREE for a limited period!

ChemComm is the home of urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences. With a world-renowned reputation for quality and fast times to publication (average of 40 days), ChemComm is the ideal place to publish your research.


Yong-Qiang Tu’s Editor’s Choice:

Enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-brazilin, (−)-brazilein and (+)-brazilide A
Xuequan Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Xiaodong Yang, Jingfeng Zhao and Chengxue Pan  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC42385A

Domino Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation–double cyclization of o-amino cinnamyl derivatives: applications to the formal total syntheses of physostigmine and physovenine
Wen-Hua Chiou, Chien-Lun Kao, Jui-Chi Tsai and Yun-Man Chang  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC43257B

An organocatalytic asymmetric sequential allylic alkylation–cyclization of Morita–Baylis–Hillman carbonates and 3-hydroxyoxindoles
Qi-Lin Wang, Lin Peng, Fei-Ying Wang, Ming-Liang Zhang, Li-Na Jia, Fang Tian, Xiao-Ying Xu and Li-Xin Wang   
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45139A

A modular total synthesis of (±)-trigonoliimine C
B. Narendraprasad Reddy and Chepuri V. Ramana  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45512B

Synthetic modification of salinomycin: selective O-acylation and biological evaluation
Björn Borgström, Xiaoli Huang, Martin Pošta, Cecilia Hegardt, Stina Oredsson and Daniel Strand  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45983G

Highly enantioselective synthesis of chiral 7-ring O- and N-heterocycles by a one-pot nitro-Michael–cyclization tandem reaction
Renate Rohlmann, Constantin-Gabriel Daniliuc and Olga García Mancheño  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47397J

A new versatile approach to synthesise enantioenriched 3-hydroxyoxindoles, 1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran and 3-isochromanone derivatives by a rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric arylation–cyclization sequence
Yi Li, Dong-Xing Zhu and Ming-Hua Xu  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47927G

Enantioselective total synthesis of virosaine A and bubbialidine
Hideki Miyatake-Ondozabal, Linda M. Bannwarta and Karl Gademann
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38783F

A catalytic multicomponent coupling reaction for the enantioselective synthesis of spiroacetals  
Lara Cala, Abraham Mendoza, Francisco J. Fañanás and Félix Rodríguez  
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC00118K

An easy access to fluoroalkanes by deoxygenative hydrofluorination of carbonyl compounds via their tosylhydrazones
Arvind K. Yadav, Vishnu P. Srivastava and Lal Dhar S. Yadav
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC00122A


You might also be interested in these ChemComm Themed Collections:

Organocatalysis
Guest edited by Keiji Maruoka, Hisashi Yamamoto, Liu-Zhu Gong and Benjamin List

Nucleic acids: new life, new materials
Guest edited by Mike Gait, Makoto Komiyama, David Liu, Jason Micklefield, Ned Seeman and Oliver Seitz

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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): ChemComm web-themed issue

We would like to celebrate with our authors and the community our web themed collection entitled “Metal-organic frameworks” recently published in ChemComm.

The issue was Guest Edited by Neil Champness (University of Nottingham, UK), Christian Serre (University of Versailles, France) and Seth Cohen (University of California, San Diego, USA), and contains an impressive collection of articles, including:

Feature Articles:

MOFs for CO2 capture and separation from flue gas mixtures: the effect of multifunctional sites on their adsorption capacity and selectivity
Zhijuan Zhang, Yonggang Zhao, Qihan Gong, Zhong Li and Jing Li
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 653-661, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35561B

Commercial metal–organic frameworks as heterogeneous catalysts
Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy, Mercedes Alvaro and Hermenegildo Garcia
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 11275-11288, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34329K

Communications:

Understanding excess uptake maxima for hydrogen adsorption isotherms in frameworks with rht topology
David Fairen-Jimenez, Yamil J. Colón, Omar K. Farha, Youn-Sang Bae, Joseph T. Hupp and Randall Q. Snurr
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 10496-10498, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35711A

Targeted functionalisation of a hierarchically-structured porous coordination polymer crystal enhances its entire function
Kenji Hirai, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Mikhail Meilikhov, Yoko Sakata, Osami Sakata and Susumu Kitagawa
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6472-6474, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31421E

Take a look at the excellent work published in this themed collection: http://rsc.li/cc-mofs

We encourage you to share the link to this collection with your colleagues.

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