As of 2012, Chem Soc Rev now publishes 24 issues per year making us the most frequently published chemistry review journal.
How far we have come considering 10 years ago, we only published 6 issues and 36 reviews a year!
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It is at the end of this calendar year that we sadly say farewell to Editorial Board member, Professor Carsten Bolm, who has now completed his term of service on the Board after 10 years.
Carsten is based at RWTH Aachen University and his research interests include asymmetric synthesis using organometallic reagents and organo- and metal-mediated catalysis.
Carsten has been instrumental in raising awareness of Chem Soc Rev across Germany and the organic community. We sincerely thank him for all of the advice and expertise that he has offered over the years, including his support as guest editor, alongside fellow Editorial Board member, Professor Huw Davies, for the 2007 themed issue on Organometallics in Heterocyclic Chemistry.
A big thank you and goodbye from all of us at Chem Soc Rev!
Sheldon points out that a lot of the reactions responsible for the success of the pharmaceutical industry were developed at a time when the toxic properties of many reagents and solvents were not known and waste minimisation and sustainability were not significant issues.
Nowadays, scientists are much more aware of the need to assess and reduce the environmental impact of their organic syntheses, particularly those performed on an industrial scale.
Sheldon’s review discusses the general principles of waste minimisation in organic synthesis, illustrating them with simple practical examples. It is a must-read for all organic chemists because, as Sheldon points out ‘sustainability is our ultimate common goal and green chemistry is a means to achieving it’.
As a bonus, Sheldon has included presentation slides on efficiency in reaction design as electronic supplementary information.
The Chem Soc Rev Advisory Editorial Board was only introduced 8 years ago. And on a personal note, I don’t know what we would do without them now! Our Advisory Board help support the Editorial Board, encouraging top quality submissions and publications and driving up awareness of Chem Soc Rev across the community.
We have 43 Advisory Editorial Board members, based all over the world. To find out who’s on our Editorial and Advisory Editorial Boards, visit our staff pages.
The most cited article in Chem Soc Rev from the last 10 years is Stuart James’ 2003 review article on Metal–organic frameworks, which has received 1,265 citations to date (Thomson Reuters®).
Over the past 10 years, research efforts towards metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have increased rapidly, and in response to this, Chem Soc Rev published the 2009 themed issue on Metal-Organic Frameworks, guest edited by Professors Jeffrey Long and Omar Yaghi. To find out more about the design and synthesis of these materials, their properties and applications, read the articles today…
For some more recent MOF reviews, why not download Ch. Wöll’s review, MOF thin films: existing and future applications, or Seth Cohen’s review on Postsynthetic modification of metal–organic frameworks—a progress report?
This month sees the following articles in ChemSocRev that are in the top ten most accessed:-
Recent advances in cooperative ion pairing in asymmetric organocatalysis
Jean-François Brière, Sylvain Oudeyer, Vincent Dalla and Vincent Levacher
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15200A
Green chemistry oriented organic synthesis in water
Marc-Olivier Simon and Chao-Jun Li
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15222J
The golden age: gold nanoparticles for biomedicine
Erik C. Dreaden, Alaaldin M. Alkilany, Xiaohua Huang, Catherine J. Murphy and Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15237H
Palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of organosilicon reagents
Hannah F. Sore, Warren R. J. D. Galloway and David R. Spring
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15181A
Chemistry and physics of a single atomic layer: strategies and challenges for functionalization of graphene and graphene-based materials
Liang Yan, Yue Bing Zheng, Feng Zhao, Shoujian Li, Xingfa Gao, Bingqian Xu, Paul S. Weiss and Yuliang Zhao
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 97-114, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15193B
Anion receptor chemistry: highlights from 2010
Marco Wenzel, Jennifer R. Hiscock and Philip A. Gale
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 480-520, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15257B
Mesoporous metal-organic framework materials
Weimin Xuan, Chengfeng Zhu, Yan Liu and Yong Cui
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15196G
DNA in a modern world
Eugen Stulz, Guido Clever, Mitsuhiko Shionoya and Chengde Mao
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 5633-5635, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS90048J
Gold and iron oxide hybrid nanocomposite materials
Ken Cham-Fai Leung, Shouhu Xuan, Xiaoming Zhu, Dawei Wang, Chun-Pong Chak, Siu-Fung Lee, Watson K.-W. Ho and Berton C.-T. Chung
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15213K
Great expectations: can artificial molecular machines deliver on their promise?
Ali Coskun, Michal Banaszak, R. Dean Astumian, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bartosz A. Grzybowski
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 19-30, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15262A
Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.
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The institutions publishing the greatest number of reviews (Scopus®) in Chem Soc Rev over the past 3 years are:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
University of Oxford, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, People’s Republic of China
…and of course, many more..!
At Chem Soc Rev, we are pleased to continue attracting authors from leading institutions as well as keeping our content and readership totally international.
Chem Soc Rev, alongside ChemComm and Chemical Science, has recently recruited 5 new community science writers for our blogs – we are pleased to welcome Alice Williamson, Cally Haynes, Sarah Brown, Iain Larmour and Scott McKellar.
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| Alice Williamson | Cally Haynes | Sarah Brown | Iain Larmour | Scott McKellar |
Read Iain’s latest blog to hear his thoughts on Fraser Stoddart, Bartosz Grzybowski, and Dean Astumian‘s Tutorial Review: “Great expectations: can artificial molecular machines deliver on their promise?“.
Chem Soc Rev publishes more review articles than any other chemistry review journal. In 2011, we published 315 review articles – more than doubling our content from 5 years ago.
Deputy Editor, Joanne Thomson, has a black belt in Karate.
Joanne showing off some Karate moves in the early days
Also on a belt-theme (although unrelated to martial arts), David Eisenberg, Roy Shenhar and Mordecai Rabinovitz have published a Tutorial Review on “Synthetic approaches to aromatic belts: building up strain in macrocyclic polyarenes”.
Here, Rabinovitz and colleagues discuss synthetic strategies towards aromatic belts, defined as double-stranded conjugated macrocycles, such as [n]cyclacenes, [n]cyclophenacenes, Schlüter belt, and Vögtle belt.
Download the article today to read more…
