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Fundamentals of green chemistry

21 Dec 2011

Graphical abstract: Fundamentals of green chemistry: efficiency in reaction design Being ‘green’ is a concept that I think most people these days are familiar with. I was quite surprised to read in Roger Sheldon’s recently published Chem Soc Rev tutorial review that the term ‘green chemistry’ was coined only 20 years ago. Then again, when I think back to my childhood, my family drove a leaded petrol car, used only high wattage light bulbs and had only one rubbish bin, as opposed to the three or four recycling bins many families have today – not very green.

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.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 22

21 Dec 2011

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.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 21

21 Dec 2011

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?

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 20

20 Dec 2011

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.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 19

19 Dec 2011

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.


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?“.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 18

16 Dec 2011

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.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 17

14 Dec 2011

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…

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 16

13 Dec 2011

The largest issue of Chem Soc Rev in 2011 was issue 5 with a whopping 51 review articles.

A broad range of science was published in this issue covering a multitude of chemistry disciplines. To name but a few…

Adrian-Mihail Stadler and Jack Harrowfield provide an overview of chemistry coming from Strasbourg since the 16th century in their Highlight Review article; Stefan Matile and colleagues discuss recent developments in the field of synthetic transport systems, namely ion channels and pores, whilst Alessandro Troisi evaluates classical and new theories of charge transport in high mobility molecular semiconductors. Intramolecular d¹⁰–d¹⁰ interactions in heterometallic clusters are reviewed by Sabrina Sculfort and Pierre Braunstein; and K. U. Ingold and co-workers consider kinetic solvent effects in radical reactions.

Browse the table of contents to read more about this research and the other review articles that issue 5 has to offer.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 15

09 Dec 2011

Chem Soc Rev publishes two different review types: Critical and Tutorial Reviews.

Critical Reviews provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the subject area and should mostly focus on developments from the previous 5-10 years.

Whereas, Tutorial Reviews are aimed towards new researchers in the field, as well as the expert, and are generally shorter in length with a maximum of 60 references.

For more information on these article types, read our author guidelines.

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Chem Soc Rev in a nutshell. Fact number 14

07 Dec 2011

Chem Soc Rev has two Associate Editors

Professor Philip Gale handles submissions in supramolecular, macrocyclic and coordination chemistry and Professor Douglas Stephan handles submissions in organometallic and inorganic chemistry.


Philip Gale	Douglas Stephan

We will shortly be announcing a third Associate Editor covering nanoscience and physical chemistry. Watch this space..!

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