Archive for September, 2014

Winners at the 25th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry

From left to right: Professor Yoshito Tobe (President) Mr. Tomoya Nakamura (OBC) Mr. Yuta Shiina (RSC Advances) Mr. Hirotaka Mori (Chemical Science) Hiroyuki Isobe (Organizer)

Congratulations to the winners of the poster prizes at the 25th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (Japan), which was held September 7th to September 9th in Sendai.

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry prize: Mr. Tomoya Nakamura (Supervisor: Professor Eiichi Nakamura), Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
Title: Benzodipyrrole-Based Donor-Acceptor Type Boron Complexes for Near-Infrared Absorption

RSC Advances prize: Mr. Yuta Shiina (Supervisor: Professor Nagao Kobayashi), Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University
Title: Redox-control of Molecular Alignment of TTF-Annulated Silicon Phthalocyanine Oligomers

Chemical Science prize: Mr. Hirotaka Mori (Supervisor: Professor Atsuhiro Osuka), Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University
Title: Synthesis and Properties of 5,20-α-Oligothienyl-substitued [26]Hexaphyrins

The event organised by the Society of Physical Organic Chemistry, Japan,  saw 624 participants attend, with 2 keynote lectures from E. Nakamura & C. Nuckolls.  In addition there were 328 poster presentations, and 96 oral presentations.

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HOT Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles

Check out the following HOT articles, as recommened by the reviewers of the articles. These have all been made free to access until 20th October:

Estimating the shape and size of supramolecular assemblies by variable temperature diffusion ordered spectroscopy
Benjamin M. Schulze, Davita L. Watkins, Jing Zhang, Ion Ghiviriga and Ronald K. Castellano
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01373E, Communication


Evolution of a strategy for preparing bioactive small molecules by sequential multicomponent assembly processes, cyclizations, and diversification
James J. Sahn, Brett A. Granger and Stephen F. Martin
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00835A, Review Article
From themed collection In Celebration of Richard Taylor’s 65th Birthday


Development and mechanistic studies of an optimized receptor for trimethyllysine using iterative redesign by dynamic combinatorial chemistry
Nicholas K. Pinkin and Marcey L. Waters
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01249F, Paper


Modulation of DNA–polyamide interaction by β-alanine substitutions: a study of positional effects on binding affinity, kinetics and thermodynamics
Shuo Wang, Karl Aston, Kevin J. Koeller, G. Davis Harris, Nigam P. Rath, James K. Bashkin and W. David Wilson
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01456A, Paper


Iridium-catalyzed C–H borylation of pyridines
Scott A. Sadler, Hazmi Tajuddin, Ibraheem A. I. Mkhalid, Andrei S. Batsanov, David Albesa-Jove, Man Sing Cheung, Aoife C. Maxwell, Lena Shukla, Bryan Roberts, David C. Blakemore, Zhenyang Lin, Todd B. Marder and Patrick G. Steel
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01565G, Paper


Efficient synthesis of conformationally constrained, amino-triazoloazepinone-containing di- and tripeptides via a one-pot Ugi–Huisgen tandem reaction
T. M. A. Barlow, M. Jida, D. Tourwé and S. Ballet
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01381F, Communication


Influence of B-ring modifications on proton affinity, transmembrane anion transport and anti-cancer properties of synthetic prodigiosenes
Estelle Marchal, Soumya Rastogi, Alison Thompson and Jeffery T. Davis
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01399A, Paper


Catalytic amide allylation of α-ketoesters: extremely high enantioselective synthesis of ester functionalised α-methylene-γ-butyrolactones
Masaki Takahashi, Yusuke Murata, Masahiro Ishida, Fumitoshi Yagishita, Masami Sakamoto, Tetsuya Sengoku and Hidemi Yoda
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01508H, Communication


Recent developments in transition metal-catalysed spiroketalisation
Rachelle Quach, Daniel F. Chorley and Margaret A. Brimble
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01325E, Perspective


Non-isoprenoid polyene natural products – structures and synthetic strategies
Katrina S. Madden, Fathia A. Mosa and Andrew Whiting
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01337A, Review Article


A Lewis acid-mediated conformational switch
Peter C. Knipe, Hannah Lingard, Ian M. Jones, Sam Thompson and Andrew D. Hamilton
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01556H, Paper

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RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium 2014 one month left to submit

Calling all final year organic chemistry PhD students

There is only one month left to submit your abstract for the RSC Organic Division’s poster symposium, headline sponsored by F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd.

When & where?

The symposium will take place at The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London on Monday 01 December 2014 and offers you the chance to showcase your research to your peers, leading academics and industrial chemists.

Prizes

There will be a first prize of £500, two runner-up prizes of £250, and a “selected by Industry Prize” also of £500.

Closing date for submissions is Wednesday 01 October 2014.

For more information and to submit your abstract go to http://rsc.li/organic-poster

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