This front cover highlights the work of Daniel P. Funeriu, Technical University München, and colleagues on a novel, general solid phase synthesis strategy for sequence independent peptidyl-fluoromethyl ketones, utilising standard Fmoc peptide chemistry. Read the finer points of this article here…
A general solid phase method for the synthesis of sequence independent peptidyl-fluoromethyl ketones
Gheorghe-Doru Roiban, Mihaela Matache, Niculina D. Hădade and Daniel P. Funeriu
DOI: 10.1039/C2OB25096A
On the inside cover of OBC issue 23 is a paper by Bart Jan Ravoo et al. on the non-covalent interactions of nanodiamond carboxylic acids derived from adamantane, diamantane, and triamantane with β- and γ-cyclodextrins.
Nanodiamonds in sugar rings: an experimental and theoretical investigation of cyclodextrin–nanodiamond inclusion complexes
Jens Voskuhl, Mark Waller, Sateesh Bandaru, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Carlo Fregonese, Birgit Wibbeling, Peter R. Schreiner and Bart Jan Ravoo
DOI: 10.1039/C2OB06915F
Also in this issue: A perspective by Philippe Maillard et al.: Tumor targeting in photodynamic therapy. From glycoconjugated photosensitizers to glycodendrimeric one. Concept, design and properties
2 HOT articles: Synthesis of symmetric anhydrides using visible light-mediated photoredox catalysis |