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RSC journal lecture awards

While you are thinking about your nominee for the OBC Lecture Award, why not consider making nominations for other journal awards?

ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship

ChemComm is delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. Deadline for nominations: 28th February 2011. Visit the ChemComm blog for more information.

Natural Product Reports Award Lecture

The NPR Lecture Award is an annual event which is held at an international meeting of the recipient’s choosing. The recipient will be someone who has made significant research contribution to natural products chemistry in its broadest sense.

Anyone can make a nomination for the award. Simply send the name of the person you would like to nominate, along with a brief justification, to the Editor, Dr Richard Kelly. All nominations should be received by Monday 6th December. Visit to NPR blog for more details.

Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigators award

Don’t forget to nominate your colleagues for the Chem Soc Rev 2011 Emerging Investigator Award before the end of January. This annual award is given to recognise an emerging scientist who has made a significant contribution to their research field. Those wishing to make a nomination should send details of the nominee, including a brief C.V. together with a letter supporting the nomination, to the Chem Soc Rev  Editorial Office by 31st January 2011. Please note that self nomination is not permissible. More details on the CSR blog.

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OBC Lecture Award 2011 – nominations now open!

Nominations are now invited for the 2011 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Lecture Award, to be given at the 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 16), held from 24-28 July 2011 in Shanghai, China.

Anyone can make a nomination for the award. All you need to do is send the name of your nominee and a brief justification to the Editor, Dr Richard Kelly. All nominations should take account of the award criteria (below) and the topic of the conference and should be received by Monday 6th December 2010.

This annual award is open to scientists who have made a significant contribution within the scope of OBC and ideally will have an independent academic career of between 8 and 15 years.

The winner, who must be available to give the sponsored lecture, will also be invited to submit a related article for publication in OBC (which will be subject to the usual peer review process). The award, open to anyone fitting these criteria, will cover various expenses incurred at the meeting.

The winner will be selected from the nominees by a panel of judges, who will announce the result in early 2011.

We look forward to receiving your nominations.

Previous winners of the award include Professor Wilfred van der Donk, from University of Illinois, USA and Dr Akimitsu Okamoto, from RIKEN, Japan.

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OBC Accepted Manuscripts: publishing your research even faster

In a fast moving subject field, you need your research to be available to the community as soon as possible.

At Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) we are working with our authors to make this happen. That’s why you can now choose to have the unedited and unformatted version of your article published shortly after acceptance as an Accepted Manuscript.

This new, free service from RSC Publishing allows you to make your results available, in citable form, before publication of the edited article. Published on the website as a downloadable pdf file, your Accepted Manuscript is readily accessible to the people you want to read it.

Of course, all OBC articles will continue to receive the current high quality editing and formatting service from RSC Publishing’s professional team of technical editors. Once the fully edited and formatted Advance Article is published the Accepted Manuscript version of your article will become unavailable.

Check out these examples of recent Accepted Manuscripts free:

Microwave and flow syntheses of Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS) and analogues
James Hodgkinson, Warren Galloway, Shreya Saraf, Ian R Baxendale, Steven V Ley, Mark Ladlow, Martin Welch      
and David Spring
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00652A

A ferrocene functionalized rotaxane host system capable of the electrochemical recognition of chloride
Nicholas Henley Evans and P D Beer
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00458H

More information about OBC Accepted Manuscripts can be found on our blog.

Wouldn’t it be great to have your research read by your peers almost as soon as you know your manuscript has been accepted? Go online to submit your next article  to OBC now: we look forward to receiving your work.

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Professor Michael Burkart delivers OBC lecture award

Professor Michael Burkart from the University of California, San Diego, delivered the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry award lecture at the RSC’s Directing Biosynthesis conference in Durham, UK last week. Professor Burkart lecture was entitled Modular Thinking – Explorations in Activity and Function.

Professor Burkart’s recent OBC publications include:

Synthetic studies on the mycolactone core
Kwang-Seuk Ko, Matthew D. Alexander, Shaun D. Fontaine, James E. Biggs-Houck, James J. La Clair and Michael D. Burkart
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00540A

Preparation of FRET reporters to support chemical probe development
Timothy L. Foley, Adam Yasgar, Christopher J. Garcia, Ajit Jadhav, Anton Simeonov and Michael D. Burkart
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00322K

Mechanism-based crosslinking as a gauge for functional interaction of modular synthases
Andrew S. Worthington, Douglas F. Porter, Michael D. Burkart,
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, (8),1769-1772

The OBC lecture award is given to chemists who have made a significant research contribution to organic or bioorganic chemistry, and ideally who have had an independent research career of between 8 and 15 years. Nominations for the 2011 OBC Lecture Award will be open next month.

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OBC Accepted Manuscripts

In a fast moving subject field, you need your research results to be available to the community as soon as possible.

At Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC), you can now have the unedited and unformatted version of your article published shortly after acceptance as an Accepted Manuscript. This new, free service from RSC Publishing allows you to make your results available to the community, in citable form, before publication of the edited article.

Of course, each OBC article will continue to receive the current high quality editing and formatting service from a professional technical editor, and the Accepted Manuscript version of an article will become unavailable when the fully edited and formatted Advance Article version is published.
 
More information about Accepted Manuscripts can be found below.

What are Accepted Manuscripts?
Accepted Manuscripts are articles which have been published prior to technical editing, formatting and proof reading. All Accepted Manuscripts have been through the RSC Publishing peer review process and have been accepted for publication.

In what format does my Accepted Manuscript appear?
Accepted Manuscripts appear online as a PDF file. An Accepted Manuscript is published in the format in which it is received from you. Any supplementary material will be available as a separate file(s).

How does my Accepted Manuscript appear in the online article listing?
Accepted Manuscripts are listed in the Advance Article tab on the RSC Publishing Platform. The authors’ names in this listing will appear in the form and the order that they were entered into OBC’s online submission system by the corresponding author. Once the Advance Article version is published, the names in the listing will appear as given in the manuscript.

What files do I need to supply before acceptance?
Information about the required file formats will be supplied to you at the same time as you receive the referees’ comments on your manuscript. Submission using the RSC’s article template is encouraged but not required. Where text and image files are received separately they will be collated for publication by an RSC Publishing Editor.

What happens to my article once it has been published as an Accepted Manuscript?
Once an article has been published as an Accepted Manuscript it will be edited and formatted by a professional team of Technical Editors. The proof will then be sent to you for checking. The Accepted Manuscript will be replaced by the fully edited, formatted and proof-read Advance Article as soon as this is available.

Are Accepted Manuscripts the final scientific article of record?
No. The articles published as Accepted Manuscripts are not the final scientific version of record. The Advance Article version of the article represents the final scientific article of record.

How do I cite an Accepted Manuscript?
Accepted Manuscripts can be cited using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI®), which is printed in the left-hand margin of each page of the manuscript. The DOI for each manuscript will be retained once the fully edited Advance Article is published, so that any citations to the Accepted Manuscript will link to the final version.

Does my article have to be published as an Accepted Manuscript?
No. You have the opportunity to opt out of having your manuscript published as an Accepted Manuscript before it is accepted. Therefore not all OBC articles will be published as an Accepted Manuscript version.

When is the official publication date of my manuscript?
The official publication date of your article will be the date when the Accepted Manuscript version is published.

Can my Accepted Manuscript be published before the RSC’s “Licence to Publish” is completed?
No. A completed “Licence to Publish” must be received before your article can be published.

For further information about Accepted Manuscripts please contact the Editorial office.

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Call for Papers: Fluorine Chemistry web themed issue

The RSC Fluorine Group is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year and to commemorate this occasion RSC Publishing will publish a web themed issue on fluorine chemistry across several RSC journals.

This web themed issue will consist of a collection of papers on fluorine chemistry and it will be promoted by all the journals in which papers are published. The RSC journals participating in this venture are Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, CrystEngComm, Green Chemistry, New Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Analyst, Analytical Methods, PCCP, ChemSocRev and ChemComm. If you are unsure about which journal you should submit your contribution to, do not hesitate to contact the editors of the journals.

The guest editor of this web themed issue is Veronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford) who is also the Chair of the RSC Fluorine Group.

Submit an article for the web theme issue.

Veronique Gouverneur, guest editor of the fluorine web theme

The web themed issue will be published on-line in December 2010 and therefore manuscripts to be considered for this web themed issue should be submitted by 15th August 2010. Later submissions may be added to the web themed issue at a later date. Please indicate on submission that your manuscript is intended for this web themed issue.

RSC Publishing would like to congratulate the RSC Fluorine Group for its Anniversary and send our best wishes.

2010-06-09

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