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Tom Driver-OBC cover Issue 17-Free to access now

Tom Driver, from University of Illinois at Chicago, tells us about efficient ways to  construct new C-N and S-N bonds from azides using Transition metal-catalyzed N-atom transfer reactions.

This is the inside cover article of OBC Issue 17 and therefore is free to access for 6 weeks!

A simple, colourful and direct cover for a comprehensible, didactic and clear perspective.

Read it here and feel free to comment on it.

Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed N-atom transfer reactions of azides
Tom G. Driver
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 3831-3846

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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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OBC attended BOSS XII

‘The BOSS-conference is a unique international symposium’– this is written on the BOSS XII web page and after having been there I concur!

The 12th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium was held in Namur (Belgium). This is a biennial meeting that attracts researchers, mostly graduate students and post-docs, from all over the globe, especially Europe.

Young rising stars and established organic chemists, a brilliant lecture delivered by Eric Jacobsen(Harvard University), the recipient of the “Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis”, and a fantastic one-day course by Professor David MacMillan (Princeton University), Editor-in-chief of Chemical Science, were the ingredients of the perfect cocktail of this summer.

OBC sponsored a poster prize which was awarded to Kurt Hoogewijs, University of Ghent. Congratulations! We hope you enjoy your prize: a RSC book entitled ‘Eco-Friendly Synthesis of Fine Chemicals’ edited by Roberto Ballini.

I’d also like to congratulate Prof. Manfred T. Reetz (Max Planck, MULHEIM / Ruhr, Germany) and Prof. Stéphane Vincent (FUNDP Namur, Belgium), Chairman and host of BOSS XII,  for organising such a superb conference.

Take a look at some recently published papers by some of the speakers of this meeting.

Micro-scale process development of transaminase catalysed reactions
Matthew D. Truppo and Nicholas J. Turner
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 1280-1283

Biosynthesis of the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide translocase (ATPase) inhibitor bongkrekic acid in Burkholderia gladioli
Barbara Rohm, Kirstin Scherlach and Christian Hertweck
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 1520-1522

Towards the synthesis of a Yersinia pestiscell wallpolysaccharide: enantioselective synthesis of an L-glycero-D-manno-heptose building block
Takafumi Ohara, Alexander Adibekian, Davide Esposito, Pierre Stallforth and Peter H. Seeberger
Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 4106-4108

Ring-opening reaction of Bus- and SES-protected aziridines using lithiated dithianes
Ken Sakakibara and Kyoko Nozaki
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 502-507

Synthesis, photophysical, electrochemical, and electrochemiluminescent properties of 5,15-bis(9-anthracenyl)porphyrin derivatives
Chloè Sooambar, Vincent Troiani, Carlo Bruno, Massimo Marcaccio, Francesco Paolucci, Andrea Listorti, Abdelhalim Belbakra, Nicola Armaroli, Alessandra Magistrato, Rita De Zorzi, Silvano Geremia and Davide Bonifazi
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 2402-2413

Silver-catalysed protodecarboxylation of carboxylic acids
Lukas J. Gooßen, Christophe Linder, Nuria Rodríguez, Paul P. Lange and Andreas Fromm
Chem. Commun., 2009, 7173-7175

Metal-catalyzed rearrangement of enantiomerically pure alkylidenecyclopropane derivatives as a new access to cyclobutenes possessing quaternary stereocenters
Ahmad Masarwa, Alois Fürstner and Ilan Marek
Chem. Commun., 2009, 5760-5762 

Stereoselective gold-catalyzed cycloaddition of functionalized ketoenynes: synthesis of (+)-orientalol F
Eloísa Jiménez-Núñez, Kian Molawi and Antonio M. Echavarren
Chem. Commun., 2009, 7327-7329

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GRC Bioorganic Chemistry: OBC was there

The 2010 Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference was held in Proctor Academy, Andover (Newhampshire) last June.

 

The meeting was attended by over 150 people. The broad scope of the meeting together with the mixture of young and experienced researchers and its international audience contributed to the success of this conference.

The quality of both the talks and the posters was outstanding and the friendly atmosphere encouraged many interesting and fruitful discussions. I had the pleasure of meeting many people from industry and academia.
I would like to congratulate the organisers and Christine Chow and Arthur Hanel -Chairs of the meeting- for putting together such an inspirational conference.

Read some articles from some of the speakers here:

Cellular uptake and binding of guanidine-modified phthalocyanines to KRAS/HRAS G-quadruplexes
Alexandro Membrino, Manikandan Paramasivam, Susanna Cogoi, Jawad Alzeer, Nathan W. Luedtke and Luigi E. Xodo
Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 625-627

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics investigation of the mechanism of phosphate transfer in human uridine-cytidine kinase 2
Adam J. T. Smith, Ying Li and K. N. Houk
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 2716-2724

The chemistry of marine furanocembranoids, pseudopteranes, gersolanes, and related natural products
Paul A. Roethle and Dirk Trauner
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2008, 25, 298-317

Radicals with a controlled lifestyle
JoAnne Stubbe
Chem. Commun., 2003, 2511-2513

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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry achieves its highest ever impact factor

The latest citation data released by Thomson ISI on 17 June 2010 reveal that Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry’s Impact Factor has risen to its highest ever value of 3.762.

OBC's impact factor growth

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry’s Impact Factor growth over the last 5 years

‘Another highest-ever figure for the fifth successive year, maintaining its position as one of the leading journals for publishing high quality and widely-read organic research’ says Richard Kelly, the Editor of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Be part of this success and submit now to OBC!

OBC’s broad scope means that we publish great research across the entire spectrum of organic and biomolecular chemistry, including emerging areas. We welcome all types of manuscripts: communications, full papers and reviews. We have a very international authorship and readership that is continously growing (like our impact factor!).

Thank you to all our authors, readers and referees who are the architects of this success.

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Follow Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry with Twitter

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry has joined the Twitter community! Keep up to date with the latest Hot Articles and news by becoming a follower of our Twitter feed.

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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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OBC Lecture Award winner 2010 announced

We are pleased to announce Professor Michael Burkart at the University of California, San Diego, in the US, as the winner of the 2010 OBC Lecture Award.

Professor Burkart was selected by the judges in recognition of his international reputation and contribution to the fields of natural products and biosynthesis.

Michael Burkart‘The greatest reward of these efforts has been to find our tools useful to others’, says Professor Burkart. ‘This is born out by our ongoing collaborations and by the adoption of our tools by contemporary research groups. This recognition is a testament to the creativity and discipline practiced by my laboratory colleagues, and I would like to thank them. My thanks also go to OBC for supporting our research publications since its inception. OBC has served as an outstanding venue to publish our interdisciplinary, and sometimes unconventional, projects’.

 

The 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. The call for nominations triggered a great response from the organic and bioorganic community, with the winner being selected from all the nominees by a panel of judges.

Professor Burkart’s lecture will be given at the ‘Directing Biosynthesis 2010: Discovery, Evolution, Function’ conference to be held at Durham University, UK, from the 15th – 17th September 2010. The lecture will focus on his recent studies of enzyme identities, mechanisms and structures.

Read some of his latest publications:

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
DOI: 10.1039/b925966j

A strategy to discover inhibitors of Bacillus subtilis surfactin-type phosphopantetheinyl transferase
Adam Yasgar, Timothy L. Foley, Ajit Jadhav, James Inglese, Michael D. Burkart, Anton Simeonov, Mol. BioSyst., 2010, (2),365-375
DOI: 10.1039/b913291k

 The chemical biology of modular biosynthetic enzymes
Jordan L. Meier, Michael D. Burkart, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2009, (7),2012-2045
DOI: 10.1039/b805115c

Congratulations!

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