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HOT: Organocatalytic approach to the enantioselective synthesis of alpha-arylcyclohexenones and derivatives



M. Belén Cid et al. at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, have devised a simple and efficient organocatalytic approach for the synthesis of alpha-aryl cyclohexenones and cyclohexanones, leading to ee up to 96% and complete diastereoselectivity, via a Michael addition and aldol reaction as key steps.

Highly rated by the reviewers and editorial office alike, this Hot Article will be FREE to access for the next 4 weeks.

This article is also part of a joint ChemComm & OBC web theme issue on Organocatalysis.

Keep checking this page as further articles are added to the web theme issue.

An organocatalytic approach to enantiomerically enriched α-arylcyclohexenones and cyclohexanones
Sara Duce, María Jorge, Inés Alonso, José Luis García Ruano and M. Belén Cid
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06356A, Paper
From collection Organocatalysis

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Organocatalysis – announcing a joint ChemComm–OBC web theme

We are delighted to announce a forthcoming ChemCommOrganic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) web themed issue:

Organocatalysis

Guest editors: Keiji Maruoka (Kyoto University), Hisashi Yamamoto (University of Chicago), Liu-Zhu Gong (University of Science and Technology of China) and Benjamin List (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung)

Submission deadline: 29th February 2012


We are now inviting submissions for this web theme, which will be a celebration of current achievements and future perspectives in this exciting field of research.

ChemComm and OBC are both welcoming urgent communications; OBC also welcomes full papers. Please feel free to submit to either or both journals.

All manuscripts will undergo strict peer review and should be very important and conceptually significant in accord with the ChemComm and OBC mandates.

Publication of the peer-reviewed articles will occur without delay to ensure the timely dissemination of the work. The articles will then be assembled on the RSC Publishing Platform as a web-based thematic issue, to permit readers to consult and download individual contributions from the entire series.

Communications for this web theme can be submitted anytime from now until 29th February using ChemComm’s and OBC’s web submission system. Please add the phrase ‘organocatalysis web theme‘ in the comments to the editor field.

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Free Radical Chemistry themed issue in memory of Athel Beckwith

Professor Athel Beckwith who inspired a generation of free radical chemists

View the Free Radical Chemistry web themed issue

It was a stunned international chemistry community that learnt of the tragic death of Athel Beckwith on 15 May 2010. As word spread, shock and disbelief were the overwhelming sentiments; the world had lost a scientific treasure.

Athel Beckwith was born in Perth on 20 February 1930. His father was a pharmacist and both of his parents were gifted musicians, a trait passed on to Athel at an early age. He attended Perth Modern School where he excelled. He matriculated with Distinction in all seven subjects and went on to the University of Western Australia for his chemical education. It was during his undergraduate studies that Athel learnt that the most interesting chemistry occurs when there is an unexpected outcome and that it is through these unexpected outcomes that we learn new things. These are principles that he passed on to his students during his academic career including myself.

Athel spent his Honours year working on natural product chemistry under the guidance of Doug White, and later on reaction mechanisms with Joe Miller. After a period as a graduate assistant he moved to Adelaide to take up a position as a junior lecturer, but eventually doctoral studies lured Athel to Oxford where he worked with Professor Waters on relatively unknown entities known as “free radicals”, a “wise choice” according to Athel.

After a year at Imperial College on a Nuffield Foundation grant he returned to Adelaide where he established a research group working on free radicals and shortly after became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the age of 35. This was a very important period in the development of free radical chemistry and led to “Beckwith’s Rules” for predicting the outcomes of free radical cyclization reactions. In 1981 he moved to the Australian National University where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

I know of only three reactions that are named after Australian chemists (Birch, Liepa and Beckwith–Dowd) and, it is significant that they all involve free radicals. It was carrying out a Birch reduction as an undergraduate that swayed me toward chemistry and eventually free radicals and I was fortunate to work under Athel’s guidance during my PhD studies. Athel was at the cutting edge of free radical chemistry during what I have referred to as the “Free Radical Renaissance Period” and others have called the “Golden Age” during which the factors that govern radical chemistry were being teased out to provide guidelines that we now all take for granted. His contributions to the understanding of factors that govern the region- and stereo-selectivity of radical reactions are profound and enduring and established Australia as a major hub of activity in the field, a hub that several of his “academic children” have inherited. He also made significant contributions to radical clock reactions, nitroxide chemistry, the neophyl and other rearrangements, ESR spectroscopy, as well as other chemistries.

I have tried to model my role as supervisor to his “scientific grandchildren” on the principles that he taught me; even if I perform my role to only a fraction of Athel’s ability, I would consider that to be a great achievement. In addition to being a brilliant scientist, Athel was always kind, a gentleman and a scholar in the truest sense, a wonderful human being.  Further information about Athel can be found in a recent interview for the Australian Academy of Science (http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/b/ab.html).

It has been a pleasure to be the guest editor of this special free radical themed issue of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry dedicated to Athel. It is timely that the latest free radical chemistry be showcased in such a manner, and I am confident that Athel would have appreciated reading each of the cutting-edge articles presented in this special issue. Fittingly, a diversity of radical chemistry from around the world is represented in this issue, of which about 25% of articles have been flagged as being HOT. The overwhelmingly positive responses from members of the international free radical community to invitations to contribute to this issue is a measure of the fondness and esteem that Athel Beckwith was held in and I thank each of you for making this issue such a success.  I also thank the Team at Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, in particular Lorena Tomas Laudo, Roxane Owen and Richard Kelly for their professional expert assistance, guidance and good humour.

Carl Schiesser – Guest Editor

 

Carl Schiesser is Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at The University of Melbourne and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Bio­technology. He received his PhD in 1987 from the Australian National University working with Professor Athel Beckwith and was a postdoc with Professor Alwyn Davies at University College London from 1988–1990. Professor Schiesser received a DSc from the University of Adelaide in 2000 and was awarded the prestigious A. J. Birch medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2006.  Carl is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has extensive experience in free radical chemistry, ranging from molecular modelling, through to mechanistic and kinetic studies, the development of new chemical methodology, synthesis of bioactive molecules and cultural materials conservation.

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OBC themed issue on foldamer chemistry – Call for papers

OBC is delighted to announce a high-profile web theme focussing on foldamer chemistry. Submissions are now open.

This online theme issue will be published at the end of 2011. Submissions of communications and full papers can be made at any time but must be received by the editorial office by 15 August 2011 for peer review.

Submission and tracking of manuscripts can be done directly online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ob. Submissions should indicate in the “comments to the editor” section that they are for the foldamers web theme.

You can view other, recently published OBC web themes at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/ob#!themedissues

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OBC web theme: Foldamer Chemistry – call for papers

OBC is delighted to announce a high-profile web theme focussing on foldamer chemistry. Submissions are now open.

This online theme issue will be published at the end of 2011. Submissions of communications and full papers can be made at any time but must be received by the editorial office by 15 August 2011 for peer review.

Submission and tracking of manuscripts can be done directly online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ob. Submissions should indicate in the “comments to the editor” section that they are for the foldamers web theme.

You can view other, recently published OBC web themes at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/ob#!themedissues

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Welcome to the Fluorine Chemistry Themed Issue

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The RSC Fluorine Interest group celebrates its tenth anniversary.
In the past 10 years, we have witnessed a steady expansion of academic departments, institutes, scientific societies and special journal issues, all geared towards the promotion of fluorine chemistry. We have been thrilled to be part of this amazing period in the evolution and vitalisation of the field.

The group was launched in 2000 with Professor John M. Winfield (University of Glasgow) as its first Chair with the goals of providing a platform to encourage the highest-calibre research in fluorine chemistry in the UK and abroad, raising international visibility of the field and fostering the development of a broader community of fluorine chemists. Following John’s steps, Professor David O’ Hagan contributed to this mission as the second Chair of the group. 

The RSC Fluorine Prize was initiated in 2005 and rapidly gained international recognition. We are gratified by the positive feedback that we have received this far on the Fluorine group and the Prize, in particular, which has attracted outstanding winners since its creation (Professor Norio Shibata 2005, Professor Thomas Braun 2007 and Professor Jinbo Hu 2009).
Our well-established annual Postgraduate Meeting has also increased our visibility over the years, gathering all ages of fluorine chemists from the UK and overseas.

On this occasion, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all our sponsors and members, who have supported the Fluorine Group in many ways and thereby contributing to the expansion of the field in the past ten years.

This web-themed anniversary issue, published across several RSC journals, illustrates a breadth of original research in the field from fundamental to applied science covering aspects of inorganic, organic, physical and medicinal fluorine-based chemistry. Some remarkable recent achievements of fluorine chemistry are showcased giving a unique overview of the many possibilities that this element offers.

I wish to express my sincere and deep appreciation to all of you who have supported our Group and contributed a paper to celebrate this 10th anniversary.  Reading your contribution was not only a pleasure but will also undoubtedly stimulate future developments in this exciting field of research.

Thanks for your support and for sharing our enthusiasm for fluorine chemistry.

Oxford

December 9, 2010

Professor Véronique Gouverneur

Chair RSC Fluorine Group

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Chemistry Nobel Prize 2010 Web Collection

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2010

Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki

To commemorate the 2010 Nobel Prize, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry has collated some of the OBC articles published on cross-coupling reactions in organic chemistry in the last years.

You can take a look at them on this special 2010 Chemistry Nobel Prize web collection.

We hope you enjoy reading them and once again, congratulations to the recipients of this prestigious award.

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