Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Blog

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.

Xianzhang Bu and colleagues at Sun Yat-Sen University in China have ‘unexpectedly’ discovered new fluorescent trans-dihydrofluoren-3-ones from one pot reactions of benzaldehydes and acetylacetone.

Find out more on the article which is free to access until the 7th December
Have you ever experienced an ‘unexpected’ synthesis in your lab? You can now tell us by commenting on this blog.

New fluorescent trans-dihydrofluoren-3-ones from aldol–Robinson annulation–regioselective addition involved one-pot reaction
Yingpeng Huo, Xu Qiu, Weiyan Shao, Jianing Huang, Yanjun Yu, Yinglin Zuo, Linkun An, Jun Du and Xianzhang Bu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 5048-5052
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00401D

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.

Tanabe, Nishimoto and co-workers at Kyoto University, propose a mechanism for the intramolecular cyclization of modified oligodeoxynucleotides bearing a pair of disulfides.

This colourful cover represents how X-Ray irradiation of an aqueous solution of modified oligodeoxynucleotides with a pair of disulfides at both ends causes efficient cyclization via an
intramolecular exchange reaction.

The article is free to access until the end of November.

Radiolytic cyclization of stem-and-loop structured oligodeoxynucleotide with neighboring arrangement of α,ω-bis-disulfides
Kazuhito Tanabe, Eiji Matsumoto, Takeo Ito and Sei-ichi Nishimoto
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 4837-4842
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00275E