Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Blog

Congratulations to  Richard Heck (University of Delaware, USA), Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue University, USA) and Akira Suzuki (Hokkaido University, Japan), the recipients of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

These three chemists have been working independently on palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions to make C-C bonds to design new organic molecules. Their chemical methods are widely used by the chemical communities  to develop new compounds and molecules with applications in pharmaceuticals, agriculture and the electronic industry.

I was listening to Professor Negishi this morning on his first interview live from Stockholm and he was absolutely delighted with the news. He was awoken by a phone call that told him he was one of the Chemistry Nobel Prize winners – what a great way of waking up in the morning!

Negishi said that he was ‘extremely happy – this means a lot’.   ‘I have been dreaming about this prize for half a century, since I came to America and encountered several Nobel laureates, when I realised it was not a story – it was a reality which in principle could happen to anyone, including myself.’ 
Professor Negishi, 2010 was your turn! Congratulations.

Neghisi, Suzuki and Heck will go to Stockohlm next December to receive this very well deserved prestigious prize. From Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry we wanted to send our most sincere appreciation and admiration to these three pioneers of organic chemistry.

Read more from Chemistry World here.

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:

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.

The RSC currently presents around 60 prestigious Prizes and Awards annually to scientists in all the main chemical science disciplines allowing for the greatest range of scientists to be recognised for their work; individuals, teams and organisations working across the globe.

There are nine categories of awards including specific categories for Industry and Education so whether you work in business, industry, research or education recognition is open to everyone.

Our Prizes and Awards represent the dedication and outstanding achievements in the chemicals sciences and are a platform to showcase inspiring science to gain the recognition deserved.

Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to advancing the chemical sciences? View our full list of Prizes and Awards and use the online system to nominate yourself or colleagues.