Archive for December, 2017

Welcome to Issue 1 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2018

Welcome to issue 1 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2018 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, A new approach for the synthesis of mono- and A1/A2-dihydroxy-substituted pillar[5]arenes and their complexation with alkyl alcohols in solution and in the solid state  by Talal F. Al-Azemi, Abdirahman A. Mohamod, Mickey Vinodh and Fatemeh H. Alipour。

Follow review type articles are also included in current issue:

Total synthesis of natural products via iridium catalysis
Changchun Yuan and Bo Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 106-131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00664K

Ir-Catalyzed reactions in natural product synthesis
Pengquan Chen, Yuecheng Wu, Shifa Zhu, Huanfeng Jiang and Zhiqiang Ma
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 132-150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00665A

 

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24 Frontiers board members achieve the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list

We are proud to announce that Clarivate Analytics names 24 Board members of Frontiers journals as Highly Cited Researchers for 2017, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and publication year. Congratulations!

Those recognized represent the Editorial Board and Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Organic Chemistry Frontiers and the new journal Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

The board members are:

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Organic Chemistry Frontiers Materials Chemistry Frontiers
Editorial Board Song Gao, Peking University, China

Jun Chen, Nankai University, China

Yi Lu, University of Illinois, USA

Guy Bertrand, University of California, San Diego, USA Ben Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, China


Advisory Board


Christopher J Chang, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA

Xile Hu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, USA

Yadong Li, Tsinghua University, China

Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, USA

Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Chunhua Yan, Peking University, China

Hong-Cai Joe Zhou, Texas A&M University, USA


Lutz Ackermann, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany

Matthias Beller, University of Rostock, Germany

Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany


Guillermo C Bazan, UC Santa Barbara, USA

Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, USA

Bin Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

He Tian, East China University of Science and Technology, China

Juyoung Yoon, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Hua Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China


Click here for the full listing from Clarivate Analytics.

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Hot Articles in November 2017

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of November 2017!

You can access these publications for free till 31st January 2018 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

An effective approach to aryl-substituted propanoic acids via the Pd-catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of stilbenes
Jie Dai, Wenlong Ren, Jingfu Li and Yian Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00726D

Nickel-catalyzed direct difluoromethylation of aryl boronic acids with BrCF2H
Jie Sheng, Hui-Qi Ni, Kang-Jie Bian, Yan Li, Yi-Ning Wang and Xi-Sheng Wang
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00934H

Enantioselective palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization of pyrroles using an axially chiral 2,2′-bipyridine ligand
Hong-Qiang Shen, Cong Liu, Ji Zhou and Yong-Gui Zhou
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00815E

Thiazolium salt-catalyzed [3 + 2 + 1] cyclization for the synthesis of trisubstituted 2-pyrones using arylglyoxals as a carbonyl source
Li-Chen Xu, Peng Zhou, Jia-Zhuo Li, Wen-Juan Hao, Shu-Jiang Tu and Bo Jiang
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00899F

Synthesis of pyridine trans-tetrafluoro-λ6-sulfane derivatives via radical addition
Prajwalita Das, Masahiro Takada, Etsuko Tokunaga, Norimichi Saito and Norio Shibata
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00994A

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Gold 2018

The Gold 2018 conference will be held on July 15-18, 2018 in Paris, France. Organic Chemistry Frontiers is very pleased to be sponsoring this event.

Gold 2018 is the 8th edition of the International conference series organized every three years, following Gold 2015 in Cardiff, Gold 2012 in Tokyo, Gold 2009 in Heidelberg… During Gold 2018, specialists working on gold chemistry will be given the opportunity to discuss the most recent highlights and achievements of their field, and also to get a comprehensive overview of the related areas of gold science in the parallel sessions of the conference.

Topics at the conference include:

A. Catalysis
B. Plasmonics
C. Biofunctionalization and medical applications
D. Self-assemblies and nanoparticles synthesis
E. Molecular gold complexes
F. Nanoelectronics, optoelectronics and electrochemistry

Submit your abstract to Gold 2018 by 22nd Jan 2018. More information is available at the conference website.

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Welcome to Issue 12 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2017

Welcome to issue 12 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2017 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The  front cover story, Metal-mediated C–O bond forming reactions in natural product synthesis by Gwilherm Evano, Jianjun Wang and Antoine Nitelet. The inside cover features a story on An expedient and novel strategy for reductive amination by employing H2O as both a hydrogen source and solvent via B2(OH)4/H2O systems.

Follow review  type article is also included in current issue:

Catalytic C–H amination at its limits: challenges and solutions
Damien Hazelard, Pierre-Antoine Nocquet and Philippe Compain
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 2500-2521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00547D

 

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