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17th Polymers and Organic Chemistry Conference (POC 2018)

18 Jan 2018

The 17^th IUPAC « Polymers and Organic Chemistry » international conference (POC 2018) will be held on 3-7 June 2018 in Palavas Les Flots, France. Organic Chemistry Frontiers is very pleased to be sponsoring this event!

This conference will contribute to promote the role of polymers in various areas of chemistry (organic chemistry, chemical transformations, catalysis, polymer applications, and environmental issues), and will provide perfect opportunities for participants to present and share the results of their research in the fields of polymer chemistry and applications.

Topical sessions

Phosphorus chemistry and polymers
Polymers for and from the sea
Polymers for energy
Smart and novel functional polymers
Supramolecular chemistry for polymers
Bio-inspired polymers for health
Bio-based polymers and their applications

Key dates

Deadline for abstract submission : 5 February 2018
Deadline for early registration : 5 April 2018
Deadline for late registration : 5 May 2018

Find out more about this conference from the official website!

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4th International Conference on Organometallic and Catalysis 2018 (OM&Cat 2018)

16 Jan 2018

Organic Chemistry Frontiers and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers are very pleased to be sponsoring the 4th International Conference on Organometallic and Catalysis 2018 (OM&Cat 2018) that will take place in Taipei, Taiwan from June 22-25, 2018.

Dr Daping Zhang, Executive Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and Organic Chemistry Frontiers will be also attending this event. Please let us know if you wish to talk to him about the Journals.

The OM&Cat has been taking place every two years since 2012. Previous OM&Cat conferences were held in Beijing (China, 2012), Nara (Japan, 2014), and Seoul (Korea, 2016). Over the years, this conference has become an important global event in the areas of organometallics and catalysis; the attendees often exceed 300 and more. The scientific program for OM&Cat 2018 conference will include two and half-one day lectures including plenary, invited and invited young lecturers in a single-session. Poster sessions will also be planned to highlight original and innovative ideas.

Important dates

January 1, 2018
Opening for Abstract Submission and Registration
April 10, 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline
April 20, 2018
Notification of Abstract Submission Acceptance
April 30, 2018
Early Registration Deadline

Grab you chance to submit the abstract and register the OM&Cat 2018!

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24 Frontiers board members achieve the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list

20 Dec 2017

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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Gold 2018

11 Dec 2017

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 8^th 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 22^nd Jan 2018. More information is available at the conference website.

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2nd From Carbon-Rich Molecules to Carbon-Based Materials Conference

19 Oct 2017

Organic Chemistry Frontiers and Materials Chemistry Frontiers are pleased to being sponsoring the 2^nd From Carbon-Rich Molecules to Carbon-Based Materials Conference to be held in in Nassau, Bahamas from 07-10 June 2018.

This interdisciplinary conference will feature a number of plenary and invited talks from leading scientists. Major focus areas will range from newly designed methods of chemical synthesis, characterization, and structure determination of carbon-rich molecules and carbon-based materials to measurements of their functional properties and investigations into their potential practical applications.

The conference is co-organized by Professor Michael Haley, the Guest Editor of Organic Chemistry Frontiers themed collection Novel π-electron molecular scaffolds.

Materials Chemistry Frontiers Associate Editor Shu Seki and Natalia B. Shustova are also being invited to the conference as speakers.

Register early for reduced fee by 7th December 2017 at the conference website!

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OMCOS19 (Jeju, 25-29 June 2017)

25 Apr 2017

The 19th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 19) will be held at International Convention Center Jeju from June 25th to June 29th of 2017.

Early bird registration: - April 28, 2017
Regular Registration:  April 29, 2017 - June 15, 2017

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is proud to be one of the sponsors to OMCOS19. This event was co-chaired by Sukbok Chang and Chulbom Lee, Editorial board member of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Shengming Ma is also giving a plenary talk at this conference. Please see here the detailed scientific program. If you wish to talk with Chulbom Lee of Shengming Ma about Organic Chemistry Frontiers, please let us know by email.

The OMCOS series of biennial symposia started in 1981. Its venue alternates between North America, Europe and East Asia. It is a single session type scientific conference that brings together industrial and academic chemists from around the world (often > 1000) to consider the most recent developments in new metal-mediated and -catalyzed reactions, mechanistic insights and new applications, novel preparations and uses for organometallic reagents, as well as ingenious and improved methods for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and materials using metals.

For more information about this year’s conference, please visit www.omcos2019.org. Make sure you register before 28 April to guarantee your place at the reduced fee.

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Web collection: Synthetic Approaches to Natural Products via Catalytic Processes

08 Feb 2017

We are delighted to announce a new themed collection to be published in 2017 on Organic Chemistry Frontiers:

Synthetic Approaches to Natural Products via Catalytic Processes

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2017

Guest edited by:	Louis Fensterbank	Shuanhu Gao	Armen Zakarian
	University Pierre et Marie Curie	East China Normal University	UC, Santa Barbara

See ‘Recent applications of Cp2TiCl in natural product synthesis’ (Org. Chem. Front., 2014, 1, 15-33)

Catalysis serves as a powerful tool for chemical bonds transformation, asymmetric induction, and more importantly for achieving increased structural complexity in fewer synthetic steps. Over the past decade, stunning advances in catalytic methods like photoredox catalysis, organocatalysis and transition-metal mediated catalysis etc. have revolutionised the ways in preparing architecturally complex natural products and natural-product-like structures.

With the rapid development of catalytic methods as well as their growing impact in natural product synthesis, we wish this web collection could offer colleagues a platform to showcase their most exciting researches, highlighting at the same time the state-of-the-art and current limitations in this field.

Research articles, Reviews and Highlights will be considered for publication. Submissions will be subject to normal peer review. Accepted articles will be published and included into recent journal issues without delay to permit the timely dissemination of the work.

Please note in “comments to the editors” field in the online submission system if your manuscript is dedicated to this themed collection.

We look forward to your contribution!

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International Conference on New Challenges in Organic Synthesis

21 Nov 2016

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is proud to sponsor the International Conference on New Challenges in Organic Synthesis on 26-29 November in Guangzhou, China.

The International Conference on New Challenges in Organic Synthesis (ICOS) is the premier conference on organic-related fields, which represents a fast-growing field of chemistry. This conference will provide a comprehensive overview of the latest research encompassing synthetic methodology, total synthesis, chemical biology and organic functional materials, featuring invited lectures by established researchers from across the globe and early-career scientists who are making recent, novel contributions.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is very pleased to participate in this exciting event and award prizes to authors of the best conference abstracts.

Professor Zhangjie Shi, the Editorial Board member of OCF, is also delivering an invited lecture at this conference. Please do speak to Professor Shi, if you have any question about the journal!

To find out more information about the speakers and how to register, please visit the conference WEBSITE!

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Nicolai Cramer joins Organic Chemistry Frontiers as Associate Editor

21 Oct 2016

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to announce that Professor Nicolai Cramer of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) will join the journal as an Associate Editor from 1st November 2016. He will bring his expertise in metal catalysis and synthetic organic chemistry to the journal and handle submissions from these areas.

Nicolai Cramer

Nicolai Cramer earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2005 from the University of Stuttgart, Germany under the guidance of Professor Sabine Laschat. After a brief research stint at Osaka University, Japan, he joined the group of Professor Barry Trost at Stanford University as Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral fellow from 2006-2007. He then moved to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland working towards his habilitation associated to the chair of Professor Erick M. Carreira. He received the venia legendi in 2010. Subsequently, Dr. Cramer joint EPF Lausanne, Switzerland as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. Among other prizes, he received the 2010 Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award and in 2013, the Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry, the BASF Catalysis Award and the Latsis Prize.

His general interests encompass enantioselective metal-catalyzed transformations and their implementation for the synthesis of biologically active molecules. A key focus of his research is the development of asymmetric C-H and C-C bond functionalizations enabled by tailored chiral ligands.

Check some of his recent publications:

Asymmetric Catalysis Powered by Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Ligands

Christopher G. Newton, David Kossler, and Nicolai Cramer

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 3935–3941

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12964

Enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed intramolecular cyclopropane functionalization: access to dihydroquinolones, dihydroisoquinolones and the BMS-791325 ring system

J. Pedroni, T. Saget, P. A. Donetsa and N. Cramer

Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5164-5171

DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01909E

Chiral Cyclopentadienyls: Enabling Ligands for Asymmetric Rh(III)-Catalyzed C–H Functionalizations

Baihua Ye and Nicolai Cramer

Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 1308–1318

DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00092

Catalysis: Gold unleashes the power of three

Christopher M. B. K. Kourra and Nicolai Cramer

Nature, 2015, 517, 440–441

DOI: 10.1038/517440a

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Top 10 Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers

21 Sep 2016

In celebration of Peer Review Week, with the theme of Recognition for Review – we would like to highlight the top 10 reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016, as selected by the editor for their significant contribution to the journal.

Name	Institution
Dr Yuhong Zhang	Zhejiang University
Dr Jie Wu	Fudan University
Dr Itaru Nakamura	Tohoku University
Dr Xingang Zhang	Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Zhang-jie Shi	Peking University
Dr Jin-Heng Li	Hunan University
Dr Sanzhong Luo	Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr Yong-Min Liang	Lanzhou University
Dr Naohiko Yoshikai	Nanyang Technological University
Dr Xingwei Li	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

We would like to say a massive thank you to these reviewers as well as the Organic Chemistry Frontiers board and all of the materials chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

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