Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Reviews and highlights in Organic Chemistry Frontiers focus on the significant and timely topics from across the field. Those 2015 articles are now free to access until the end of February 2016.

If you have not yet read the high impact reviews from Organic Chemistry Frontiers, now it is your chance!

Check out the full collection at http://rsc.li/ocfrev15.

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of polysubstituted spirocyclopropyl oxindoles: organocatalysis versus transition metal catalysis

Zhong-Yan Cao and Jian Zhou

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 849-858
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00092K

Catalytic enantioselective organic transformations via visible light photocatalysis

Chengfeng Wang and Zhan Lu

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 179-190
DOI: 10.1039/C4QO00306C

Transition metal-catalyzed direct remote C–H functionalization of alkyl groups via C(sp³)–H bond activation

Guanyinsheng Qiu and Jie Wu

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 169-178
DOI: 10.1039/C4QO00207E

Engineering ligands on the Au center: discovering broadly applicable gold catalysis with high turnover numbers

Suleman M. Inamdar and Nitin T. Patil

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 995-998
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00162E

Handling diazonium salts in flow for organic and material chemistry

Nicolas Oger, Erwan Le Grognec and François-Xavier Felpin

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 590-614
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00037H

Read more 2015 review-type articles, please visit http://rsc.li/ocfrev15.

Welcome to the first issue of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2016! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The cover story,  Chemoselective catalytic reduction of conjugated α,β-unsaturated ketones to saturated ketones via a hydroboration/protodeboronation strategy is contributed by Wen Ding and Qiuling Song.

Following  review article is also included in the current issue:

New developments of ketonitrones in organic synthesis
Wei-Min Shi, Xiao-Pan Ma, Gui-Fa Su and Dong-Liang Mo
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 116-130
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00122F

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The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The cover story, Visible-light photoredox catalysis: direct synthesis of fused β-carbolines through an oxidation/[3 + 2] cycloaddition/oxidative aromatization reaction cascade in batch and flow microreactors is contributed by Ram Awatar Maurya and his co-authors.

Following highlight article and review article are also included in the current issue:

Reverse-hydroformylation: a missing reaction explored
Avanashiappan Nandakumar, Manoj K. Sahoo and Ekambaram Balaraman
Org. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 1422-1424
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00229J

Metalorganocatalysis: cooperating transition-metal catalysis and organocatalysis through a covalent bond
Xiu-Qin Dong, Qingyang Zhao, Pan Li, Caiyou Chen and Xumu Zhang
Org. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 1425-1431
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00226E

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We are pleased to let you know that Organic Chemistry Frontiers (OCF) has been accepted for the following Thomson Reuters products beginning with volume 1(1) 2014:

• Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) including the Web of Science
• ISI Alerting Service
• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (CC/PC&ES)

The journal content will soon be available online from Web of Knowledge. The first Impact Factor (partial) will be released next year in 2015 Journal Citation Report.

In addition, you can also search articles and reactions published in OCF via Scopus (@Elsevier), SciFinder (@CAS) and STN (@CAS).

Please note that the standard journal abbreviation is Org. Chem. Front. when citing OCF papers.

We are delighted to announce that Organic Chemistry Frontiers is now indexed by Scopus (Elsevier), the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, since the very first issue.

Readers and authors can search for OCF content and track citations to OCF papers via www.scopus.com.

We hope that this information can help you to measure the impact of your article.

Please note that the standard journal abbreviation is Org. Chem. Front. when citing OCF papers.

Take best advantage of free access till end of 2015, and share OCF articles with your peers!

The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

Following review article is also included in the current issue:

Transition metal-catalyzed C–H bond functionalizations by the use of diverse directing groups
Zhengkai Chen, Binjie Wang, Jitan Zhang, Wenlong Yu, Zhanxiang Liu and Yuhong Zhang
Org. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 1107-1295
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00004A

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The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The cover story, A quantum mechanical study of the mechanism and stereoselectivity of the N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed [4 + 2] annulation reaction of enals with azodicarboxylates is contributed by Yang Wang, Linjie Zheng, Donghui Wei and Mingsheng Tang.

Following highlight article is also included in the current issue:

Engineering ligands on the Au center: discovering broadly applicable gold catalysis with high turnover numbers
Suleman M. Inamdar and Nitin T. Patil
Org. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 995-998
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00162E

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The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The cover story, Cu-catalyzed aerobic oxidative amidation of aryl alkyl ketones with azoles to afford tertiary amides via selective C–C bond cleavage is contributed by Wen Ding and Qiuling Song.

The inside front cover this issue features an article on Catalysis by electrons and holes: formal potential scales and preparative organic electrochemistry by Oana R. Luca, Jeffrey L. Gustafson, Sean M. Maddox, Aidan Q. Fenwick and Daryl C. Smith.

Following review article is also included in the current issue:

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of polysubstituted spirocyclopropyl oxindoles: organocatalysis versus transition metal catalysis
Zhong-Yan Cao and Jian Zhou
Org. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 849-858
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00092K

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Organic Chemistry Frontiers is proud to share with you a nice letter from the Associate Editor, Professor Erik Sorensen from Princeton University. In this responding letter to a referee, Erik talked about his motivation in working with OCF as well as the expectations to this high quality emerging journal.