Outstanding Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

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We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr Pablo Ballester, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), ORCID: 0000-0001-8377-6610

Dr Ying-Chun Chen, Sichuan University, ORCID: 0000-0003-1902-0979

Prof Xuefeng Jiang East China Normal University, ORCID: 0000-0002-1849-6572

Dr Shukkoor Muhammed Kondengaden, Georgia State University

Prof Zhan Lu, Zhejiang Universitry, ORCID: 0000-0002-3069-079X

Dr Feng Shi, Jiangsu Normal University, ORCID: 0000-0003-3922-0708

Dr Qiuling Song, Huaqiao Univeristy, ORCID: 0000-0002-9836-8860

Dr Jie Wu, Fudan University, ORCID: 0000-0002-0967-6360

Dr Da-Gang Yu, Sichuan University, ORCID: 0000-0001-5888-1494

Dr Yonghui Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0002-7222-2142

We would also like to thank the Organic Chemistry Frontiers board and the organic chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

 

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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Congratulations to our highly cited board members!

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We are proud to announce that 5 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers Board members are recognized in Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and publication year.

The board members are:

Editorial Board

Frank Würthner, University of Würzburg, Germany

Advisory Board

Matthias Beller, University of Rostock, Germany
Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Lutz Ackermann, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Chen-Ho Tung, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, China

 

Below are a few of our picks from their publications in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
Access is free to these highlighted papers until 31 Jan 2020!

Guest-mediated chirality transfer in the host–guest complexes of an atropisomeric perylene bisimide cyclophane host
Meike Sapotta, Peter Spenst, Chantu R. Saha-Möllera and Frank Würthner*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 892-899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00172G

Progress in the synthesis of perylene bisimide dyes
Agnieszka Nowak-Król and Frank Würthner*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1272-1318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO01368C

Water-soluble naphthalene diimides: synthesis, optical properties, and colorimetric detection of biogenic amines
Annike Weißenstein, Vincenzo Grande, Chantu R. Saha-Möllera and Frank Würthner*
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2641-2651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00611C

Decarboxylative sulfenylation of amino acids via metallaphotoredox catalysis
Lidan Wei, Chengjuan Wu, Chen-Ho Tung, Wenguang Wang* and Zhenghu Xu*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 3224-3227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00817A

Scandium-catalyzed electrophilic alkene difunctionalization: regioselective synthesis of thiosulfone derivatives
Shuai Huang, Haoyu Li, Tian Xie, Fang Wei*, Chen-Ho Tung and Zhenghu Xu*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1663-1666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00138G

Cobalt-catalyzed radical cyclization of isocyanides forming phenanthridine derivatives
Xiangyu Liu, Chengjuan Wu*, Jing Zhang, Yihan Shi, Shengnan Zhang, Yan Geng, Chen-Ho Tung and Wenguang Wang*
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2997-3002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00887F

Recent advances in positional-selective alkenylations: removable guidance for twofold C–H activation
Wenbo Ma*, Parthasarathy Gandeepan*, Jie Lid and Lutz Ackermann*
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 1435-1467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00134G

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Jennifer Schomaker joins OCF as Associate Editor

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Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to welcome Professor Jennifer Schomaker (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) as Associate Editor for the journal.

Biography

Jennifer Schomaker began her research career at Dow Chemical in Organic Chemicals and Polymers, later moving to Agricultural Chemicals Process Research, where she participated in route selection and scale-up campaigns for two new herbicides. After 7 years in industry, she obtained her Ph.D. with Professor Babak Borhan at Michigan State University in 2006 before moving to UC-Berkeley as an NIH postdoctoral fellow under Professors Robert G. Bergman and F. Dean Toste. She joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009, where she is a full professor.

 

 

 

 

Research Highlights

Her research focuses on new methodologies for preparing stereochemically complex, densely functionalized amines, catalyst-controlled, tunable chemo- and site-selective C-H functionalizations, uncovering new reactivities catalyzed by first-row transition metals, total synthesis of bioactive natural and unnatural products, and development of new bioorthogonal labeling reagents.

Check some of her publications at Royal Society of Chemistry:

Regioselective differentiation of vicinal methylene C–H bonds enabled by silver-catalysed nitrene transfer

Ryan J. Scamp, Bradley Scheffer and Jennifer M. Schomaker

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 7362-7365

Tunable differentiation of tertiary C–H bonds in intramolecular transition metal-catalyzed nitrene transfer reactions

Joshua R. Corbin and Jennifer M. Schomaker

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 4346-4349

 

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Arjan W. Kleij joins OCF as Associate Editor

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Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to welcome Professor Arjan W. Kleij (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain) as Associate Editor for the journal.

Biography

Arjan W. Kleij received his MSc in 1996 and PhD in 2000 from Utrecht University working on dendrimer- and polymer-supported homogeneous catalysts. In 2000, he moved to industry and worked for more than 3 years at Avantium in its pharmaceutical branch, and later at Hexion as a research scientist. In 2002-2005, he was a postdoc at UAM in Madrid (Spain) and at the University of Amsterdam. In 2006, he moved to the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) and became Group Leader, and was promoted to ICREA Professor in 2011. He is the recipient of a NWO Talent Fellowship and an ICREA junior grant, and recently featured in the author profile section of Angewandte Chemie. Arjan has (co)authored around 180 papers and 4 patent applications with >9600 citations (h-index 55). He is an advisory board member for ChemSusChem and editorial board member for the Journal of CO2 Utilization. He is chair of the Carbon Dioxide Conversion Catalysis (CDCC) conference and the EuGSC-4.

 

Research Highlights

His research is centered on the use of effective and new catalytic solutions (both metal- and organocatalysisorientated) towards the preparation of fine chemicals, pharma-relevant compounds and novel materials based on bio-based polymers. Focuses are on exquisite control over chemo-, regio-, diastereo- and enantio-selectivity features creating new synthetic opportunities of fundamental and industrial interest.

Check some of his publications at Royal Society of Chemistry:

Entropic corrections for the evaluation of the catalytic activity in the Al(III) catalysed formation of cyclic carbonates from CO2 and epoxides

Joan González-Fabra, Fernando Castro-Gómez, W. M. C. Sameera, Gunnar Nyman, Arjan W. Kleij and Carles Bo

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019,9, 5433-5440

 

Advances in the use of COas a renewable feedstock for the synthesis of polymers

Bruno Grignard, Sandro Gennen, Christine Jérôme, Arjan W. Kleij and Christophe Detrembleur

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2019,48, 4466-4514

Self-assembly of bis-salphen compounds: from semiflexible chains to webs of nanorings

Sergey V. Pyrlin, Nicholas D. M. Hine, Arjan W. Kleij and Marta M. D. Ramos

Soft Matter, 2018,14, 1181-1194

Polystyrene-supported bifunctional resorcinarenes as cheap, metal-free and recyclable catalysts for epoxide/CO2 coupling reactions

Jose, S. Cañellas, M. A. Pericàs and A. W. Kleij

Green Chem., 2017,19, 5488-5493

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Hot Article in October 2019

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Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT article of October 2019!
You can access this publication for free till 31-Dec-2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

Asymmetric organocatalyzed reaction sequence of 2-hydroxy cinnamaldehydes and acyclic N-sulfonyl ketimines to construct diverse chiral bridged polycyclic aminals
Ying-Han Chen, Xue-Jiao Lv, Zhi-Hao You and Yan-Kai Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO01116A

 

1,1′-Bi(2-naphthol-4,5-dicarboximide)s: blue emissive axially chiral scaffolds with aggregation-enhanced emission properties
Meng-Ting Chen, Yang Zhang, Myroslav O. Vysotsky, Joachim O. Lindner, Meng-Hua Li, Mei-Jin Lin and Frank Würthner
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO01090D

 

Photocatalytic decarboxylative [2 + 2 + 1] annulation of 1,6-enynes with N-hydroxyphthalimide esters for the synthesis of indene-containing polycyclic compounds
Meng-Jie Jiao, Dan Liu, Xiu-Qin Hu and Peng-Fei Xu
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO01166H

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Celebration of the 75th birthday of Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.

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On October 17-20, 2019, a Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry in Celebration of Prof. Julius Rebek Jr.’s 75th birthday was held at the University of Shanghai, hosted by Prof. Yang Yu. More than 30 alumni of Professor Rebek presented their research, covering an enormous spread of research inspired by their academic teacher Julius Rebek from supramolecular chemistry to catalysis, biological chemistry up to materials science. At this event a printed version of a themed collection of Organic Chemistry Frontiers dedicated to Professor Julius Rebek on the occassion of his 75th birthday in April 2019 was given to Prof. Rebek by the two guest editors, Pablo Ballester and Frank Würthner (see picture below).

From left to right: Prof. Frank Würthner, Associate Editor of OCF; Prof. Julius Rebek, Jr. with the special issue dedicated to him; Prof. Pablo Ballester, Guest Editor of the special issue; Prof. Yang Yu, Organizer of the Symposium at Shanghai University

 

Read the articles in the themed collection in celebration of the 75th birthday of Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.

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Welcome to Issue 20 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

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Welcome to issue 20 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

 

The front cover story, Steric hindrance classified: treatment of isothiocyanatoallene with secondary amines bearing bulky substituents to generate 2-aminothiazoles, is contributed by Klaus Banert and Jennifer Seifert.The inside cover features a story on Synthesis of chromans and kinetic resolution of 2-aryl-3-nitro-2H-chromenes via the NHC-bound azolium homoenolate pathway by Aditya Bhattacharya, Pushpendra mani Shukla, Lalit Kumar Kaushik and Biswajit Maji .

 

 

 

Follow review type articles are also included in current issue:

 

Recent advances in intramolecular C–O/C–N/C–S bond formation via C–H functionalization
Paran J. Borpatra, Bhaskar Deka, Mohit L. Deb and Pranjal K. Baruah
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 3445-3489
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00863B

Applications of sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2) in chemical transformations
Ravindar Lekkala, Revathi Lekkala, Balakrishna Moku, K. P. Rakesh and Hua-Li Qin
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 3490-3516
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00747D

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Welcome to Issue 19 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

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Welcome to issue 19 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

 

The front cover story, Synthetic approach to skeletally diverse nitrogen heterocycles from dicyano-2-methylenebut-3-enoates is contributed by Xiang Zhang, Qing-Fei Huang, Wen-Lin Zou, Qing-Zhu Li, Xin Feng, Zhi-Qiang Jia, Yue Liu, Jun-Long Li and Qi-Wei Wang.

 

 

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Welcome to Issue 18 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

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Welcome to issue 18 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

 

The front cover story, Stable dicationic dioxoliums and fate of their dioxolyl radicals, is contributed by Marc Devillard, Vianney Regnier, Jacques Pecaut and David Martin and their co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Dual-directional alkyne-terminated macrocycles: Enroute to non-aggregating molecular platforms by Ali Husain, Asaithampi Ganesan, Basma Ghazal, Mahmut Durmuş, Xian-Fu Zhang and Saad Makhseed.

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Hot Article in August 2019

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Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT article of August 2019!
You can access this publication for free till 31-Oct-2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

Minisci C–H alkylation of N-heteroarenes with aliphatic alcohols via β-scission of alkoxy radical intermediates
Xiafei Hu, Guo-Xing Li, Gang He and Gong Chen
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00786E

 

Constructing bridged multifunctional calixarenes by intramolecular indole coupling
Boris Bolshchikov, Sergey Volkov, Daria Sokolova, Alexander Gorbunov, Alina Serebryannikova, Igor Gloriozov, Dmitry Cheshkov, Stanislav Bezzubov, Wen-Sheng Chung, Vladimir Kovalev and Ivan Vatsouro
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00859D

 

Asymmetric domino 1,6-addition/annulation reaction of 3-cyano-4-alkenyl-2H-chromen-2-ones with isatin-derived MBH carbonates: enantioselective synthesis of 3,3′-cyclopentenylspirooxindoles bearing 2H-chromen-2-ones
Zhen-Hua Wang, Chuan-Wen Lei, Xia-Yan Zhang, Yong You, Jian-Qiang Zhao and Wei-Cheng Yuan
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00890J

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