Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2018, 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.

Professor Xiaoming Feng， Sichuan University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-0478
Prof. Xuefeng Jiang， East China Normal University，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1849-6572
Dr Feng Shi， Jiangsu Normal University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3922-0708
Prof. Huanfeng Jiang， South China University of Technology，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4355-0294
Dr Junliang Zhang， Fudan University，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4636-2846
Dr Ying-Chun Chen， Sichuan University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1902-0979
Dr Michal Szostak Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9650-9690
Dr Takashi Koike， Tokyo Kogyo Daigaku，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3737-7093
Dr Varma Saikam， Georgia State University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2500-9717
Dr Igor Alabugin Florida， Florida State University ，https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9289-3819

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 (OrgChemFrontiersED@rsc.org) 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

Welcome to issue 6 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now. 

The front cover story, Selective carbonylation of benzene to benzaldehyde using a phosphorus–nitrogen PN³P–rhodium(I) complex, is contributed by Huang Kuo-Wei and co-authors.

The inside cover features a story on Deciphering the exceptional selectivity of semipinacol rearrangements in cis-fused β-lactam diols using high-level quantum chemical methods by Abdulkader Baroudi and Amir Karton.

SupraChem 2019 was recently held at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany and organised by Florian Beuerle and Organic Chemistry Frontiers Associate Editor Frank Würthner. Organic Chemistry Frontiers was proud to support and sponsor the meeting, alongside Chemical Science and Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

This free-to-attend meeting brought together supramolecular chemists from Germany and neighbouring countries and covered a range of topics from supramolecular machinery to materials and analytical techniques to host-guest chemistry and sensing. Keynote lectures were given by world-renowned supramolecular chemists Vivian W. W. Yang, J. Fraser Stoddart and, new Chemical Science Editor-in-Chief, Andrew I. Cooper. These speakers helped generate some great discussion alongside the additional 27 presentations and led to a very successful meeting.

Chemical Science Deputy Editor Jeremy Allen was in attendance to meet with the delegates and represent the Royal Society of Chemistry. He also helped present some poster prizes on behalf of Chemical Science and Organic Chemistry Frontiers:

• Chemical Science poster prize winner: Jonas Matern (Universität Münster) for “Insights into the complex self-assembly pathways of a chiral, oligophenyleneethynylene (OPE) based Pd(II) complex”
• Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prize winner: Julia Bartl (TU Kaiserslautern) for “A cyclopeptide-derived molecular cage for anion encapsulation”

Jeremy Allen presenting poster prizes to Jonas Matern (Left) and Julia Bartl (Right)

There were a further 5 poster prizes awarded from other journals and publishing houses, these went to:

• Meike Sapotta (Universität Würzburg) for “A water-soluble perylene bisimide cyclophane as a molecular probe for the recognition of aromatic alkaloids”
• Irene Regeni (TU Dortmund) for “Self-assembled [Pd₂L₄] coordination cages based on well-known organic dyes”
• Oleksandr Shyshov (Universität Ulm) for “Supramolecular chemistry of all-cis hexafluorocyclohexane and its derivatives”
• Hendrik V. Schröder (FU Berlin) for “Accordion-like motion in electrochemically switchable crown ether/ammonium oligorotaxanes”
• Sebastian M. Kopp (Universität Würzburg) for “Toward singlet fission: chromophore multiplication in pentacene derivatives with adamantyl bridges”

(Left to right) Markus Albrecht, Jeremy Allen, Irene Regeni, Oleksandr Shyshov, Julia Bartl, Meike Sapotta, Jonas Matern, Diane Smith, Sebastian Kopp, Hendrik Schröder, Frank Würthner, Florian Beuerle

Congratulations to all the poster prize winners!

SupraChem 2019 delegates

The next SupraChem meeting will be held in 2021 in Mainz, Germany

Welcome to issue 5 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Efficient and phosphine-free bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium catalytic systems for the dehydrogenative amidation of alcohols and amines, is contributed by Cheng Chen and Francis Verpoort and co-authors.

The inside cover features a story on Genome mining for fungal polyketide-diterpenoid hybrids: discovery of key terpene cyclases and multifunctional P450s for structural  diversification by Wei-Guang Wang, Yudai  Matsuda and co-authors.

Welcome to issue 4 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story Silver-promoted selective fluorination of 2-aminopyrimidines: synthesis of 5-fluoro-2-aminopyrimidine derivatives is contributed by Xiaoming Zhao and his co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Re^I-Catalyzed highly regio- and stereoselective C–H addition to terminal and internal alkynes by Chien-Hong Cheng and his co-authors.