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Issue 2 has now been published online and consists of research from a wide spectrum of subject areas.  Whether you are a materials scientist, biologist, physicist or medicinal chemist, you are guaranteed to find articles of relevance to your specialist interests.

Noteworthy articles include:

Two unique (4,5,6)-connected 2D CdII coordination polymers based on the 5-nitro-1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylate ligand
Lu-Fang Ma, Jian-Hua Qin, Li-Ya Wang and Dong-Sheng Li
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 180-183
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00119A

One-pot alkaline vapor oxidation synthesis and electrocatalytic activity towards glucose oxidation of CuO nanobelt arrays
Tetsuro Soejima, Hitomi Yagyu, Nobuo Kimizuka and Seishiro Ito
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 187-190
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00109D

The flow of magnetic nanoparticles in magnetic drug targeting
Sibnath Kayal, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Tapas Kumar Mandal and Raju V. Ramanujan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 238-246
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00023C

The electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of IS6110 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on a luminol functionalized gold nanoprobe
Jie Jiang, Ying Chai and Hua Cui
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 247-254
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00206F

Facile synthesis of 5-(alkylidene)thiophen-2(5H)-ones. A new class of antimicrobial agents
Tore Benneche, Gunnar Herstad, Marianne Rosenberg, Synnøve Assev and Anne Aamdal Scheie
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 323-332
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00254F

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Over the coming months, members of the team will be at the following conferences where they will be happy to talk to you:

• James Batteas, Associate Editor, will be at the Fall ACS meeting in Denver at the end of the month. Look for RSC Booth 1100! Lots of prizes to be won each day, incl. T-shirts, games & books.

• Marcos Eberlin, Associate Editor, will be at the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXVII in Brazil at the end of the month, where an RSC Advances poster prize will be awarded.

• Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor, travels to the 14th Asian Chemical Congress 2011 (14 ACC) taking place between 5-8 September 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Please contact us if you’d like to arrange a meeting.

• Mike Ward, Chair of the Editorial Board, is attending the 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC3) in New Delhi, India at the end of October. An RSC Advances poster prize will be awarded at this meeting.

And look out for our eye-catching RSC Advances materials, appearing at a variety of conferences over the coming months.

From Argentina to New Zealand, Korea to USA, scientists around the world have shown their support for RSC Advances by submitting their work. Our first issue is online now and access is free.*

Communications, full papers and reviews are all represented in the mix that encompasses all the main areas of the chemical sciences. But finding the articles that are most relevant to you won’t be a problem: our sophisticated behind-the-scenes topic modelling classifies the content into one or more of twelve subject categories, accessible via the subject tab on the website. 

Among the highlights in this issue:

• Al Postigo (Buenos Aires) reviews radical syntheses in water to make a wide array of organic compounds
• Rueping and Volla from RWTH Aachen report on a one-pot, highly stereoselective synthesis of indoloquinolizidines
• Sally Brooker et al deliver their findings on the spin states of two iron (II) complexes of 4-phenylpyrazole-5-carbaldehyde derived ligands
• Craig Banks, winner of the 2011 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, and co-authors show that carbon nanotubes can electrochemically detect biologically-important molecules

Marcos Eberlin, who is one of RSC Advances’ Associate Editors, has demonstrated his support through publishing his work on charge-tagged N-heterocyclic carbenes.

Of the first issue Marcos commented: “Very nice collection indeed … The subject tab is superb!”

Plus, Editorial Board Chair Mike Ward and RSC Publishing Editor Sarah Ruthven share their aspirations for the journal in the Editorial. 

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*Individuals can access the content by signing up for an RSC Publishing Personal Account. Existing institutional RSC journal subscribers, with registered IP, have automatic access. Other institutions can register for free access.