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Introducing the organic chemistry collection

23 Feb 2016

This organic chemisty collection has been collated by Editorial Board member Professor Russell Cox (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany). It brings together articles with the continued aim of inspiring new authors to submit their best work to the journal, and also to highlight great work by regular authors. These articles are already among the most highly cited works in the journal, illustrating their impact.

The subject areas of the articles include those traditionally regarded as organic, such as synthesis, catalysis, heterocyclic and organometallic chemistry, natural products chemistry and method development. In addition, the collection also includes articles from overlapping areas, such as green chemistry, fuel production, ionic solvents and materials chemistry, where there is a strong organic and biological component. Underpinning all are theoretical and computational studies. Finally, emerging areas, including photovoltaics and chemical biology, have strong organic chemistry foundations and also find a natural home in this RSC Advances collection.

This selection aims to illustrate the breadth, depth and impact of papers published in RSC Advances in the area of organic chemistry and stimulate new submissions in these and allied areas.

The collection contains reviews, communications and full papers, all of which can be found here.

Credit: Recent advances in 4(3H)-quinazolinone syntheses, 10.1039/C4RA00351A

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Reviewer Panel Member Terms of Reference

01 Dec 2015

By Simon R. T. Neil, Deputy Editor.

RSC Advances
Reviewer Panel Member

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Role
To be a member of the RSC Advances Reviewer Panel and provide 24, 36 or 48 reviews per year.

You will be invited by Associate Editors to review submissions in your selected area(s) of expertise. Associate Editors will use your chosen areas of expertise, along with subject areas provided by authors during submission of their manuscript, to invite you to review suitable manuscripts.

Responsibilities of a Reviewer Panel Member

To act as a reviewer for RSC Advances. Panel members can expect to receive, on average, from two to four manuscripts to review per month within their field of expertise.
To advise and assist the RSC Advances Associate Editors in assessing manuscripts against the publication criteria of the Journal (see below) and to recommend suitable papers for publication in RSC Advances.
To provide a recommendation and report via the manuscript processing system within the timeframe specified on the reviewer invitation email.
To provide advice to the RSC Advances Associate Editors on borderline papers and act as adjudicator in cases involving conflicting reviewer reports and appeals where appropriate.
To inform the Associate Editor, by responding appropriately to the reviewer invitation, if a manuscript sent to you for review cannot be assessed for any reason (including conflicts of interest) and where possible suggest an alternative member of the Reviewer Panel.
To notify the Editorial Office, in advance, of any significant periods of time that you will be unavailable for reviewing.
To regularly update your research interests via the manuscript processing system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rscadv).

Criteria for publication in RSC Advances

When assessing articles for publication in RSC Advances, please consider the following:

Does the work present a significant advance over the existing literature? Is the advance clearly highlighted in the main article?
Has sufficient evidence/data been provided to support the conclusions of the work?
Has adequate characterisation data been provided for any materials/compounds that are reported? For full details, please see the “Characterisation of new compounds” section within our Journal’s webpage here: http://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/rsc-advances/
Are the results discussed in the context of the literature?
Are the references relevant and do they appropriately reflect the existing literature?
Do the figures and tables in the paper assist the reader in understanding the work? Are the structures of any compounds presented accurately drawn?

Recognition of services

As member of the RSC Advances Reviewer Panel your name will be displayed on the Journal’s website.

In recognition of the service you are providing, members of the RSC Advances Reviewer Panel will be issued with a certificate at the end of each year highlighting the valuable contribution you have made to the Journal.

Term

Membership of the Reviewer Panel is on a rolling basis from the date of your enrolment. If you wish to resign from the Reviewer Panel please contact the Editorial Office.

The Editorial Office will review your membership against the responsibilities listed above on an annual basis.

Confidentiality

The Panel Member shall keep strictly confidential all information which comes into his/her possession as a result of carrying out the activities specified herein which in any way relates to the business of the Royal Society of Chemistry. This obligation shall have no effect in relation to any such information which is (i) already known to him/her at the time of its disclosure to him/her or (ii) public knowledge or becomes so without his/her fault or (iii) disclosed to him/her subsequently by a third person or (iv) required to be disclosed by order of any court of competent jurisdiction or governmental authority.

Intellectual Property Rights

All material produced by you while carrying out your role as a Panel Member belongs to the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry retains the sole right and licence to publish such material in any format (including electronic) and to sub-license a third party to publish the material. The Panel Member must ensure that the material does not infringe the copyright of others.

Any articles submitted by you as an author or co-author for publication in any Royal Society of Chemistry journal are not covered by these arrangements. Any such articles will be dealt with according to the usual Royal Society of Chemistry publishing procedures and will require a signed “Licence to Publish” to be completed for each submission.

Data Protection

As a Panel Member you must protect the personal data of individuals, both members and non-members, in accordance with the provisions and principles of the Data Protection Act 1998. “Personal data” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 1998.

Queries

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office at:
advances-rsc@rsc.org – for queries regarding this role; or
advances@rsc.org – for all queries relating to specific manuscripts or using ScholarOne.

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Celebrating 100,000 pages of RSC Advances in 2015!

26 Nov 2015

By Simon R. T. Neil, Deputy Editor.

Posted on behalf of Hugh Cowley, Development Editor

We are delighted to announce that RSC Advances has for the first time passed 100,000 pages of published work in 2015. This is a great achievement that we could not have reached without the outstanding support and enthusiasm of our authors and our community.

“This milestone is a great success” said Dr Binbin Zhang, Professor Yantao Li and Professor Baorong Hou, the authors of our first published article to have page numbers in the 100,000s:
One-step electrodeposition fabrication of a superhydrophobic surface on an aluminum substrate with enhanced self-cleaning and anticorrosion properties
RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 100000-100010

“Many outstanding research groups around the world have published their research works in RSC Advances. The quality of the papers published in the Journal is high, and the research works are well conducted and advance the development of the field. We believe that the research works published in RSC Advances must be interesting and attractive to most researchers in the world.”

They went on to say that “the speed of the manuscript handling process is amazing and impressive … The professional and systematic peer-review process and the first publication of the accepted manuscript play a key role. RSC Advances is a young journal, but it has received a lot of attention from the very beginning”

Congratulations and thanks to all of our authors, who have contributed to reaching this milestone. We also thank Dr Zhang, Prof. Li and Prof. Hou for their kind words and we encourage you to read their excellent article!

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Thomson Reuters Research Excellence – India Citation Award: Congratulations to Dr Vandana Bhalla!

03 Nov 2015

By Mary Badcock, Deputy Editor.

RSC Advances Associate Editor is the first woman scientist in India to receive this award

We are delighted to report that RSC Advances Associate Editor Dr Vandana Bhalla (Guru Nanak Dev University) has become the first woman scientist in India to receive a Thomson Reuters Research Excellence – India Citation Award, at a ceremony held on 18 September 2015 in New Delhi, India.

This prestigious award is to presented every three years to 10 highly influential scientists and researchers in India, for their outstanding and pioneering work, and their influential contribution to global research.

Dr Bhalla has recently joined RSC Advances as an Associate Editor in the area of supramolecular chemistry, and we look forward to receiving your submissions in this area.

Dr Vandana Bhalla (center) receives her 2015 Thomson Reuters Research Excellence – India Citation Award

Here are a few of Dr Bhalla’s recent publications in RSC Advances:

Fluorescent aggregates of AIEE active triphenylene derivatives for the sensitive detection of picric acid
Harshveer Arora, Vandana Bhalla and Manoj Kumar
RSC Adv., 2015,5, 32637-32642
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA04337A, Paper

Silver nanoparticles: facile synthesis and their catalytic application for the degradation of dyes
Kamaldeep Sharma, Gurpreet Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Manoj Kumar and Vandana Bhalla
RSC Adv., 2015,5, 25781-25788
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA02909K, Paper

Rhodamine appended hexaphenylbenzene derivative: through bond energy transfer for sensing of picric acid
Radhika Chopra, Vandana Bhalla, Manoj Kumar and Sharanjeet Kaur
RSC Adv., 2015,5, 24336-24341
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA00436E, Paper

Facile synthesis of gold nanoparticles using aggregates of pentacenequinone derivative and their catalytic activity for oxidative polymerization, homocoupling and reduction
Kamaldeep Sharma, Vandana Bhalla and Manoj Kumar
RSC Adv., 2014,4, 53795-53800
DOI: 10.1039/C4RA11116H, Paper

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Alginate bolsters 3D-printed hydrogel fix for damaged knees

21 Oct 2015

By Kate Bandoo, Publishing Assistant.

Article written by Thadchajini Retneswaran

Printing replacement body parts may sound like something out of a sci-fi novel, but since 3D printing was introduced in the 1980s, scientists have been aspiring to make this a reality. Now, a team from Texas in the US has developed a super tough biomaterial that could be used to print load-bearing body parts such as knee cartilage.

The Texas team 3D printed a meniscus out of an alginate-containing hydrogel

A severe shortage of donors and biocompatibility issues are just two of the hurdles hindering successful transplants. Printing replacement tissues that function as well as, or better than the original tissue could be a way to side-step these obstacles.

To read the full article visit Chemistry World.

3D printing of an extremely tough hydrogel
Junhua Wei, Jilong Wang, Siheng Su, Shiren Wang, Jingjing Qiu, Zhenhuan Zhang, Gordon Christopher, Fuda Ning and Weilong Cong �
RSC Adv., 2015,5, 81324-81329
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA16362E, Paper

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Subject Area & Keyword selection during your manuscript submission

16 Oct 2015

By Simon R. T. Neil, Deputy Editor.

Our new peer review process for RSC Advances means that you can be sure your work will be in the safe hands of an expert, every step of the way.

To help ensure that your manuscript will be assigned to an appropriate Associate Editor, we’re now asking you, our authors, to select a Subject Area and Keyword during the manuscript submission process online.

During the submission of your manuscript, simply use the drop-down menu, as shown below, to pick the Subject Area and Keyword that best describes your work.

Subject Area and Keyword selection

Submit your manuscript online now!

For pre-submission queries, please feel free to send us an email.

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Stencilling self-propulsion engines

16 Oct 2015

By Kate Bandoo, Publishing Assistant.

Article written by Carla Pegoraro

Researchers in the US have designed and made millimetre-sized motors in the shape of fish that could be produced on an enormous scale and used to purify water.

Catalytic fish in action

Nano- and micro-sized machines that convert chemical reactions into motion have been on the drawing board for many years. However, they are complicated and expensive to make. Now, researchers led by Joseph Wang at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple way to print 2D millimetre-sized motors. The motors are shaped like fish, swim autonomously while performing specific functions and avoid the costs and complications of more traditional fabrication processes, such as electrodeposition, sputtering and lithography.

To read the full article please visit Chemistry World.

Self-propelled screen-printable catalytic swimmers
Rajan Kumar, Melek Kiristi, Fernando Soto, Jinxing Li, Virendra V. Singh and Joseph Wang �
RSC Adv., 2015,5, 78986-78993
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA16615B, Paper

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Molecular container mops up tricaine to reverse anaesthesia in fish

06 Aug 2015

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

Article written by Emma Stephen

A lack of clinically available antidotes for general anaesthesia has prompted a team of researchers in China and Canada to explore the potential of a macrocyclic compound for halting anaesthesia in zebrafish. General anaesthetics put patients into reversible comas before surgery, but their effects can linger beyond their usefulness, resulting in neurotoxicity and cardiotoxicity, or in death, so if an equivalent molecule could be developed for humans it could save lives.

Cucurbit[n]urils are macrocycles that can inhibit the bioactivity of certain drugs by complexing and encapsulating them to neutralise their effects. Now, Ruibing Wang and co-workers at the University of Macao, China, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, have shown that cucurbit[7]uril can encapsulate the anaesthetic tricaine within its lipophilic cavity. Tricaine acts as a general anaesthetic in cold-blooded animals and fish; in zebrafish it blocks ion channels within nerve membranes. Cucurbit[7]uril acts as a competitive receptor to remove tricaine from these channels and inhibit its anaesthetic properties. The resulting concentration gradient encourages any remaining tricaine to migrate away from the ion channel junction and into the plasma, to be snapped up by further host macrocycles.

To read the full article visit Chemistry World.

In vivo reversal of general anesthesia by cucurbit[7]uril with zebrafish models
Huanxian Chen, Judy Y. W. Chan, Shengke Li, Jessica J. Liu, Ian W. Wyman, Simon M. Y. Lee, Donal H. Macartney and Ruibing Wang
RSC Adv., 2015,5, 63745-63752
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA09406B

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RSC Advances Blog

Introducing the organic chemistry collection

Top 10 most-downloaded articles: Q4 Oct–Dec 2015

Reviewer Panel Member Terms of Reference

Celebrating 100,000 pages of RSC Advances in 2015!

Thomson Reuters Research Excellence – India Citation Award: Congratulations to Dr Vandana Bhalla!

Top 10 most-downloaded articles: Q3 July–September 2015

Alginate bolsters 3D-printed hydrogel fix for damaged knees

Subject Area & Keyword selection during your manuscript submission

Stencilling self-propulsion engines

Molecular container mops up tricaine to reverse anaesthesia in fish

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