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We are excited to announce that the deadline for oral abstract submission for Challenges in Organic Chemistry (ISACS19) has been extended to 22 November.

Join Chemical Science Associate Editor Vy Dong and an excellent line-up of invited speakers at University of California, Irvine, USA from 20–23 March to discuss challenges in organic chemistry, from catalysis, proteins, sugars and total synthesis to theory and mechanisms.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Ashraf Brik, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Seth Herzon, Yale University, United States
• Kami Hull, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
• James Nowick, University of California, Irvine, United States
• RB Sunoj, IIT, Mumbai, India
• Jin-Quan Yu, Scripps University, United States
• Darren Dixon, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Ning Jiao, Peking University, China
• Nicola Pohl, Indiana University, United States
• Peter Seeberger, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
• Kyoko Nozaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Michelle Chang, University of California, Berkeley, United States
• Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, United States

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Submit your oral abstract by 22 November and get involved

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Check out these recent reviews and original research articles on related topics in Chemical Science. As of 2015 Chemical Science is fully Gold Open Access so all articles published since then are free to read:

Macrocycles: lessons from the distant past, recent developments, and future directions
Andrei K. Yudin
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 30-49
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03089C, Perspective
Open Access

A catalytic asymmetric total synthesis of (−)-perophoramidine
B. M. Trost, M. Osipov, S. Krüger and Y. Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 349-353
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC01826E, Edge Article
Open Access

NHC-catalysed benzoin condensation – is it all down to the Breslow intermediate?
Julia Rehbein, Stephanie-M. Ruser and Jenny Phan
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 6013-6018
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02186C, Edge Article
Open Access

Stereocontrolled 1,2-cis glycosylation as the driving force of progress in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry
Swati S. Nigudkar and Alexei V. Demchenko
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 2687-2704
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00280J, Perspective
Open Access

Organocatalytic asymmetric chlorinative dearomatization of naphthols
Qin Yin, Shou-Guo Wang, Xiao-Wei Liang, De-Wei Gao, Jun Zheng and Shu-Li You
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 4179-4183
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00494B, Edge Article
From themed collection Celebrating the 2015 RSC Prize and Award Winners
Open Access

Azidophenyl as a click-transformable redox label of DNA suitable for electrochemical detection of DNA–protein interactions
Jana Balintová, Jan Špaček, Radek Pohl, Marie Brázdová, Luděk Havran, Miroslav Fojta and Michal Hocek
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 575-587
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC01906G, Edge Article
Open Access

Mechanistic investigation of aziridine aldehyde-driven peptide macrocyclization: the imidoanhydride pathway
Serge Zaretsky, Jennifer L. Hickey, Joanne Tan, Dmitry Pichugin, Megan A. St. Denis, Spencer Ler, Benjamin K. W. Chung, Conor C. G. Scully and Andrei K. Yudin
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 5446-5455
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01958C
Open Access

Mechanisms and energetics of free radical initiated disulfide bond cleavage in model peptides and insulin by mass spectrometry
Chang Ho Sohn, Jinshan Gao, Daniel A. Thomas, Tae-Young Kim, William A. Goddard III and J. L. Beauchamp
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 4550-4560
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01305D
Open Access

The effect of host structure on the selectivity and mechanism of supramolecular catalysis of Prins cyclizations
William M. Hart-Cooper, Chen Zhao, Rebecca M. Triano, Parastou Yaghoubi, Haxel Lionel Ozores, Kristen N. Burford, F. Dean Toste, Robert G. Bergman and Kenneth N. Raymond
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 1383-1393
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02735C, Edge Article
Open Access

We hope you can join us for Challenges in Organic Chemistry (ISACS19). Vy Dong and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to California.