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Top 10 most accessed articles January-June 2008
01 July 2008
View the most accessed OBC papers from the first half of 2008
2008 OBC lecture award presented
24 June 2008
Akimitsu Okamoto receives his OBC lecture award at the 31st National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Pittsburgh
Highest ever impact factor for OBC
20 June 2008
Newly released ISI citation data show that OBC's Impact Factor has risen by over 10%.
Issue 11 of OBC
15 May 2008
Find out more about this issue's covers, Perspective, Emerging Area and hot articles.
Hot Paper: Bright future for functional molecules
07 May 2008
Molecules can display display logic, sense, numeracy and utility and communicate with humans using light signals.
Surprise reaction degrades chemical weapons
30 April 2008
Australian scientists improve our understanding of how peroxides destroy chemical warfare agents.
Hot Paper: Fungi wake up to new natural products
29 April 2008
A ground-breaking method of getting fungi to produce normally 'hidden' compounds has been demonstrated by US scientists.
Top European work in OBC
29 April 2008
This month we feature some of the top European work that has been published in OBC
Hot Paper: Tuning chemical tools
24 April 2008
A combination of chemistry and biology is helping find new tools for protein research.
Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane
16 April 2008
Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.
Hot Paper: Ultrasonic approach to forming carbon bonds
10 April 2008
Electrocatalysis helps overcome unwanted oxidation of nucleophiles
Issue 8 of OBC
03 April 2008
Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area, Perspective and hot articles.
Search for structures within articles
02 April 2008
RSC Prospect's new features allow you to do just that - and more
Hot Paper: Recent additions to chiral synthesis
31 March 2008
Strategies for enantioselective transition metal-catalysed cycloadditions are discussed.
Hot Paper: Chemical synthesis solves structures
25 March 2008
The stereostructures of three natural products are determined through chemical syntheses.
Meet the board - Jesús Jiménez-Barbero
18 March 2008
The new OBC Editorial Board member tells Joanne Thomson how last minute decisions have shaped his career.
Free access in April
14 March 2008
Online access to RSC journals provided for customers for the whole of April
Protein activity tied in knots
12 March 2008
UK scientists have engineered a molecular knot that inhibits an enzyme crucial to foot-and-mouth disease.
Editor's Choice
Professor Margaret Brimble from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, chooses her favourite works published in OBC during 2007.
Interview: The science of herbal remedies
11 March 2008
Peter Houghton tells Joanne Thomson that there is still much to be learnt from traditional medicine.
Hot Paper: Sea slug macrocycle synthesised
06 March 2008
The total synthesis of a complex natural product isolated from nudibranch eggmasses is reported.
OBC's Greatest Hits 2007
06 March 2008
Our pick of the most downloaded and cited OBC articles published in 2007
Marine inspiration for biofilm break up
05 March 2008
Inspired by natural product oroidin, American scientists have developed compounds to disperse bacterial films linked to infection.
Chemistry in the New World of Bioengineering and Synthetic Biology
28 February 2008
A new conference exploring the interfaces between the physical sciences and biology. Oral abstract deadline - 7 March 2008
Hot Paper: Diversity-oriented synthesis
27 February 2008
The varied molecular architectures present in Nature are mimicked by preparing skeletally diverse small molecules.
Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2007
View Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry's Top 10 downloaded articles in 2007
Analytical Tools for the Life Sciences - Oxidative DNA Damage
22 February 2008
One of three workshops on Analytical Tools in the Life Sciences.
Issue 5 of OBC
22 February 2008
Find out more about this issue's cover, Emerging Areas and Perspective.
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Hot Paper: New insight into guest exchange
20 February 2008
The rate of guest exchange in calixarene capsules depends on the size of the groups attached to the narrow rim.
Fast Publication in OBC
15 February 2008
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry remains the fastest general organic and bioorganic journal
Hot Paper: A new brew for coffee derivatives
13 February 2008
Scientists in Switzerland have optimised a novel synthesis of a polyphenolic compound found in coffee beans.
Issue 4 of OBC
11 February 2008
Find out more about this issue's cover, Emerging Area and Perspectives.
Instant insight: Speeding up cocaine
11 February 2008
Chang-Guo Zhan introduces the use of computational designs to develop promising therapeutics for treating cocaine addiction and overdoses
Announcement: OBC Lecture Award Winner 2008
21 January 2008
It is with great pleasure that we announce Dr Akimitsu Okamoto, from RIKEN, Japan, as the winner of the OBC Lecture Award 2008.
Free online access for new journal
29 January 2008
Registration will provide free institutional access to Energy & Environmental Science in 2008 and 2009
Issue 3 of OBC
25 January 2008
Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspectives and Hot article.
Issue 2 of OBC
04 January 2008
Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspectives and Hot article.
Meet the OBC team
The OBC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2008. Find out where you can meet us!
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