OBC news archive

Issue 23 of OBC
12 November 2009
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Major new global symposia series announced
14 October 2009
A new generation of international symposia across the chemical sciences for 2010 and beyond

Issue 22 of OBC
29 October 2009
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Interview: Chemical Carpentry
19 October 2009
Watching carpentry at a young age inspired Thorri Gunnlaugsson to be a chemist and an enthusiastic cook.

Issue 21 of OBC
15 October 2009
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OBC poster prize awarded at 9th RSC Fluorine Subject Meeting
06 October 2009
We are delighted to announce the winner of the OBC poster prize awarded at the 9th RSC Fluorine Subject Meeting

Web focus: Biocatalysis - one week until the deadline
28 September 2009
Submit today! Just one week remaining before the submission deadline for the OBC biocatalysis web focus
Hot Article: Sunny forecast for molecular switches
28 September 2009
Scientists have developed a predictive thermodynamic approach to designing and tuning mechanically interlocked molecular switches
Hot Article: Efficient synthesis towards macrolides
28 September 2009
US scientists are a step closer to synthesising two complex natural products after synthesising key subunits of their structure
Issue 19 of OBC
17 September 2009
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Hot Article: borono-analogues of nucleotides
16 September 2009
Synthesis of borono-analogues of nucleotides
2009 Annual Reports Section B is now published
09 September 2009
Section B: organic chemistry of Annual Reports has been published.

2009 ChemComm web theme issue: 'Selective Catalysis for Organic Synthesis'
Up-to-date, authoritative articles showcasing high quality research in organic synthesis published in ChemComm.
Issue 17 of OBC
13 August 2009
Read more about the latest top science in OBC, including work towards a new measles vaccine
Hot Article: An unusual twist for functional assemblies
13 August 2009
An international team of researchers have stumbled across some unique coil-shaped nanostructures when investigating photoresponsive functional assemblies

2009 OBC lecture award presented
12 August 2009
Wilfred van der Donk receives his OBC lecture award at the 42nd IUPAC Congress in Glasgow

Harnessing enzymes for protein tagging
03 August 2009
Protein-probing molecules that work only inside cells have been developed by US scientists
OBC Poster Prizes at CSCS 09
31 July 2009
We are delighted to announce the winners of the OBC poster prizes awarded at Chirality and Supramolecular Chemical Synthesis

Instant insight: The organic chemist's toolbox
17 July 2009
Karl Anker Jørgensen and Søren Bertelsen from Aarhus University, Denmark, talk about impressive achievements in organocatalysis

Hot Article: Taking the strain off spiropentane synthesis
17 July 2009
US chemists have developed an easy, direct route to a class of small, strained organic molecules that could be used in drug discovery.
OBC Poster Prizes at Biotrans
17 July 2009
We are delighted to announce the winners of the OBC poster prizes awarded at Biotrans 2009 in Berne, Switzerland
Issue 15 of OBC
16 July 2009
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Interview: Understanding the fundamentals
15 July 2009
Morris Robins talks to Kathleen Too about turning crystalline sugars black, discovering Epivir and Cladribine and his new career in farming

A structured approach to measles
08 July 2009
Liver compound and measles protein fragment combined for potential vaccine
Issue 14 of OBC
02 July 2009
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Call for papers: Enabling Technologies for Organic Synthesis
23 June 2009
OBC is delighted to announce a high-profile web theme issue on Enabling Technologies for Organic Synthesis
Highest ever impact factor for OBC
22 June 2009
Newly released ISI citation data show that OBC's Impact Factor has risen by over 12%

Issue 13 of OBC
18 June 2009
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Issue 12 of OBC
05 June 2009
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Top Australian work in OBC
This month we feature some of the top recent Australian work that has been published in OBC
Hot Article: Investigating parasitic invasion
04 June 2009
Chemists have identified that peroxiredoxin II is inhibited by a molecule that stops parasitic invasion.

Issue 11 of OBC
21 May 2009
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OBC Poster Prize at The Nineteenth Lakeland Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
14 May 2009
Alan Burns from the University of York has won the OBC poster prize at The Nineteenth Lakeland Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
Issue 10 of OBC
07 May 2009
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Focus on Japanese research
23 April 2009
Read some of OBC's best articles from Japanese researchers published so far in 2009
OBC poster prize for Advances in Synthetic Chemistry
20 April 2009
We are delighted to announce the winner of the OBC poster prize awarded at Advances in Synthetic Chemistry
Issue 9 of OBC
15 April 2009
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Issue 8 of OBC
06 April 2009
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OBC poster prize awarded at LOST II
23 March 2009
We are delighted to announce the winner of the OBC poster prize awarded at Learning Organic Synthesis Tremendously II in Namur, Belgium
Issue 7 of OBC
23 March 2009
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OBC's 150th issue
05 March 2009
Issue 6 is the 150th issue of OBC. Discover more about the cutting edge articles featured in the issue.

Focus on organic synthesis
02 March 2009
Read some of OBC's best organic synthesis papers, which reinforce organic synthesis' core role in organic chemistry
Hot Article: A better view of cell death
23 February 2009
A new class of radio-labelled compounds that can image dying cells could be used to show if drugs are effective at blocking or inducing cell death
Issue 5 of OBC
19 February 2009
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Hot Article: Deciphering peptoid relationships
13 February 2009
Helen Blackwell and Sarah Fowler from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, focus on the relationship between peptoid structure and function
Issue 4 of OBC
05 February 2009
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Meet the OBC team
05 February 2009
The OBC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2009. Find out where you can meet us!
Hot Article: Breaking the mould with a clay catalyst
27 January 2009
Japanese chemists have combined a clay with a metal complex to make an effective catalyst for a selective organic reaction
Meet the board - Jeffrey Bode
23 January 2009
The new OBC Editorial Board member tells Joanne Thomson how good timing and great mentors have been key to his success

Issue 3 of OBC
23 January 2009
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OBC announces new Editorial Board members
22 January 2009
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Bode, Paolo Scrimin and Keisuke Suzuki to the OBC Editorial Board

2009 OBC Lecture Award - Wilfred van der Donk announced as winner
19 January 2009
Professor Wilfred van der Donk has been selected as the 2009 OBC Lecture Award recipient
Issue 2 of OBC
05 January 2009
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Free access to top articles
22 December 2008
Read some of the most influential recent articles in OBC for FREE
Hot Article: X-ray marks the spot for prodrug
22 December 2008
Japanese scientists have made a radiation-triggered prodrug that could improve chemotherapy
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