Issue 23 of OBC

12 November 2009

Find out more about the cutting edge research featured in the latest issue

2010 OBC Lecture Award

05 November 2009

Nominations are now invited for the 2010 OBC Lecture Award.

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

Find out more about the cutting edge research featured in the latest issue

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

Find out more about the cutting edge research featured in the latest issue

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

Issue 20 of OBC

30 September 2009

Read more about this issue's covers and Perspective article

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

Find out more about the cutting edge research featured in the latest issue

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.

Issue 18 of OBC

28 August 2009

Read more about the latest science in OBC

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

Issue 16 of OBC

30 July 2009

Find out more about the latest top work published in OBC

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

Web focus: Biocatalysis

16 July 2009

OBC is inviting submissions to its web focus on biocatalysis

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

Issue 12 of OBC

05 June 2009

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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

Find out about more about the reviews, covers and hot articles featured in the latest issue

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

Find out about more about the reviews, covers and hot articles featured in the latest issue

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

Find out about more about the reviews, covers and hot article featured in the latest issue

Issue 8 of OBC

06 April 2009

Find out about more about the reviews, covers and hot article featured in the latest issue

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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

Top 10 accessed articles 2008

27 February 2009

View the most accessed articles from 2008

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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

Read more about the cutting edge chemistry featured in the latest issue of OBC

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