Issue 1 of OBC

12 December 2007

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Issue 24 of OBC

28 November 2007

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Issue 23 of OBC

15 November 2007

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Instant insight: Mutants make more

13 November 2007

Andreas Kirschning explains how genetically modified microbes offer a short-cut to valuable derivatives of natural products

Hot Paper: PASSport to enzyme immobilisation

13 November 2007

A microreactor concept for immobilised enzymes is disclosed.

Hot Paper: Cavitand catalysis

05 November 2007

A deep cavitand catalyses the Diels-Alder reaction of bound maleimides.

Issue 22 of OBC

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2008 OBC Lecture Award

03 December 2007

Nominations are now closed for the 2008 OBC Lecture Award.

Hot Paper: Atoms on the move

18 October 2007

US researchers investigate the mechanism of [1,3] carbon shifts.

Issue 21 of OBC

18 October 2007

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Interview: A natural inspiration

16 October 2007

Kira Weissman tells Joanne Thomson how the genetic engineering of bacteria could lead to new drugs.

Hot Paper: Bismuth catalysts for Mannich-type reactions

12 October 2007

Canadian researchers have developed an efficient bismuth-catalysed Mannich-type 3-component reaction.

Issue 20 of OBC

03 October 2007

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Hot Paper: Radicals in a spin

02 October 2007

UK researchers investigate gold nanoparticle-initiated free radical oxidations and halogen abstractions.

OBC poster prize awarded at Chirality at the Nanoscale

02 October 2007

We are delighted to announce the winner of the OBC poster prize.

Interview: The art of chemistry

19 September 2007

Richard Kelly talks to Stefan Matile about painting, fake tongues and flamenco.

Top 5 from Spain in OBC

Take a look at the latest OBC Top 5 feature and look at some of the very best work by authors from Spain.

Interview: Making connections

24 September 2007

Roald Hoffmann talks to Alison Stoddart about chemical bonding and his new playground of high pressure chemistry

Emerging Investigators issue of Molecular BioSystems now published!

21 May 2008

For chemical biology, systems biology, -omics and more see the latest issue of our exciting interdisciplinary journal which has just been published online.

Issue 19 of OBC

19 September 2007

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And the winner is ...

14 September 2007

RSC Project Prospect scoops prestigious award for publishing innovation

Issue 18 of OBC

30 August 2007

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Easier-to-use templates for RSC Journals Authors

24 August 2007

Templates for manuscript submissions have been redeveloped to make them easier for authors to submit their papers in a format resembling the journal layout.

OBC still the quickest

22 August 2007

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry remains the fastest general organic and bioorganic journal

Interview: A catalytic lifetime

20 August 2007

Bob Grubbs talks to Alison Stoddart about the beginnings of organometallic chemistry and his search for the next catalyst

Issue 17 of OBC

15 August 2007

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DNA chips detect disease

06 August 2007

Single nucleotide polymorphs found quickly and easily.

Cure for Chagas' disease a step closer

03 August 2007

Combining chemical and enzymatic approaches brings promise of a cure for a debilitating parasitic disease.

Five fast and first-rate years

02 August 2007

RSC Publishing staff reflect on the success of OBC

Issue 16 of OBC

01 August 2007

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Hot Paper: Peptides get knotted

01 August 2007

UK researchers report for the first time the in vitro maturation of a unique peptide knot.

Top 5 cited articles so far

01 August 2007

Take a look at OBC's Top 5 cited articles published to date.

Instant insight: Molecular memory

27 July 2007

Nicolas Weibel, Sergio Grunder and Marcel Mayor, University of Basel, Switzerland look at functional molecules in electronic circuits

OBC Prize awarded at 20th International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry

26 July 2007

We are delighted to announce that the OBC Lecture Award 2007 was presented to Professor Ben List.

Issue 15 of OBC

19 July 2007

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Issue 14 of OBC

04 July 2007

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Locked Nucleic Acids hold the key

03 July 2007

Jesper Wengel and colleagues at the University of Southern Denmark describe modified locked nucleic acids (LNA) which form highly stable triplexes with double stranded DNA.

Issue 13 of OBC

20 June 2007

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Issue 12 of OBC

08 June 2007

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Top 5 from Germany in OBC

Take a look at the latest OBC Top 5 feature and look at some of the very best work by authors from Germany.

Issue 11 of OBC

24 May 2007

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Interview: Light and life

18 May 2007

Are lawnmowers a thing of the past? Pill-Soon Song explains all to Celia Clarke.

Sugar solution for HIV?

16 May 2007

Sugars could be the basis for future HIV vaccines, according to researchers in the US.

Important news for authors of articles containing X-ray crystallography

15 May 2007

New guidelines for the publication of X-ray crystallography are announced.

Issue 10 of OBC

10 May 2007

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Issue 9 of OBC

27 April 2007

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Hollow success

10 April 2007

Trapping C60 Buckyballs in lipid globes could deliver improved cancer treatments, say Japanese researchers.

Stressed sprouts hit back

05 April 2007

Researchers unravel the defence mechanisms of the Brussels sprout.

Issue 8 of OBC

04 April 2007

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Hot Paper: A new fluorescent probe for reactive oxygen species

04 April 2007

A new sensor that can efficiently monitor damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS) in biological samples has been developed.

Issue 7 of OBC

21 March 2007

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Instant insight: DNA Block Copolymers

16 March 2007

Fikri Alemdaroglu and Andreas Herrmann are making the most of a new class of bioorganic hybrid materials

Top 5 from North America in OBC

March sees the first of OBC's Top 5 features and looks at some of the very best work by North American authors.

David Leigh wins prestigious organic chemistry prize

08 March 2007

OBC Editorial Board member Professor Dave Leigh, University of Edinburgh, is the recipient of the 2007 International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry.

Issue 6 of OBC

07 March 2007

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OBC's favourite cover of 2006 is...

01 March 2007

The front cover image from OBC's themed issue on DNA-based nano-architectures and nano-machines has been voted the most popular OBC cover of 2006 by visitors to the RSC website

Margaret Brimble honoured with women in science award

27 February 2007

OBC Editorial Board Member Margaret Brimble has won the 2007 L'Oréal-UNESCO award for women in science

Issue 5 of OBC

22 February 2007

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Issue 4 of OBC

08 February 2007

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Hot Paper: Lighting the way to larger peptides

06 February 2007

US Chemists have developed a photochemical approach to stitching together peptides and proteins.

RSC Publishing pioneers next generation of enriched articles

01 February 2007

A new project allows data in RSC journal papers to be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine: a first step towards the "semantic web".

Thousands vote in cover gallery competition

31 January 2007

Competition celebrating beautiful science sees voting double.

Celebrating Supramolecular Chemistry

29 January 2007

The February 2007 dual celebratory issue of Chem Soc Rev covers a comprehensive cross section of the most relevant and exciting topics in Supramolecular Chemistry today

Issue 3 of OBC

26 January 2007

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A designer protein coat for polymer nanoparticles

22 January 2007

Dutch scientists can tune the size of protein-coated polymer nanoparticles for drug delivery applications.

Hot Paper: Playing tag with molecular libraries

15 January 2007

Marked small molecule libraries: a truncated approach to molecular probe design

Chemistry World goes interactive...

15 January 2007

Your favourite award-winning monthly magazine invites you to listen up and speak out.

Ben Feringa wins prestigious Organic Chemistry award

11 January 2007

ChemComm Editorial Board member and former OBC Board chair receives James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry

Interview: Sugar solutions

10 January 2007

Ben Davis talks to James Mitchell Crow about 'nature's fuzzy logic.'

Issue 2 of OBC

05 January 2007

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Buckets of DNA nanoparticles

05 January 2007

Molecular buckets that pack DNA into nanoparticles could have implications for gene therapy, say scientists in Greece.

Announcement: OBC Lecture Award Winner 2007

04 January 2007

It is with great pleasure that we announce Professor Benjamin List, from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany, as the winner of the OBC Lecture Award 2007.

Editor's Choice

Professor Ben Feringa from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, chooses his favourite works published in OBC during 2006.

Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2006

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