The prestigious RSC Publishing journal portfolio is set for further expansion with the launch of two new monthly titles in autumn 2009.

Analytical Methods will highlight new and improved methods for the practical application of analytical science. The journal will complement the existing RSC journal portfolio of analytical science publications, and with its focus on fundamental and applied modern analytical science, will appeal to both academic and industrial scientists.

Issue 6, 2009 is the 150th issue of OBC. Since the first issue was published in January 2003, OBC has achieved tremendous success. With an impact factor of 3.167, can any other young journal boast such highly cited papers, published quickly after independent peer review?

Jeffrey Bode, University of Pennsylvania, US, comments, 'OBC encourages and appreciates the development and application of innovative organic chemistry to a wide variety of contemporary problems. It is our choice for the publication of new methods and concepts that reach beyond the traditional subdivisions of organic chemistry.'

Take a look at some of the high impact papers from leading scientists published in this 150th issue of OBC: a perspective on the design and synthesis of phosphole-based systems for novel organic materials by Yoshihiro Matano and Hiroshi Imahori; an emerging area article on metal-catalysed halogen exchange reactions of aryl halides by Tom Sheppard; a communication on highly enantioselective asymmetric autocatalysis using chiral ruthenium complex-ion-exchanged synthetic hectorite as a chiral initiator by Kenso Soai and colleagues; and a full paper on ruthenium-based metallacrown complexes for the selective detection of lithium ions in water and in serum by fluorescence spectroscopy by Kay Severin et al. Don't miss these and the other articles in this celebratory issue.