Reaction Chemistry & Engineering

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Impact factor: 3.441*
Publishing frequency: 12 issues per year

Immediacy Index: 0.568
Chair: Klavs F Jensen

Scope

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is an interdisciplinary journal reporting cutting edge research focused on enhancing understanding and efficiency of reactions.

Reaction engineering leverages the interface where fundamental molecular chemistry meets chemical engineering and technology. Challenges in chemistry can be overcome by the application of new technologies, while engineers may find improved solutions for process development from the latest developments in reaction chemistry.

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a forum for members of the engineering and chemistry communities alike to come together in solving problems of importance to wider society.

Key topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

New reaction development (including catalysis and catalyst design, mechanistic and kinetic studies, materials processing, and biochemical processes)
New synthesis technologies (including electrochemistry, photochemistry, mechanochemistry, continuous processes, and reactor design)
Digitalisation of chemistry (including analysis and monitoring, automation, visualisation, machine learning, algorithms and reaction optimisation, high-throughput discovery, and cyber-physical systems)
Pharmaceutical development (including target identification and screening, synthetic route development, and process design, intensification and scale-up)
Sustainable chemistry (including platform chemicals from bioresources and waste, alternative solvents, the circular economy, and efficient processes)
Environment & climate (including clean water, carbon capture, solar fuels, and pollution abatement)

All papers should be written to be approachable by readers across the engineering and chemical sciences. Papers that consider multiple scales, from the laboratory up to and including plant scale, are particularly encouraged.

Why publish in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering?

By publishing in the journal, you will receive international exposure of your work to chemical scientists and chemical and process engineers from across academia and industry, as well as the other benefits that are part of publishing in Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

Fast times to publication
Efficient, fair and transparent peer review
A dedicated editorial service
Hot article promotion
Free colour, PDF reprints and electronic supplementary information (ESI)
Open access options

Chair

Klavs F Jensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Associate editors

Ian R Baxendale, Durham University, UK

Saif A Khan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Haihui Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Editorial board members

Donna G Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, USA

Petra de Jongh, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Joel M Hawkins, Pfizer Worldwide R&D, USA

Steven V Ley, University of Cambridge, UK

Guangsheng Luo, Tsinghua University, China

Anita Maguire, University College Cork, Ireland

Dionisios G Vlachos, University of Delaware, USA

Malcolm Berry, MB Chemistry Consulting Ltd, UK

Claude de Bellefon, University of Lyon, France

Wayne Blaylock, Dow Chemical Company, USA

Richard Bourne, University of Leeds, UK

Cara Brocklehurst, Novartis AG, Switzerland

Jian-Feng Chen, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Cathy Chin, University of Toronto, Canada

Evelina Colacino, University of Montpellier, France

Avelino Corma, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain

Anna Croft, University of Nottingham, UK

Paul Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota, USA

Stevan Djuric, High Point University, USA

Raj Gounder, Purdue University, USA

Raju Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Dorota Gryko, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Ryan Hartman, New York University, USA

Ive Hermans, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Volker Hessel, University of Adelaide, Australia

Lin Huang, Trunk & Petal Pte Ltd., Singapore

Marty Johnson, Eli Lilly, USA

Niket Kaisare, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

C Oliver Kappe, University of Graz, Austria

Alexander Katz, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Francesca Kerton, Memorial University, Canada

Beata Kilos-Réaume, Dow Chemical Company, USA

Dong Pyo Kim, POSTECH, Republic of Korea

Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Heather Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Amol Kulkarni, National Chemical Research Laboratory, India

Alexei Lapkin, University of Cambridge, UK

Hélène Lebel, University of Montreal, Canada

Angeliki Lemonidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Rebecca Meadows, AstraZeneca plc, UK

Massimo Morbidelli, Milano Politecnico, Italy

Timothy Noël, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Matthew O'Brien, Keele Univeristy, UK

Tatsuya Okubo, University of Tokyo, Japan

Polona Žnidaršič Plazl, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Anastasios Polyzos, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, USA

Rebecca Ruck, Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA

Andrew Rutter GlaxoSmithKline, UK

Basu Saha, London South Bank University, UK

Susannah L. Scott, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Doris Segets, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Manish Sharma, BASF, USA

Jay Siegel, Tianjin University, China

Ning Sun, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Annette Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

Enrico Tronconi, University of Milan, Italy

Veronique Van Speybroeck, Ghent University, Belgium

Siegfried Waldvogel, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Robin White, Luxembourg Institute for Science & Technology, Luxembourg

Karen Wilson, RMIT University, Australia

Sheryl L. Wiskur, University of South Carolina, USA

Wen-De Xiao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Zhen Yao, Zhejiang University, China

Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-7935-6231

Bianca Provost, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0001-8440-1095

Hugh Cowley, Development Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-4021-0518

Emily Skinner, Editorial Production Manager, Journals

Daniella Ferluccio, Publishing Editor, Journals

Fiona Iddon, Publishing Editor, Journals

Sophie Redman, Editorial Assistant, Journals

Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals

Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-9369-8414

Article types

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering publishes the following article types.

Communications
Full papers
Reviews
Minireviews
Perspectives
Comments
Tutorial account

See more information about these article types

Communications

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Communications contain novel scientific work of such importance that rapid publication is desirable. Authors should briefly indicate in a covering letter the reasons why they feel that publication of their work as a Communication is justified.

Full papers

Full papers in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering contain original scientific work that has not been published previously. Please note that the Royal Society of Chemistry strongly discourages the fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short publications. There is no page limit for full paper articles.

Reviews

The purpose of a Review is to bring the reader up-to-date with research in a particular area. The article should aim to provide an authoritative, in-depth discussion of current progress. Authors are encouraged to identify areas in the field where further developments are imminent or of urgent need. Please note that Reviews in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering should not contain any original research.

Minireviews

Minireviews are highlights or summaries of research in an emerging area (typically from the last two-three years). Minireviews are not intended to be comprehensive overviews, rather they are meant to highlight recent and important developments in that specific area.

Minireviews should not contain any unpublished research and should set the topic in the context of the relevant literature. A small amount of speculation of possible future developments may also be appropriate in the Conclusions section.

Perspectives

Perspectives are invited contributions offering the personal viewpoint of leading scientists in their area of research. They present a state-of-the-art account of an area of current interest with an emphasis on future challenges and opportunities. Since the readership of Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is wide-ranging, the article should be easily comprehensible to a non-specialist in the field, whilst at the same time providing an authoritative discussion of the area concerned. There are no strict length requirements, but as a general guide Perspectives should be typically between 6 - 20 pages in length. Perspectives should not contain any unpublished research.

Comments and Replies

Comments and Replies are a medium for the discussion and exchange of scientific opinions between authors and readers concerning material published in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.

For publication, a Comment should present an alternative analysis of and/or new insight into the previously published material. Any Reply should further the discussion presented in the original article and the Comment. Comments and Replies that contain any form of personal attack are not suitable for publication.

Comments that are acceptable for publication will be forwarded to the authors of the work being discussed, and these authors will be given the opportunity to submit a Reply. The Comment and Reply will both be subject to rigorous peer review in consultation with the journal’s Editorial Board where appropriate. The Comment and Reply will be published together.

Tutorial Account

Tutorial Accounts introduce readers to a technique, concept or methodology at the interface of chemistry and chemical engineering. They are didactic articles, intended to lower the barrier to entry for interdisciplinary research, and do not contain original research and are not intended to review the relevant literature. Authors should contact the Editorial Office in the first instance to discuss the topic before submitting.

Tutorial accounts may be of importance to a wide range of researchers, or of critical importance to a narrow range of researchers. There are no strict length requirements. Tutorial Accounts may cite examples from literature to illustrate key points but it should be possible for a specialist reader to gain a basic, workable understanding of the topic from the article without requiring further reading.Some comparison of alternative approaches may be appropriate, and authors can provide the reader with directions for further reading.

Journal guidelines

There are no specific requirements regarding formatting of submissions; we recommend using the Royal Society of Chemistry template but this is not a requirement for submission. All articles accepted for publication in our journals are edited and typeset to our house style by professional editors; we will format the final publication for you.

The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.

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