Looking for the best articles in organic chemistry? Let Chemical Science help. It might be a new journal – but it’s making an impressive impact.* Supported by an international team of Associate Editors, all active researchers and renowned experts, the journal represents the best new thinking in the chemical sciences. And you’ll see why when you read these articles as recommended by the Associate Editors for Organic Chemistry: Stable singlet carbenes as mimics for transition metal centers
“This is a fascinating new area of catalysis. It is exciting that stable carbenes can do some of the tasks that transition metal complexes are known for.”
David Martin, Michele Soleilhavoup and Guy Bertrand Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 389-399 http://rsc.li/bertrand
Dean Toste Associate Editor: Organic Chemistry University of California, Berkeley, USA
“Read how a cooperative effect of two mechanistically distinct organocatalysts facilitates a one step enantioselective synthesis of highly substituted cyclopentanones from simple carbonyl containing building blocks.”
Enamine/carbene cascade catalysis in the diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of functionalized cyclopentanones Kerem E. Ozboya and Tomislav Rovis Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 1835-1838 http://rsc.li/rovis
Matthew Gaunt Associate Editor: Organic Chemistry University of Cambridge, UK
“This review provides a practical and concise user’s guide to catalyst selection for Pdcatalyzed C–N bond formation - one of the most important reactions in modern organic synthesis.”
Dialkylbiaryl phosphines in Pdcatalyzed amination: a user’s guide David S. Surry and Stephen L. Buchwald Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 27-50 http://rsc.li/buchwald
Melanie Sanford Associate Editor: Physical Organic Chemistry University of Michigan, USA * Awarded a first (partial) impact factor of 7.525, in 2011 Journal Citation Reports ® (Thomson Reuters 2012)
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