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nanoparticle-peptide interaction

Hot Article: Coiled coil calls the shots

18 November 2008

German scientists use peptides and pH to control the organisation of nanoparticles


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Issue 23 of OBC

13 November 2008

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Crime scene tape, DNA and a fingerprint

Forensic science hots up

31 October 2008

Could fluorescent probes offer DNA profiling at the scene of a crime?


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Issue 22 of OBC

31 October 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers and Emerging Area article


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2009 OBC Lecture Award

31 October 2008

Nominations are now invited for the 2009 OBC Lecture Award.


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Issue 21 of OBC

17 October 2008

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Issue 20 of OBC

07 October 2008

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Two OBC poster prizes awarded at EuCheMS

24 September 2008

Two OBC poster prizes awarded at EuCheMS


Ring-contracted product

Rings feel the squeeze

22 September 2008

French scientists have discovered an unprecedented ring contraction reaction that can be used as a key route to promising heterocyclic scaffolds


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Issue 19 of OBC

18 September 2008

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OBC Board Members awarded prizes at ACS meeting 2008

16 September 2008

OBC Board Members awarded prestigious prizes at ACS meeting 2008


Miguel Garcia-Garibay

Meet the board - Miguel Garcia-Garibay

01 September 2008

The OBC Editorial Board member tells Joanne Thomson how he is pushing the limits of chemical reactivity to make molecular machines


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Issue 18 of OBC

29 August 2008

Find out more about this issue's cover and Perspective.


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Two OBC board members win prestigious prize grants

22 August 2008

Two OBC board members win prestigious prize grants


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Issue 17 of OBC

14 August 2008

Find out more about this issue's cover, Emerging Area and hot articles.


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OBC Board Members win prizes

01 August 2008

OBC Board Members win prizes


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Issue 16 of OBC

01 August 2008

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Issue 15 of OBC

04 July 2008

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Yixin Lu

Interview: Medicinal reasons

16 July 2008

Yixin Lu talks to Vikki Allen about his dreams and the importance of medicinal chemistry


Marina Safont Sempere

2008 OBC Poster Prize Presentation

15 July 2008

Marina Safont Sempere receives an OBC Poster Prize at the 20th International Symposium on Chirality held in Geneva, Switzerland


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Top US work in OBC

This month we feature some of the top recent US work that has been published in OBC


Developing novel molecular devices of nanoscale dimensions to recognise and bind one specific DNA sequence in a whole genome is like searching for a needle in a haystack

Issue 14 of OBC

04 July 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspective.


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Top 10 most accessed articles January-June 2008

01 July 2008

View the most accessed OBC papers from the first half of 2008


Akimitsu Okamoto

2008 OBC lecture award presented

24 June 2008

Akimitsu Okamoto receives his OBC lecture award at the 31st National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Pittsburgh


PCCP

Highest ever impact factor for OBC

20 June 2008

Newly released ISI citation data show that OBC's Impact Factor has risen by over 10%.


new insights for the decontamination of chemical and biological warfare agents

Issue 13 of OBC

19 June 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspective.


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Top UK work in OBC

This month we feature some of the top recent UK work that has been published in OBC


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Issue 12 of OBC

05 June 2008

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A photoresponsive chiral molecular plier

Issue 11 of OBC

15 May 2008

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Lyosensor blue emits blue fluorescence in the presence of acid

Hot Paper: Bright future for functional molecules

07 May 2008

Molecules can display display logic, sense, numeracy and utility and communicate with humans using light signals.


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Issue 10 of OBC

01 May 2008

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Canisters of warfare agent

Surprise reaction degrades chemical weapons

30 April 2008

Australian scientists improve our understanding of how peroxides destroy chemical warfare agents.


A piece of DNA

Hot Paper: Fungi wake up to new natural products

29 April 2008

A ground-breaking method of getting fungi to produce normally 'hidden' compounds has been demonstrated by US scientists.


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Top European work in OBC

29 April 2008

This month we feature some of the top European work that has been published in OBC


Modelled binding of a blebbistatin analogue

Hot Paper: Tuning chemical tools

24 April 2008

A combination of chemistry and biology is helping find new tools for protein research.


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Issue 9 of OBC

18 April 2008

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Scheme showing cell-penetrating peptides entering a cell

Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane

16 April 2008

Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.


Ultrasonic approach to forming carbon bonds

Hot Paper: Ultrasonic approach to forming carbon bonds

10 April 2008

Electrocatalysis helps overcome unwanted oxidation of nucleophiles


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Issue 8 of OBC

03 April 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area, Perspective and hot articles.


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Search for structures within articles

02 April 2008

RSC Prospect's new features allow you to do just that - and more


chiral compound formed by the intramolecular reaction of triynes

Hot Paper: Recent additions to chiral synthesis

31 March 2008

Strategies for enantioselective transition metal-catalysed cycloadditions are discussed.


The role of chemical synthesis in structure elucidation

Hot Paper: Chemical synthesis solves structures

25 March 2008

The stereostructures of three natural products are determined through chemical syntheses.


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Issue 7 of OBC

25 March 2008

Find out more about this issue's cover, Emerging Area and Perspective.


Jesús Jiménez-Barbero

Meet the board - Jesús Jiménez-Barbero

18 March 2008

The new OBC Editorial Board member tells Joanne Thomson how last minute decisions have shaped his career.


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Free access in April

14 March 2008

Online access to RSC journals provided for customers for the whole of April


A cyclotide showing three disulfide bonds

Protein activity tied in knots

12 March 2008

UK scientists have engineered a molecular knot that inhibits an enzyme crucial to foot-and-mouth disease.


Editor

Editor's Choice

Professor Margaret Brimble from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, chooses her favourite works published in OBC during 2007.


Peter Houghton

Interview: The science of herbal remedies

11 March 2008

Peter Houghton tells Joanne Thomson that there is still much to be learnt from traditional medicine.


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Issue 6 of OBC

11 March 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspective.


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Hot Paper: Sea slug macrocycle synthesised

06 March 2008

The total synthesis of a complex natural product isolated from nudibranch eggmasses is reported.


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OBC's Greatest Hits 2007

06 March 2008

Our pick of the most downloaded and cited OBC articles published in 2007


A Staphylococcus aureus biofilm

Marine inspiration for biofilm break up

05 March 2008

Inspired by natural product oroidin, American scientists have developed compounds to disperse bacterial films linked to infection.


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Chemistry in the New World of Bioengineering and Synthetic Biology

28 February 2008

A new conference exploring the interfaces between the physical sciences and biology. Oral abstract deadline - 7 March 2008


mitotic behaviour

Hot Paper: Diversity-oriented synthesis

27 February 2008

The varied molecular architectures present in Nature are mimicked by preparing skeletally diverse small molecules.


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Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2007

View Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry's Top 10 downloaded articles in 2007


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Analytical Tools for the Life Sciences - Oxidative DNA Damage

22 February 2008

One of three workshops on Analytical Tools in the Life Sciences.


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Issue 5 of OBC

22 February 2008

Find out more about this issue's cover, Emerging Areas and Perspective.


tetra-urea calix[4]arenes

Hot Paper: New insight into guest exchange

20 February 2008

The rate of guest exchange in calixarene capsules depends on the size of the groups attached to the narrow rim.


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Fast Publication in OBC

15 February 2008

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


malonates used for the synthesis of 5-O-feruloylquinic acids

Hot Paper: A new brew for coffee derivatives

13 February 2008

Scientists in Switzerland have optimised a novel synthesis of a polyphenolic compound found in coffee beans.


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Issue 4 of OBC

11 February 2008

Find out more about this issue's cover, Emerging Area and Perspectives.


structure fighting cocaine

Instant insight: Speeding up cocaine

11 February 2008

Chang-Guo Zhan introduces the use of computational designs to develop promising therapeutics for treating cocaine addiction and overdoses


Akimitsu Okamoto

Announcement: OBC Lecture Award Winner 2008

21 January 2008

It is with great pleasure that we announce Dr Akimitsu Okamoto, from RIKEN, Japan, as the winner of the OBC Lecture Award 2008.


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Free online access for new journal

29 January 2008

Registration will provide free institutional access to Energy & Environmental Science in 2008 and 2009


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Issue 3 of OBC

25 January 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspectives and Hot article.


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Issue 2 of OBC

04 January 2008

Find out more about this issue's covers, Emerging Area and Perspectives and Hot article.


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Meet the OBC team

The OBC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2008. Find out where you can meet us!


OBC news archive 2007

OBC news archive 2007

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