Welcome to Issue 1.6 of the "Organic Chemistry Newsletter". This newsletter focuses on industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists and is distributed by subscription only. Season's Greetings to all our readers and we wish you a prosperous 2003!

Overview of the manual synthesizers as well as Robot-arm-based systems which are on the market today. http://www.organicworldwide.net/parallel.html

Theobromine: the principal methylxanthine alkaloid in the cacao bean Docetaxel: recently approved drug to treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer. http://www.chemistry.org

Hemlock (Coniine): the poison that killed Socrates http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

Aripiprazole: recently approved drug to treat schizophrenia http://www.prous.com/mom/mom.asp

The purpose of the price is to recognize and encourage outstanding contributions to research in asymmetric synthetic chemistry defined in its broadest sense. Call for nominations for the award year 2003. http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/ssocj/award/NoyoriPrize/announcement021121.pdf

Provides an organized and comprehensive compilation of comparative diastereoselective auxiliary-based synthetic applications data. http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/reactions/chiralauxiliaries.asp

The first issue of this journal will appear in January 2003. It publishes fundamental work on synthetic and physical organic chemistry and organic chemical biology as well as all organic aspects of: medicinal chemistry, natural product chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, theoretical chemistry and catalysis. A downloadable version of the full contents list including graphical abstracts is available at: http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/obc/ob001001.pdf

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