Welcome to Issue 1.4 of "Organic Chemistry Newsletter Worldwide". This newsletter focuses on industrial and academic synthetic organic chemists and is distributed by subscription only. If you wish to unsubscribe, you can find instructions at the end of the newsletter.

In this issue:
1. Synthesis Alerts
2. CAS Science Spotlights, Most Requested Documents 2Q-2002
3. SyntheticPages
4. Parallel Synthesis Instrumentation
5. Molecules of the Month (October)
6. Upcoming Organic Chemistry Conferences
7. Discussions in the Newsgroup sci.chem.organic.synthesis
8. Selectfluor(TM) Fluorinating Reagent
9. ProQuest Digital Dissertations
10. The Public Chromatography Applications Database

A free overview with graphical abstracts of new reagents, catalysts, ligands, chiral auxiliaries, and protecting groups which have appeared in the recent literature.
Current issue: 15/12 (8 pages, PDF format)
http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/thieme-chemistry/journals/info/synthesis/ind ex.html

CAS Science Spotlight is a free web service that identifies the most cited/requested chemistry-related research publications as reflected by the more than 51 million citations found in the journals, patents, conference proceedings and other sources covered by CAS.
http://www.cas.org/spotlight/rlist2q02/rlist2q02.html

SyntheticPages is a freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry. It publishes practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures.
http://www.syntheticpages.org/

Presentation of manual synthesizers as well as robot-arm-based systems currently on the market.
http://www.organicworldwide.net/parallel.html

Molecules of the Week:
Epinephrine (adrenaline), Bupivacaine, Triclosan
http://www.chemistry.org

Epothilone
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

Leptin
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/

Elaspol [TM]
http://www.prous.com/mom/frame.html

Cross coupling strategies and methods in Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Synthesis
November 12-14, 2002, USA
http://www.scientificupdate.co.uk/

A selection of the discussions held this month in sci.chem.organic.synthesis: - Oxidation of 4-amino-toluene (10 articles)
- Hoffman reaction (6 articles)
- Aniline NH2 to guanidino group conversion (6 articles)
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.chem.organic.synthesis

An elegant electrophilic fluorinating reagent. Examples of fluorination of steroids, pyrimidines, b-dicarbonyl compounds, activated aromatics etc. are presented.
http://www.airproducts.com/fluorination/selectfluor.asp

Free access to the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

ACD offers a free trial of ACD/Web Librarian and access to the Public Chromatography Applications Database which contains 1830 HPLC and GC applications. The database can be searched by numerous chromatographic parameters, as well as by structure, substructure, and structure similarity
http://www2.acdlabs.com/ilab/

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