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Welcome to Issue 2.12 of the "Organic Chemistry e-Newsletter".
Season's Greetings to all our readers and we wish you a prosperous 2004!

In this issue:

1. New Value-Added Directories in 2004
2. Molecules of the Month (December 2003)
3. Molecular Pharmaceutics, a new ACS journal
4. The first "Critical Review" of "Chemical Society Reviews"
5. Feature article of Tetrahedron: Asymmetry



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1. New Value-Added Directories in 2004

The value-added directories of Organicworldwide.net are continuously updated and expert moderated web sites about organic synthesis related topics or services.

Examples of new titles in 2004:

- Enzymes in organic synthesis
- Fluourous chemistry
- Electrosynthesis
- Compound storage systems/Compound inventory programs

We welcome any suggestions for additional titles and/or editing collaborations at feedbackorganic@organicworldwide.net.

http://www.organicworldwide.net/valueadded.html

2. Molecules of the Month (December 2003)

n-Eicosane: One of the shorter members of the paraffin group

Zymosterol: An intermediate in the biosynthesis of cholesterol from lanosterol

Xanthine: Two-oxygen cousin of adenine and guanine

Yuccagenin: Member of the sapogenins (steroid compounds that help plants thrive in desert climates)

http://www.chemistry.org

Sulphur Dioxide: A major component of acid rain

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

Febuxostat: selective inhibitor of xanthine oxidase/xanthine dehydrogenase

http://www.prous.com/mom/mom.asp

3. Molecular Pharmaceutics, a new ACS journal

Molecular Pharmaceutics focuses on molecular mechanistic approaches to the development of bio-available drugs and delivery systems.

http://pubs.acs.org/journals/mpohbp/index.html

4. The first "Critical Review" of "Chemical Society Reviews"

"Critical Review" is a new style of article designed to complement the existing "Tutorial Reviews" by providing a fuller critical evaluation of selected topics

Dendrimers in drug research
Ulrik Boas, Peter M. H. Heegaard

http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b309043b

5. Feature article of Tetrahedron: Asymmetry

Recent developments in asymmetric reduction of ketones with biocatalysts
K. Nakamura, R. Yamanaka, T. Matsuda and T. Harada
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, volume 14, issue 18, pp 2659 - 2681

http://tetonline.com/flat/tetasy



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