Welcome to Issue 2.2 of the "Organic Chemistry Newsletter". This newsletter focuses on industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists and is distributed by subscription only.

In this issue:

1. Heterogeneous Catalysts
2. Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions
3. ACS Paragon System
4. Chemical Communications, Issue 5 (Focus Article)
5. Molecule of the Month (February)
6. Upcoming Organic Chemistry Conferences (March)
7. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
8. Chemstock
9. Solvents and Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry
10. Organic Chemistry Jobs Worldwide

The average chemist in an organic chemical laboratory uses zeolites only as molecular sieves for drying solvents, but many more applications and transformations are possible with heterogeneous catalysts.
http://www.organicworldwide.net/catalysishetero.html

Current awareness publication, providing graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis selected from over 110 primary journals. Free trial access up to 31st March 2003.
http://www.rsc.org/catalysts

A new online and personalised environment for the submission of manuscripts and reviews for e.g. Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Letters, Organic Process Research & Development etc.
http://pubs.acs.org/paragon/

Are crystal structures predictable?
Jack D. Dunitz
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b211531j (free of charge)

Pyridostigmine bromide: reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (increased survival rates of animals exposed to Soman nerve gas)
Hydrogen: the most abundant element in the universe
Nitroglycerin: active component in dynamite and the most popular angina (heart pain) medication
http://www.chemistry.org

Spidroin: Spider silk and spider poisons
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

Memantine hydrochloride: new treatment for Alzheimer's disease
http://www.prous.com/mom/mom.asp

Catalysis in Modern Organic Synthesis
March 2-5, 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://www.chemistry.org

4th Annual Florida Heterocyclic Conference
March 12-14, 2003, Gainesville, USA
http://www.arkat-usa.org/ark/conferences/FLOHET/conference.htm

A list of the Top 10 online accessed articles for January 2003
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/obc/obcjan03.htm

Looking for a chemical inventory program for small labs? Chemstock is a new web-based system built from opensource software components.
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/cs/article/index.html
http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwjanfeb03review_chemicalstocks.html

Christian Reichaedt, 3-527-30618-8, Hardcover, 654 Pages, February 2003
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3527306188/organicchem02-20

There are currently more than 30,000 job boards available on the Internet and often a job is posted in both a mega-site and industry-specific niche site. "Organic Chemistry Jobs Worldwide" focuses exclusively on synthetic organic and medicinal chemists. Hence, it eases the search for the job seeker and offers the recruiter a high visibility of the job advertisement.
http://organicworldwide.net/jobs/
http://organicworldwide.net/jobs/aboutrec.html (recruiter information)

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