Welcome to Issue 2.1 of the "Organic Chemistry Newsletter". This newsletter focuses on industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists and is distributed by subscription only.

1. Directory of compounds libraries companies
2. Focus articles of Chemical Communications (free of charge)
3. Tetrahedron.info
4. Synthesis review updates
5. Molecule of the month (January 2003)
6. Upcoming organic chemistry conferences (February 2003)
7. Discussions at sci.chem.organic.synthesis
8. Book section of organicworldwide.net (updated)
9. Reactions: Organic Synthesis & Purification News
10. Jobs in the drug industry: A career guide for chemists

Before synthesis, you might want to check if your compound is available in compound libraries. This directory points to 37 companies that provide such libraries and gives up-to-date information about database downloads, newsletter subscription and contact persons.
http://www.organicworldwide.net/compoundlibraries.html

Catalytic enantioselective allylation with chiral Lewis bases (Issue 02)
Scott E. Denmark, Jiping Fu
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b208065f

Enantioselective catalysis in fine chemicals production (Issue 03)
Hans-Ulrich Blaser
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b209968n

A new website providing easy access to all resources and information relating to the family of Tetrahedron journals
http://www.tetrahedron.info

Synthesis Reviews is a database that can be accessed free of charge and contains 15,348 English language review articles (from journals and books) of interest to synthetic organic chemists. It has now been updated to include articles dating from mid-2002
http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/thieme-chemistry/journals/info/news/synrev.shtml

Diflufenican: an herbicide used to control weeds around winter cereal crops. Imatinib: recently approved drug for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Tetrachloroethylene: most popular solvent and degreaser used by dry cleaners.
http://www.chemistry.org

Arsenic Pentachloride: They said it couldn't be made
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

NVP-DPP-728: dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV) inhibitor (phase II clinical trial)
http://www.prous.com/mom/mom.asp

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Advancing Library Design and Organic Synthesis
La Jolla, California, 24/02/03 - 27/02/03
http://www.healthtech.com/2003/lds/index.htm

Synthesis problems with DCC (6 contributions)
Purification of sulfonyl chlorides (7 contributions)
Diazonium to phenol (4 contributions) http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.chem.organic.synthesis

The book section of organicworldwide.net features recent and upcoming titles of interest for the synthetic organic chemist.
http://www.organicworldwide.net/books.html

A new monthly e-newsletter which is a resource for synthetic organic chemists looking for technical solutions to some of the major purification bottlenecks.
http://www.argotech.com/reactions/

A practical guide for all levels of students, post-docs or any new hires in the pharmaceutical industry, the most active employment market in industrial organic chemistry today. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0122676459/organicchem02-20

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