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Welcome to Issue 3.09 of the "Organic Chemistry e-Newsletter".
A newsletter for industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists.

In this issue:

1. Fluorous Chemistry
2. Molecules of the Month (September 2004)
3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (October 2004)
4. ChemAxon's Academic Package
5. Book of the Month

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1. Fluorous Chemistry

Fluorous technology is a new area of chemistry that, due to highly selective "fluorous interactions", offers specific benefits to high-throughput synthesis and purification.

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2. Molecules of the Month (September 2004)

trans-retinol: vitamin A.

Piperine: alkaloid compound found in black pepper.

Ibuprofen: reduces inflammation and fever.

Potassium permanganate: strong oxidizing agent.

http://www.chemistry.org

Ubiquitin: protein with a main role to label for degradation unwanted proteins in the body.

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

Gadofosveset sodium: first minimally invasive alternative to X-ray angiography for early diagnosis of vascular complications and disease.

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

3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (October 2004)

Green Solvents For Synthesis
October 03-04, 2004; Germany

4. ChemAxon's Academic Package

The ChemAxon's Academic Package is freely available for teaching and academic research. It includes Marvin for editing and viewing chemical structures, reactions and queries, Calculator Plugins for prediction of various properties based on structure (pKa, logP, logD, H-bond aceptor/donor, etc), JChem Base for structure and reaction searching and database handling, JChem Cartridge for OracleŽ database integration, Standardizer for structure canonization, Reactor for structure transformations and virtual synthesis, Screen for pharmacophore and structure based screening, JKlustor for clustering and diversity analysis.

http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic193.html

5. Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry
Jie Jack Li (Editor), ISBN: 0-471-30215-5, 558 pages, September 2004

Covers important name reactions relevant to heterocyclic chemistry. Each name reaction is summarized in seven sections: description historical perspective, mechanism, variations and improvements, synthetic utility, experimental and references.

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