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Welcome to Issue 4.12 of the "Organic Chemistry e-Newsletter".
Season's Greetings to all our readers and we wish you a prosperous 2006!

In this issue:

1. 10th Anniversary of Organicworldwide.net
2. Molecules of the Month (December 2005)
3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (January 2006)
4. Chmoogle
5. Book of the Month

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1. 10th Anniversary of Organicworldwide.net

In 1996, "Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide" was launched as the first major portal site for synthetic organic chemists. Nowadays, it is still based on the same principles (intuitive design, independent annotations and audience specific approach), is visited by over 1000 visitors daily and ranks 2 in Google for query "organic chemistry".

Organicworldwide.net

2. Molecules of the Month (December 2005)

Minoxidil: the active ingredient in hair growth products.

Tyramine: a poisonous alkaloid found in the holiday plant mistletoe.

Artemisinin: drug used to treat multi-drug resistant strains of falciparum malaria.

Phenolphthalein: a sensitive pH indicator; it turns from colorless in acidic solutions to pink in basic solutions.

http://www.chemistry.org

Formic Acid: the poison from ants and stinging nettles.

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

Rotigaptide: an oligopeptide under clinical investigation for the treatment of arrhythmiasan.

http://www.prous.com/molecules/default.asp?ID=140

3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (January 2006)

International Symposium on Advances in Organic Chemistry
January 9-12, Kottayam, India

Organic Chemistry at the Interface to Biology
January 27-28, Copenhagen, Denmark

4. Chmoogle

A free open-access chemistry search engine. Chmoogle's mission is to discover, curate and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to the public.

Chmoogle

5. Metal Catalysed Reactions in Ionic Liquids
Paul J. Dyson, Tilmann J. Geldbach, ISBN: 140203914X, Hardcover, Springer, 246 pages, 2005

Catalysed reactions are covered according to their type (hydrogenation, hydroformylation, oxidation, C-C coupling reactions, metathesis, dimerisation, polymerisation etc.). Trends, generalisations, advantages and disadvantages of ionic liquids for specific reaction types are discussed.

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