Welcome to Issue 6.12 of the "Organic Chemistry e-Newsletter".
A newsletter for industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists. Season's Greetings to all our readers and we wish you a prosperous 2006!


In this issue:

1. Synform
2. Molecules of the Month (November 2007)
3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (December 2007)
4. Bentham Open Access Journals
5. Book of the Month

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1. Synform

Synform is a new supplementary feature of Synthesis, Synlett and Synfacts which presents people, trends, and views in synthetic organic chemistry with direct links to all quoted original papers.

http://www.wiley.com

2. Molecules of the Month (November 2007)

Ethanethiol: best known as the smell of a natural gas leak.

Methanethiol: a major component of odoriferous bodily emanations.

Tetraethyl lead : once used in gasoline worldwide as an antiknock additive.

http://www.acs.org

Methane: the main component of "natural gas".

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

Elesclomol: a first-in-class small-molecule oxidative stress inducer.

http://www.prous.com/molecules/default.asp?ID=166

3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (December 2007)

International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2007
December 17 - 21, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

abc Technologies
January 17-18, 2008, Basel, Switzerland

All details about these conferences and other upcoming conferences can be found at http://www.organicworldwide.net/conferen.html

4. Bentham Open Access Journals

Bentham Publishers recently launched over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals. Of interest for organic chemists are The Open Organic Chemistry Journal, The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal, The Open Current Process Chemistry Journal etc.

http://www.bentham.org/open/

5. Asymmetric Synthesis: The Essentials
Christmann, M., Bräse, S. (eds.), Softcover, ISBN 978-3-527-32093-6, October 2007, 355 pages, Wiley.

The book covers nearly every aspect of asymmetric catalysis and provides a unique overview of the developments and achievements in the field.

http://www.wiley.com

























































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