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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
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Rapid publication of organic synthesis, physical organic, chemical biology and supramolecular chemistry research.

Published by @rsc.org 🌐 Website: rsc.li/orgbiomolchem
📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the cover by Hari Prasad Kokatla & co. from NIT Warangal using a metal- and hydride-free approach for the chemoselective reduction of α-keto aldehydes by rongalite in water #orgchem

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January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess research behind the cover by @michaelaeverly.bsky.social & Patrick J. Hrdlicka from @uidaho.bsky.social using single-stranded LNA/MOE mixmers and chimeric Invader:XenoRNA probes for DNA targeting #orgchem

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January 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
📢Our first issue of 2026 is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the cover from @furthlab.bsky.social & co. at @uu.se using heterocyclic scaffold-fused dimethoxy-dibenzocyclooctynes for photoactivatable click chemistry to create this great image #orgchem

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January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
📢Our final issue of 2025 is online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the cover by Vandana Srivastava, Sundaram Singh & co. at IIT Varanasi reporting the photocatalytic synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines via C(sp)3–H functionalization using ethylarene #orgchem

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December 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper by Saeedreza Emamian, @tonifrontera.bsky.social & co. @dquimicauib.bsky.social decoding ortho regiospecificity & high endo stereoselectivity in pyrazole synthesis via the activation/strain model #orgchem

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December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess review behind the cover by Eugenia Marqués-López, Raquel P. Herrera & co. from @unizar.es discussing recent advances in the organocatalysed C-2 & C-3 functionalisation of chromones #orgchem #organicchemistry

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November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the paper behind the front cover by Irishi N. N. Namboothiri & co. at IIT Bombay describing the synthesis of benzofuranyl indolinones & benzonaphthoxazepinones via reaction of sulfonyl phthalide with nitroisatylidenes #orgchem

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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the research behind the front cover by Norihiro Tada, Akichika Itoh & co. from Gifu Pharmaceutical University reporting the external base-free electrophilic diynylation of thiols with diynyl benziodoxolone #orgchem

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November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess paper by @byrneresearch.bsky.social & co at @ucddublin.bsky.social reporting antiadhesive glycoconjugate metal complexes targeting P. aeruginosa & C. albicans in our New Talent collection #orgchem

Find the full report on our website🔽
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our latest issue has an inside front cover!

Don't miss the #OpenAccess paper from Annyesha Biswas & Saurja DasGupta at @notredame.bsky.social reporting new RNA Mango-based sensors for lead #orgchem

Read the full article on our website👇
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November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

This is a special themed issue celebrating our New Talent collection highlighting the excellent work being carried out by the next generation of leaders in the #organicchemistry community!

Find all the articles in the collection here🔽
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November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the paper behind the front cover by Francis K. Yoshimoto & co. from @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social & @vanderbilt.edu on the synthesis of 1β-hydroxytestosterone beginning with borylation of boldione #orgchem

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October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the research behind the cover from Yimin Hu & co. at Anhui Normal University describing the formation of complex cyclic compounds via a dehydrogenative Diels–Alder reaction #organicchemistry #orgchem

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October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the paper behind the cover from Ki Sung Kang, Ki Hyun Kim & co. at Sungkyunkwan University & Gachon University reporting the anti-adipogenic effects of N-acetyltyramine from termite-associated Streptomyces sp. M45 #natprod

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October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the research behind the front cover by Tae Kyung Ko & Hyung Min Chi from POSTECH reporting the HFIP mediated transition metal-free synthesis of C4-aryl-substituted quinolines #orgchem

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October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📢We are delighted to announce a #OpenCall for papers to the RSC cross-journal themed collection Celebrating 200 Years of Benzene, guest edited by Ben Feringa @feringalab.bsky.social & Nazario Martin!

Find out more about the collection and how to submit here🔽
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess review behind the front cover by Alessia Cavallaro, Giuseppe Trusso Sfrazzetto & co. from the University of Catania discussing formaldehyde sensing by fluorescent organic sensors #organicchemistry

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October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the paper behind the front cover by Carl Jacky Saint-Louis & co. @kennesawstate.bsky.social reporting a pro-fluorescent ethynylthiophene-based o-nitrobenzyl photolabile protecting group for hydroxamic acid synthesis

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September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📢 @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org & @rscmedchem.rsc.org are delighted to share our latest themed issue on Photoswitches & Photopharmacology, guest edited by Martina Cacciarini, @nadjasimeth.bsky.social, Wiktor Szymanski & Andrew Woolley! #chemsky

Explore the collection here🔽
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September 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢Our latest issue is online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the cover by @giampaolobarone.bsky.social, Ana Silva & co @bip-unipa.bsky.social & University of Porto looking at sulphur-containing pyrrolidine-fused chlorins for potential photodynamic applications

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September 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the paper behind the cover by Pushparathinam Gopinath & co. from SRM Institute of Science and Technology on regioselective (3+2) cycloaddition reactions of zerumbone #organicchemistry #orgchem

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September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our front cover features work by Showkat Rashid & co demonstrating the effectiveness of orthogonal oxidative protocols in facilitating the efficient synthesis of functionalised biaryl scaffolds from readily available β-naphthols, read it here👀

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August 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We are delighted to sponsor the 21st annual Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Symposium!

⌛Registration closes August 20th, don't miss your chance to attend! Poster submissions are welcome▶️ chembio.triiprograms.org/publications...

📅August 28th
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August 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the research behind the front cover by Chang Woo Kim, Sunwoo Lee & co. from Chonnam National University on a one-step strategy for synthesizing N-formanilide via benzamide activation and oxalic acid-driven reduction #orgchem

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August 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the paper behind the cover by Tanurima Bhaumik, Raju Dey, Susanta Kumar Manna & co at Jadavpur University on the synthesis and biological evaluation of naphthoquinone-fused pyrrole & imidazopyridinedione heterocycles #orgchem

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July 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM