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2004 brings with it a number of changes forChemical Society Reviews(CSR), both in terms of size and content. In 1992 the journal expanded from 4 issues per year (a legacy of its predecessor:Quarterly Reviews) and grew in impact over the subsequent years to stake its place in the top three most highly cited general chemistry journals—a position it has held for the past 4 years. Now, as the journal enters its 33rdyear, the time has come to expand again, this time to 9 issues.This increase means that the journal will be hitting your desktops with greater frequency and higher impact than ever before. The additional pages give us the freedom to continue our expansion of scope into the broader areas of chemical science, while retaining those core areas of interest. In this issue alone you will find coverage of fundamental organic synthesis as well as articles describing chemistry at the interfaces with materials science, physics, biology and medicine, and a review discussing the application of chemistry to a problem of social interest: the detection of drug use in sport.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b315224n

出版商:RSC    

年代:2003

数据来源: RSC

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The study of the structures and properties of crystalline materials has been recognized by chemists for over 50 years as an important means of exploring and understanding fundamental questions relating to structure and bonding, and their implications. In particular, the discovery of the phenomenon of X-ray diffraction nearly 100 years ago paved the way for the development of the technique – single crystal X-ray diffraction – that is indisputably the most powerful and direct experimental approach for elucidating structural properties of crystalline compounds and materials. Moreover, many important advances in the chemical, physical and biological sciences during the 20th Century relied upon the use of this technique and related techniques such as neutron diffraction.Crystallography has by no means reached the limit of its capabilities. On the contrary, recent years have witnessed the continued advancement and evolution of the field, arising from the development of new and improved instrumentation together with the development of new, powerful techniques for data analysis, each of which is allowing new areas of structural science to be explored and new levels of fundamental understanding to be obtained.This Special Issue ofChemical Society Reviewstakes a snapshot of the key areas of current advances in the field of crystallography. The coverage includes:– the exploitation of modern instrumentation for studies of transient species, such as photo-induced excited states (Cole), and materials at low temperature (Goeta and Howard);– advances in the use of powder X-ray diffraction, both for carrying out complete structure determination of molecular solids (Harris and Cheung) and for exploring temperature and time-dependent structural phenomena (Evans and Radosavljević Evans);– contemporary advances in the optical characterization of crystals (Kaminsky et al.);– the exploitation of the accumulated structural information in the Cambridge Structural Database in chemical applications (Allen and Taylor), and the use of structural understanding in the design of materials that have specific structures and properties (what some like to call “crystal engineering”) (Brammer);– modern aspects of biological crystallography, including the role of crystallographic approaches in drug discovery (Tickle et al.) and advances in the use of synchrotron X-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction techniques in the structural characterization of materials of biological importance (Blakeley et al.).David Parker and Kenneth Harris

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b414719g

出版商:RSC    

年代:2004

数据来源: RSC

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Tracking the progress of journal articles is about to become a whole lot easier for RSC authors and referees, thanks to the launch of a new online service: ReSourCe. Designed to provide a user-friendly entry point, the ReSourCe homepage allows access to an extensive range of online publishing servicesviaa single ID and password.The ReSourCe services for referees were launched earlier this year and allow referees to download articles for review, upload their reports, view their refereeing history, and update research interest information. These referee services are available to any current RSC referee.Now ReSourCe has been integrated with the RSC online services for authors. New and current authors can register to use ReSourCe to view and access all the information and tools they need to submit their manuscripts. Existing ReSourCe users (referees) do not need to register again; they automatically have access to all author services using their existing ID.Electronic submission has been available to RSC authors for several years. ReSourCe takes this several steps further, allowing authors to track their manuscript through the various stages of the peer review and publication process and then collect their free electronic reprints. Over time, authors will be able to build up a valuable record of their publication history. A further development will also provide electronic collection of article proofs.In the past, authors had the chore of photocopying and mailing bulky manuscripts, then often seeing them delayed in the post for days. Online submission saw a dramatic saving in time and costs, and ReSourCe will make life even simpler for authors by enabling them to see the progress of their article from submission through to publication.We hope that you will discover ReSourCe for yourself as soon as possible, as an author, a referee, or both! ReSourCe services can be accessed fromwww.rsc.org/resource. Feedback on the ReSourCe site and suggestions for improvements are very welcome; please contact resource@rsc.org.Janet FreshwaterManaging EditorCSR

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b414364g

出版商:RSC    

年代:2004

数据来源: RSC

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The past year2004 was an eventful year for CSR.1We saw the successful expansion into nine issues ensuring the journal had higher visibility and the scope to broaden our remit. We achieved a higher impact factor of 9.6 and therefore maintained our position as the third most highly cited general chemistry journal.With the introduction of highly accessed critical reviews, our authors are now able to provide in-depth analysis and balanced assessment while maintaining the accessible nature of the journal. Examples included Harald Hofmeier and Ulrich Schubert's article on ‘recent developments in the supramolecular chemistry of terpyridine-metal complexes’,2whilst other reviews focused on subjects of social interest as in the article on sports drug testing – an analyst's perspective by Graham Trout and Rymantas Kazlaustas.3As well as these new review types, we published a Special Issue on Current Advances in Crystallography compiled by Kenneth Harris and David Parker and provided material to be highlighted in issues of ‘Chemical Science’. Newsworthy articles were selected on mechanisms in enzyme catalysis4and synthetic routes to di-substituted unsymmetrical ferrocene ligands.5On the website we promoted our first web theme on physical and atmospheric chemistry. We expect to see expansion of this web facility in the future.It is appropriate to thank again The Editorial Board, who commission much of the content, for their support and work. This year we bid farewell to A P de Silva and Steve Haswell for their diligent contributions and unswerving support of the journal. We welcome the members of the International Advisory Board who will be crucial to strengthening our coverage in key topic areas and developing our international profile further. With members of this board from China, Japan, Russia and Australia, to name a few, we anticipate both an increased representation in published articles and the development of authorship in these countries.Clare Bostock-Smith has been the CSR Editor for the past 4 years. Earlier this year she was asked to manage Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry and very recently she has embarked upon a new career challenge. We thank Clare for her hard work and enthusiastic editorship and wish her well in her new career.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b417833p

出版商:RSC    

年代:2004

数据来源: RSC

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Professor Mike J. Blandamer is an Emeritus Professor at the University ofLeicester, having retired in September 1999. Mike graduated from theUniversity of Southampton with BSc and PhD degrees in 1961. Followingpostdoctoral research at NRC in Ottawa (Canada), he joined the staff at theUniversity of Leicester.

ISSN:0306-0012    

出版商:RSC    

年代:2000

数据来源: RSC

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Sona Sivakova was born in Presov, Slovakia. She came to the United States in 1989 and obtained her BS at Case Western Reserve University in Biomedical Engineering in 2000. She returned to Case to pursue her PhD in the Macromolecular Science and Engineering department under the supervision of Stuart Rowan. Her work focuses on utilizing DNA nucleobases in the construction of supramolecular polymeric systems.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b304608g

出版商:RSC    

年代:2004

数据来源: RSC

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2006Throughout 2006Chem Soc Revhas continued to develop and maintain its position as one of the leading review journals in the chemical sciences. The number of reviews published in the journal grew by 18%—the third year in succession that such a large increase has been achieved—whilst maintaining the high standard of review material appearing in its pages. In 2006,Chem Soc Revpublished its first RSC Awards review, covering the exciting topic ‘Inferring the chemical mechanism from structures of enzymes’. Written by Professor Jim Naismith, University of St Andrews, the review is related to the work for which he was awarded the RSC Corday–Morgan Medal in 2005 (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,). The publication of social interest reviews continued in 2006, with three reviews appearing during the year on topics of general interest: ‘Biochemistry of the skin’, ‘Automotive fuels’ and ‘Conservation in shipwrecks’.Table 1shows the top ten most accessed reviews published inChem Soc Revin 2006.Most accessed articles inChem Soc Revin 2006Review titleCitationData set taken from 1st January 2006 to 13th November 2006Organic chemistry in waterChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,68–82Advances in chemistry applied to forensic science†Chem. Soc. Rev., 2005,34,1021–1030Self-organization of disc-like molecules: chemical aspectsChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,83–109Biochemistry of human skin—our brain on the outside†Chem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,52–67Differential receptor arrays and assays for solution-based molecular recognitionChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,14–28Size matters: why nanomaterials are differentChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,583–592Why gold nanoparticles are more precious than pretty gold: Noble metal surface plasmon resonance and its enhancement of the radiative and nonradiative properties of nanocrystals of different shapesChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,209–217Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation: chiral ligands and applicationsChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,226–236Chemical genetics to chemical genomics: small molecules offer big insightsChem. Soc. Rev., 2005,34,472–482Multifunctional molecular carbon materials—from fullerenes to carbon nanotubesChem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,471–487It is particularly pleasing to see the inclusion of two social interest reviews (marked † in the table) on wider topics of general interest in the most accessed review list of 2006. Also notable is the popularity of reviews on topics such as nanomaterials, catalysis, chemical biology and green chemistry.Themed issuesOne of the most exciting developments of 2006 was the publication of three world class themed issues (seeFig. 1). In June, editorial board member Professor Chris Orvig, University of British Columbia, guest edited an issue on lanthanides in medicine and inorganic medicinal chemistry. This was followed in October by a themed issue on the topic of chemistry at high pressure, guest edited by Professor Paul McMillan, University College London. This issue covered a diverse range of research areas from biochemistry to materials science. Publication of the issue also coincided with the centenary of Percy Bridgeman's first works in high pressure for which he later received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1946. The success of the issue was also confirmed when the review by Professor Isabel Daniel entitled ‘Origins of life and biochemistry under high-pressure conditions’ (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2006,35,858–875) was highlighted in the wider scientific press.Chem Soc Revcovers from the 2006 themed issues.Finally in 2006, the journal published a themed issue covering the topic of nanostructured assemblies. This issue, guest edited by editorial board members, Professors Jon Preece and Fabio Biscarini and Dr Wilhelm Huck, also covered a wide range of topics from polymer and organic nanomaterials to inorganic nanostructures through to surfaces and supramolecular chemistry. This was the largest issue ofChem Soc Revpublished to date featuring 13 world class reviews from leading international authors. But it is not justChem Soc Revthat is publishing high-quality papers on nanoscience—due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject area other RSC Journals and Books also include related content. This wealth of nano material has now been brought together in one convenient webpage, which is regularly updated with the latest research and books from RSC Publishing. Visit:www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/nanoscience/Impact factorIt is with great delight we can report that the journal impact factor increased for the fourth year in succession to reach 13.75, an all time high for the journal.Chem Soc Revleapt from the third highest ranking journal in the multidisciplinary chemistry category to the second, overtaking its ACS counterpart,Accounts of Chemical Research, for the first time (seeFig. 2).Graph showing the change in impact factor over the last 6 years (Thomson ISI®).This rise in impact factor was mirrored across the RSC journal portfolio when the 2005 impact factors were released by ISI®in June 2006 with RSC journals showing an impressive average increase of over 10%. Calculated annually, ISI®impact factors provide an indication of the quality of a journal—they take into account the number of citations in a given year for all the citable documents published within a journal in the preceding two years.Work published in RSC Journals is also amongst the most topical. The immediacy index measures how topical and urgent the papers published in a journal are, by dividing the number of citations in a given year by the number of articles published in the journal that year. These impressive new figures reinforce the RSC's reputation as the home of exciting new research.Chem Soc RevlectureA further major development in 2006 was the awarding of the firstChem Soc Revsponsored lecture. This was delivered by Professor Jeffery Davis at the Southampton Supramolecular Chemistry (SS3) meeting in July (seeFig. 3). Professor Davis was selected to be the first recipient of the award for his continued research excellence and contributions in the field of supramolecular chemistry. To read more about Professor Jeffrey Davis's research interests read his recentChem Soc Revreview co-authored with Professor Gianpiero Spada (http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=b600282j).Professor Jeffery Davis receiving theChem Soc Revlecture award. Pictured withChem Soc Reveditor Dr Robert Eagling and editorial board member and organiser Dr Philip Gale.This prize is just one of many awarded by RSC Publishing during 2006, a year that has seen more than 20 high-profile researchers gain financial support to present their work at events throughout the world, in recognition of their research achievements. More than £15 000 (or $30 000) was granted to the recipients, in total, to cover travel expenses to sponsored lectureships in countries such as China, Japan, US and UK.Editorial boardAt this time it is important to thank editorial board members who will be retiring at the end of 2006. We would like to therefore send special thanks to Professors Eisenstein, Harris, Orvig and De Cola for their help over the past years. We are also delighted to welcome new editorial members, Dr David Spring (Cambridge University) and Professors Adriano Zecchina (Università di Torino) and Joseph Caruso (University of Cincinnati) who have all recently joined the editorial board and will help to shape the journal in the future.We would like to extend special thanks at this time to Professor David Parker who will complete his four year term as Chair, at the end of 2006. Professor Parker joined the journal as Chair in 2002, and has helped to steer it through a period of rapid growth. Since 2002 the frequency ofChem Soc Revhas doubled from 6 to 12 issues whilst the number of reviews has increased by over 30%. A further key development in this period has been the successful inclusion of critical reviews, which now make up a quarter of the journal's overall content. Most exciting of all, however, is the continued growth in impact factor to a record high of 13.75 (ISI®2005), with an overall increase of 37% since 2002. We would like to personally thank Professor Parker for his efforts in helping to guide both the journal and the excellent editorial board members through this exciting and successful period.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b616597b

出版商:RSC    

年代:2006

数据来源: RSC

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Roderick Bates was born in 1965 in Hampshire, England. He received a BSc from Imperial College, London, and developed a taste for transition metal chemistry. He stayed there to obtain a PhD under the guidance of Professor S. V. Ley. Following a spell as an SERC-NATO Postdoctoral fellow with Professor L. S. Hegedus at Colorado State University, he joined the faculty of the University of North Texas and then of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is now a researcher at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in that city.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b103904k

出版商:RSC    

年代:2001

数据来源: RSC

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First in its classChem Soc Revhad a great year in 2009. Its impact factor rose to 17.4 (ISI®, 2008), an impressive 33% increase over 2008 and the largest percentage increase for all general chemistry review journals (Fig. 1). We published 225 reviews in 2009, makingChem Soc Revthe largest review journal covering the chemical sciences. And, yet again, the journal’s immediacy index (3.668) is the highest in its class, demonstrating that it is publishing exciting and topical reviews. These results underline the continuing success of the journal, makingChem Soc Rev‘first in its class’.General chemistry review journals impact factors.Following the announcement of the 2008 impact factor, 100 of the most citedChem Soc Revauthors from 2006 and 2007 were invited to a celebration dinner at the 238th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC, US. The event provided the opportunity for the RSC to thank these prestigious authors for choosing to publish inChem Soc Rev, while highlighting the success of their publication.We would like to thank all our authors, referees, Editorial and Advisory Board members for their continued and ever growing support.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b923879b

出版商:RSC    

年代:2009

数据来源: RSC

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Aaron T. WrightAaron T. Wright earned his B.S. in Chemistry in 2001 from George Fox University in Newberg, OR. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin working under the guidance of Eric V. Anslyn. His Ph.D. research has focused on the development of synthetic receptors for the selective detection of analytes in complex solutions, and the synthesis of synthetic receptor libraries for use in differential receptor arrays for pattern-based detection of bioanalytes. Next summer he will begin a post-doctoral position with Benjamin Cravatt at the Scripps Research Institute.

ISSN:0306-0012    

DOI:10.1039/b505518k

出版商:RSC    

年代:2005

数据来源: RSC