SYNTHESIS Call for Papers

Upcoming SYNTHESIS Special Topics open for submissions are listed below!

General Guidelines

• If you intend to submit a manuscript, please inform the corresponding (guest) editor first, remembering to include the title of your manuscript and the article type (e.g. Review, Short Review, or Original Paper).
• Upon approval by the (guest) editor, you may submit your manuscript according to the author instructions.
• Please include the title of the Special Topic and the corresponding editor during the submission process.

Upcoming Topics

Special Issue dedicated to Prof. H. Ila
I. N. N. Namboothiri / Chelvam Venkatesh / Jung Min Joo (Send e-mail)
Deadline: May 31, 2024
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On the occasion of her 80^th birthday we publish a special dedicated to Prof. H.Ila. Prof. Ila received her Ph.D. degree from IIT Kanpur (1968). After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. R. L. Whistler at Purdue University, USA (1969), she joined Central drug Research Institute, Lucknow (1970) as research scientist. Together with her husband Prof. H. Junjappa, also a chemistry professor, she moved to new North Eastern Hill University, Shillong in 1977, to establish a School of Chemistry there. She became professor in 1986, and joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur, her alma mater, in 1995. After her superannuation (2007), she moved to Bangalore and joined Jubilant Biosys, Bangalore, as ‘Principal Advisor, Medicinal Chemistry’ (2007-2009). In 2010 January, she moved to New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore, as INSA Senior Scientist (2010-2014) and presently continuing there as ‘Hindustan  Lever Research Professor (2015 onward). 

This special issue aimed at highlighting recent synthetic advances on design,synthesis, and the application of heterocycles, highlighting their improtance in material science and for drug discovery research. Heterocycle synthesis mediated by metal or metal-free and organocatalytic transformations mentioning new or improved, scalable, or cost-effective methods are welcomed.

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Recent Advancements in The Chemistry of Diazo Compounds
Namrata Rastogi (Send e-mail)
Deadline: May 31, 2024
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The diazo compounds possess immense synthetic potential due to the inherently ambiphilic nature of the diazo group. The innovative design of diazo group bearing substrates has led to several classes of synthetically useful diazo substrates such as vinyl diazo compounds,  fluorinated diazo compounds, diazophosphonates etc. The reactivity umpolung in hypervalent iodine diazo compounds and diazo sulfonium salts further diversified their already versatile reactivity profile. Moreover, recent application of diazo substrates in visible light-mediated reactions has further widened their synthetic scope. This special issue would be a collection of research or review articles on the synthesis as well as reactions of diazo group bearing compounds aiming to highlight the recent advancements in the field.

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Flow Chemistry
Aiichiro Nagaki / Dong-Pyo Kim / Hideki Yorimitsu  (Send e-mail)
Deadline: March 31, 2024
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Flow chemistry has emerged as a powerful technology to achieve more efficient, sustainable, and controlled chemical processes than traditional batch processes. The integration of other technologies makes it possible to facilitate complicated reactions that used to be inefficient or impossible. As such, we would like to take this opportunity to highlight the most recent achievements on this topic through the publication of a special issue in SYNTHESIS.

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Dual Catalysis
Sarah Yunmi Lee/ Gavin Chit Tsui/ Jung Min Joo
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Deadline: January 31, 2024
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Dual catalysis is a powerful strategy for developing new organic reactions that used to be challenging to achieve by traditional methods. Whether through relay catalysis or synergistic catalysis, dual catalysis does not only facilitate complicated multiple bond formations but also enrich the toolbox for constructing novel molecules. As such, we would like to take this opportunity to highlight the most recent achievements on this topic through the publication of a special issue in SYNTHESIS.

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10th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry (PSRC-10)
Shigeru Yamago/ Hideki Yorimitsu (Send e-mail)
Deadline: March 31, 2024
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Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry (PSRC) was launched in 2004 with the aim of activating organic radical chemistry in the Pacific Rim by promoting mutual interaction among people in this field. Through nine meetings being held almost every two years since then, PSRC has succeeded in fostering organic radical chemistry in the world beyond its original scope. In the meantime, we have seen organic radical chemistry has been continuously developed and widely applied in organic synthesis. As such, we would like to take this opportunity to showcase the very recent achievements on this topic by publishing a special issue with the name of PSRC-10 in SYNTHESIS.