Vol. 02, Iss. 02

April 21, 2011

Inside this Issue:

R. Schmidt Wins

Award

Conferences

Microreviews

Chemistry Views

EurBest

Press Release

Special Issue

Richard Schmidt, author, referee,

and former member o f the

International Advisory Board of

EurJOC (1994–2004), was recently

given the Claude S. Hudson Award in

C a r b o h yd r a te C h e m i s t r y . A

symposium in his honor was held at

the recent ACS Spring Meeting in

Anaheim, California, USA.

For a list of R. Schmidt’s EurJOC

papers, click here.

Richard Schmidt Wins Award

Haymo Ross, Editor of EurJOC,

with Richard Schmidt

The 17th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2011) will be

held at Hersonissos in Crete, Greece, July 10–15, 2011.

EurJOC To Attend ESOC 2011

ESOC 17 is dedicated to organic chemistry and related areas, emphasizing the following topics: Total

Synthesis of Natural Products, Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, New Methods in Organic Synthesis,

Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Supramolecular Chemistry, Synthesis of

Functional Materials, Physical Organic Chemistry.

Dr. Jennifer O’Donnell, Deputy Editor of EurJOC, will be attending this symposium and looks forward to

meeting you there. Also be sure to visit the Wiley-VCH booth in the exhibition area and look for copies of

EurJOC to take home with you.

For more information about the conference, please visit the ESOC 2011 official website.

EurJOC To Attend OMCOS 16

The 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic

Synthesis (OMCOS 16) will be held in Shanghai, China, July 24–28, 2011. Chemists from around the world

gather to present and discuss the latest advances in organic synthesis with organometallic reagents, metal-

mediated or -catalyzed reactions, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, structural and mechanistic aspects

of organometallics, and environmentally benign processes using metals.

Nobel Laureate and EurJOC author Ei-ichi Negishi will be giving a plenary lecture at this symposium.

Dr. Haymo Ross will be attending OMCOS 16, so take advantage of this opportunity to meet the Editor of

EurJOC!

To register for this meeting, click here.

Our Most Popular Microreviews

Recent Developments in Pd-Catalyzed Reactions of Diazo Compounds Yan Zhang, Jianbo Wang DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201001588 Diaryl Ether Formation in the Synthesis of Natural Products Emmanuel N. Pitsinos, Veroniki P. Vidali, Elias A. Couladouros DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201001520 3-Alkenyl-oxindoles: Natural Products, Pharmaceuticals, and Recent Synthetic Advances in Tandem/Telescoped Approaches Alessia Millemaggi, Richard J. K. Taylor DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201000643

Pyrrolysine Analogs for Translational Incorporation into Proteins Tomasz Fekner, Xin Li, Michael K. Chan DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201000204 Cu(I)-Catalyzed Alkyne–Azide “Click” Cycloadditions from a Mechanistic and Synthetic Perspective Victoria D. Bock, Henk Hiemstra, Jan H. van Maarseveen DOI:10.1002/ejoc.200500483

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EurBest in EurJOC

All-Carbon-Substituted Quaternary Carbon Atoms in Oxindoles by an Aerobic Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Ring Closure onto Tri- and Tetrasubstituted Double Bonds

Julia A. Schiffner and Martin Oestreich DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201001526

Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Beta-Amino Esters by a Heterogeneous

System of a Palladium Nanocatalyst and Candida antarctica Lipase A

Karin Engström, Mozaffar Shakeri and Jan-E. Bäckvall

DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201001714

Studies towards the Synthesis of Pentalenene: Mechanistic Insights into the Isomerization Phenomenon During

RCM of Medium-Sized Rings Guillaume De Bo and István E. Markó

Recent Press Release

When reactive oxygen species (ROS) hit the body,

vitamin E helps to prevent damage to tissues and

cells by acting as an antioxidant. The health

benefits of vitamin E are numerous, and in fact,

studies have found that people with higher levels of

vitamin E in their system have a lower risk of heart

disease and certain forms of cancer. A team led by

Thomas Rosenau from the University of Natural

Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (Austria)

now describe their synthesis of a series of modified

vitamin E derivatives that show promise as dioxin

receptor antagonists in the European Journal of

Organic Chemistry.

Read more or read the original communication.

Take Your Vitamins! Tocopherol Derivatives as New Dioxin Receptor Antagonists

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EurJOC Special Issue

EurJOC’s special issue dedicated to Women in Chemistry is almost here! For a glimpse of what this issue

has to offer, check out the following articles authored by prominent women in organic chemistry that are

already published online in Early View.

Facile Access to 3,5-Dihalogenated Pyrazoles by Sydnone Cycloaddition and their Versatile

Functionalization by Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Processes

Thierry Delaunay, Mazen Es-Sayed, Jean-Pierre Vors, Nuno Monteiro and Geneviève Balme

DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201100119

Silicon Lewis Acid Catalyzed [3+2] Cycloaddition Reactions of Hydrazones/Cyclopentadiene: Mild

Access to Pyrazolidine Derivatives

Alexandru Zamfir, Sebastian Schenker, Walter Bauer, Timothy Clark and Svetlana B. Tsogoeva

DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201100206

Calcium-Catalyzed Direct Coupling of Alcohols with Organosilanes

Vera J. Meyer and Meike Niggemann

DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201100231