About Molecules

Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049; CODEN: MOLEFW), an Open Access journal of synthetic organic chemistry and natural product chemistry, is published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) online monthly.

- free for readers, with low publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions
High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), PubMed and other databases.
Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online.

Impact Factor: 1.252 (2008); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.340 (2008)

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Forthcoming Special Issues

Section: Medicinal Chemistry

Artemisinin (Qinghaosu): Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Youyou Tu on the Occasion of her 80th Anniversary (Guest Editor: Geoff Brown)
Neuroprotective Strategies (Guest Editor: Katalin Prokai-Tatrai)
Structure-Based Drug Design (Guest Editor: Claudiu T. Supuran)

Section: Molecular Diversity

High-throughput Screening (Guest Editor: Florian Hollfelder)

Section: Natural Products

Phenolics and Polyphenolics (Guest Editors: Paula Andrade, José Alberto Pereira)

Section: Organic Synthesis

Asymmetric Synthesis (Guest Editor: Noureddine Khiar)
Click Chemistry (Guest Editor: Christian Girard)
Cross-Coupling Reactions in Organic Synthesis (Guest Editor: Laurent Djakovitch)
Cycloaddition Reactions in Organic Synthesis (Guest Editor: Janis Louie )
Heck Coupling (Guest Editor: Cinzia Chiappe)
Macromolecules: Chemistry, Medicinal and Functional Materials (Guest Editors: Russell Crawford, Elena Ivanova)
Photochemistry in Organic Synthesis (Guest Editor: Joaquim Luís Faria)
Protecting Group in Organic Synthesis (Guest Editors: Jyoti Chattopadhyaya, Andras Földesi)
Ring-Closing Metathesis (Guest Editor: Javier Pérez-Castells)
Solid Phase Synthesis (Guest Editors: Fernando Albericio, Jan Spengler)

Not assigned to a section

Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry (Guest Editor: Norbert Haider)
Anti-Infective Agents (Guest Editors: Paul Cos, Mark Hamann)
Antioxidants (Guest Editor: Renato Bruni)
Antivirals (Guest Editor: Ulrich Jordis)
Baylis-Hillman Reaction and Related Processes (Guest Editor: Guigen Li )
Bifunctional Catalysis (Guest Editor: Takao Ikariya)
Catalytic Nucleic Acids (Guest Editor: Lun-Quan Sun )
ECSOC-13 (Guest Editor: Julio A. Seijas Vázquez)
Heterogeneous Catalysis (Guest Editor: Eric Guibal)
Homogeneous Catalysis (Guest Editor: Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen)
Nano-catalysts and Nano-technologies for Green Organic Synthesis (Guest Editors: Angelo Nacci, Nicola Cioffi)
Organic Electrosynthesis (Guest Editors: Andrew P. Doherty , Luis Echegoyen)
Organic Iodine Chemistry (Guest Editors: Bimal K. Banik, Hideo Togo)
Organic Magnetic Materials (Guest Editors: Antonio Alberola Catalan, Jeremy M. Rawson)
Organobismuth Chemistry (Guest Editor: Bimal K. Banik)
Organometallic Chemistry (Guest Editor: Brian J. Frost)
Phytochemicals with Signaling, Medicinal and Therapeutic Properties (Guest Editors: Liya Ge, Swee Ngin Tan, Jean W. H. Yong)
Polyketide (Guest Editor: James T. Kealey)
Radiochemistry (Guest Editor: Svend Borup Jensen)
Supramolecular Assembly (Guest Editor: Rachel K. O'Reilly)

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