Announcements
1 December 2022
Editorial Board Members from the International Journal of Molecular Sciences Featured in the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List Published by Clarivate
21 November 2022
Meet Us at the 15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society for Immunology, 27–30 December 2022, Chongqing, China
17 November 2022
Editorial Board Members from the International Journal of Molecular Sciences Featured in Stanford’s List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists
26 October 2022
Meet Us at the Journées de Chimie Organique (JCO 2022), 2–4 November 2022, Palaiseau, France
Conference: Journées de Chimie Organique (JCO 2022)
Date: 2–4 November 2022
Place: Palaiseau, France
Booth Number: 2
Materials (ISSN: 1996-1944) and Molecules (ISSN: 1420-3049) will be attending the Journées de Chimie Organique (JCO 2022) as exhibitors from 2 to 4 November in Palaiseau, France.
The JCO is organized every 3 years by the Organic Chemistry Division committee. It aims to be a great opportunity for the sharing of science, gathering organic chemists from all over the world.
This year, the meeting will include 13 plenary lectures and 5 invited lectures given by French and foreign researchers from both academic and industrial backgrounds, and will also highlight awardees of the DCO prizes.
Numerous oral communications are open to young researchers in various areas, such as the following:
- Catalysis;
- New methods in organic synthesis;
- Total synthesis of natural products;
- Sustainable chemistry;
- Medicinal chemistry;
- Bioorganic chemistry;
- Chemobiology;
- Supramolecular chemistry;
- Applications in materials and energy.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you plan on attending this conference. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you might have.
For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.jco2022.com/en/.
5 October 2022
Inventors of “Click Chemistry” Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 has been jointly awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University, USA), Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research, La Jolla, USA).
The trio laid the foundations for creating useful molecules by combining simple building blocks through a straightforward and efficient chemical reaction, an approach which they termed click chemistry. The idea is that the resulting molecules do not need to be exact replica of natural molecules in order to be functional. Especially in the development and production of pharmaceuticals at scale, click chemistry has brought about many advances.
Bertozzi, Meldal, Sharpless (from left to right) © Nobel Media
“This year’s Prize in Chemistry deals with not overcomplicating matters, instead working with what is easy and simple. Functional molecules can be built even by taking a straightforward route,” the Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Johan Åqvist, said.
The copper-catalyzed reaction Professor Meldal and Professor Sharpless discovered independently makes basic molecules “snap together quickly and efficiently” and is “utilised in the development of pharmaceuticals, for mapping DNA and creating materials that are more fit for purpose”, according to a statement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Carolyn Bertozzi is the eighth woman to win the prize in chemistry and a champion of open access publishing. In her seminal research, she succeeded in developing chemical tools based on click chemistry that help to study human and animal physiology in new ways. In particular, she came up with so-called bioorthogonal reactions which are so selective they do not interfere with surrounding processes in living organisms. Targeting tumors by breaking down their camouflage is one highly important application.
Barry Sharpless is only the second person to be awarded the chemistry prize for a second time, having already been honored in 2001 for previous breakthrough discoveries.
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and a special nod to Professor Sharpless who is a one-time author in Molecules!
Díaz, D.D.; Converso, A.; Sharpless, K.B.; Finn, M.G. 2,6-Dichloro-9-thiabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane: Multigram Display of Azide and Cyanide Components on a Versatile Scaffold. Molecules 2006, 11, 212-218. https://doi.org/10.3390/11040212.
28 September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022 – Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research
20 September 2022
Meet Us at the 12th National Organic Chemistry Conference of the Chinese Chemical Society, 25–29 September 2022, Hefei, China
17 August 2022
Meet Us at the Chinese Chemical Society Chirality China 2021 (2022) Symposium, 26–28 August 2022, Guangzhou, China
17 August 2022
Meet Us at the XVI Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology (RBMP), 14–16 September 2022, Sevilla, Spain
26 July 2022
Meet Us at the 44th Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM 2022), 6–9 September 2022, Malaga, Spain
