Molecules — Open Access Organic Chemistry Journal

Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049; CODEN: MOLEFW) is the leading international, peer-reviewed open access journal of synthetic organic chemistry and natural product chemistry. Molecules is published monthly online by MDPI.

Open Access - free for readers, with publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions.
High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed) and other databases.
Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and published within 44 days (average Jan-Jun 2013), accepted papers are immediately published online.

Impact Factor: 2.428 (2012); 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.679 (2012)

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Forthcoming Special Issues

Anthocyanins (Guest Editors: Ronald E. Wrolstad, Monica Giusti, Wilhelmina Kalt)
Aromas and Volatiles of Fruits (Guest Editor: Riccardo Flamini)
Bio and Nanomaterials Based on Fe3O4 (Guest Editor: Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu)
Carbonylation Chemistry (Guest Editor: Bartolo Gabriele)
Curcumin, Inflammation, and Chronic Diseases: How are They Linked? (Guest Editors: Bharat B. Aggarwal, Sahdeo Prasad)
Cycloaddition Chemistry (Guest Editor: Robert Stockman)
Delivery Systems of Anticancer Agents (Guest Editor: Franco Dosio)
Dendrimers in Medicine and Biotechnology (Guest Editor: Zofia Urbanczyk-Lipkowska)
Design and Study of Kinase Inhibitors (Guest Editor: Philippe Belmont)
Deuterated Molecules and Polymers for Neutron Studies (Guest Editors: Peter Bonnesen, Kunlun Hong)
ECSOC-17 (Guest Editor: Julio Seijas Vázquez)
Enzyme Immobilization (Guest Editor: Roberto Fernandez-Lafuente)
Fluorescent Probes (Guest Editor: Kevin D. Belfield)
Free Radicals and Radical Ions (Guest Editors: John Walton, Ffrancon Williams)
Heterocyclic and Medicinal Chemistry (Guest Editor: Richard A. Bunce)
Heterogeneous Acid Catalysts (Guest Editors: Detlef W. Bahnemann, Amer Hakki)
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding (Guest Editor: Ronald Castellano)
Microextraction (Guest Editor: Elefteria Psillakis)
Multiscale Chemical Modeling Using Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Methods: Advances and Applications (Guest Editor: James Gauld)
Natural Antioxidants and Ageing (Guest Editor: Maurizio Battino)
Novel Drug Candidates for Anticancer Therapy: Design, Preliminary Evaluations, and Further Developments (Guest Editors: Jean Vanden Eynde, Annie Mayence, Tien Huang)
Palladium Catalysts (Guest Editors: Diego Alonso, Isidro M. Pastor)
Peptide Chemistry (Guest Editor: Katrina Jolliffe)
Photocatalysis (Guest Editor: Pierre Pichat)
Phytoalexins: Current Progress and Future Prospects (Guest Editor: Philippe Jeandet)
Practical Applications of Metal Complexes (Guest Editor: Iztok Turel)
Quantum Information in Molecular Structures and Nanosystems (Guest Editor: Mihai Putz)
Recent Advances in Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (Guest Editor: Eamon Comer)
Redox Active Natural Products and Their Interaction with Cellular Signalling Pathways (Guest Editor: Claus Jacob)
Resveratrol (Guest Editors: Arthur S. Polans, Paul van Ginkel, Veronika Somoza)
Single Molecule Techniques (Guest Editor: Hans-Heiner Gorris)
Sulfur Atom: Element for Adaptation to an Oxidative Environment (Guest Editors: Noriyuki Nagahara, Maria Wrobel)
Supramolecular Devices from Cyclodextrin: Synthesis and Pharmacological Applications (Guest Editor: Eduardo Sobarzo-Sánchez)
Template Directed Synthesis and Self-Assembly in Organic Systems (Guest Editor: Lluïsa Pérez-García)

Topical Collections

Bioactive Compounds (Guest Editors: Nancy D. Turner, Isabel Ferreira)
Natural Products as Leads or Drugs against Neglected Tropical Diseases (Guest Editor: Thomas J. Schmidt)

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