Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Abbreviated title(s)	Org. Biomol. Chem., OBC
Discipline	Chemistry
Language	English
Publication details
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry ( United Kingdom)
Publication history	2003 to present
Indexing
ISSN	1477-0520 (print) 1477-0539 (web)
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original primary research and review articles. It is published every two weeks by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Like all RSC journals, OBC is widely recognised for its overall quality and its speed of publication - it is the fastest publisher in the organic chemistry field. (Its predecessor journals were Perkin Transactions I and Perkin Transactions II.)

The editor of OBC is Dr Vikki Allen and the current chair of the Editorial Board is Prof. Dr. Jay Siegel, from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The founding chairman was Prof. Dr. Ben L. Feringa, who is head of organic chemistry at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and is now a member of the OBC Advisory Editorial Board.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a not-for-profit publisher: surplus made by its publishing business is invested to support its aim of advancing the chemical sciences.

The impact factor for OBC is 3.17 (2008).^[1]

OBC has been selected by the US National Library of Medicine for inclusion in MEDLINE, thereby increasing its visibility to the biological community. Chemical biology papers published in OBC are highlighted in Highlights in Chemical Biology, the RSC’s point of access to chemical biology news and research from across all RSC journals.

OBC hosts other RSC publications: Highlights in Chemical Science and Highlights in Chemical Biology.

Contents 1 Subject coverage 2 Article types 3 Audience/Readership 4 External links 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Subject coverage

Synthetic, physical and biomolecular organic chemistry as well as all organic aspects of: chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, natural product chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, theoretical chemistry, and catalysis.

[edit] Article types

Communications - original scientific work that is of an urgent nature and that has not been published previously
Articles - original scientific work that has not been published previously
Perspectives - important developments in organic chemistry invited from experts in the field
Emerging Areas - short feature articles on particularly topical subjects, invited from promising young chemists or people working in new areas

[edit] Audience/Readership

Academic and industrial scientists working in all aspects of synthetic, biomolecular and physical organic chemistry.

[edit] External links

• Royal Society of Chemistry's Biosciences Gateway
• Royal Society of Chemistry's Organic Gateway

[edit] See also

• Chemical Communications
• List of scientific journals
• List of scientific journals in chemistry

[edit] References

1. ^ Journal Citation Reviews, 2008