Current Organic Chemistry

ISSN: 1385-2728 - Volume 12, 18 Issues, 2008

Instructions for Authors

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION:

Authors wishing to submit comprehensive reviews in any frontier area of organic chemistry should contact the Guest Editor of the relevant field with the title and a one page summary of the proposed contents. Each first named author who publishes an article will receive a free one year subscription to the journal (of the current volume). The Guest Editors for the various fields are as follows:

Mass Spectrometry:

Prof. Athula Attygalle
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken
NJ 07030
USA
Fax No: +1-201-2168240
E-mail: aattygal@stevens-tech.edu

Natural Product Chemistry:

Prof. K. Hostettmann
Universit de Lausanne
Institut de Pharmacognosie et Phytochimie
Ecole de Pharmacie, BEP
CH1015, Lausanne-Dorigny
Switzerland
Fax No: +41-21-692-2880
E-mail: Kurt.Hostettmann@ipp.unil.ch

Heterocyclic Chemistry:

Prof. Jan Bergman
Department of Bioscience at Novum
Unit of Organic Chemistry
SE-141 57 Huddinge
Sweden
Fax No: +468-711-6869 or +468-608-1501
E-mail: jabe@thon.csb.ki.se

DNA Chemistry:

Prof. Z. Kelman
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology
9600 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
USA
Fax No: +1-301-738-6255
E-mail: kelman@umbi.umd.edu

Complex Carbohydrate:

Prof. Nasir-ud-Din / Prof. D.C. Hoessli
Dean Post Graduate Studies & Research
The University of Lahore, 1 KM
Raiwand Road, Lahore
Pakistan
Fax No: +92-42-5413036
E-mail: prof_nasir@yahoo.com
Department of Pathology, CMU, 1
rue Michel Servet
1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
E-mail: Daniel.Hoessli@medecine.unige.ch

Polymer Chemistry:

Prof. Stanislaw Penczek
Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies
Polish Academy of Sciences, 90-363 Lodz
Sienkiewicza 112
Poland
Fax No: +48-42-681-9815
E-mail: spenczek@bilbo.cbmm.lodz.pl

Molecular Recognition:

T.K. Sawyer
Vice-President, Drug Discovery
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
26 Landsdowne St., Cambridge
MA 02139
USA
Fax No: (617) 494-8144
E-mail: tomi.sawyer@ariad.com

Organometallic Chemistry:

James M. Takacs
Department of Chemistry
841 Hamilton Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0304
USA
Fax No: +1-402-472-9402
E-mail: jtakacs1@unl.edu

Photochemistry:

Antonio C. Tedesco
Photobiology and Photomedicine Research Group
FFCLRP-Sao Paulo University
Ribeirao Preto, SP
Brazil
Fax No: 55-16-6338151
Email: tedesco@ffclrp.usp.br or atedesco@usp.br

Carbohydrate Chemistry:

Zbigniew J. Witczak
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy, Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766
P.O. Box. 111
USA
Fax No: +1-570-408-7828
E-mail: witczak@wilkes.edu

Molecular Recognition:

Dennis Wright
328 Chemistry Research Building
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32601
USA
Fax No: +1-352-846-0296
E-mail: dwright@chem.ufl.edu

Analytical Methods in Organic Chemistry:

Prof. Klaus-Peter Zeller/Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS
Universitat Tubingen, Iinstitut fur Organische Chemie
Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076 Tubingen
Germany
Fax No: +49-7071-29-5076
E-mails: kpz@uni-tuebingen.de
(or) zeller@zeller.orgchemie.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de
H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
University of Karachi
Karachi-75270
Pakistan
Fax:(+92)-21-461-2073, (+92)-21-497-7491, (+92)-21-497-5781, (+92)-21-481-9018, (+92)-21-481-9019
E-mail: hejric@cyber.net.pk

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION: The manuscript should be approximately 50 pages in length. All pages should be numbered. Abbreviations should be defined the first time that they are used and a list of abbreviations used should be provided. Spelling may be British or American but not a mixture of both.

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ABSTRACT: The abstract should not exceed 250 words and should condense the essential features of the review.

KEY WORDS: Authors must supply up to eight key words along with their manuscript.

TEXT: The main text should begin on a separate page and may be subdivided into separate sections. The review should mention any previous important reviews in the field and describe the general background of the field. Thereafter the salient features of recent developments should be discussed. The authors should avoid presenting previously reviewed material. The reference numbers should be given in square brackets in the text. Acknowledgments should be kept to a minimum.

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• If a reference is cited in both the table and text, insert a lettered footnote in the table to refer to the numbered reference in the text.
• Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted as an Excel spreadsheet.

FIGURES / ILLUSTRATIONS:

All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for preparing illustrations for publication in Current Organic Chemistry.

Editorial Requirements:

The quality of the illustrations printed in the journal largely depends on the quality of the figures/illustration provided by the author. In preparing artwork or graphics for publication, keep in mind the following points.

• Submit the original artwork or a photographic print of the original for publication.
• Do not submit photocopies. (Hardcopy submission requirement).
• Illustrations should be provided as separate files, not embedded in the text. (Hardcopy submission requirement).
• Remove all color from graphics except for those illustrations (Greyscale), which are intended to be printed in color.
• Good quality of hardcopy originals are a requirement.
• Figures should be referred to as “Fig. (1)”, “Fig. (2)” etc. in the text with figure numbers in bold within round bracket.
• Revised manuscripts should contain a complete set of artwork and photographs.

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• The following file formats can be accepted. (Preference in order of appearance) : PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF.
• Illustrations must fit a single or double column format on the journal page, according to the following guideline below:

• Whenever possible, submit graphics that do not have to be reduced to fit the standard figure size.
• Use the best resolution available (hardcopy submission requirement). For online submission the maximum resolution is 300 dpi.
• Avoid textures and shadings giving a three-dimensional effect to the illustration.
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• Font: Times New Roman or Helvetica is preferable. Font size: 10pt (maximum).
• Line drawings should have clear and sharp lines and should be of uniform density. Moreover, lines should be continuous without any breaks.
• Do not use lines thinner than 1 point.

COLOR FIGURES/ILLUSTRATIONS:

• The cost for the first published page of color figures is US$ 780; the second additional page will be for US$ 570, and each subsequent page for US$ 385.
• Color figures should be supplied in CMYK not RGB colors.
• Required resolution for online submission is 300 dpi. In case of hardcopy submission, please use the maximum resolution available. In case the figure(s) are of an inferior quality they will need to be improved either by the author or by the publisher on a charged basis.

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Submit high-contrast prints that are of single- or double-column width so that they will not have to be reduced when printed. Negatives are not acceptable. However, in case of hardcopy submission, color illustrations and plates can be published from 35 mm color slides.

CHEMICAL STRUCTURES: Chemical structures must be prepared according to the guidelines below.

Structures should be prepared using a suitable drawing program e.g. ChemDraw and provided as separate file, submitted both on disk and in printed formats.

Numbers in bold should identify all chemical structure. If a name is also used to describe the compound, the associated number in bold should be in parenthesis, e.g. “compound (1)”.

Structure Drawing Preferences:

[As according to the ACS style sheet]

Drawing settings:

Chain angle 120°

Bond spacing 18% of width

Fixed length 14.4 pt (0.500cm, 0.2in)

Bold width 2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)

Line width 0.6 pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)

Margin width 1.6 pt (0.096cm)

Harsh spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)

Text settings:

Font Times New Roman / Helvetica

Size 10pt

Under the preference choose:

Units points

Tolerances 3 pixels

Under page setup use:

Paper US letter

Scale 100%

REFERENCES:

For the format of references, see the ACS Style Guide, pp 106-114,

Examples:

Journal Reference:

Barton, D.H.R.; Brewster, A.G.; Ley, S.V.; Rosenfield, M.N. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 1977, 147, 2356.

Book Reference:

Rahman, A.-U.; Shah, Z. Stereoselective Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, Springer-Verlag: New York, 1993.

Book Chapter Reference:

Wheeler, D.M.S.; Wheeler, M.M. Studies in Natural Products Chemistry; Atta-ur-Rahman, Ed.; Elsevier Science B. V: Amsterdam, 1994; Vol. 14, pp. 3-46.

Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications (which can be only included if permission has been obtained) should not be given in the references section but they may be mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes. All authors of referenced papers must be cited and there must be no use of the short hand version of et al. when citing authors.

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To facilitate speedy and cost-effective submission of abstracts and manuscripts, an online submission and tracking service via Internet is being offered. Once the Editor-in-Chief of the journal has accepted your abstract, we would prefer that you submit your full manuscript online via our online submission service available at www.bentham-mps.org

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