Letters in Organic Chemistry

ISSN: 1570-1786 - Volume 5, 8 Issues, 2008

Editor-in-Chief:

Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS
HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry
University of Karachi
Karachi - 75270
Pakistan

Associate Editor:

P. Vanelle (Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France)

Regional Editors:

M. Fan (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)

G.I. Georg (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
S.M. Weinreb (Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA)
M. Yus (Universidad de Alicante Apdo. Alicante, Spain)

Editorial Advisory Board:

K. Achiwa (Chiraltech Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan)
M. Alajarin (Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain)
F. Albericio (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
P.G. Andersson (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
M.C. Aversa (Universitá degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy)
D. Bai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
R. Ballini (University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy)
W.M. Bandaranayake (Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, Townsville, Australia)
M. Bandini (University of Bolonga, Bolonga, Italy)
M. Banwell (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
G. Bartoli (University of Bolonga, Bolonga, Italy)
C. Bolm (University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany)
F. Bracher (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany)
S. Brase (Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
M. Braun (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany)
J.B. Bremner (University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia)
H. Budzikiewicz (Institut fuer Organische Chemie, Koeln, Germany)
K. Burger (Universität of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany)
H. Butenschon (Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany)
V. Cadierno (Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain)
L. Castedo (Universidad de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
T.H. Chan (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)
W. Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China)
Y. Chapleur (Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy I, Vandoeuvre, France)
C-M. Che (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Y.Z. Chen (National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore)
I.G. Collado (University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain)
D.L. Comins (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA)
G. Corzo (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico)
J. Cossy (ESPCI, Rue Vauquelin, Paris Cedex, France)
F. Couty (Université of Versailles St. Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France)
P.G. Cozzi (Università di Bologna, Bolonga, Italy)
M. D'Auria (Universitá della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy)
B. Danieli (Universitá Degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy)
C.J. Dinsmore (Merck & Co. Inc., West Point, PA, USA)
L. Djakovitch (Université de Lyon, Lyon, France)
G. Dupas (INSA de Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, France)
C.J. Easton (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
El S. H. El Ashry (Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt)
D. Enders (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Aachen, Germany)
R.R. Ernst (Laboratorium fur Physikalische Chemie Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
P.A. Evans (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)
M.M. Faul (AMGEN, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
A. Fernandez-Mayoralas (Inst. of Org. Chem., Madrid, Spain)
B.A.M. Figadère (Université de Paris-Sud, Chátenay-Malabry, France)
F. Fülöp (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
B. Gabriele (University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy)
M. Gerard (Centre de Recherches et de Technologie de Lyon, Saint Fons Cedex, France)
G.W. Gokel (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
F.S. Gonzalez (Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain)
A. Goti (University of Firenze, Florence, Italy)
V. Gotor (Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain)
R. Grée (ENSCR, Lab. de Synthéses, Rennes, France)
Y. Guindon (IRCM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada)
P.J. Guiry (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
M. Harmata (University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA)
L.M. Harwood (University of Reading, Reading, RG, UK)
G. Haufe (University of Munster, Munster, Germany)
T. Hayashi (Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan)
H. Heimgartner (University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)
P. Helquist (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
K.K. Hii (Imperial College London, London, UK)
T. Hirao (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
A.H. Hoveyda (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA)
R.P. Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
S. Ikegami (Teikyo University, Kanagawa, Japan)
K. Ishihara (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
Z. Kelman (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA)
R. Kerr (University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada)
A.D. Kinghorn (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)
W. Kitching (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
V.V. Kouznetsov (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia)
A. Kraszewski (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznan, Poland)
V.Y. Kukushkin (St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
H. Lang (Chemnitz Technical University, Chemnitz, Germany)
A. Lattanzi (Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy)
E. Lete (Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain)
C.-J. Li (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA)
Z. Li (National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore)
A. Liese (Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany)
B.H. Lipshutz (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
R.D. Little (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
H.-J. Liu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China)
H.-w. Liu (University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA)
J.W. Lown (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
F.A. Luzzio (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA)
M.S. Maier (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
S.V. Malhotra (National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA)
J.L. Marco (Instituto de Química Orgánica General, Madrid, Spain)
K. Maruoka (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
J.A. Mayoral (University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
L. McElwee-Whiter (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
S. Mehta (Ambit Biosciences, San Diego, CA, USA)
M.D. Mihovilovic (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
M. Miyazaki (Nanotechnology Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan)
M. Miyazawa (Kinki University, Osaka, Japan)
S. Mobashery (University of Notre Dane, Notre Dane, IN, USA)
T.F. Molinski (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
K. Mori (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
A. Mouriño (Org. Facul. de Quimica-Campus Univ., Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
A. Moyano (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
T.J.J. Mueller (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany)
D.A. Mulholland (University of Natal, Durban, South Africa)
J. Muzart (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Cedex, France)
C. Nájera (Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
R. Neidlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Univ. Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
P.E. Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
K. Nomura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan)
M. North (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
R. Noyori (Nobel Laureate, Nagoya University, Chikusa Nagoya, Japan)
T. Okuda (Okayama University, Okayama, Japan)
T. Ollevier (Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada)
F.L. Ortiz (Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain)
A. Padwa (Emory University, 1515 Dickey Road, Atlanta, USA)
M. Pagliaro (Instituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, Palermo, Italy)
S. Penczek (Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Lodz, Poland)
Z. Peng (University of Missouri-Kansas, Kansas, MO, USA)
A.J.L. Pombeiro (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal)
R. Preissner (University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
P. Proksch (Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)
G.-W. Qin (Shanghai Inst. of Materia Med., Shanghai, China)
P. Rollin (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France)
V.M. Rotello (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA)
C. Roussel (Université d'Aíx-Marseille lll, Marseille Cedex, France)
F.P.J.T. Rutjes (Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
D. Savoia (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
R. R. Schmidt (Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
D. Sciotto (Università di Catania, Catania, Italy)
M. Sekine (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan)
M. Shibasaki (The University of Tokyo Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
M. Shimizu (Mie University, Mie, Japan)
M.A. Sierra (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
P. Sinay (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
D. Sinou (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France)
D.W. Slocum (Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA)
K. Soai (Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan)
P. Somfai (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
W. Stadlbauer (Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Graz, Austria)
L. Szilagyi (University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)
T. Takahashi (CRC Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
T. Takeda (Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
E.J. Thomas (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
L.F. Tietze (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany)
M. Tori (Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan)
B. Torok (University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA)
K. Toshima (Keio University, Yokohama, Japan)
A.M. Trzeciak (University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland)
S. Tsogoeva (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany)
J.J. Vanden Eynde (University of Mons, Mons, Belgium)
P. Vogel (Universite de Lausanne 2, Lausanne, Switzerland)
W. Wang (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Y.G. Wang (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
M.E. Welker (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
Z.J. Witczak (Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA)
H.N.C. Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
J. Xiao (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)
J.Y. Ying (Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Biopolis, Singapore)
W.J. Yong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong kong)
S.Z. Zard (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)