Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
RSC Medicinal Chemistry and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry are delighted to welcome submissions to their new joint-themed collection on the latest advances in the area of molecular photo switches with applications in biology and biomedicine.
RSC Medicinal Chemistry and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry invite original research and review papers on photoswitches and photopharmacology.
Molecular photoswitches are unique tools that allow us to selectively translate a benign and precise stimulus (light) into a change in molecular structure, thereby enabling the photocontrol of many key processes, most prominently those in biological systems. The research on molecular photoswitches encompasses many disciplines and research approaches, from physics and quantum mechanics, through chemistry and all the way to biology and medicine. We aim to represent this multidisciplinary and broad scope of photoswitch design and application in the web themed issue.
With this in mind, we welcome submissions on all topics pertaining to the development and characterization of molecular photoswitches, especially with the outlook on their biological and biomedical applications. The areas that are of special interest include (but are not limited to) the design, also computational, of (regular and visible-light-operated) photoswitches, their synthesis (including spectroscopic evaluation), applications in nanomedicine, photopharmacology, chemical biology, bio-sensing and imaging.
Manuscripts should be submitted via the journals’ online submission services, RSC Medicinal Chemistry and OBC, and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to indicate that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed.
The Emerging Investigator Series has an overall objective to showcase significant research by newer voices from across the worldwide organic chemistry research community. We will consider additional applications and nominations on their own merit. Self-nominations are also strongly encouraged.
Both research articles and review articles are welcome to the series. Papers accepted for publication in the Emerging Investigator Series will be published in the earliest available issue and collated together in a dedicated Emerging Investigator Series page that will appear across Frontiers journals’ websites. All submissions to the Emerging Investigator Series will be subject to the journal’s high standards in peer review.
Photoswitches and Photopharmacology
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
10 January 2025
Guest Editor(s):
Professor Martina Cacciarini (University of Florence, Italy)
Professor Nadja Simeth (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Professor Wiktor Szymanski (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Professor Andrew Woolley (University of Toronto, Canada)
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
****CiteScore™ 2023 available at www.scopus.com/sources
This is a joint series with the other Frontiers Journals, Materials Chemistry Frontiers and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. Frontiers journals collection is co-developed by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and our partner institutes in China.
For more information : https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/calls-for-papers/organic/#undefined
