Grace Thoburn

Sustainable Energy & Fuels published by the Royal Society of Chemistry has a new Editor-in-Chief Karen Wilson, Griffith University, Australia

Hello BlueSky and #ChemSky community! For our first post, we are delighted to welcome our new @sef-journal.rsc.org Editor-in-Chief Karen Wilson @profkwilson1971.bsky.social! 🎉

Find out more about Karen on our website ➡️ www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

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Human microbiota peptides: important roles in human health Covering: 1974 to 2024 Human microbiota consist of a diverse array of microorganisms, such as bacteria, Eukarya, archaea, and viruses, which populate various parts of the human body and live in ...

My wonderful review article in Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org #rsc #humanmicrobiota #microbiome #peptides
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If you are at #SETACVienna this week please stop by and say "Hi" to Lauren at The RSC Stand, Lauren will be happy to talk about all things publishing at the RSC.
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Check Mondays schedule 👉 bit.ly/3YESEGy
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🎉We were delighted to present the 2025 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship to @ntiekfidele.bsky.social from the University of Buea at the Drug Discovery Africa 2025 conference last month! #chemsky #natprod #plantscience

🎉We are delighted to welcome Professor Neha Garg @ngarg10.bsky.social from @gtresearchnews.bsky.social to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! #chemsky #natprod

Learn more about Neha here🔽
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LGBT+ toolkit This kit provides the tools for everyone to take part in positive change: employers, colleagues, and LGBT+ individuals.

We want everyone in the chemical sciences community to feel welcome, supported and valued, so we're sad to see some people seize on yesterday's supreme court ruling with anti-trans messages. Today, we're highlighting our resources on allyship for trans colleagues and friends
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📣 Check out the most popular publications from Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts from 2024 📣

All articles in the collections are now free to read and can be found here 🧪 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...

The fungal natural product class of the sorbicillinoids: structures, bioactivities, biosynthesis, and synthesis Covering 1948 up to October 2024 Sorbicillinoids are a growing class of natural products (NPs) that stem from a variety of fungi including members of the orders Hypocreales and Eurotiales. This…

🔓Read this #OpenAccess review from Tobias Milzarek & our Editorial Board Chair Tobias Gulder @togulab.bsky.social at HIPS in our latest issue looking at the structures, bioactivities, biosynthesis and synthesis of fungal sorbicillinoids #natprod

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Total synthesis of isoflavonoids Covering: 2012 to 2024 Isoflavonoids are phenolic compounds with wide structural diversity and a plethora of biological activities. Owing to their structural variation and potential health-promoting…

🔓Take a look at this #OpenAccess article in our latest issue, part of our Emerging Investigators collection, from Mamoalosi A. Selepe & co. covering the total synthesis of isoflavonoids #natprod #orgchem

📍University of Pretoria, Sol Plaatje University

Advanced crystallography for structure determination of natural products Covering: up to 2025 Crystallographic analysis has become the most reliable method for elucidating the structures of natural products, as it can provide absolute configurations with precise spatial…

🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess highlight in our latest issue by Wen-Cai Ye, Ying Wang et al. from Jinan University discussing the recent advancements in crystallography for structure determination of natural products #natprod

Check it out in full here🔽

Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery Natural products have applications as biopharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and other high-value chemicals. However, there are challenges in isolating natural products from their native producers (e.g. b...

Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery (review article). #microsky

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Targeting host integrated stress response: lead discovery of flavonoid compounds active against coronaviruses PEDV and PDCoV Viral infections trigger the integrated stress response (ISR) in eukaryotic cells that leads to the activation of eIF2α kinases, the elevation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α)…

Check out this work by Ying Liao, Qingwen Zhang & co on host-directing antiviral drug discovery: new flavonoid-based integrated stress response (ISR) activators active against coronaviruses👇

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📢Our latest issue is now live!

Read the review behind the cover by Nunziatina De Tommasi, Angela Bisio & co at the University of Genoa & University of Salerno on sources, structural diversity, biological activity & data management of sesterterpenoids #chemsky #natprod

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Don't miss out on our exciting themed collection in Environmental Science: Advances! 👇

Submit your recent research on the environmental impacts of mining and recycling battery materials before 30 May 2025! 🔋🌏

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Be sure to check out our March outside front cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting a life cycle assessment study of European Space Agency's space tracking terminal
#EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky
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Be sure to check out our March Issue inside front cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting the effect of seawater acidification on hydrocoral
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Be sure to check out the March Issue outside back cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting analysis of urban freshwater beach, sand and river contamination
#EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky #freshwater #contamination
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Join us on 20th May for the RSC Sustainability Symposium - register by 6th May

Join us at Burlington House on 20th May for our #RSCSustainabilitySymposium and hear insights from RSC Sustainability Editorial Board members and invited speakers on sustainable technologies and cleaner chemical solutions.

Register by 6th May: rsc.li/RSCSusSym25

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Cucurbit[7]uril encapsulation completely protects reactive imine in weak acid An imine derived from 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)benzaldehyde and a primary amine undergoes very rapid hydrolysis in weak acid, however, it can be encapsulated within cucurbit[7]uril (CB7) to give a…

🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess research in our latest issue from Kejia Shi & Bradley D. Smith at @notredame.bsky.social describing how cucurbit[7]uril encapsulation completely protects reactive imine in weak acid #orgchem

Find it in full on our website🔽

🎉We are delighted to welcome @tilmweber.bsky.social from the Technical University of Denmark to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board!

Learn more about Tilmann here🔽
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Don't miss the research behind the inside front cover of our latest issue by Tomoo Mizugaki & co. from Osaka University describing the reductive amination of triglycerides to fatty amines over a titanium oxide-supported Pt–Mo catalyst #orgchem

Check it out in full here🔽
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The chemical ecology and physiological functions of type I polyketide natural products: the emerging picture Covering: up to 2024. For many years, the value of complex polyketides lay in their medical properties, including their antibiotic and antifungal activities, with little consideration paid to their…

Take a look in our latest issue at this review from Kira Weissman & co at the University of Lorraine covering the chemical ecology and physiological functions of type I polyketide natural products #natprod

Don't miss it below👇
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Standard purification methods are not sufficient to remove micellular lipophilic dye from polymer nanoparticle solution Tracking nanoparticles’ location is imperative for understanding cellular interactions, pharmacokinetics, and biodistribution. DiD is a lipophilic dye commonly used to label nanoparticles for traffick...

New @thedaylab.bsky.social research now published in RSC Pharmaceutics! Important insights for those who use lipophilic dyes to label nanoparticles for cellular uptake and biodistribution studies. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Some great speakers just announced for the upcoming RSC Sustainability symposium in London later on in the Spring!

📢Our latest issue is now online!

Check out the review article providing the front cover by Rosa Perestrelo & co at the Universidade da Madeira looking at integrating OMICS-based platforms and analytical tools for diagnosis and management of pancreatic cancer #omics

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Issue 3 of RSC Sustainability is out now! 💚

Check out the impactful research articles, reviews and the science behind the eye-catching covers in this jam-packed issue.

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#chemsky #sustainablechemistry

Human milk as a complex natural product Covering: up to the end of 2024 Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to promote child health. However, characterizing the chemistry that fortifies the benefits of breastfeeding remain...

🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess review in our latest issue by Julie Talbert & Steven Townsend from Vanderbilt University discussing the major classes of macromolecules in human milk and their potential role in infant health #natprod #naturalproducts

Find it here🔽
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📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the front cover by Kohei Sato & co at Shizuoka University reporting a removable dialkoxybenzyl linker for enhanced HPLC purification of peptide hydrazides #orgchem #chemsky

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Marine natural products Covering: January to the end of December 2023 This review covers the literature published in 2023 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 582 citations (541 for the period January to December 2...

🔓Our annual Marine Natural Products review is in our latest issue and it's #OpenAccess! #ChemSky #NatProd

A big thank you to the authors:
Tony Carroll, Brent Copp, Tanja Grkovic, Robert Keyzers & Michèle Prinsep

Read their coverage of the 2023 MNP literature here🔽
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One month to go to the abstract submission deadline (24/03/25) for contributed talks at the 5th International #SolarFuels conference, which we're organising together with the @rsc.org in Newcastle, UK, this September.

#chemsky #photocatalysis