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CHEMBEST OFCHEM EDITORIAL Excellence in Publishing with ChemXChem Lisa Abel, Meghan Campbell, Neville Compton, Greta Heydenrych, Guido Kemeling, Kate Lawrence, Natalia Ortfflzar,Michael Rowan, Marisa Spiniello, and Kira Welter[a] ChemPubSoc Europe Journals are Dedicated announce that in 2014, ChemElectroChem will start publication to Excellence as the seventh journal in this highly successful series. Over the years, far-reaching collaborations between the Euro- Selecting a ChemXChem journal for your work offers tremen- pean national chemical societies allied in ChemPubSoc Europe dous benefits for your research. All published articles are disse- and Wiley-VCH have resulted in arange of inter- minatedinvarious ways, including Early View and Table of nationally renowned top chemistry journals and Contents alerts, marketing campaigns, social media (LinkedIn, the news and information service Chemistry Facebook, and Twitter), and features such as the Spotlights Views.The first journals to launch under the um- section in our sister journals. Within the Wiley-VCH/ChemPub- brella of ChemPubSocEuropewere Chemistry: A Soc Europeprogramme, the journals are closely connected— European Journal (1995), the European Journal of also to AngewandteChemie (International Edition) and other Organic Chemistry (1998), and the European Jour- journals—with the aim to improvethe speed at which we nal of Inorganic Chemistry (1998). In 2000, the publishand the technical quality or the papers. The sections programme was expanded with the journals ChemBioChem below offer more detail on each title, allowing you to select and ChemPhysChem.Asof2013, in addition to these two titles, the journal that is best suited to your research work. the “ChemXChem”range includes ChemCatChem, ChemMed- Chem, ChemPlusChem,and ChemSusChem.Weare pleasedto Since the start of the first journals in the series in 2000, much has changed in the way journals are published and read. Digi- tal access is now the norm, research output across the globe [a] L. Abel, Dr.M.Campbell, Dr.N.Compton, Dr.G.Heydenrych, G. Kemeling, has increased tremendously,and the pros and cons of different K. Lawrence, Dr.N.Ortfflzar,Dr. M. Rowan, Dr.M.Spiniello,K.Welter publishing models are fiercelydebated. We consider it our Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA Boschstrasse 12 duty to respondtothese developments in the community: 69469 Weinheim (Germany) Severalofour journals already operate on afully-digital strat- 2014Wiley-VCH VerlagGmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim ChemBESTOFChem 2014,3–7 3 CHEMBEST OFCHEM EDITORIAL erations of therapeuticsbased on peptides and nucleic acids. Since its startin2000 as one of the first journalsonchemical biology, ChemBioChem has held its place among the leaders of this field for 13 years now.Inthis time, we have seen the rise of fields such as RNA interference, directed protein evolution using an expanded genetic code, and synthetic biology,which have been aided by the development of techniques such as single-molecule imaging and next-generationDNA sequenc- ing. 2013 has been an eventful year for ChemBioChem,aswe said farewell to our Deputy Editor,Dr. Adrian Neal, after three years with the journal,but welcomed anew Associate Editor, Dr.MeghanCampbell, to the team. Also this year,wepaid trib- Figure 1. Growth in the number of scientific articles published per year in all ute to the career of the late Professor Ivano Bertini, an Editorial of the ChemXChem journals. Scientific articles include:Articles, Communica- Board member since the beginning, with aspecial issue devot- tions, Concepts, Correspondence, Essays, Full Papers, Highlights, Minire- ed to spectroscopy in bio(in)organic chemistry,with guest edi- views, Reviews, and Viewpoints. tors Joshua Telser (Roosevelt University) and Harald Schwalbe (Universität Frankfurt). The outlook for ChemBioChem for2014 egy,also offering apps to browsecontent. The number of pub- is abusy one. We are lookingforward to aspecial issue on ex- lished articles has increased to keep up with the tremendous panding the geneticcodebyusing non-canonicalamino acids growth in research activity worldwide (Figure 1). And, all of our as well as abusy scheduleofnetworking with authors at journalsoffer OnlineOpen as away to publish your article as chemicalbiology conferences. an Open Access contribution.The evolution of research com- munication will continueinthe future,and we will contribute This publication gives us the opportunity to highlight the to this development and offer our services in the best possible best of ChemBioChem from 2013, with awide range of topics. way. First, we selected an excellent Review by Barbara Imperiali et al. Imperiali (MIT) serves as one of the Chairs of the Editorial One thing does not change, though: researchers want to Advisory Board;the others are Thomas Carell (LMU Munich) keep themselves informed of the latest and most important and Donald Hilvert (ETH Zürich). The Review by Imperiali and developments in their field, and this remains the guiding prin- Krueger summarizes techniques and applications for the incor- ciple of the ChemXChem journals:high-quality scientific con- poration of fluorescent amino acids into polypeptides. This tent tailored to specific audiences. We have selected superb ar- area has always been astrong one for ChemBioChem,and this ticles published in these titlesin2013, and apreview of two Review serves as avaluable resource for all those lookingto top articles from ChemElectroChem,and offer them free to site-specifically label proteins. We have also selected aFull read. We trust that you will enjoy this selection of high-quality Paper from three top research groups at the University of Cam- science! bridge. Hyvçnen and co-workers have used afragment-based approachtoscreen small-molecule suppressors of the breast ChemBioChem cancer gene (BRCA2) by disrupting its interaction with RAD51. Finally,wehighlight an important contribution to the field of DNA biotechnology from Andreas Marx et al. Their crystal structures of two of the “error-prone” familyofDNA poly- merases in acomplex with their substrate DNA duplex should prove highly valuable to those interested in synthesizing func- Start: 2000 tional nucleic acids with modified nucleobases. Editor-in-Chief: Peter Gçlitz ManagingEditor: Lisa Abel Associate Editor: MeghanCampbell ChemCatChem Homepage: http://www.chembiochem.org https://www.facebook.com/pages/chembiochem/ 167014003430427 @ChemBioChem Looking back at the year 2013, ChemBioChem has seen Start: 2009 awealth of exciting topics emerge from its pages. Chemical Editor-in-Chief: Michael Rowan biology is abroad field that is acceleratingquickly in the areas Homepage: http://www.chemcatchem.org of protein engineering, labeling of biomolecules, and new gen- @ChemCatChem 2014Wiley-VCH VerlagGmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim ChemBESTOFChem 2014,3–7 4 CHEMBEST OFCHEM EDITORIAL ChemCatChem is key reading for awide range of researchers the journal. Dr.RainerMetternich and Prof. Giorgio Tarzia are from all formsofcatalysis. ChemCatChem seeks to bring down co-chairsofthe Editorial Board. the barriers betweenhomogeneous, heterogeneous, bio-, and nanocatalysis and to promote communication within and be- The articles selected are intended to give aflavor of the diver- tween these communities. Its authors and readers come from sity of indications and topics covered in ChemMedChem.The academia, the chemical industry,and government laboratories journal has gained areputation for excellence in medicinal across the world. Indeed, last year ChemCatChem published chemistry research for rare andneglected diseases,with the manuscripts by authors representing over 40 countries. recent article from Ballell et al. showcasing this. The article is also OnlineOpen, the Wiley-VCH open-access option available Asasnapshot of the catalysis that we publish, we present in in all the journals;for aset fee, an article can be made open- this “Highlights of 2013” issue some remarkable papers. The access immediatelyupon publication. The article on Smooth- Review by De Chen and co-workers was invited for the excel- ened inhibitors by Peukert et al. was considered to be very im- lent special issue “World of Catalysis—A Perspective from the portant by the reviewers and so was given “Very Important Netherlands” (issue 2, 2013) guest edited by Harry Bitter and Paper” (VIP) status; VIP articles are typicallyfeatured on the Barbara Mojet. The Reviewarticle presents abroad overview of cover of the journal, and written up for broader distribution in the topic of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers in heter- the form of press releases and news pieces. Finally,the Minire- ogeneouscatalysis. The Communication by YasushiObora and view on carboxylic acidbioisosteres by Ballatore et al. has co-workerspresents an unprecedented aerobic palladium(II)- been very well received, as it outlines ways in whichmedicinal catalyzed arylation of acrylamides. The reactionishighly che- chemists have been able to use isostericreplacements to moselective and that chemoselectivity is subtly controlled by retain the benefits of carboxylic acid functional groups,while the amount of ligand used. The Full Paper by Steven V. Ley circumventing their drawbacks. and co-workerswas judged to be very important by reviewers and is an excellent and very detailed manuscript describing ChemPhysChem agas–liquid flow system for Heck reactions involving ethylene gas and (telescoped) hydroformylations using syngas. This Full Paper highlights the use of several recent innovations by the Ley group