Don't miss in our latest issue this review, part of our 40th anniversary collection, from Wen Liu & co. at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry looking at the PTM enzymes that remodel RiPP backbones #secmet #naturalproducts Check it out here🔽

Remodeling of ribosomally synthesized peptide backbones based on posttranslational modifications

Covering: 2013–2024 Benefiting significantly from recent advances in genome mining, ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptide (RiPP) natural products have emerged as a source…

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Take a look in our latest issue at a Highlight by Chungwoo Lee & Sunkyu Han discussing the discovery, structure revision, synthesis and application of all known and even unknown securingine alkaloids #naturalproducts 📍KAIST

Discovery, structure revision, synthesis, and application of all known and even unknown securingine alkaloids

Covering: up to 2025 Natural product-based research encompasses the discovery, structure elucidation, biosynthesis, synthesis, and application of naturally occurring secondary metabolites.…

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Next up in the RSC Medicinal Chemistry Editor's Choice collection are Cynthia Dowd's chosen articles! Be sure to read our blog to see what she chose and why 👉 blogs.rsc.org/md/2025/08/2... And scan the QR code to see our collection as it grows👀

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... @rsc.org #RSCEnergy #Energy #Catalysis ‬

My wonderful review article in Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org #rsc #humanmicrobiota #microbiome #peptides pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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 ...

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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. @setac.bsky.social Check Mondays schedule 👉 bit.ly/3YESEGy #SETACEurope #EnvironmentalScience #EnvSci #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky

🎉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🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2025/04/0...

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 ➡ rsc.li/4j6lojs

LGBT+ toolkit

This kit provides the tools for everyone to take part in positive change: employers, colleagues, and LGBT+ individuals.

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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...

🔓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 Find it below👇

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…

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🔓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

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…

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🔓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🔽

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…

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Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery (review article). #microsky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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...

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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👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/md/d4md00846d #Chemsky 🧪

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)…

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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 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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! 🔋🌏 Find out more ➡ blogs.rsc.org/va/2024/11/2... #EnvironmentalSky #Chemsky

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 doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...

Be sure to check out our March Issue inside front cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting the effect of seawater acidification on hydrocoral EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...

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 doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...

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 #ChemSky

🔓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🔽

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…

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🎉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🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2025/03/1...

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🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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…

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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...

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...

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

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Our upcoming #RSCSustainabilitySymposium is one not to be missed! 👀 With talks from Editorial Board members and invited speakers on a range of topics in green and sustainable chemistry. Will you join us? Register by 6th May. ➡ rsc.li/RSCSusSym25 #ChemSky #SustainableChemistry

📢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 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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. 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky #sustainablechemistry

🔓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🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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...

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