Phil S. Baran is the recipient of the 2010 Thieme–IUPAC Prize.

The prize will be presented to him at ICOS-18 in Bergen, Norway on August 03, 2010. For more information regarding the this prize, please visit the Thieme–IUPAC Prize website.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Steven V. Ley as a new member of the SYNFACTS Editorial Board. He will share the responsibility for the category on Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs with Philip J. Kocienski. His first contributions as well as a welcome editorial are published in the March issue of SYNFACTS.

F. Dean Toste – recipient of the 2008 Thieme-IUPAC Prize – reports on new advances in gold-catalyzed organic reactions in his Special SYNLETT Account

Please visit Thieme eJournals to read the freely available full-text article.

For more information about Pharmaceutical Substances Version 3.3, please visit our update page or see our press release.

The Thieme Chemistry catalog, featuring all Journals, Reference Works, Encyclopedias and Monographs for 2010 is now available online in an interactive FLASH version or via a downloadable PDF.