Dear colleagues,

The following Special Issue will be published in Molecules (ISSN 1420-
3049, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/), and is now open to
receive submissions of full research papers and comprehensive review
articles for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Biocatalysis and Biotransformations in Organic Synthesis
Website:http://www.mdpi.com/si/molecules/biocatalysis_biotransformations/
Guest Editor: Dr. Ioulia Smonou
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2012

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at molecules@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and
free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent
citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the
authors and their institutes. More information is available at
http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. The Article Processing Charges
(APC) are of 1400 CHF per accepted article before 1 July 2012. The
APC for manuscripts submitted from 1 July 2012 onwards are 1600 CHF
per accepted paper. For details see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/instructions/. Manuscripts should
be submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system
at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049) is the leading international, peer-reviewed
open access journal of synthetic organic chemistry and natural product
chemistry. Molecules is published by MDPI online monthly since 1996.
Papers published in Molecules will receive high publicity since the journal is
freely available online. Molecules is covered by leading indexing services,
including PubMed (Medline), the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web
of Science), Chemical Abstracts and Beilstein. The most recent Impact
Factor for the year 2010 is 1.988.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at
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increased their impact factors, see "2010 Newly Released Impact Factors",
http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/121/.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:
molecules@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
MDPI AG

On behalf of the Guest Editor

Dr. Ioulia Smonou
Department of Chemistry
University of Crete
Campus Voutes-Heraklion
71003 Crete
Greece
Website: http://www.chemistry.uoc.gr/organic/pdf/Smonou_CV.pdf
E-Mail: smonou@chemistry.uoc.gr

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