MS in Hand Apr 1^st, 2012: 123. Received 75; Published 12; Rejected 64. In Hand End of Apr 122;
Manuscripts in Hand Jan 1^st, 2012: 136; Received 265; Published 72; Rejected 206.

Access hits, April: 521,343 from 112,532 visitors;
2012 to date: 2,273,976 from 447,097 visitors.

The 13th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference (FloHet-2012) took place at the University of Florida in Gainesville, March 4-7. There were 11 plenary lectures, 50 invited lectures, 56 posters, 3 courses, and an exposition that attracted 12 exhibitors.

We are most grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers – ADESIS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Elsevier, Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Hamamatsu Corp., HEL, Inc., IUPAC, Mettler Toledo, MolCode, Oakwood Products, Royal Society of Chemistry, SigmaAldrich, Strem, Synthonix, Taylor and Francis, and The Alachua County Visitors and Convention Bureau.

The next Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference, FloHet-2013, will take place at the University of Florida, Gainesville, March 3-6, 2013. Plenary lecturers will include, Magid Abou-Garbia, S. Blechert, K. P. Boegesoe, J. G. De Vries, M. Lautens, D. MacMillan, J. Thomas, F. Diederich, D. Toste, and J.-P. Vors

We have changed the arrangements for the printed edition of ARKIVOC. Limited numbers of printed copies of all 88 issues covering 2000 – 2007 are still available from Amazon.com. We plan to resume offering a printed version of issues of ARKIVOC. These will be produced in collaboration with our partner MPublishing. An announcement will be made in a future Newsletter when 2008 and later issues become available for purchase through www.Amazon.com.

ARKIVE is an in-house chemical database of more than 35,000 compounds synthesized by the Prof. Katritzky’s research group Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. These compounds include 1) Lead Generation, 2) Focused Sets, 3) Building Blocks and 4) Reagents for Heterocycle Assisted Syntheses. We have compiled downloadable lists of these chemicals that are updated quarterly. A recent article (J. Chem. Inf. Model 2010, 50, 470-479) by Chuprina et.al. analyses commercially available data bases of compounds from 29 suppliers worldwide, including ours. They concluded that our database of compounds (#28,881) possesses i) 21418 exclusive compounds (74.2%) and ii) 7670 drug-like compounds (26%). Our Arkive database includes both the chemical structure and the identification number for every compound. This database can be downloaded in SD or ISIS format to your local database. You may also access this database at www.ark.chem.ufl.edu. Your inquiries and orders can be addressed to ARKIVE manager Mrs. Gala Vakulenko by email compounds@chem.ufl.edu or by Fax at 352-392-9199.

The 1st Conference on Science Diplomacy and Developments in Chemistry
Alexandria – Egypt. November 24-26, 2012
Organized by Alexandria University and Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Chairman of the conference - Prof. El Sayed El Ashry
Conference e-mail: eelashry60@gmail.com

We regret that technical difficulties have prevented the proposed splitting of the Newsletter this month; we hope to establish the new format by the end of May.