SAN
DIEGO, CA, March 14, 2005 - A nanotechnology-related
paper published in the journal CHIRALITY in 2002 was
the scientific article most requested by users of CAS
electronic services during 2004, according to CAS's
Science Spotlight web service. Three co-authors of the
paper--Prof. Stefan Matile, Dr. Naomi Sakai, both from
the University of Geneva, Switzerland and Dr. Gopal
Das, currently affiliated with the Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati--were honored by CAS at a special
ceremony on March 14, during the American Chemical Society
National Meeting in San Diego, California.
Identified as the most requested article was "Toward
Catalytic Rigid-rod ß-barrels: a Hexamer with
Multiple Histidines." Research described in the
article focuses on the synthesis of a new rigid-rod
ß-barrel for use in catalysis. These barrels or
nanotubes permit the storage and movement of chemical
substances and have wide applicability in such diverse
fields as catalysis, pharmacology, gene therapy, and
materials science.
The authors, editors and publisher
associated with the most requested article were recognized
during the CAS Science Spotlight ceremony. Those honored
along with the co-authors were Prof. John Caldwell
and Prof. Nina D. Berova, editors of CHIRALITY, the
John Wiley & Sons journal that published the winning
article. In addition, CAS Science Spotlight also honored
Dr. Stephen Buchwald of MIT, as the author of the
greatest number of requested articles in 2004.
Since 2001, CAS has been counting
Real-Time Document Requests (RDRs) to determine the
journal articles that are most sought after by research
scientists using the STN, SciFinder and SciFinder
Scholar information products. A Real-Time Document
Request is counted when a user of a CAS search service
accesses the electronic full text of a document identified
in a search. Listings of the most requested documents
appear in CAS Science Spotlight at http://www.cas.org/spotlight.
"Scientists like to know
what are the exciting areas of science," said
CAS Vice President, Editorial Operations, Dr. Matthew
J. Toussant. "Publications that are frequently
requested using CAS electronic services are a very
interesting measure of 'the heat of excitement,' the
publications scientists must have to do their work.
CAS Science Spotlight lets them know the papers that
are heating up."
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society,
is an organization of scientists creating and delivering
the most complete and effective digital information
environment for scientific research and discovery.
CAS provides pathways to published research in the
world's journal and patent literature--virtually everything
relevant to chemistry plus a wealth of information
in the life sciences and a wide range of other scientific
disciplines--back to the beginning of the twentieth
century. In addition to offering STN in North America,
CAS publishes the print version of Chemical Abstracts,
related publications and CD-ROM services; operates
the CAS Chemical Registry; produces a family of online
databases; and offers the SciFinder desktop research
tool. The CAS web site is at http://www.cas.org.
Eric Shively, CAS
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