Organization journal articles

Journal articles and patents contain virtually all of the original work in organic chemistry. However, if this were all, if there were no indexes, abstracts, review articles, and other secondary sources, the literature would be unusable because it is so vast that no one could hope to find anything in particular. Fortunately, the secondary sources are excellent. There are various kinds and the categories tend to merge. Our classification is somewhat arbitrary. 

A review article is an intensive survey of a rather narrow field for example, the titles of some recent reviews are Desulfonation Reactions Recent Developments , Pyrrolizidine and Indolizidine Syntheses Involving 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddtion , and From Corrin Chemistry to Asymmetry Catalysis—A Personal Account. A good review article is of enormous value, because it is a thorough survey of all the work done in the field under discussion. Review articles are printed in review journals and in certain books. The most important review journals in organic chemistry (though most are not exclusively devoted to organic chemistry) are shown in Table A.3. Some of the journals listed in Table A.l, for example, the Bull Soc. Chim. Fr. and J. Organomet. Chem. also publish occasional review articles. 

Photocopies of journal articles relating to the Unipet process for the recycling of PETP developed by United Resource Recovery Corp. Details are given of the process which enables contaminated PETP to be recycled by the use of caustic soda which reacts with the PETP to yield ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid, followed by heating and evaporation of the EG which reduces organic impurities to carbon dioxide and water and leaves solid terephthalic salt. Its implications for the industry are also discussed. 

This chapter introduces the journal article module (comprising chapters 2—7). The chapter describes some of the defining characteristics of a journal article while emphasizing concise writing and organization. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to do the following ... 

The typical broad organization of a journal article Introduction... 

Compare the following excerpts that describe the process of recrystallization for product purihcation. The hrst excerpt is adapted from an undergraduate laboratory experiment involving the extraction of caffeine from tea leaves. The last two, written for expert audiences, are taken from articles in The Journal of Organic... 

Move 1 is approached slightly differently in synthesis papers (e.g., articles published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry). Such papers typically describe a series of related reactions, often totaling 10 or more individual syntheses. Rather than describe all of the chemicals used for these many reactions at the start of the Methods section, authors instead include only general information in move 1 (e.g., All NMR studies were performed on a 500 mHZ instrument. ). A common subheading for this move is General. Information about specihc reagents and materials are included in move 2, where the individual syntheses are described. 

Read and review the Methods sections of the journal articles that you collected during your literature search (see chapter 2). As you read these articles, pay attention to how the authors organized their methods and what information they included. How much detail is included in descriptions of materials, instrumentation, procedures,... 

Find three synthesis articles in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Compare the Methods sections in these articles with excerpts 3K and 3L. Which of your three articles, if any, include the same types of information that you reported in parts a, b, and c of exercise 3.14 ... 

Browse through three articles in one of the following journals The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science Technology, or Chemical Research in Toxicology. Flow well do the articles adhere to the move structure illustrated in hgure 4.1 ... 

Find out if your set of rules for schemes (generated as part of exercise 5.9) applies to schemes in other articles. Check three articles in The Journal of Organic Chemistry or Organic Letters to see if your rules hold true. In these articles, how do the authors use compound labels and accompanying text to walk the readers through the schemes ... 

Browse through three Discussion sections of synthesis articles in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. In addition to proposed mechanisms, make a list of other topics routinely addressed in Discussion sections. 

Asyou might suspect, not all authors or journals adhere strictly to the move structure depicted in figure 6.1. One variation (employed commonly by organic chemists) is to mention the gap and the current work in the first paragraph of the Introduction. We will encounter one such variation later in this chapter, when we examine the Introduction section of a journal article from The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 

When used properly, such words and phrases contribute to the flow of the written passage. Of course, their use is not confined to the Introduction section of a journal article (although all the examples here come from Introductions). When used appropriately, and in the right places, such words and phrases add cohesiveness to a journal article as a whole. A list of useful phrases, organized by their common functions, is presented in table 6.6. Many, but not all, of these phrases are conventionally followed by commas when they start a sentence. 

The major purpose of the title is to inform readers about the specific content of the work, ideally identifying both what was studied and how it was studied. The major purpose of an abstract is to summarize, in one clear and concise paragraph, the purpose, experimental approach, principal results, and major conclusions of the work. In most journals, the abstract includes only text in some journals (e.g.. The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Organic Letters), the abstract also includes a graphic. Importantly, both the abstract and title must be able to stand on their own. This is because these two sections (and only these two sections) are reprinted by abstracting services (e.g.. Chemical Abstracts Service, or CAS) in separate documents for literature searches. Also, many chemists read titles and abstracts to obtain a quick overview of the journal s contents but do not read the articles in full. 

In this section, we read and analyze abstracts taken from chemistry journal articles. (Later in the chapter, we focus on titles.) We include passages from abstracts (P1-P17) and entire abstracts (excerpts 7B-7H) to illustrate both individual moves and how abstract moves work together as a whole. In part 1, we examine selections move by move. Because abstracts in organic chemistry journals vary slightly from other chemistry journals, we consider them separately at the end of part 1. In part 2, we examine writing practices that span the entire abstract. 

This chapter focuses on writing a conference abstract, not to be confused with a journal article abstract, which was addressed in chapter 7. A conference abstract is submitted in response to a Call for Abstracts issued by conference organizers, typically 3-6 months before the conference takes place. The abstract is reviewed and, if accepted, allows the authors to present a contributed paper (as either an oral or poster presentation) at a conference session. Only accepted papers may be presented at a conference whether they are oral or poster presentations is a decision usually made by conference organizers. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following ... 

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