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Aims and Scope
ActaChemia is an international journal
which publishes original research paper and reviews in broad chemistry including
but not limited to
1-Aspects of mass spectrometry and ion processes, including instrumental
developments and applications in biology, chemistry, geology and physics.
2-Pure and applied plant chemistry, plant biochemistry and molecular
biology.
3-Primary metabolism and regulation of plant growth, through
plantenzymology to natural product chemistry and the biological activity of
plant products
4-Comparative biochemistry of plants. These may range from distributional
studies on low molecular weight compounds in a group of fungi, algae or higher
plants to the comparative amino acid sequences of related proteins within groups
of species.
5-Chemistry of the main group elements and the d- and f-block metals,
including the synthesis, characterization and reactivity of coordination,
organometallic, biomimetic, supramolecular coordination compounds, including
associated computational studies;
6-Synthesis, physico-chemical properties, applications of molecule-based
nano-scaled clusters and nanomaterials designed using the principles of
coordination chemistry, as well as coordination polymers (CPs), metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs), metal-organic polyhedra (MPOs);
7-Reaction mechanisms and physico-chemical investigations computational
studies of metalloenzymes and their models;
8-Protein Biochemistry where in purification of proteins directly from the
organism or by heterologous expression. These will preferentially include
information on enzymological properties, macromolecular structure and
exploration of function, by site-directed mutagenesis and/or subcellular
localization.
9-Molecular Genetics and Genomics papers on nucleic acid biochemistry,
function and expression. This section will contain reports of genes andtheir
analysis and expression, which demonstrate novelty and/or biological
significance. Papers and communications that contain only sequence data or which
duplicate studies of gene expression in other species will not generally be
acceptable.
10-Ecological Biochemistry section contains papers on biochemical
adaptations in plants to environmental stress; pollination biochemistry; plant
toxins and their effects on animals, phytoecdysones, antifeedants; herbivory,
plant defence and insect feeding preferences; utilization of plant substances by
animals; and all aspects of biochemical plant pathology, including the
production of phytotoxins and phytoalexin elicitation. Contributions on various
symbiotic interactions are also welcomed.
11- Computational and theoretical chemistryincluding those that deal with
problems of structure, properties, energetics, weak interactions, reaction
mechanisms, catalysis, and reaction rates involving atoms, molecules, clusters,
surfaces, and bulk matter 12-Bioactive Products section contains papers on novel
plant chemistry, where the biological activities of one or more of the new plant
compounds are described. Descriptions of possible pharmacological, medical or
therapeutic use or of dietary significance are encouraged if known. This section
may also contain analysis of genetically modified plants that have been analysed
for changes in their profiles of bioactive plant products. Such bioassay data
should include comparable results for a known agent, so that the reader can
judge the relative importance of any new finding.
13-Growth substances, macromolecules, primary metabolites, terpenoids,
polyketides, phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, alkaloids and compounds of mixed
biosynthetic origin. Authors investigating the chemistry of a given plant
species should aim to publish their results in a single manuscript rather than
in a series of papers which describe each new compound as it is found. The
structural analysis of new plant substances is now so routine that papers
reporting a single novel compound of expectable structure (e.g. a new triterpene
fatty acid ester) are rarely acceptable, unless other novel information on the
plant is included.
Editor in Chief
Dr. NishaTripathi
Asiatic Society for Research and Engineering,
New Delhi, India
Dr. Tripathi has been extensively working in the in the field of
Phytochemical Studiesof medicinal plants. She is also amazingly skilled with
different spectroscopy techniques. Along with her research she is doing great
deal of work in community development in high Himalayan regions. Her research
interests include chromatographic techniques and methods, isolation of
phytochemicals, bioactive natural products and low cost natural preservatives.
Email:editor_ac@asre.res.in
Author
Author Representations
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work
described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for
publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-
authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities — tacitly or
explicitly — at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher
will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for
compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or
text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain
permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and
to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their
papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate
from the authors.
Online Submission
Authors should submit their manuscripts online via
the ASRE website at: http:///www.asre.res.in
Hard copy submissions are no longer accepted. Detail Guidelines can be
downloaded here.
Review Policy
All papers submitted to our journals go through a
rigorous review process. They are refereed by experts in said field before
publication. There exist four possible outcomes for each paper submitted and
reviewed: acceptance, acceptance after minor revision, major revision and
re-submission, or rejection. This prevents the promulgation of pseudoscience and
insures intellectual and scientific integrity of the findings published by SEP.
The Editor-in-Chief is the first to see an author's work. They are to forward
the paper to experts in the specific field discussed in the paper for review.
After review, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal will look over the reviewer's
comments. If two reviewers seem to hold opposite opinions of the same paper, the
controversy will be resolved by the Editor-in-Chief. Ultimately, the
Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision. The final decision is being one of the
aforementioned possibilities: acceptance, acceptance with noted changes, or
rejection of paper. We are also looking forward to offering an online journal
club for each journal. This will allow a further platform for peer commendation
or critique.
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