Journal History

1997–2001 Molbank was published as a Molbank Section of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049, CODEN: MOLEFW), only publishing ‘Short Note’.
2002 Molbank started as an independent journal (ISSN 1422-8599; CODEN: MOLBAI).
2007 Molbank was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 2002 (Issue 1).
2009 The inaugural issue was released. Molbank was published as a quarterly journal. (previously published irregularly).
2016 Molbank Added a new article type ‘communication’.
Molbank established the following sections:
-Natural Products;

-Organic Synthesis;
-Structure Determination.
2017 The first Special Issue ‘Heterocycles’ was established.
Molbank was indexed in Reaxys.
Molbank was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 2005 (Issue 1).

Editor-in-Chief

1997–2001 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Luc Patiny
2002 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bruce A. Hathaway
2003–2007 Editor-in-Chief: Reto Mueller (organic-chemistry.org)
2007–2019 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Norbert Haider
2019–2024 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. René T. Boeré
2024–present Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nicholas Leadbeater

Section Editor-in-Chief

2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. René T. Boeré for the section on Structure Determination
2020–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Fawaz Aldabbagh for the section on Organic Synthesis
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