''Synlett'' is an international

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for accounts and rapid communications of original contributions of fundamental research in synthetic organic chemistry. The impact factor of this journal is 2.419 (2017). ''

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'' featured a brief piece by the

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of the journal in 2017,

Benjamin List Benjamin List (; born 11 January 1968) is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of acc ...

, where he discussed the journal's experience with the non-traditional peer review system.

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