oa Editorial [Hot Topic: Catalysis/Natural Product Chemistry (Guest Editor: Massimo Curini)]

The 2010 Catalysis/Natural Product Chemistry issue of Current Organic Chemistry contains four contributions from eminent scientists in different fields. The first review, written by María J. Hernaiz and coworkers focused on recent progress in the field of “Biocatalysis in Green Solvents”. There has been a variety of attempts to explore the properties of green solvents in combination with biocatalysis wich has led to development of a range of efficient organic reactions. Alcantara and coworkers provided an overview of the use of supported reagents on inorganic carriers such as Celite in organic synthesis Professor Penoni and coworkers illustrated the recent synthetic approch for the preparation of indoles. The interest of authors is particularly focused on the indolization procedures and the different procedures for ring closure. Finally Santi and his group provided an overview of recent results concerning the use of organoselenium compounds in new organic synthetic procedures. Finally, as a guest editor for this specially issue, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the Authors for providing these articles and for the fascinating results described.