Journal of Molecular Structure

The Journal of Molecular Structure is dedicated to the publication of full-length articles and review papers, providing important new structural information on all types of chemical species including:
• Stable and unstable molecules in all types of environments (vapour, molecular beam, liquid, solution, liquid crystal, solid state, matrix-isolated, surface-absorbed etc.)
• Chemical intermediates
• Molecules in excited states
• Biological molecules
• Polymers.

The methods used may include any combination of spectroscopic and non-spectroscopic techniques, for example:
• Infrared spectroscopy (mid, far, near)
• Raman spectroscopy and non-linear Raman methods (CARS, etc.)
• Electronic absorption spectroscopy
• Optical rotatory dispersion and circular dichroism
• Fluorescence and phosphorescence techniques
• Electron spectroscopies (PES, XPS), EXAFS, etc.
• Microwave spectroscopy
• Electron diffraction
• NMR and ESR spectroscopies
• Mössbauer spectroscopy
• X-ray crystallography
• Charge Density Analyses
• Computational Studies (supplementing experimental methods)

Some examples of studies which are Out-of-Scope and will not be considered by the journal:
• Studies dealing with glasses, particles and other materials with little content about molecular structure.
• Characterization of materials using microscopy techniques
• Studies focusing on synthesis procedures or evaluation of bioactivity of molecules without significant relationship with molecular structure
• Studies reporting crystal structures as the main or sole result, without significant complementary analysis or interpretation
• Routine spectroscopic studies
• Theoretical studies including theoretical structure analysis (these could be submitted to the journal Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
• Studies on commercially available compounds need to bring significant novelty in the findings.

We encourage publications combining theoretical and experimental approaches. The structural insights gained by the studies should be correlated with the properties, activity and/ or reactivity of the molecule under investigation and the relevance of this molecule and its implications should be discussed.