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)

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.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Papers describing routine studies of little structural significance (e.g. manuscripts dealing only with glassy materials, characterization of particles and materials by using microscopy techniques, those reporting essentially crystal data accompanied by routine spectroscopic studies and/or theoretical structure analysis performed for isolated molecules, and routine spectroscopy studies for commercially available compounds) are not acceptable. The same applies to manuscripts mainly focused on synthesis procedures or evaluation of bioactivity of chemical species. Solely theoretical studies should rather be submitted to Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.

 full-length articles and review papers

Editor-in-Chief
Rui Fausto
Dept. of Chemistry, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Email Rui Fausto
Editors
Jan Lundell
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland Email Jan Lundell
Silvia A. Brandán
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina Email Silvia A. Brandán
Elangannan Arunan
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Email Elangannan Arunan
Malgorzata Biczysko
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China Email Malgorzata Biczysko
György Tarczay
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary Email György Tarczay
Maofa Ge
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China Email Maofa Ge
Christian Jelsch
Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France Email Christian Jelsch
Michael Schmitt
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany Email Michael Schmitt
Founding Editor
W.J. Orville-Thomas †
Editorial Board
José Alonso
Valladolid, Spain
Bruce S. Ault
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jan Baran
Wroclaw, Poland
Peter Bernath
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Hugh Burrows
Coimbra, Portugal
Walther Caminati
Bologna, Italy
Jaebum Choo
Ansan, The Republic of Korea
Deepak Chopra
Bhopal, India
Mustafa Culha
Istanbul, Turkey
Carlos O. Della Védova
La Plata, Argentina
Gautam Desiraju
Bangalore, India
Marek Drozd
Wrocław, Poland
Thomas Ford
Durban, South Africa
Boris Galabov
Sofia, Bulgaria
Wouter A. Herrebout
Antwerpen, Belgium
Young Mee Jung
Chunchon, The Republic of Korea
Johannes Kiefer
Bremen, Germany
Jaan Laane
College Station, Texas, USA
Isao Noda
West Chester, Ohio, USA
Heinz Oberhammer
Tübingen, Germany
Yukihiro Ozaki
Sanda, Hyogo, Japan
Istvan Palinko
Szeged, Hungary
Christina Puzzarini
Bologna, Italy
Scott Reid
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Lorenzo Stella
Roma, Italy
Marco van de Weert
Copenhagen, Denmark
Maria Wierzejewska
Wrocław, Poland
Anne Zehnacker
Orsay Cédex, France
Guiseppe Zerbi
Milano, Italy
Honorary Editorial Board
James Durig
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Dusan Hadži
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Henry Mantsch
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Achim Müller
Bielefeld, Germany
Chintamani N. R. Rao
Bangalore, India
Henryk Ratajczak
Wrocław, Poland