[rolnor]

Maybe I need to ask ACS about this, how many words in the title are OK for a JOC paper? Its possible to exclude content in the title but there is many things I would like to include if its OK.

[Corribus]

Sometimes less is more. You have an abstract to capture important details. Keep the title brief and to the point.

[phth]

Example: Ligation of X and Y to synthesize Z via some way. That is the way the direct people to write titles in the "ACS Style Guide"

[rolnor]

Good points. What I have is a new protecting group and there are details I want to include, for example I use a catalyst in the deprotecting-step, this is a vital part of the invention. What I want is to get as large number of readers as possible and they could be interested in the catalyst but not the protecting group. There are other details also thar are central to the work. Bur you are right, this will all be part of the abstract.

[sjb]

In this day and age you might want to consider characters rather than words as such - many of the major journals have things like Twitter feeds etc.

[Babcock_Hall]

How about "Revolutionary work that will totally blow your socks off" for a title?

[rolnor]

JOC are very clear that you should avoid words like "novel" "genial" so I think your suggestion Babcock will not fly...

[wildfyr]

I'm a big fan of less is more.

[rolnor]

I think I will have to accept that some, even important, detailes will have to be in the abstract.

[kriggy]

Our title in JOC had 20 words without issue. I would name your paper as "XY: protection and "fancy catalyst" catalyzed selective deprotection of phenols" or similar.

[rolnor]

I checked current issue of joc and 20 words are very normal, not very long?

[kriggy]

I think we had shorter name at first but we made it longer to better describe the paper. It really depends in my opinion, I dont mind longer titles as long as they are on point and dont include unnecesserary buzzwords