《化學通訊》是發表化學重要新進展通訊的主要刊物。所有的文章都很短，出版速度也很快，因此可以在最短的時間內提供有關新研究途徑的信息。一次交流通常在化學學會期刊的相應章節中有一篇完整的論文，當更全面的研究結果被知道時。論文選自世界化學研究的大部分主要領域。

Chemical Communications is the leading journal for the publication of communications on important new developments in chemistry. All articles are short and publication is rapid, thus providing information on new avenues of research in the shortest possible time. A communication is usually followed up by a full paper in the corresponding section of Journal of the Chemical Society when fuller results of the work are known. Papers are drawn from most of the world's major areas of chemical research.