《化学通讯》是发表化学重要新进展通讯的主要刊物。所有的文章都很短，出版速度也很快，因此可以在最短的时间内提供有关新研究途径的信息。一次交流通常在化学学会期刊的相应章节中有一篇完整的论文，当更全面的研究结果被知道时。论文选自世界化学研究的大部分主要领域。
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.