Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Welcome to issue 11 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2017 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The  front cover story, Photoredox meets gold Lewis acid catalysis in the alkylative semipinacol rearrangement: a photocatalyst with a dark side is contributed by M. Zidan, T. McCallum, L. Thai-Savard and L. Barriault. The inside cover features a story on Palladium catalyzed C(sp³)–H acetoxylation of aliphatic primary amines to γ-amino alcohol derivatives.

Follow review  type article is also included in current issue:

Catalytic and catalyst-free diboration of alkynes
Fei Zhao, Xiuwen Jia, Pinyi Li, Jingwei Zhao, Yu Zhou, Jiang Wang and Hong Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 2235-2255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00614D

Metal-catalyzed enyne cycloisomerization in natural product total synthesis
Ying Hu, Miao Bai, Ying Yang and Qianghui Zhou
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 2256-2275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00702G