On the cover this week is work by Roman Dembinski et al. at Oakland University and Eastern Illinois University, highlighting facile synthetic methods for the 
preparation of 3-fluorofurans, 3-bromo-4-fluorofurans, and 3-fluoro-4-iodofurans in good yields and at room temperature.
Read all about the synthetic sequences employed: this article will be FREE to access for a period of 6 weeks.
Room temperature syntheses of entirely diverse substituted β-fluorofurans
Yan Li , Kraig A. Wheeler and Roman Dembinski
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 2395-2408
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06693E
Also in this issue, take a look at a hot article by Taku Shoji et al. presenting novel developments in the field of donor-acceptor chromophores, which can be synthesised using the [2+2] cycloaddition-cycloreversion (CA/CR) reaction; or read a timely Perspective showcasing recent advancement in the stereoselective synthesis of 2-C-branched sugar analogs, by Torsten Linker et al., and much more!
