Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Welcome to issue 3 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2016! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The cover story, Copper-catalyzed tandem A³-coupling–isomerization–hydrolysis reactions of aldehydes and terminal alkynes leading to chalcones is contributed by Yingwei Zhao and Qiuling Song.

Following highlight is also included in the current issue:

A remarkable solvent effect of fluorinated alcohols on transition metal catalysed C–H functionalizations
J. Wencel-Delord and F. Colobert
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 394-400
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00398A