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Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of March 2018!

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Base-promoted [3 + 3] cyclization of cyclopropenones and cyclopropenethiones with amides for the synthesis of 6H-1,3-oxazin-6-ones and 6H-1,3-thiazin-6-ones
Ben Niu, Bo Jiang, Liu-Zhu Yu and Min Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00091C

Research Article Isolation and biosynthesis of labdanmycins: four new labdane diterpenes from endophytic Streptomyces
Zi-Jun Xiong, Jianping Huang, Yijun Yan, Li Wang, Zhiyan Wang, Jing Yang, Jianying Luo, Jie Li and Sheng-Xiong Huang
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00085A

Efficient access to chiral benzo[c]chromenes via asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketals
Yangshan Li, Miao Wan, Shutao Sun, Zhongjun Fu, Haofei Huang and Lei Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00096D

Copper-catalyzed asymmetric hydroboration of 1,3-enynes with pinacolborane to access chiral allenylboronates
Hui Leng Sang, Songjie Yu and Shaozhong Ge
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00167G

Total synthesis of teixobactin and its stereoisomers
L. Liu, S. Wu, Q. Wang, M. Zhang, B. Wang, G. He and G. Chen
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00145F

Silver-catalyzed ring-opening difluoromethylthiolation/trifluoromethylthiolation of cycloalkanols with PhSO₂SCF₂H or PhSO₂SCF₃
Bin Xu, Decai Wang, Yonghong Hu and Qilong Shen
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00115D

Research Article Catalyst-controlled synthesis of 4-amino-isoquinolin-1(2H)-one and oxazole derivatives
Ben Niu, Ruixing Liu, Yin Wei and Min Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00125A

Mechanistic insights into the different chemoselectivities of Rh₂(II)-catalyzed ring expansion of cyclobutanol-substituted aryl azides and C–H bond amination of cyclopentanol-substituted aryl azides: a DFT study
Dafang Gao and Xiaoguang Bao
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00113H

Photoredox-catalyzed cascade annulation of methyl(2-(phenylethynyl)phenyl)sulfanes and methyl(2-(phenylethynyl)phenyl)selanes with sulfonyl chlorides: synthesis of benzothiophenes and benzoselenophenes
Jianxiang Yan, Jian Xu, Yao Zhou, Jinglong Chen and Qiuling Song
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00147B

Asperones A–E, five dimeric polyketides with new carbon skeletons from the fungus Aspergillus sp. AWG 1–15
Guo-Ping Yin, Ya-Rong Wu, Chao Han, Xiao-Bing Wang, Hong-Liang Gao, Yong Yin, Ling-Yi Kong and Ming-Hua Yang
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00070K