Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Welcome to issue 20 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Steric hindrance classified: treatment of isothiocyanatoallene with secondary amines bearing bulky substituents to generate 2-aminothiazoles, is contributed by Klaus Banert and Jennifer Seifert.The inside cover features a story on Synthesis of chromans and kinetic resolution of 2-aryl-3-nitro-2H-chromenes via the NHC-bound azolium homoenolate pathway by Aditya Bhattacharya, Pushpendra mani Shukla, Lalit Kumar Kaushik and Biswajit Maji .

Follow review type articles are also included in current issue:

Recent advances in intramolecular C–O/C–N/C–S bond formation via C–H functionalization
Paran J. Borpatra, Bhaskar Deka, Mohit L. Deb and Pranjal K. Baruah
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 3445-3489
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00863B

Applications of sulfuryl fluoride (SO₂F₂) in chemical transformations
Ravindar Lekkala, Revathi Lekkala, Balakrishna Moku, K. P. Rakesh and Hua-Li Qin
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 3490-3516
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00747D