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Congratulations to our highly cited board members!

26 Nov 2019

We are proud to announce that 5 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers Board members are recognized in Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and publication year.

The board members are:

Editorial Board

Frank Würthner, University of Würzburg, Germany

Advisory Board

Matthias Beller, University of Rostock, Germany
Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Lutz Ackermann, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Chen-Ho Tung, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, China

Below are a few of our picks from their publications in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
Access is free to these highlighted papers until 31 Jan 2020!

Guest-mediated chirality transfer in the host–guest complexes of an atropisomeric perylene bisimide cyclophane host
Meike Sapotta, Peter Spenst, Chantu R. Saha-Möllera and Frank Würthner*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 892-899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00172G

Progress in the synthesis of perylene bisimide dyes
Agnieszka Nowak-Król and Frank Würthner*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1272-1318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO01368C

Water-soluble naphthalene diimides: synthesis, optical properties, and colorimetric detection of biogenic amines
Annike Weißenstein, Vincenzo Grande, Chantu R. Saha-Möllera and Frank Würthner*
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2641-2651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00611C

Decarboxylative sulfenylation of amino acids via metallaphotoredox catalysis
Lidan Wei, Chengjuan Wu, Chen-Ho Tung, Wenguang Wang* and Zhenghu Xu*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 3224-3227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00817A

Scandium-catalyzed electrophilic alkene difunctionalization: regioselective synthesis of thiosulfone derivatives
Shuai Huang, Haoyu Li, Tian Xie, Fang Wei*, Chen-Ho Tung and Zhenghu Xu*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1663-1666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00138G

Cobalt-catalyzed radical cyclization of isocyanides forming phenanthridine derivatives
Xiangyu Liu, Chengjuan Wu*, Jing Zhang, Yihan Shi, Shengnan Zhang, Yan Geng, Chen-Ho Tung and Wenguang Wang*
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2997-3002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00887F

Recent advances in positional-selective alkenylations: removable guidance for twofold C–H activation
Wenbo Ma*, Parthasarathy Gandeepan*, Jie Lid and Lutz Ackermann*
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 1435-1467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00134G

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Hot Article in October 2019

05 Nov 2019

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT article of October 2019!
You can access this publication for free till 31-Dec-2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

Asymmetric organocatalyzed reaction sequence of 2-hydroxy cinnamaldehydes and acyclic N-sulfonyl ketimines to construct diverse chiral bridged polycyclic aminals
Ying-Han Chen, Xue-Jiao Lv, Zhi-Hao You and Yan-Kai Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO01116A

1,1′-Bi(2-naphthol-4,5-dicarboximide)s: blue emissive axially chiral scaffolds with aggregation-enhanced emission properties
Meng-Ting Chen, Yang Zhang, Myroslav O. Vysotsky, Joachim O. Lindner, Meng-Hua Li, Mei-Jin Lin and Frank Würthner
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO01090D

Photocatalytic decarboxylative [2 + 2 + 1] annulation of 1,6-enynes with N-hydroxyphthalimide esters for the synthesis of indene-containing polycyclic compounds
Meng-Jie Jiao, Dan Liu, Xiu-Qin Hu and Peng-Fei Xu
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO01166H

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Welcome to Issue 20 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

12 Oct 2019

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

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Welcome to Issue 19 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

25 Sep 2019

Welcome to issue 19 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Synthetic approach to skeletally diverse nitrogen heterocycles from dicyano-2-methylenebut-3-enoates is contributed by Xiang Zhang, Qing-Fei Huang, Wen-Lin Zou, Qing-Zhu Li, Xin Feng, Zhi-Qiang Jia, Yue Liu, Jun-Long Li and Qi-Wei Wang.

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Welcome to Issue 18 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

11 Sep 2019

Welcome to issue 18 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Stable dicationic dioxoliums and fate of their dioxolyl radicals, is contributed by Marc Devillard, Vianney Regnier, Jacques Pecaut and David Martin and their co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Dual-directional alkyne-terminated macrocycles: Enroute to non-aggregating molecular platforms by Ali Husain, Asaithampi Ganesan, Basma Ghazal, Mahmut Durmuş, Xian-Fu Zhang and Saad Makhseed.

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Hot Article in August 2019

04 Sep 2019

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT article of August 2019!
You can access this publication for free till 31-Oct-2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

Minisci C–H alkylation of N-heteroarenes with aliphatic alcohols via β-scission of alkoxy radical intermediates
Xiafei Hu, Guo-Xing Li, Gang He and Gong Chen
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00786E

Constructing bridged multifunctional calixarenes by intramolecular indole coupling
Boris Bolshchikov, Sergey Volkov, Daria Sokolova, Alexander Gorbunov, Alina Serebryannikova, Igor Gloriozov, Dmitry Cheshkov, Stanislav Bezzubov, Wen-Sheng Chung, Vladimir Kovalev and Ivan Vatsouro
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00859D

Asymmetric domino 1,6-addition/annulation reaction of 3-cyano-4-alkenyl-2H-chromen-2-ones with isatin-derived MBH carbonates: enantioselective synthesis of 3,3′-cyclopentenylspirooxindoles bearing 2H-chromen-2-ones
Zhen-Hua Wang, Chuan-Wen Lei, Xia-Yan Zhang, Yong You, Jian-Qiang Zhao and Wei-Cheng Yuan
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00890J

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Welcome to Issue 17 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

21 Aug 2019

Welcome to issue 17 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Phloroglucinol heterodimers and bis-indolyl alkaloids from the sponge-derived fungus Aspergillus sp. SCSIO 41018, is contributed by Junfeng Wang, Yonghong Liu and their co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Catalyst- and additive-free annulation/aromatization leading to benzothiazoles and naphthothiazoles by Guo-Jun Deng, Zhenhua Xu, Huawen Huang and Hongbiao Chen.

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Welcome to Issue 16 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

09 Aug 2019

Welcome to issue 16 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, A controlled blue-shift in meso-nitrogen aryl fused DIPY and BODIPY skeletons, is contributed by
Miłosz Pawlicki and his co-authors.The inside cover features a story on Synthesis of a dimer of the repeating unit of type Ia group B Streptococcus extracellular capsular polysaccharide and immunological evaluations of related protein conjugates by Guochao Liao, Jiatong Guo, Deying Yang, Zhifang Zhou, Zhongqiu Liu and Zhongwu Guo .

Follow review type articles are also included in current issue:

Synthesis of aminoboronic acid derivatives: an update on recent advances
Andrej Šterman, Izidor Sosič, Stanislav Gobec and Zdenko Časar
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2991-2998
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00626E

Recent progress in selenium-catalyzed organic reactions
Lixiong Shao, Yiming Li, Jianmei Lu and Xuefeng Jiang
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2999-3041
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00620F

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Welcome to Issue 15 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

25 Jul 2019

Welcome to issue 15 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, A computational study on ruthenium-catalyzed [4 + 1] annulation via C–H activation: the origin of selectivity and the role of the internal oxidizing group , is contributed by De-Cai Fang and his co-authors.The inside cover features a story on Exploring the necessity of an acidic additive for Pd(II)-catalyzed exclusive C4-fluoroalkylation of 3-acetylindole: a detailed DFT study on the mechanism and regioselectivity by Jin-Feng Li, Ru-Fang Zhao, Fu-Qiang Zhou, Meng-Yao She, Jun Zhang, Bing Yin, Sheng-Yong Zhang and Jian-Li Li.

Follow review type articles are also included in current issue:

Alkynogenic fragmentation
Jingyue Yang, Tung T. Hoang and Gregory B. Dudley
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2560-2569
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00266A

Oxidation of amine α-carbon to amide: a review on direct methods to access the amide functionality
Yin Wei and Min Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2570-2599
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00387H

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Hot articles in May 2019

06 Jun 2019

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT article of May 2019!

You can access this publication for free till 31 July 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org)

Creation of bispiro[pyrazolone-3,3′-oxindoles] via a phosphine-catalyzed enantioselective [3 + 2] annulation of the Morita–Baylis–Hillman carbonates with pyrazoloneyldiene oxindoles
Jing Zhang, Wai-Lun Chan, Ligong Chen, Nisar Ullah and Yixin Lu
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00471H