Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Welcome to Issue 11 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2018! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The  front cover story, Fused donor–acceptor π-conjugated diazatruxenones: synthesis and electronic properties by Angela Benito-Hernández, Mardia T. El-Sayed, Juan T. López Navarrete, M. Carmen Ruiz Delgado and Berta Gómez-Lor. The inside cover features a story on Reductive ortho C–H cyanoalkylation of aryl(heteroaryl) sulfoxides: a general approach to α-aryl(heteroaryl) nitriles.

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Direct functionalization of benzylic and nonbenzylic C(sp3)–H bonds via keteniminium ion initiated cascade [1,5]-hydrogen transfer/ cyclization
Lubin Xu, Pengfei Yang and Liang Wang
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 1854-1858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO00314A

Welcome to issue 6 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2018 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now. 

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Recent advances in the intramolecular Mannich reaction in natural products total synthesis
Yingbo Shi, Qiaoling Wang and Shuanhu Gao
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 1049-1066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO01079F

Welcome to issue 3 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2018 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now. 

The front cover story, Electronic and structural properties of N → B-ladder boranes with high electron affinity by Markus Grandl, Yu Sun and Frank Pammer.

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Total synthesis of strictamine: a tutorial for novel and efficient synthesis
Chao Wang, Shiju Zhang, Yan Wang, Sha-Hua Huang and Ran Hong
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 447-452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00837F

Pyridinium salts: from synthesis to reactivity and applications
Subbiah Sowmiah, José M. S. S. Esperança, Luís P. N. Rebelo and Carlos A. M. Afonso
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 453-493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00836H

Formation of tetrasubstituted C–C double bonds via olefin metathesis: challenges, catalysts, and applications in natural product synthesis
Nirmalya Mukherjee, Sebastian Planer and Karol Grela
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 494-516
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00800G

Welcome to issue 2 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2018 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now. 

The front cover story, 10 gram-scale synthesis of a chiral oxazoline iminopyridine ligand and its applications by Jianhui Chen, Tuo Xi and Zhan Lu. The inside cover features a story on Regioselective C5 alkenylation of 2-acylpyrroles via Pd(II)-catalyzed C–H bond activation.

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Catalytic approaches to assemble cyclobutane
motifs in natural product synthesis
Meng Wang and Ping Lu
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 254-259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00668C

Asymmetric hydrofunctionalization of minimally
functionalized alkenes via earth abundant
transition metal catalysis
Jianhui Chen and Zhan Lu
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 260-272
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00613F

Total syntheses of pyrroloazocine indole alkaloids: challenges and reaction discovery
Mariia S. Kirillova, Fedor M. Miloserdov and Antonio M. Echavarren
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 273-287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00786H

Recent developments in palladium-catalysed nondirected
coupling of (hetero)arene C–H bonds with
C–Z (Z = B, Si, Sn, S, N, C, H) bonds in bi(hetero)
aryl synthesis
Pui Ying Choy, Shun Man Wong, Anant Kapdi and Fuk Yee Kwong
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 288-321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00693D