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Welcome to Issue 4 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

Welcome to issue 4 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2016! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The cover story, Efficient synthesis of 2-acylquinolines based on an aza-vinylogous Povarov reaction is contributed by Giulia Bianchini, Pascual Ribelles, Diana Becerra, M. Teresa Ramos and J. Carlos Menéndez. The inside cover features a story on Mechanism, catalysis and predictions of 1,3,2-diazaphospholenes: theoretical insight into highly polarized P–X bonds contributed by Liu Liu, Yile Wu, Peng Chen, Chinglin Chan, Ji Xu, Jun Zhu and Yufen Zhao.

Following highlight is also included in the current issue:

Photoredox sheds new light on nickel catalysis: from carbon–carbon to carbon–heteroatom bond formation
Yong-Yuan Gui, Liang Sun, Zhi-Peng Lu and Da-Gang Yu
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 522-526
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00437C

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Hot articles in February 2016

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of February 2016!

Visible-light promoted intermolecular halofunctionalization of alkenes with N-halogen saccharins
Lu Song, Sanzhong Luo and Jin-Pei Cheng
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00432B

Epoxy and aziridinyl enolsilanes in diastereoselective inter- and intramolecular Friedel–Crafts alkylations
Jesse Ling, Sze Kui Lam, Brian Lo, Sarah Lam, Wing-Tak Wong, Jian Sun, Guanhua Chen and Pauline Chiu
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00333D


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Hot articles in January 2016

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of January 2016!

Pd/norbornene-catalyzed sequential ortho-C–H alkylation and ipso-alkynylation: a 1,1-dimethyl-2-alkynol strategy
Fenggang Sun, Miao Li and Zhenhua Gu
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 309-313
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00391A, Research Article

Exploiting ortho-substitution effect on formation of oxygen-containing [10]paracyclophane through ring-closing metathesis
Li Yang, Liqiang Song, Chong Huang, Mingzheng Huang and Bo Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 319-323
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00373C, Research Article

Gold-catalyzed tandem synthesis of bioactive spiro-dipyrroloquinolines and its application in the one-step synthesis of incargranine B aglycone and seneciobipyrrolidine (I)
Can-Liang Ma, Xiao-Hua Li, Xiao-Long Yu, Xiao-Long Zhu, Yong-Zhou Hu, Xiao-Wu Dong, Bin Tan and Xin-Yuan Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 324-329
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00354G, Research Article


Access to bicyclic hydroxamate macrocycles via intramolecular aza-(4 + 3) cyloaddition reactions of aza-oxyallylic cation intermediates
A. Acharya, J. A. Eickhoff, K. Chen, V. J. Catalano and C. S. Jeffrey
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 330-334
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00315F, Research Article


Pd(II)-catalyzed β-C–H arylation of O-methyl ketoximes with iodoarenes
Yucheng Mu, Xiaodong Tan, Yemin Zhang, Xiaobi Jing and Zhuangzhi Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 380-384
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00438A, Research Article


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Welcome to Issue 3 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

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


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Welcome to Issue 2 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

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

The cover story, Cu-catalyzed hydrofluoroacetylation of alkynes or alkynyl carboxylic acids leading highly stereoselectively to fluoroacetylated alkenes is contributed by Miaolin Ke, Qiang Feng, Kai Yang and Qiuling Song.

Following highlight  is also included in the current issue:

Non-covalent organocatalysis in asymmetric oxidative C(sp3)–H bond functionalization – broadening C–H bond coupling reactions
Sebastian Stockerl and Olga García Mancheño
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 277-280
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00347D

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Hot articles in December 2015

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of December 2015!

Enantiodiscrimination of carboxylic acids using the diphenylprolinol NMR chiral solvating agents
Gaowei Li, Jiangming Cao, Wen Zong, Xinxiang Lei and Renxiang Tan
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 96-102
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00264H


Synthesis of the 1,2,4-thiadiazole alkaloids polycarpathiamines A and B

Emma K. Davison and Jonathan Sperry
Org. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 38-42
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00367A

Rapid access to bicyclic δ-lactones via carbene-catalyzed activation and cascade reaction of unsaturated carboxylic esters
Zhenqian Fu, Xingxing Wu and Yonggui Robin Chi
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00348B

Cu-catalyzed hydrofluoroacetylation of alkynes or alkynyl carboxylic acids leading highly stereoselectively to fluoroacetylated alkenes
Miaolin Ke, Qiang Feng, Kai Yang and Qiuling Song
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00324E

Copper-mediated radical alkylarylation of unactivated alkenes with acetonitrile leading to fluorenes and pyrroloindoles
Xue-Qiang Chu, Zhen-Hua Xing, Hua Meng, Xiao-Ping Xu and Shun-Jun Ji
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00329F

Equilibrium acidities of cinchona alkaloid organocatalysts bearing 6′-hydrogen bonding donors in DMSO
Xiang Ni, Xin Li and Jin-Pei Cheng
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00305A

Glycosylation via remote activation of anomeric leaving groups: development of 2-(2-propylsulfinyl)benzyl glycosides as novel glycosyl donors
Penghua Shu, Wang Yao, Xiong Xiao, Jiuchang Sun, Xiang Zhao, Yueqi Zhao, Yang Xu, Jinyi Tao, Guangmin Yao, Jing Zeng and Qian Wan
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00359H

Synthesis of isoxazoline-featured oxindoles by iminoxyl radical-promoted cascade oxyalkylation/alkylarylation of alkenes
Xiu-Long Yang, Yan Long, Fei Chen and Bing Han
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00352K

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Enjoy your access to OCF HOT articles from 2015

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles from 2015. The papers are recommended by our referees for the high novelty and significance of reported studies.

A selection of articles from the collection is available below. The full collection is free to access until 15th Feb 2016 from http://rsc.li/ocfhot15

Now is your chance to read some of the high quality articles from Organic Chemistry Frontiers!

Regioselective palladium(II)-catalyzed aerobic oxidative Heck-type C3 alkenylation of sulfocoumarins

Namhoon Kim, Minsik Min and Sungwoo Hong

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1621-1624
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00294J


Rhodium catalysed conversion of carbenes into ketenes and ketene imines using PNN pincer complexes

Z. Tang, S. Mandal, N. D. Paul, M. Lutz, P. Li, J. I. van der Vlugt and B. de Bruin   

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1561-1577
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00287


Silver-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition of isocyanides with diazo compounds: new regioselective access to 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles

Shuai Wang, Li-Jun Yang, Jun-Liang Zeng, Yan Zheng and Jun-An Ma

Org. Chem. Front.,
2015,2, 1468-1474
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00219B


A thermally stable pH-responsive “supramolecular buckle” based on the encapsulation of 4-(4-aminophenyl)-N-methylpyridinium by cucurbit[8]uril

Tian-You Zhou, Qiao-Yan Qi, Ying Zhang, Xiao-Na Xu and Xin Zhao

Org. Chem. Front.,
2015,2, 1030-1034
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00168D


Intramolecular C–H insertion vs. Friedel–Crafts coupling induced by silyl cation-promoted C–F activation

Oliver Allemann, Kim K. Baldridge and Jay S. Siegel

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1018-1021
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00170F


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A thermally stable pH-responsive “supramolecular buckle” based on the encapsulation of 4-(4-aminophenyl)-N-methylpyridinium by cucurbit[8]uril

Tian-You Zhou, Qiao-Yan Qi, Ying Zhang, Xiao-Na Xu and Xin Zhao

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1030-1034
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00168D

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Enjoy your access to OCF Review-type articles from 2015

Reviews and highlights in Organic Chemistry Frontiers focus on the significant and timely topics from across the field. Those 2015 articles are now free to access until the end of February 2016.


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Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of polysubstituted spirocyclopropyl oxindoles: organocatalysis versus transition metal catalysis

Zhong-Yan Cao and Jian Zhou

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 849-858
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00092K


Catalytic enantioselective organic transformations via visible light photocatalysis

Chengfeng Wang and Zhan Lu

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 179-190
DOI: 10.1039/C4QO00306C


Transition metal-catalyzed direct remote C–H functionalization of alkyl groups via C(sp3)–H bond activation

Guanyinsheng Qiu and Jie Wu

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 169-178
DOI: 10.1039/C4QO00207E


Engineering ligands on the Au center: discovering broadly applicable gold catalysis with high turnover numbers

Suleman M. Inamdar and Nitin T. Patil

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 995-998
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00162E


Handling diazonium salts in flow for organic and material chemistry

Nicolas Oger, Erwan Le Grognec and François-Xavier Felpin

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 590-614
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00037H

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Welcome to Issue 1 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

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

The cover story,  Chemoselective catalytic reduction of conjugated α,β-unsaturated ketones to saturated ketones via a hydroboration/protodeboronation strategy is contributed by Wen Ding and Qiuling Song.

Following  review article is also included in the current issue:

New developments of ketonitrones in organic synthesis
Wei-Min Shi, Xiao-Pan Ma, Gui-Fa Su and Dong-Liang Mo
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 116-130
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00122F


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Hot Articles in August and September

Take best advantage of the free access to Organic Chemistry Frontiers, and read recent HOT articles!

Organoselenium-catalyzed synthesis of indoles through intramolecular C–H amination
Xuelin Zhang, Ruizhi Guo and Xiaodan Zhao
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1334-1337
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00179J, Research Article

Efficient synthesis of P-chiral biaryl phosphonates by stereoselective intramolecular cyclization
Guangqing Xu, Minghong Li, Shouliang Wang and Wenjun Tang
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1342-1345
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00142K, Research Article

Palladium-catalyzed methylene C(sp3)–H arylation of the adamantyl scaffold
Ye-Xing Lao, Jia-Qiang Wu, Yunyun Chen, Shang-Shi Zhang, Qingjiang Li and Honggen Wang
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1374-1378
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00218D, Research Article

Speciation and kinetic study of iron promoted sugar conversion to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and levulinic acid (LA)
Yuan Jiang, Linan Yang, Christine M. Bohn, Guannan Li, Dong Han, Nathan S. Mosier, Jeffrey T. Miller, Hilkka I. Kenttämaa and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1388-1396
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00194C, Research Article

Cu-Mediated 2,2,2-trifluoroethylation of terminal alkynes using 1,1-dichloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane (HCFC-123)
En-Jian Han, Yan Sun, Qian Shen, Qing-Yun Chen, Yong Guo and Yan-Gen Huang
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1379-1387
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00210A, Research Article


Silver-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition of isocyanides with diazo compounds: new regioselective access to 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles

Shuai Wang, Li-Jun Yang, Jun-Liang Zeng, Yan Zheng and Jun-An Ma
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1468-1474
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00219B, Research Article

Stereoselective formation of chiral trans-4-hydroxy-5-substituted 2-pyrrolidinones: syntheses of streptopyrrolidine and 3-epi-epohelmin A
Chang-Mei Si, Zhuo-Ya Mao, Yi-Wen Liu, Zhen-Ting Du, Bang-Guo Wei and Guo-Qiang Lin
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1485-1499
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00250H, Research Article

Direct borylation of benzyl alcohol and its analogues in the absence of bases
Zhi-Chao Cao, Fei-Xian Luo, Wen-Juan Shi and Zhang-Jie Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1505-1510
DOI: 10.1039/C5QO00243E, Research Article



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