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Hot Articles in February 2017

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of February 2017!

You can access these publications for free till 30th Apr 2017 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

The impact of interplay between electronic and steric effects on the synthesis and the linear and non-linear optical properties of diketopyrrolopyrrole bearing benzofuran moieties
Anna Purc, Beata Koszarna, Irina Iachina, Daniel H. Friese, Mariusz Tasior, Krzysztof Sobczyk, Tomasz Pędziński, Jonathan Brewer and Daniel T. Gryko
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00869K, Research Article

A chiral ion-pair photoredox organocatalyst: enantioselective anti-Markovnikov hydroetherification of alkenols
Zhongbo Yang, Han Li, Sujia Li, Ming-Tian Zhang and Sanzhong Luo
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00806B, Research Article

(1S)-(−)-N-Trifluoromethylthio-2,10-camphorsultam and its derivatives: easily available, optically pure reagents for asymmetric trifluoromethylthiolation
He Zhang, Xuebing Leng, Xiaolong Wan and Qilong Shen
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7QO00042A, Research Article

KBr/K2S2O8-mediated dibromohydration of N-(2-alkynylaryl)acetamide
Guanyinsheng Qiu, Yuewen Li, Lele Ma and Hongwei Zhou
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00840B, Research Article

A facile approach to ketones via Pd-catalyzed sequential carbonylation of olefins with formic acid
Wenju Chang, Jie Dai, Jingfu Li, Yuan Shi, Wenlong Ren and Yian Shi
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7QO00111H, Research Article

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Outstanding Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Jie Wu, Fudan University

Professor Zhang-jie Shi, Fudan University

Professor Jin-Heng Li,  Hunan University

Professor Yuhong Zhang, Zhejiang University

Professor Shuanhu Gao, East China Normal University

Professor Itaru Nakamura, Tohoku University

Professor Xingwei Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

Professor Jianbo Wang, Peking University

Professor Qiuling Song, Huaqiao University

Professor Louis Fensterbank, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

We would also like to thank the Organic Chemistry Frontiers board and the Organic Chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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Welcome to Issue 3 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2017

Welcome to issue 2 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2017 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

 

   

The  front cover story,  Aerobic oxidative decyanation–amidation of arylacetonitriles with urea as a nitrogen source is contributed by Xuezhao Xu, Bingnan Li, Yingwei Zhao and Qiuling Song. The inside cover features a story on Substrate-driven selective mono- and bis-couplings of ortho-(OTf/I/Br) substituted gem-dibromovinylarenes by Maddali L. N. Rao, Priyabrata Dasgupta and Sk Shamim Islam.

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Hot Articles in January 2017

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of January 2017!

You can access these publications for free till 15th Mar 2017 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

One-pot synthesis of fluorescent 2,4-dialkenylindoles by rhodium-catalyzed dual C–H functionalization
Hui Chen, Cong Lin, Chunhua Xiong, Zhanxiang Liu and Yuhong Zhang
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00755D, Research Article

Phosphine-mediated domino reactions of phthalimidomalonates with allenoates or but-2-ynoate: facile entry into highly functionalized pyrroloisoindolinone derivatives
Zhusheng Huang, Qingqing Chen, Xiuqin Yang, Yang Liu, Li Zhang, Tao Lu and Qingfa Zhou
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00775A, Research Article

5-Azadibenzo[a,g]corannulene
V. M. Tsefrikas, A. K. Greene and L. T. Scott
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00831C, Research Article

 

From tetrabenzoheptafulvalene to sp2 carbon nano-rings
Kwan Yin Cheung, Shuaijun Yang and Qian Miao
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00828C, Research Article

Iridium catalysts with modular axial-unfixed biphenyl phosphine–oxazoline ligands: asymmetric hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids
Qian Wang, Zongpeng Zhang, Caiyou Chen, Hailong Yang, Zhengyu Han, Xiu-Qin Dong and Xumu Zhang
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00677A, Research Article

 

Silver-catalyzed radical carbofluorination of unactivated alkenes with acetic acid in aqueous solution
He Chen, Lin Zhu and Chaozhong Li
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00854B, Research Article

 

Thiolate–palladium(IV) or sulfonium–palladate(0)? A theoretical study on the mechanism of palladium-catalyzed C–S bond formation reactions
Dongdong Xu, Xiaotian Qi, Meng Duan, Zhaoyuan Yu, Lei Zhu, Chunhui Shan, Xiaoyu Yue, Ruopeng Bai and Yu Lan
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00841K, Research Article

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Welcome to Issue 2 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2017

Welcome to issue 2 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2017 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The  front cover story,  Aerobic copper catalyzed α-oxyacylation of ketones with carboxylic acids is contributed by Xin Huang, Xiao Liang, Jun Yuan, Zhangqin Ni, Yifeng Zhou and Yuanjiang Pan. The inside cover features a story on Natural diarylfluorene derivatives: isolation, total synthesis, and phosphodiesterase-4 inhibition by Sheng Yin and his co-authors.

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Hot Articles in December 2016

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

You can access these publications for free till 15th Feb 2017 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

Mechanism of selective C–H cyanation of 2-phenylpyridine with benzyl nitrile catalyzed by CuBr: a DFT investigation
Da-Gang Zhou, Fan Yang, Xing Yang, Chao-Xian Yan, Pan-Pan Zhou and Huan-Wang Jing
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00652C, Research Article

New reactivity of ethynyl benziodoxolone: modulating iron-catalyzed dehydration of propargyl alcohols
Huiyu Chen, Xiaoru Shao, Huifei Wang and Hongbin Zhai
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00631K, Research Article

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Welcome to Issue 1 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2017

Welcome to issue 1 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2017 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The  front cover story, Synthesis of polycyclic sultams via a palladium-catalyzed reaction of 1-bromo-2-(cyclopropylidenemethyl)benzenes with 2-alkynylbenzenesulfonamides is contributed by Xinxing Gong, Guangming Li and Jie Wu. The inside cover features a story on Synthesis of a quinoidal dithieno[2,3-d;2′,3′-d]benzo[2,1-b;3,4-b′]-dithiophene based open-shell singlet biradicaloid by Debin Xia, Ashok Keerthi, Cunbin An and Martin Baumgarten. 

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Hot Articles in November 2016

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

You can access these publications for free till 15th Jan 2017 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

Synthesis of a figure-eight azahelicene dimer with high emission and CPL properties
Ayako Ushiyama, Satoru Hiroto, Junpei Yuasa, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Hiroshi Shinokubo
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00629A, Research Article

Copper-mediated annulation of 2-(1-arylvinyl) anilines and aryl nitrosos towards 2,3-diaryl-2H-indazoles
Weiming Hu, Jin-Tao Yu, Suqin Liu, Yan Jiang and Jiang Cheng
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 22-25
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00540C, Research Article

Direct observation and characterisation of 3-azido-2H-azirines: postulated, but highly elusive intermediates
Kevin Weigand, Neeraj Singh, Manfred Hagedorn and Klaus Banert
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00625F, Research Article

The stability and reactivity of tri-, di-, and monofluoromethyl/methoxy/methylthio groups on arenes under acidic and basic conditions
Lingfei Wang, Jun Wei, Ranran Wu, Gang Cheng, Xinjin Li, Jinbo Hu, Yongzhou Hu and Rong Sheng
Org. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00674D, Research Article

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Welcome to Issue 12 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

Welcome to issue 12 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2016 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now

The  front cover story, Catalytic applications of [IPr·GaX2][SbF6] and related species is contributed by Vincent Gandon  and his co-authors. The inside cover features a story on  Synthesis of spiro[indane-1,3-dione-1-pyrrolines] via copper-catalyzed heteroannulation of ketoxime acetates with 2-arylideneindane-1,3-diones by Jindian Duan, Yuyu Cheng, Rou Li and Pengfei Li.
Following profile is also included in the current issue:

Interview with Christoph A. Schalley
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 1600-1602
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO90041K


Welcome to Issue 11 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016

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Hot Articles in October 2016

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

You can access these publications for free till 15th Dec by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

Rh(I)-Catalyzed coupling of 2-bromoethyl aryldiazoacetates with tertiary propargyl alcohols through carbene migratory insertion
Zhen Liu, Ying Xia, Sheng Feng, Yan Zhang and Jianbo Wang
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00453A, Research Article


[2.2]Paracyclophane-based N-heterocyclic carbene as efficient catalyst or as ligand for copper catalyst for asymmetric α-silylation of N-tosylaldimines
Zhen Chen, Yuwen Huo, Ping An, Xichao Wang, Chun Song and Yudao Ma
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00386A, Research Article

Suzuki coupling for preparation of allenes – ligand effects and chirality transfer
Hongwen Luo, Yihua Yu and Shengming Ma
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00489J, Research Article

The facile and stereoselective synthesis of pyrrolidine β-amino acids via copper(I)-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition
Fu-Sheng He, Cong-Shan Li, Hua Deng, Xing Zheng, Zhong-Tao Yang and Wei-Ping Deng
Org. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QO00512H, Research Article

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