Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Welcome to issue 11 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

 The front cover story, Photocatalytic borylcyclopropanation of α-boryl styrenes is contributed by Takashi Ooi and co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Quantification of the hydrophobic effect using water-soluble super aryl-extended calix[4]pyrroles by Luis Escobar and Pablo Ballester.

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Application of dialkyl azodicarboxylate frameworks featuring multi-functional properties
Muhammad Usman, Xiao-Wen Zhang, Di Wu, Zheng-Hui Guan and Wen-Bo Liu
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1905-1928
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00017H

Welcome to issue 10 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Functionalisable acyclic cucurbiturils is contributed by Stefan Kubik and co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Tunable enforced cavities inside self-assembled capsules  by Takeharu Haino and co-authors.

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Diffusion NMR for the characterization, in solution, of supramolecular systems based on calixarenes, resorcinarenes, and other macrocyclic arenes
Yoram Cohen and Sarit Slovak
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1705-1718
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00329K

Welcome to issue 9 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, One-pot sequential synthesis of 3-carbonyl-4-arylbenzo[f]indole and 3-carbonyl-4-arylnaphthofuran fluorophores is contributed by  J. Tummatorn and co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Chemoselective N-arylation of aminobenzene sulfonamides via copper catalysed Chan–Evans–Lam reactions bu Liang Xu, Xin Jia and co-authors.

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Gold-catalyzed heterocyclic syntheses through α-imino gold carbene complexes as intermediates

Enrique Aguilar and Javier Santamaría
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1513-1540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00243J

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¹⁹F-GEST NMR: studying dynamic interactions in host–guest systems
Liat Avram and Amnon Bar-Shir
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1503-1512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QO00311H

Welcome to issue 8 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Asymmetric synthesis of highly functionalized furanones via direct Michael reactions mediated by a bulky primary amine, is contributed by  Huicai Huang and co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Spirocyclic cladosporicin A and cladosporiumins I and J from a Hydractinia-associated Cladosporium sphaerospermum SW67 by Christine Beemelmanns and co-authors.

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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

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Neglected sulfur(VI) pharmacophores in drug discovery: exploration of novel chemical space by the interplay of drug design and method development
U. Lücking
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1319-1324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO01233D

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2018, 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 Xiaoming Feng， Sichuan University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-0478
Prof. Xuefeng Jiang， East China Normal University，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1849-6572
Dr Feng Shi， Jiangsu Normal University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3922-0708
Prof. Huanfeng Jiang， South China University of Technology，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4355-0294
Dr Junliang Zhang， Fudan University，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4636-2846
Dr Ying-Chun Chen， Sichuan University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1902-0979
Dr Michal Szostak Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9650-9690
Dr Takashi Koike， Tokyo Kogyo Daigaku，https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3737-7093
Dr Varma Saikam， Georgia State University，https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2500-9717
Dr Igor Alabugin Florida， Florida State University ，https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9289-3819

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 (OrgChemFrontiersED@rsc.org) 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

Welcome to issue 6 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now. 

The front cover story, Selective carbonylation of benzene to benzaldehyde using a phosphorus–nitrogen PN³P–rhodium(I) complex, is contributed by Huang Kuo-Wei and co-authors.

The inside cover features a story on Deciphering the exceptional selectivity of semipinacol rearrangements in cis-fused β-lactam diols using high-level quantum chemical methods by Abdulkader Baroudi and Amir Karton.