Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

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.

SupraChem 2019 was recently held at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany and organised by Florian Beuerle and Organic Chemistry Frontiers Associate Editor Frank Würthner. Organic Chemistry Frontiers was proud to support and sponsor the meeting, alongside Chemical Science and Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

This free-to-attend meeting brought together supramolecular chemists from Germany and neighbouring countries and covered a range of topics from supramolecular machinery to materials and analytical techniques to host-guest chemistry and sensing. Keynote lectures were given by world-renowned supramolecular chemists Vivian W. W. Yang, J. Fraser Stoddart and, new Chemical Science Editor-in-Chief, Andrew I. Cooper. These speakers helped generate some great discussion alongside the additional 27 presentations and led to a very successful meeting.

Chemical Science Deputy Editor Jeremy Allen was in attendance to meet with the delegates and represent the Royal Society of Chemistry. He also helped present some poster prizes on behalf of Chemical Science and Organic Chemistry Frontiers:

• Chemical Science poster prize winner: Jonas Matern (Universität Münster) for “Insights into the complex self-assembly pathways of a chiral, oligophenyleneethynylene (OPE) based Pd(II) complex”
• Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prize winner: Julia Bartl (TU Kaiserslautern) for “A cyclopeptide-derived molecular cage for anion encapsulation”

Jeremy Allen presenting poster prizes to Jonas Matern (Left) and Julia Bartl (Right)

There were a further 5 poster prizes awarded from other journals and publishing houses, these went to:

• Meike Sapotta (Universität Würzburg) for “A water-soluble perylene bisimide cyclophane as a molecular probe for the recognition of aromatic alkaloids”
• Irene Regeni (TU Dortmund) for “Self-assembled [Pd₂L₄] coordination cages based on well-known organic dyes”
• Oleksandr Shyshov (Universität Ulm) for “Supramolecular chemistry of all-cis hexafluorocyclohexane and its derivatives”
• Hendrik V. Schröder (FU Berlin) for “Accordion-like motion in electrochemically switchable crown ether/ammonium oligorotaxanes”
• Sebastian M. Kopp (Universität Würzburg) for “Toward singlet fission: chromophore multiplication in pentacene derivatives with adamantyl bridges”

(Left to right) Markus Albrecht, Jeremy Allen, Irene Regeni, Oleksandr Shyshov, Julia Bartl, Meike Sapotta, Jonas Matern, Diane Smith, Sebastian Kopp, Hendrik Schröder, Frank Würthner, Florian Beuerle

Congratulations to all the poster prize winners!

SupraChem 2019 delegates

The next SupraChem meeting will be held in 2021 in Mainz, Germany

Welcome to issue 5 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Efficient and phosphine-free bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium catalytic systems for the dehydrogenative amidation of alcohols and amines, is contributed by Cheng Chen and Francis Verpoort and co-authors.

The inside cover features a story on Genome mining for fungal polyketide-diterpenoid hybrids: discovery of key terpene cyclases and multifunctional P450s for structural  diversification by Wei-Guang Wang, Yudai  Matsuda and co-authors.

Welcome to issue 4 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story Silver-promoted selective fluorination of 2-aminopyrimidines: synthesis of 5-fluoro-2-aminopyrimidine derivatives is contributed by Xiaoming Zhao and his co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Re^I-Catalyzed highly regio- and stereoselective C–H addition to terminal and internal alkynes by Chien-Hong Cheng and his co-authors.

Welcome to issue 3 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story,Cross-dehydrogenative alkynylation of sulfonamides and amides with terminal alkynes via Ir(III) catalysis, is contributed by Xianwei Li and his co-authors. The inside cover features a story on Kinetic resolution of 2,2-disubstituted-1,3-diketones via carbene catalysis by Weici Xu, Yuanzhen Li, Rui Liu,  Shuang Yang,  Jian Liu  and  Xinqiang Fang.

Welcome to issue 2 of Organic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest OrgChemFront issue is published online now.

The front cover story, Metal-free cross-coupling of π-conjugated triazenes with unactivated arenes via photoactivation, is contributed by Enrique Barragan, Anurag Noonikara Poyil, Chou-Hsun Yang, Haobin Wang and Alejandro Bugarin. The inside cover features a story on Beauvetetraones A–C, phomaligadione-derived polyketide dimers from the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana by Seoung Rak Lee, Michelle Küfner, Minji Park, Won Hee Jung, Sang Un Choi, Christine Beemelmanns and Ki Hyun Kim.