One-pot synthesis of metastable 2,5-dihydrooxepines through retro-Claisen rearrangements

Total Synthesis of a Natural Herbicide

Highly Tolerant Allylation of Isoindolinones
Calcium catalyzes Hosomi-Sakurai allylation

Regioselective Synthesis of Brominated Phenols
Thioether byproduct with bulky substituents improves selectivity

Dieter Enders (1946 – 2019)
German organic chemist and developer of the Enders reagent passed away

On Being a Historian of Chemistry
Similarities of doing chemical research compared to doing research in the history of chemistry

Guess the Chemist (91)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

A Safe Way to Nitriles
Asymmetric hydrocyanation of alkenes without cyanide reagents gives synthetic chemists more pleasure in synthesizing nitriles

Nickel- and Photoredox Catalysts Team Up to Make Ethers
Light-mediated cross-couplings of aryl bromides with alcohols

Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Disulfides
Umpolung approach using iodine as a catalyst

A Defect-Rich Photocatalytic Titanium MOF
Titanium carboxylate metal-organic framework (MOF) for oxidative desulfurization and photocatalytic oxidation