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On December 18, 2020, the outstanding chemist and long-term SYNLETT and SYNFACTS Editor Victor Snieckus passed away at the age of 83.

Cristina Nevado from the University of Zurich has been chosen as the second recipient of the Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry.

M. Kanai and K. Oisaki for SYNTHESIS and P. Kraft, Q. Wang and S. Riniker for SYNLETT, together with their co-authors, are the recipients of the 2020 Best Paper Awards.

Professor Elena Fernández is the new volume editor for Boron Compounds.

Jean-Marc Campagne and Renata Marcia de Figueiredo show the ring expansion of vinyl aziridines under mild conditions.

Taleb H. Al-Tel presents a modular approach to constrained benzoxazepine and imidazopyrazine systems.

Franz Bracher describes a new, flexible route to N-aryl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines.

X. Hong and S.-Q. Zhang developed a new SPMS descriptor for the featurization of van der Waals surface.

Francesco Secci presents a new synthetic method to construct indolyl cyclobutanones.

Dorota Gryko reports on the dicarbofunctionalization of bromoalkenes.

Dionicio Siegel describes the synthesis of the 26-membered core of thiopeptide natural products.

Syntheses, patents and applications of drugs are accessible in an easy-to-use online version. Update 4.9 provides 13 new APIs.

Narihito Ogawa presents the synthesis of optically active maresins.

Yasushi Nishihara presents the Ni-catalyzed decarbonylative alkynylation of acyl fluorides.

Hans-Joachim Knölker reports on the synthesis and structure of the alkaloid clausenalansine A.

Luyong Wu describes the synthesis of diaryltriazoles from tosylhydrazones and nitriles.

On December 7, 2020, we hosted a virtual seminar on Select Crowd Review with talks by the founders of this review method. Read the highlights at a glance here!