News-Archive 2018

Markus Heinrich and co-workers describe the synthesis of Fmoc and Boc-protected 5-aminomethylprolines.

Matthias Bauer presents the synthesis of novel 1,10-phenanthrolines with fused thiophene structure.

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Jun-ichi Matsuo presents the Ti-mediated synthesis of 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes.

Jill Sturdivant describes the asymmetric synthesis of glaucoma drug Netarsudil.

Allan Watson uses the bifunctional properties of BPin for the synthesis of borylated cyclohexenes.

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Congratulations to our SYNFACTS Editor Hisashi Yamamoto for receiving such a prestigious Award!

Liming Shao presents a metal-free synthesis of 1-alkylisoquinolines.

Bernd Schmidt reports on the cross-coupling of arendiazonium salts via Pd catalysis.

Gedu Satyanarayana describes a Pd-catalyzed acylation for the synthesis of anthraquinones.

Jacqueline Pollini received a poster prize at the 9th Junges Chemie Symposium in Ruhr and receives an edition of Protecting Groups.

Dr. Leo Betschart, Scientific Information Consultant in Chemistry at the ETH Zürich, has been appointed to the Advisory Board for Science of Synthesis.

Joseph Wang received a poster prize at the 22-ICOS in Florence and receives a one-year subscription to SYNFACTS.

Moisés Romero-Ortega reports on the synthesis and applications of various halogenated pyrimidines.

Nicholas E. Leadbeater presents a combination of oxidation and photoredox catalysis to convert aldehydes into nitriles.

Tim Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receives the ACS Award 2019 in the field of polymer chemistry.

Juzeng An received a poster prize at the ECHC 2018 in Lecce and receives a one-year subscription to SYNFACTS.

Marlen Externbrink received a poster prize at the ORCHEM 2018 in Berlin and receives a one-year subscription to SYNFACTS.

On the occasion of the first Women in Chemistry Award which will be awarded in 2019, we want to introduce Dr. Margaret Faul, after whom the award is named.

This new Science of Synthesis volume shows the enabling power of continuous flow to access new reaction types and different chemistry space.

Prof. Thorsten Bach receives Emil-Fischer-Medal at ORCHEM in Berlin, September 10 - 12, 2018.

Mitsuhiro Yoshimatsu reports on the synthesis of aryl and heteroaryl amides via nitriles hydration.

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James Morken describes the amination of primary, secondary, and tertiary alkylboronic esters.

Loránd Kiss applies metathesis reactions in the synthesis and functionalization of β-amino acid derivatives.

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Marc-Kevin Zaretzke received a poster prize at the 28th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry and receives a one-year subscription to SYNFACTS.

Four chemists from the Baltic states were honored with SYNFACTS Poster Prizes at BOS 2018.

Dr. Philippa Cranwell, University of Reading (UK), joins the Editorial Board of the open access journal SynOpen.

Hofmann received a poster prize and a one-year subscription to SYNFACTS at the 21st ISHC in Amsterdam.

LY Kieu Dung received a poster prize at the Applied Natural Products Symposium in Palaiseau and receives a one-year subscription to SYNFACTS.

Shuichi Hiraoka shows an entry to C2v-symmetric hexaphenylbenzenes via Suzuki coupling.

Fèlix Urpí reports on the stereoselective oxidation of Ti(IV) enolates with oxygen.

Hideaki Wakamatsu and Yuichi Yoshimura present a ring-closing metathesis of ene-ynamides.

Eusebio Juaristi describes new dipeptide organocatalysts for enantiodivergent aldol reactions.

The SYNFACTS Poster Prize at the 17th French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Orléans, was awarded to Marie-Aude Hiebel

Thomas Pettus presents a biomimetic synthesis of des-hydroxy paecilospirone.

Catalytic reductions are among the most used synthetic transformations. These two volumes focus on recent developments in catalytic hydrogenation methodology.

Cheng-Chung Wang reports on the analysis of solid-phase reactions with thin-layer chromatography.

Qin-Pei Wu describes a mild multi-component synthesis of disubstituted 1H-1,2,3-Triazoles.

Shengming Ma presents an enantioselective allenylation of terminal alkynols.

Anne Petitjean reports on an improved synthesis of guanine quadruplex ligand Phen-DC3.

Rui Shang presents the C–H alkylation of heteroarenes with tertiary and secondary alkyl bromides.

SYNLETT Editor Rubén Martín, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain, is the winner of the Hirata Award 2018.

John Ralph describes a simple and short synthesis of the natural product nepetoidin B.

Oleksandr Grygorenko presents the synthesis of 2-azabicyclo[n.2.0]alkane-derived building blocks.

Koen Binnemans describes a new one-pot synthesis to access organo-phosphinates and -phosphonates more easily than in the past.

Tibor Soós shows a regioexhaustive functionalization of the carbocyclic core of isoquinoline.

Chutima Kuhakarn describes the electrophilic aromatic formylation with difluoro(phenylsulfanyl)methane.

Ata Makarem presents the synthesis of a PET tracer based on a Ga nuclide.

Hannes Mikula shows that the N-acylation of 3-aminotetrazines leads to increased reactivity in bioorthogonal ligations.

Jiaan Shao and Wenteng Chen present the synthesis of polysubstituted 2-aminopyrroles.

Shigeki Matsunaga presents the Pd-catalyzed germylation of aryl bromides and aryl triflates.

Zhen Chen describes the synthesis of 1-monosubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles from propargyl alcohol.

Prof. You, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China joined the board in January 2018.

Maurizio Benaglia describes the synthesis of chiral 1,2-diamino derivatives under continuous flow.

Heinz Langhals presents a new way to synthesize azulene.

Congratulations to Tõnis Kanger, Masakazu Nambo and Cathleen Crudden for winning the Best Paper Awards 2017!

Christoph Hirschhäuser describes a new route for the synthesis of the S,S-DICHED catalyst.

Adel Nefzi presents the synthesis and use of novel oxazolyl amino acids.

Philipp Heretsch provides access to a rare sub-class of steroids via benzilic acid rearrangement.

Daniele Leonori reports on a practical photoredox method to synthesize arylhydroxylamines.

Mark Stradiotto describes the synthesis of unsymmetrical biheteroaryls via Ni-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross-couplings.