News-Archive 2019

Amol Balu Atar presents a photochemical synthesis of dumbbell-like functionalized bis-C60 fullerene.

On June 29, 2019, the outstanding chemist and long-term SYNTHESIS Editor Dieter Enders passed away at the age of 73 in Aachen (Germany).

Klaus Banert corrects a misunderstanding refuting the supposed synthesis of tricyanomethane.

Won-Hun Ham describes the total syntheses of (+)-alexine and related alkaloids.

Soňa Krajčovičová was awarded a poster prize at the 18th International Conference on Heterocycles in Bioorganic Chemistry and receives a Biocatalysis Workbench Edition.

The SOS team was delighted to meet with their Editorial Board in San Sebastian, Spain to discuss new ideas regarding topics and trends in organic synthesis.

Masato Kitamura and Jun Shimokawa present a mild photoredox version of the Fischer indole synthesis.

Yuichi Kobayashi reports the synthesis of two resolvins and further derivatives.

Four young chemists were honored with a Thieme poster prize at the Twente / Mainz Mini-Symposium.

Venkat Narsaiah presents the first total synthesis of a series of artekeiskeanols.

Jie Yu uses Brønsted acids of Co(III) complexes for the iodoglycosylation of glycals.

Hidemasa Hikawa and Isao Azumaya describe the dehydrative N-benzylation of electron-deficient anilines.

Yuichi Kobayashi reports on the application of the Hudrlik–Peterson Reaction for fatty acid intermediates.

Myung-Jong Jin and Sang Eun Shim describe a recyclable Suzuki coupling catalyst.

Hans-Günther Schmalz presents a stereoselective synthesis of trandolapril.

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Mikhail Krasavin describes a new flexible synthesis of 3-arylglutaconic acid derivatives via Heck–Matsuda arylation.

Phil Baran reports on a new electrochemical C(sp³)–H fluorination method.

Akira Yanagisawa presents the tin-catalyzed asymmetric α-amination of alkenoate cyclic esters.

Alejandro Cordero-Vargas shows the protecting-group-free synthesis of two natural products using a free-radical reaction.

Teodoro Kaufman reports on the application of an olefin hydroacylation/Pomeranz–Fritsch cyclization.

Min Zhang describes the copper-catalyzed regioselective halogenation of coumarins.

Helma Wennemers shows the synthesis of 4-(arylmethyl)proline derivatives.

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Shinya Harusawa presents the synthesis of 3-(tetrazol-5-yl)-3,5-pregnadien-20-one.

Shuming Chen and Kendall N. Houk describe the origin of stereocontrol in epoxidation reactions.

Bernd Neumaier presents a new radiochemical synthesis of a promising PET Tracer.

Masakatsu Shibasaki describes the synthesis of isatin imines through asymmetric catalysis.

Tsunehisa Hirashita uses aerobic conditions to oxidize primary benzylic alcohols chemoselectively.

Marc Adler presents the conversion of aldehydes into acetic esters in one pot.

Lutz Ackermann describes the visible-light-induced adamantylation of azoles.

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