News-Archive 2021

Professor Tim Donohoe joins the Science of Synthesis Editor Team.

Naoyuki Shimada describes the synthesis of various derived Weinreb amides.

Julian Garrec and Alexis Archambeau present the Pd-catalyzed synthesis of oxazocine scaffolds.

Recent developments in purine synthesis have been reviewed by Professor Stanislav Wnuk and colleagues.

Yukun Guan reports on the total synthesis of (+)-aphanorphine.

Raju Jannapu Reddy presents an efficient synthesis of allyl aryl sulfones.

Daniel Rampon describes the Ir(III)-catalyzed chalcogenylation of naphthalene derivatives.

James McNulty presents a catalytic, oxidative synthesis of olivetol and various derivatives.

Prof. Corinna Schindler, University of Michigan (USA), has joined the Editorial Board of SYNTHESIS.

Dr. Narendra Ambhaikar reviews recent synthetic routes to phenazine structures

Chen-Liang Deng describes the Ni-catalyzed intramolecular nucleophilic addition of aryl halides to aryl ketones.

Prof. Martin Oestreich, TU Berlin (Germany), joins the Editorial Board of SYNTHESIS.

Mohanad Shkoor synthesizes fluorenone-fused coumarins via DMPA catalysis.

Kazuyuki Sugita shows the stereoselective synthesis of the cotylenin A aglycone carbon skeleton.

Elizabeth Jarvo reports on a new method to synthesize fluorinated cyclopropanes.

A. Berkefeld and I. Fleischer present the Ni-H-catalyzed cleavage of allyl ethers.

Marcus Baumann describes the continuous photochemical synthesis of benzyne.

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

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.

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

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

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.