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#OrgLett of the Year!!
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April 25, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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His fantastic lab of highly talented undergraduates are doing the most amazing research-see this recent #OrgLett on Lewis acid mediated reactions of SO2F
November 27, 2024 at 12:45 AM
February 22, 2026 at 10:15 PM
📊 What @christmann.bsky.social learned from analyzing 3000+ SI PDFs: Only 40% of #MassSpec data compliant w/ journal guidelines! From zero #Python experience to automated checker - grab the tool on #GitHub! #OrgLett #OpenAccess #ChemSky
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January 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Congrats and thanks to Neil Garg, Ralph Zhao, and co-workers for publishing #OrgLett 's first Safety Letter: Evaluation of the Popular Oxidant 2-Iodobenzoic Acid (IBX)

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October 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This Lunar New Year #OrgLett cover [ pubs.acs.org/toc/orlef7/2... ] illustrates imagery of the snake, sleek, slithering, and symbolic of intuition, transformation, and growth in Chinese culture, bringing good fortune to the chemists [ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... ] #chemsky
February 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Last week's cover of #OrgLett features Chinese dumplings representing various alkenes, which could be captured by this pair of chopsticks (i.e., both radicals) to obtain a series of thiocyanohydroxylation products #ChemSky

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December 23, 2024 at 8:45 PM
🧪 🧪 In #OrgLett: Site-Selective Boron-Directed Ortho Benzylation of N-Aryl Amides: Access to Structurally Diversified Dibenzoazepines #OrgLett #OpenAccess #ChemSky
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Site Selective Boron Directed Ortho Benzylation of N-Aryl Amides: Access to Structurally Diversified Dibenzoazepines
We present a highly selective protocol for the ortho benzylation of N-aryl amides. This method offers mild conditions, excellent site specificity, and scalability, enabling the synthesis of diarylmeth...
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December 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 1/n: From my La Jolla colleagues this is a cool use of Rh-catalyzed C-H activation followed by retro Diels-Alder to provide useful med chem heterocycles #OrgLett
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Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Heterocycles via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed C–H Activation: Norbornadiene as an Acetylene Equivalent
General procedures for the rhodium-catalyzed annulation of aryl/heteroaryl O-pivaloyl hydroxamic acids and norbornadiene have been developed. Employing norbornadiene as an acetylene equivalent enables...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#ChemSky cool new paper in #Orglett asap from Kyoto University using an activated pyridinium EDA complex to easily deoxygenate R-OH via radical process. Radical can be used for coupling as well. Seems a straightforward set up and useful
A Sterically Tuned 2-Fluoropyridinium Salt for the Catalyst-Free, Visible-Light-Mediated Deoxygenation of Alcohols via an Electron Donor–Acceptor Complex
We here report the use of a sterically tuned 2-fluoro-1-methylpyridinium salt for the catalyst-free, visible-light-mediated deoxygenative transformation of alcohols through alkoxypyridinium intermedia...
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March 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This week's #OrgLett cover [ pubs.acs.org/toc/orlef7/2... ] showcases the potential of the oxy-Cope/ene reaction (cube) as a valuable method for achieving stereodivergence in synthesis of C1 epimers of osmitopsin-type sesquiterpenoid lactones [ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... ] #OpenAccess #ChemSky
December 27, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Just in time for Thanksgiving - cool new route to custom tryptophans! #OrgLett
Another tool for noncanonical amino acid synthesis
Pd/Cu-Cocatalyzed Asymmetric Cascade Heck/Tsuji–Trost Reaction to Access Non-natural Tryptophans
A Pd-catalyzed asymmetric Heck cascade reaction involving the intramolecular carbopalladation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, followed by nucleophilic trapping of the resulting palladium species, is a po...
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November 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
It's a privilege to have Marisa Kozlowski from
@pennchemistry.bsky.social with us today at NUS Chemistry in Singapore. Photo credit: Yixin Lu. #organicchemistry #OrgLett
June 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This Lunar New Year #OrgLett cover [ pubs.acs.org/toc/orlef7/2... ] illustrates visible light-driven (fireworks) asymmetric photoredox catalytic Minisci reactions of azaarenes (boy's shirt) by electron-withdrawing carbonyl radicals (girl's shirt) [ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... ] #chemsky
February 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Really liked this #OrgLett ASAP today from Wang et al (Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry) making chiral piperidines via 4-selective animation of dihydropyridines - can definitely see some uses of this work in med chem
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Modular Construction of Chiral Aminopiperidine via Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroamination of 1,2-Dihydropyridine
In this study, we describe a generally straightforward methodology for the catalytic synthesis of chiral aminopiperidine from pyridine and azoles. The key step was the palladium-catalyzed regioselecti...
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February 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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- $2000 USD prize
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October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Wait, we (@S_Yoshida_Lab) made thioxanthones?! Double aryne insertion into thioureas + simple hydrolysis = super functionalized thioxanthones. Who saw that coming? #AryneChemistry #OpenAccess #OrgLett #ChemSky
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Thioxanthone Synthesis from Thioureas through Double Aryne Insertion into a Carbon-Sulfur Double Bond
Thioxanthone synthesis from o-silylaryl triflates and thioureas is disclosed. Double aryne insertion into the C═S double bond of thioureas and subsequent hydrolysis realized the facile preparation of ...
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January 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🚨 Call for Papers!

Ready to reshape the future of organic synthesis? Submit to our Special Issue: “Skeletal Editing, Molecular Metamorphosis & Structural Reprogramming” jointly hosted by #OrgLett & #JOrgChem

📅 Deadline: June 1, 2026

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November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
#ChemSky As a medicinal chemist I often look at sulfonamides as isosteic replacements for R-CO2H and now thanks to the Willis lab @ Oxford @rhpdcu.bsky.social & Sygnature, you can do that synthetically too! One step sp3-CO2H -> sp3-SONH2 and acces to sulfonamides and sulfonimides #OrgLett asap
Iron-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Sulfinylation of Alkyl Carboxylic Acids
Sulfinamides, sulfonamides, and sulfonimidamides are valuable motifs in medicinal chemistry, yet methods to synthesize alkyl variants from simple, readily available feedstocks remain scarce. In this report, we detail the synthesis of these three distinct sulfur functional groups, using readily available and structurally diverse alkyl carboxylic acids as the starting materials. The method harnesses alkyl radical generation from carboxylic acids using commercial iron salts and visible light irradiation, in combination with commercial sulfinylamine reagents, to deliver alkyl sulfinamide products. The method is operationally simple and scalable, exhibits broad functional group tolerance, and is translatable to continuous-flow synthesis. Furthermore, it facilitates late-stage diversification of complex molecules, highlighting its potential utility in medicinal chemistry applications.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just published in #OrgLett ! We report an NHC/organic photoredox cocatalyzed acyl azolation of styrenes using acyl azoles. Congratulations Kanata and Yamato! doi.org/10.1021/acs....
N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Organic Photoredox-Cocatalyzed Acyl Azolation of Alkenes with Acyl Azoles
We have developed the N-heterocyclic carbene/organic photoredox-cocatalyzed acyl azolation of styrenes using acyl azoles. The cooperative action of organic photoredox catalysis and NHC catalysis enabl...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Struggling with redox-sensitive substrates or challenges in selective phosphate installation and debenzylation? This robust, mild, and versatile methodology offers a reliable solution in #OrgLett pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Mild and Chemoselective Triethylsilane-Mediated Debenzylation for Phosphate Synthesis
The synthetic utility of tetrabenzyl pyrophosphate for achieving chemoselective phosphorylation of phenols, as well as primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols, is reported here. Additionally, we int...
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December 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Read all about Gold-Mediated Chemistry in this #OrgLett Special Issue [ pubs.acs.org/page/orlef7/... ]

On the cover: Ancient Chinese alchemy believed that gold could be long-lasting and used to produce the elixir of life (长生不老药), by Zhonghua Xia [ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... ]

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March 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM