🧪 1,1-Dibromoolefins: versatile building blocks in synthesis!
Featuring two reactive C–Br bonds, they enable rapid access to heterocycles, functionalized olefins & alkynes from simple precursors.
📚 Explore the graphical review: bit.ly/4dU0yEk
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Discover boron chemistry in #catalysis in our next Thieme #Cheminar with our speakers Hirohisa Ohmiya (Japan), Elena Fernández (Spain), and James Morken (USA). Chaired by Martin Oestreich.
📅 Apr 14 | 🕑 14:00 CET
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🧪 Efficient Pd/C-catalyzed hydrogenation of diene carboxylates!
A catalyst from Pd₂(dba)₃ on activated carbon (5% Pd) delivers high yields of fully saturated products, including challenging 5-membered rings.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4mbFnQk
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🚨 Last call for today’s #Cheminar!
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Join the Thieme Chemistry Journals Awardees 2026 #Cheminar and explore cutting-edge research in #photocatalysis, #sustainable solvents, novel #heterocycles & more.
📅 Mar 30
🕔 4 PM CEST
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Following their widely cited #NewTools article, Thomas S. Teets’s group has launched a searchable database for #photosensitizers buff.ly/VCPsybf
Filter by photophysical & redox properties to quickly find the right catalyst⚡
Read here👉 buff.ly/HFSN9LS
Updates and new entries welcome: tteets@uh.edu
⚡Electrophotocatalysis for C(sp²)–H functionalization!
Graphical review by Jiusi Yang & Peng Qian on #photoelectrocatalytic C–H activation, merging light & electricity for selective functionalization of arenes, heteroarenes, #alkenes & imines
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/4799ul2
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🧪 Copper #catalysts for alcohol #oxidation
This graphical review highlights advances in Cu-catalyzed oxidation and dehydrogenation of alcohols (2015–present), including aerobic oxidation, acceptorless dehydrogenation, and homogeneous & heterogeneous systems!
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/3Pif6TL
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⚡ Greener alcohol oxidations!
Graphical review by @conchem.bsky.social & Prof. @klchemistry.bsky.social on non-transition-metal electrochemical #oxidation of alcohols. Featuring TEMPO and other mediator systems in #electrosynthesis.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4rRzoSr
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💡 Visible light unlocking #heterocycles!
Eosin Y–catalyzed reductive cyclization of N/O-aryl bisenones affords functionalized pyrrolidines & THFs, exclusive trans #isomers & enantioenriched products!
🔗 Read the full paper: bit.ly/4tXrvwj
#ChemSky #Photochemistry #OrganicChemistry
🚨 Last call to the Thieme #Cheminar!
“Strain-Release Chemistry” with speakers Dr. Durga Hari (🇮🇳), Prof. Jérôme Waser (🇨🇭) @lcsolab.bsky.social & Prof. Peter Wipf (🇺🇸). Chaired by Akkattu T. Biju (Assoc. Editor of @synthesis1969.bsky.social)
📅 Feb 24, 2026 | ⏰ 11:00 AM(CET)
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📢 Join our next Thieme #Cheminar!
🧪 Strain-Release Chemistry
📅 Feb 24, 2026 | ⏰ 11:00 AM (CET)
Discover how strained #molecules open new pathways for innovative transformations.
Chaired by Akkattu T. Biju (Associate Editor of @synthesis1969.bsky.social)
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🧪 New quinazoline-based #lidocaine analogue
Scalable 7-step synthesis (10-g scale) delivers a promising next-generation local anesthetic with enhanced activity and improved pharmacokinetic profile!
🔗 Read the full paper: bit.ly/4rXt4Zw
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An efficient and mild dibromination of aromatics using Fe(NO₃)₃·9H₂O/FeBr₃ at room temperature. This protocol delivers good to excellent yields, avoids hazardous Br₂, and is scalable to gram scale. 🧪
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/4riD0gk
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🌱 Polar organometallic reagents can thrive in #sustainable solvents!
This graphical review highlights how organolithium, #Grignard, and related #reagents operate in water and deep eutectic solvents, redefining classical reactivity through #GreenChemistry.
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/4qVloXj
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🧩 Sterically controlled, template-assisted macrocyclization enables hemisquaraine #rotaxanes with enhanced #fluorescence and stability.
By combining #SupramolecularChemistry, photophysics, and DFT, this study reveals how steric effects control rotaxane formation.
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/3ZE8UaF
Asymmetric synthesis of 2-arylethylamines, key motifs in bioactive compounds and #MedicinalChemistry.
This graphical review highlights 2025 advances in metal-free and metal-catalyzed methods, including #Organocatalysis, #Photocatalysis and #Biocatalysis. 🧪
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/3LORTHq
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⚡ Turning alcohols into aldehydes with electricity. New open-access graphical review on electrochemical oxidations in @synopenjournal.bsky.social by @Conchem.bsky.social because chemists love schemes more than words 🤣
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Discover how [2.2]paracyclophanes (PCPs) are functionalized using transition #metals and applied as planar #chiral ligands and catalysts. This graphical review offers a overview of C–H activation strategies and their impact on #stereoselective synthesis. 🔬📘
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/4qwWRb7
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An iodine-doped TiO₂ #photocatalyst shows efficient degradation of toxic dyes under UV and visible light, with enhanced activity and good reusability. A promising approach for sustainable #WaterTreatment. 🌱💧
🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/4r2zgit
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⚡🔬 Can #ElectricFields direct #ChemicalReactivity?
This graphical review by Prof. Thomas Wirth & team (🇬🇧) shows how oriented external electric fields can control reaction pathways, enhance selectivity, and reduce energy input in #OrganicSynthesis.
A must-read!
🔗 bit.ly/453gvCT
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✨ 2025 highlights ✨
🥇 #1 Most Downloaded Paper of 2025
“Sodium Nitrite (NaNO₂): An Impressive and Efficient Nitrating/Nitrosating #Reagent in #OrganicSynthesis”
Graphical review by Lamark, Barbosa & Jordão
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/4b9Di3x
#ChemSky #Chemistry #OpenAccess
✨ 2025 highlights ✨
📊 Top 5 most downloaded papers of 2025
✅ #2
A convenient #synthesis of CHF₂O-containing #pyrrolidines and related compounds — Perspective building blocks for #DrugDiscovery
by K. Levchenko et al.
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/498FiGQ
#ChemSky #OrganicChemistry
✨ 2025 highlights ✨
📊 Top 5 most downloaded papers of 2025
✅ #3
“Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Molecular #Docking Studies of Novel Phthalimide–Pyrimidine Hybrid Analogues to #Thalidomide as Potent #Antitubercular Agents”
by S. Youssif & team
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/49cOqKG
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✨ 2025 highlights ✨
📊 We’re closing the year with the Top 5 most downloaded papers of 2025.
✅ #4
“Recent #Catalytic Applications of #Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine-Based Nanocomposites in #Organic Transformations”
by P. Kumari & co-workers
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/48URmwu
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✨️ 2025 highlights ✨️
📊 Our final posts of the year highlight the Top 5 most downloaded papers of 2025.
✅ #5
“Development of a Novel Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons Reagent for the Facile Preparation of Mixed Phosphonoacetates"
by Shigeki Sano & team.
🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/3YcSdT2
#ChemSky #Chemistry
✨ 2025 highlights ✨
A year of global connections and great #science for the Syn journals community: 10 events across 8 countries! 🇨🇭 🇰🇷 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇹 🇮🇹
Thank you to everyone who made these meetings unforgettable! Special thanks to @rohitbhatia10.bsky.social 🇮🇳 for representing us at so many conferences!
🎄 2025 highlights! 🎄
The SynOpen Best Paper Award 2024 to Ben Stokes & co-workers (Santa Clara University, 🇺🇸) for their publication "Pd-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Alkenes Using Tetrahydroxydiboron as the Sole Hydrogen Donor"
👀 Revisit the paper: bit.ly/3MSJsuR
#Throwback #ChemSky