Editorial

1. Professor Henry N.C.Wong,extraordinary synthetic chemist and great mentor

Reviews

1. Recent advances on iron-catalyzed coupling reactions involving organolithium reagents
2. Establishing the structure-activity relationship of teixobactin
3. Recent progress in transition metal catalyzed cross coupling of nitroarenes
4. Photo-promoted transition metal-free organic transformations in the absence of conventional photo-sensitizers
5. Recent advances of allenes in the first-row transition metals catalyzed C—H activation reactions

Communications

1. Total syntheses of dehydrobotrydienal,dehydrobotrydienol and 10-oxodehydrodihydrobotrydial
2. A ketone-functionalized aromatic saddle as a potential building block for negatively curved carbon nanobelts
3. Electrochemical synthesis of β-hydroxy-,β-alkoxy-,and β-carbonyloxy sulfones by vicinal difunctionalization of olefins
4. Diastereo- and enantioselective palladium-catalyzed dearomative[4+2]cycloaddition of 3-nitroindoles
5. Selective O-difluoromethylation of 1,3-diones using S-(difluoromethyl)sulfonium salt
6. Chiral iminophosphorane catalyzed asymmetric Henry reaction of α,β-alkynyl ketoesters
7. Intramolecular (4+3) cycloadditions of nitrogen-tethered epoxy enosilanes for the synthesis of heteropolycycles
8. A facile synthesis of cajaninstilbene acid and its derivatives
9. How long a C-C bond can be? An example of extraordinary long C-C single bond in 1,2-diarylamino-o-carborane
10. Copper-mediated O-arylation of lactols with aryl boronic acids
11. Synthetic studies towards daphniyunnine B:Construction of AC bicyclic skeleton with two vicinal all carbon quaternary stereocenters
12. A practical synthesis of β-carbolines by tetra-n-butylammoniumbromide (TBAB)-mediated cycloaromatization reaction of aldehydes with tryptophan derivatives