Issue 04 · Volume 55 · February 2023

Dear SYNTHESIS readers, 

As we welcome in 2023, change is in the air at SYNTHESIS. After 12 years of dedicated editorial work, we say thank you, and goodbye, to Professor P. Andrew Evans. Andy took over as an Associate Editor when Phil Kocienski concluded his many years of service on the board. [...]

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Doubly Switchable Diastereodivergent Strategy Mediated by a Chiral Sulfoxide to Access Disubstituted Tetrahydrocyclopenta­pyranone and Hexahydrocyclopentapyranol Scaffolds via Nazarov Cyclization

Erwann Grenet, Arie van der Lee, Xavier J. Salom-Roig

Improvements in Efficiency and Selectivity for C–F Bond Halogen-Exchange Reactions by Using Boron Reagents 

Andrej Ćorković, Andreas Dorian, Florence J. Williams 

Broadly Applicable Synthesis of Heteroarylated Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyrroles for Advanced Organic Materials – Part 2: Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells    

Masaud Almalki, Christoph Lorenz, Astrid Vogt, Anwar Alanazi, Jing Gao, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Peter Bäuerle, Felix T. Eickemeyer, Michael Grätzel 

A Giant Photonic Ring 

Original article by  H. Gotfredsen, J.-R. Deng, J. M. van Raden, M. Righetto, J. Hergenhahn, M. Clarke, A. Bellamy-Carter, J. Hart, J. O’Shea, T. D. W. Claridge, F. Duarte, A. Saywell, L. M. Herz, H. L. Anderson

Selected by Dahui Zhao, Chen Li