SYNFORM ISSUE 2024/10

article on a novel and ingenious strategy -conceived and developed by the group of J. E. Hein (Canada) -for performing Suzuki-Miyaura cross-couplings in biphasic systems, utilizing phasetransfer catalysis for achieving the key transmetalation step.The next article is a Young Career Focus interview with the 2024 Thieme Chemistry Journals awardee Shibdas Banerjee (India), who talks about his interests in organic chemistry, as well as those outside the lab.The next Literature Coverage article covers a recent method published by the groups of C. Zhu and X.-S.Xue (P.R. of China) for achieving the radical-mediated -tert-alkylation of aldehydes by taking advantage of consecutive 1,4-and 1,3-(benzo)thiazolyl group migrations.The issue is closed by the third Literature Coverage article, which features a brilliant work from the group of C. Kammerer (France) for achieving the efficient synthesis of hexaarylcyclopentadienes through the copper-catalysed perarylation of cyclopentadiene.