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Featured Reviews in Organic Chemistry 2025

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 451

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Prof. Dr. Roman Dembinski

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Interests: organic, organometallic, and medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; nucleosides; heterocycles; alkynes; fluorine and fluorous; cycloisomerizations; cyclizations
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Dear Colleagues,

We have just completed the Special Issue “Featured Reviews in Organic Chemistry 2024”, which was a compilation of articles reaching across a variety of the areas in modern organic chemistry.

Based on readers’ continuous interest, we are pleased to announce the next edition of this Special Issue, which will be titled “Featured Reviews in Organic Chemistry 2025”. This Special Issue of Molecules (MDPI) is seeking contributions that review any area of research in organic chemistry that has broad appeal and is positioned within the scope of the journal. Summaries of the most recent, innovative developments in organic chemistry, synthesis, etc., are welcome. The contributions should critically summarize a range of organic studies, methodologies, or reactions; examine previously unaddressed aspects; propose and develop new approaches; exchange perspectives; or encourage new lines of study. Beyond the classical areas, other specific subfields, including, but not limited to, catalysis, flow, mechanochemistry, medicinal chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, or interdisciplinary studies, are welcome. The major goal of this Special Issue is to collect concise articles from prominent authors representing modern directions in the broad field of organic chemistry. We hope that your well-regarded research group will participate in this prestigious, visible, and publisher-promoted Special Issue of featured reviews.

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Recent Developments in Stereoselective Reactions of Sulfoxonium Ylides
by Ciarán O’Shaughnessy, Mukulesh Mondal and Nessan J. Kerrigan
Molecules 2025, 30(3), 655; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30030655 (registering DOI) - 1 Feb 2025
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This review probes the recent developments in stereoselective reactions within the area of sulfoxonium ylide chemistry since the early 2000s. An abundance of research has been applied to sulfoxonium ylide chemistry since its emergence in the early 1960s. There has been a continued [...] Read more.
This review probes the recent developments in stereoselective reactions within the area of sulfoxonium ylide chemistry since the early 2000s. An abundance of research has been applied to sulfoxonium ylide chemistry since its emergence in the early 1960s. There has been a continued effort since then with work in traditional areas, such as epoxidation, aziridination and cyclopropanation. Efforts have also been applied in novel areas, such as olefination and insertion reactions, to develop stereoselective methodologies using organocatalysis and transition metal catalysis. The growing research area of interrupted Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reactions is also described, whereby unexpected stereoselective cyclopropanation and epoxidation methodologies have been developed. In general, the most observed mechanistic pathway of sulfoxonium ylides is the formal cycloaddition: (2 + 1) (e.g., epoxides, cyclopropanes, aziridines), (3 + 1) (e.g., oxetanes, azetidines), (4 + 1) (e.g., indanones, indolines). This pathway involves the formation of a zwitterionic intermediate through nucleophilic addition of the carbanion to an electrophilic site. An intramolecular cyclization occurs, constructing the cyclic product. Insertion reactions of sulfoxonium ylides to X–H bonds (e.g., X = S, N or P) are also observed, whereby protonation of the carbanion is followed by a nucleophilic addition of X, to form the inserted product. Full article
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