The highs and lows in total synthesis. What we learned from it is.......? please take a look to the end. thieme-connect.de/products/ejour…

My colleague Wei-Min Dai presents this beautiful chemistry: The cover art depicts this enlightening and sparkling biomimetic transformation.

It is interesting to know that a paper rejected and rescued has received top download!

Happy to be a responsible servant of chemistry

1/2. "During a meeting with the goal of proposing a Ph.D. project, one of us (S.L.S.) had the occasion to discuss with Professor R. B. Woodward the transformation of eq 1, citing an article published in J. Org. Chem." Can you surmise the mechanism? Andy Myers did:

丘成桐概叹，“这种社会风气令学者觉得学问不是最重要的。既然单靠阿谀奉承便可以得到重用，为何不抄小径？

If Department can't provide 12 m2 dry lab-space (basically office) for its rising and highly promising mid-aged faculty, is it wise to offer positions at a new assistant professor rank asking for >50 m2. It is ridiculous!

I am excited to hear about promotion to professor. Grateful to those working with me and help for me.

Green Halogenation of Indoles with Oxone–Halide | The Journal of Organic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Please take a look at our first MedChem work: Marine Alkaloid Lepadins E and H Induce Ferroptosis for Cancer Chemotherapy | Journal of Medicinal Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

BiBr3-Mediated Intramolecular Aza-Prins Cyclization of Aza-Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products: Asymmetric #TotalSynthesis of Suaveoline and Sarpagine Alkaloids by Wai Fung Cheng, Shiqiang Ma, Yin Tung Lai, Yuen Tsz Cheung, Kornkamon Akkarasereenon, Yiqin Zhou, and Rongbiao Tong

Mistakes can be carried on by generations from head to head in the head search.

Lantern Carnival Mid-Autumn Festival in HK

What is happening? No access to ACIE anymore or an manmade error?

Bent π-Conjugation within a Macrocycle: Asymmetric #TotalSyntheses of Spirohexenolides A and B by Lian-Dong Guo, Yanting Wu, Xin Xu, Zhenyang Lin, and Rongbiao Tong in Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Aza-Achmatowicz rearrangement coupled with intermolecular aza-Friedel–Crafts enables total syntheses of uleine and aspidosperma alkaloids by R. Tong and colleagues ⁦HKUST⁩ Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

June 7-9th, >13 million students fight for admission to universities in China, three-day contests ✍️change one's life👑. Good luck!🐃

What is Change? it is Chang'e!

Copper is not essential but can boost the yield! Thanks Yiqin and co-workers: Ecofriendly Protocol for ipso-Bromination of Arylboronic Acids | Organic Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Wow, only six/seven steps to make Nat. Prods with 5 rings. Thanks all co-workers for your contributions. Asymmetric total syntheses of sarglamides A, C, D, E, and F - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…