Two other papers that garnered a lot of discussion in our PoY process were the Park group's report on photocatalytic furan to pyrrole conversion (doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6245) and the Phipps group's report on enantioselective HAA to epimerize of meso diols (doi.org/10.1126/science.adq8029)
The identity of a heteroatom within an aromatic ring influences the chemical properties of that heterocyclic compound. Systematically evaluating the effect of a single atom, however, poses synthetic c...
