Synform Issue 2024/03

This is going to be a brief editorial, because I am one of the lucky guys who can have a holiday in winter, andas I wrote recently -I strongly believe holidays are only meant for resting and relaxing, so I will keep this one and only work-related task (even though SYNFORM is always a great pleasure for me) to a minimum.Which means that I will go straight to the contents featured in this March issue.As opposed to its Editor, SYNFORM is all but on holiday, as demonstrated by the exciting range of articles that follows.The first is very original and covers the discovery of a novel and sustainable method developed by the group of J. J. Weigand (Germany) for the synthesis of organo-phosphorus compounds.The second article is a Young Career Focus interview with one of the 2023 Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardees, B. Thirupathi (India) who tells SYNFORM about his work and interests, both scientific and personal.The third article covers a recent literature contribution by the group of Y. Sumida and H. Ohmiya (Japan), which addresses the traditional issue in organic chemistry of achieving the meta-selective acylation of electron-rich arenes, for which the authors found a novel solution using an organic photoredox-catalysed process.Last but not least, another Literature Coverage article, this time of S. Arseniyadis (UK) -with whom I had the pleasure to share one year during my postdoc in the lab of the late C. Mioskowski in Strasbourg (France) -and David C. Leitch (Canada), who jointly devised a novel class of Pd(0) precatalysts that can be very effectively used to perform asymmetric allylic alkylation chemistry.