I won’t be posting anything new until next week – I’m going back to Cambridge to see a few days of lectures in honour of Dr. Stuart Warren’s retirement, all by ex-Warren group academics. Yes, he of The Great Green Book fame (amongst other texts he published). Thanks, Stuart, here’s looking forward to the next book!

In the mean-time, have a look this amazing quintuplet of publications by Stuart and Dr Fox in the last-but-one issue of OBC:

Diphenylphosphinoyl-mediated synthesis of ketones
Stuart Warren, David J. Fox and Daniel Sejer Pedersen
DOI: 10.1039/b606873a

Asymmetric synthesis of cyclopropanes and dihydrofurans based on phosphine oxide chemistry
Stuart Warren, David J. Fox, Sean Parris, Daniel Sejer Pedersen and Charles R. Tyzack
DOI: 10.1039/b606874j

Asymmetric synthesis of orthogonally protected trans-cyclopropane-amino acids via intramolecular ring closure
Stuart Warren, David J. Fox and Daniel Sejer Pedersen
DOI: 10.1039/b606879k

Diphenylphosphinoyl chloride as a chlorinating agent – the selective double activation of 1,2-diols
Stuart Warren, David J. Fox, Daniel Sejer Pedersen and Asger B. Petersen
DOI: 10.1039/b606881b

Episulfonium ion-mediated cyclic peptide and triazine synthesis
Stuart Warren, David J. Fox and Thomas J. Morley
DOI: 10.1039/b606882k

Oh, and I noticed this smart total synthesis of Polygalolides A and B, by Hashimoto in ACIEE today… post on it next week!