Amine-Directed Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Halogenation of Phenylalanine Derivatives.
Alexia VilleJulien AnnibalettoSébastien CoufourierChristophe HoarauRodolphe TamionGuillaume JournotCédric SchneiderJean-François BrièrePublished in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2021)
Invited for the cover of this issue are Jean-François Brière, Cédric Schneider, Guillaume Journot and co-workers from the COBRA laboratory and Oril Industrie (Normandy, France). The image shows the progression from questioning how to easily and regioselectively introduce halogen atoms to amino acids to the discovery of a catalytic functional-group-directed C-H halogenation of phenylalanine derivatives. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202102411.