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Ahmed Fnaiche1, Bianca Bueno1, Claire L McMullin2
1Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, H3C 3P8, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Abstract:
Invited for this month's cover are the collaborating groups of Prof. Alexandre Gagnon at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada, and Dr. Claire McMullin at the University of Bath in the UK. The cover picture represents the "Chasse-galerie", a popular French-Canadian tale published by the author Honoré Beaugrand in 1892, adapted with landmarks from Montréal, London, and Bath. The aryl groups are being transferred from a pentavalent triarylbismuth reagent to the C3 position of an indole via a copper-catalyzed C-H activation mechanism. Cover designed by Lysanne Arseneau. More information can be found in the Research Article by Claire L. McMullin, Alexandre Gagnon, and co-workers.
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