Time to back in the flow of things ;)

OK it was an extended time away from posting — I totally blame the Turkey, Ham, Beer, Stuffing, Pie — at least I have tapered off over the years.

So what’s sitting on my desk — after several pontifications, I have gotten back to thinking about how chemists think about their chemistry and where it can go in flow processes — so, OK, retrosynthesis — but I often think in classes of fragments and what they can do (think of it as a review on enaminone transformations so to speak). In this case, Ian Baxendale got me thinking about ynones or alpha, beta-acteylenic ketones — used quite a bit right? furans, flavones, pyrazoles, pyrimidines and heck back at Bayer I used them in a number of dipolarcycloadditions and intramolecular cyclizations to isoxazoles and pyrroles……you get the point……if interested in a nice article on using a flow approach to ynones and…