🚀 Today's SynOpen manuscript highlight is the Letter entitled "tert-Butoxide-Mediated Protodeformylative Decarbonylation of a-Quaternary Homobenzaldehydes" by Ben Stokes at Santa Clara University. 🔬 Key Highlights: 👉 A mild and general decarbonylation of a-quaternary aldehydes, providing efficient access to a variety of cumene compounds. 👉 Room temperature decarbonylation using tert-butoxide in THF. 👉 Works well for monoarenes, fused bicyclic and fused tricyclic arenes, as well as heteroatomic derivatives. 📖 You can read the full #openaccess article here: https://lnkd.in/dBsn9mRK Thieme Chemistry #Chemistry #Science #AcademicPublishing