Reveal your fate as a dihaloarene in cross-coupling. Will you retain a halide, or will you lose both of your halides in a double reaction? Roll the ligand and solvent dice to determine—but remember, the rules are different for aryl chlorides and bromides! [Cover art by co-author Matthew Sandin.]

Nate and Matt provide new mechanistic insight into over-arylation in Suzuki cross-couplings, and the surprising differences between dibromo vs. dichloroarenes. Currently free to read as an ACS editor's choice. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Our C2-selective C—S coupling of 2,4-dichloropyrimidine (work led by Oliver) was highlighted by Synfacts! www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

The memo on paused grants is also trying to cancel awarded grants (see last paragraph).

Not that we've been huge social media users, but we're migrating here from X. Latest: C2 selective cross-coupling of 2,4-dichloropyrimidine doi.org/10.1021/jacs... (our "holy grail" substrate for inverting site selectivity) and Sharon receives a PECASE (Biden administration) tinyurl.com/yc3de6e6