Dr. Engelbert “Bert” Ciganek is retiring after more than four decades of service to Organic Reactions. Bert joined the Board in 1983 and has been an extremely productive author and editor since that time. He served on the Board of Editors until the year 2000 and as an Editorial Advisor from 2000 to 2025. He …

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The Organic Reactions® (OR) Board of Directors, in collaboration with the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, is thrilled to announce the inaugural OR symposium “Celebrating Eight Decades of Organic Reactions,” which will take place at the 2025 Fall ACS in Washington, DC. This event will honor the rich history of Organic Reactions and its contributions to advancing organic chemistry.

The preface for Volume 115 of Organic Reactions is now available at OrganicReactions.org; it can be found at this link .

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 116, with a chapter on A Half Century of the Sonogashira Reaction. Purchasing options can be found here.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 115, with chapters on the Meyer–Schuster Rearrangement and (4+3) Cycloadditions of Allylic and Related Cations. Purchasing options can be found here.

The complete Organic Reactions chapter on the Julia–Kocienski olefination from Volume 95 is now open access. The full chapter, including the tabular survey, can be found at the URL below. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471264180.or095.01

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 114, with chapters on the Cloke–Wilson Rearrangement, the Kinugasa Reaction, and Enantioselective Pictet–Spengler Reactions. Purchasing options can be found here.

You may notice a new look to the Organic Reactions Website. We are in the process of finalizing a few things and we will make a full announcement in the coming days.