Electrons as a Reagent in Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 26/2007)

The cover picture shows that electrons have become a valuable reagent in Solid‐Phase Organic Synthesis (SPOS). Through the addition of electron‐transfer reagents or catalysts, new transformations are now possible within the environment of polymer‐bound substrates, which significantly expands the toolbox for solid‐phase organic synthesis. The picture depicts how an electron donated by a metal complex cleaves the linker of a substrate to the polymer chain. Details are presented in the Microreview by M. Mentel and R. Breinbauer on pp. 4283 ff.