# Synthesis Spotlight

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## Posts
- [The Smallest Radical in the Universe](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/the-smallest-radical-in-the-universe): 💡 The Scientific Legacy of Dolly Parton
- [The O-to-C Edit](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/the-o-to-c-edit): 💡 Moderna’s Cancer Vaccine Sends Shares Soaring 177%
- [Pyridines 🤝 Phosphines](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/pyridines-phosphines): 💡 A 700-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals the Grisly Impact of a Medieval Trebuchet
- [Two for One](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/two-for-one): 💡 How a Pesticide from the 1940s May Be Helping Mosquitoes Find Love
- [Finally, Fluorine: The Appel Reaction’s Last Frontier](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/finally-fluorine-the-appel-reaction-s-last-frontier): 💡 Have We Gotten Any Better at Developing Drugs Since the 1960s?
- [Safer Skeletal Editing](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/safer-skeletal-editing): 💡 Meet Gus: The $50 Million T. rex
- [Life After DEAD: A Modern Mitsunobu](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/life-after-dead-a-modern-mitsunobu): 💡 14 Risk Factors Linked to 45% of Dementia Cases
- [Double Duty for DCM](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/double-duty-for-dcm): 💡 Ocean Expedition Discovers 31 New Species Hidden in Earth’s Largest Habitat
- [Downsizing](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/downsizing): 💡 99% of the World’s Coffee Comes From Just Two Species. Both Are Under Threat.
- [A “Metallo-Curtius” Rearrangement](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/a-metallo-curtius-rearrangement): 💡 Take a Break from Chemistry — Terraform Mars Instead
- [A One-Stop Alkyl-Swap](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/a-one-stop-alkyl-swap): 💡 Brexit at 10: What's on the Horizon for UK–EU Science?
- [Pick a Nitrogen, Any Nitrogen](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/pick-a-nitrogen-any-nitrogen): 💡 What's Really in Those Vapes?
- [Oxygen from Carbon Dioxide](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/oxygen-from-carbon-dioxide): 💡 The 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year
- [[1+1+1]: Building Cyclopropanes](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/1-1-1-building-cyclopropanes): 💡 Magnetic Attraction: How Pigeons Find Their Way Home
- [Cut-and-Sew: Molecular Tailoring](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/cut-and-sew-molecular-tailoring): 💡 What Came First: The Chicken or the Terrible Bird?
- [A Radical Alternative](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/a-radical-alternative): 💡 Movie Geologists: Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- [Acid + Amine ≠ Amide](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/acid-amine-amide): 💡 Celebrating David Attenborough at 100
- [Nitrogen, On Demand](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/nitrogen-on-demand): 💡 Coked-Up Salmon Are Wired to Wander
- [Powering up Pyridine](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/powering-up-pyridine): 💡 One in Three Believe Myths About Vaccine, Fluoride or Raw Milk
- [Carbonyls Out, Heteroatoms In](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/carbonyls-out-heteroatoms-in): 💡 10,000 Years of Accelerated Natural Selection
- [One Substrate to Do It All](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/one-substrate-to-do-it-all): 💡 Artemis II: Half a Million Kilometres from Earth
- [Magic Methylation](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/magic-methylation): 💡 Not Just Nicotine: Tobacco Gets Trippy
- [Simple Skeletal Editing](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/simple-skeletal-editing): 💡 Lightning as Powerful as 2,400 Tons of TNT
- [Branching Out](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/branching-out): 💡 The Chemical Industry & Geopolitics
- [Shaking Up Alcohols](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/shaking-up-alcohols): 💡 Can a Daily Multivitamin Slow Ageing?
- [A Faster Way to Antivirals](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/a-faster-way-to-antivirals): 💡 The Ancient Greek's Psychedelic Ceremony
- [Hetero[3.1.1]propellanes](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/hetero-3-1-1-propellanes): 💡 The 500-Year-Old Scottish Sport That Defies Physics
- [Catalytic C–C Construction](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/catalytic-c-c-construction): 💡 A Blood Test That Predicts Not Just If, But When, Alzheimer’s Begins
- [Breaking the Rules](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/breaking-the-rules): 💡 Happy Birthday Benzene
- [Input (Alkene): Output (Carbocycle)](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/input-alkene-output-carbocycle): 💡 Nearly 40% of Cancers are Preventable, Global Analysis Finds
- [Light, Catalyst, Reduction.](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/light-catalyst-reduction): 💡 Why Cancer Might Protect the Brain from Alzheimer’s Disease
- [1. Couple, 2. Close](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/1-couple-2-close): 💡 Trump vs. Science: A Year of Cuts, Freezes, and Uncertainty
- [Congratulations, It's Triplets](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/congratulations-it-s-triplets): 💡 Alleged Data Fraud Derails $35 Million Alzheimer’s Trial
- [[4+2–1]](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/4-2-1): 💡 Science vs. Sceptics: Who’s Steering U.S. Vaccine Policy in 2026?
- [[3+3] Not [4+2]: A New Route to Six-Membered Rings](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/3-3-not-4-2-a-new-route-to-six-membered-rings): 💡 Looking Back on 2025 and Forward into 2026 
- [2025 Wrapped](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/2025-wrapped): 💡 The Best Science Images of 2025
- [Insert. Delete. Synthesise.](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/insert-delete-synthesise): 💡 The Year in Pharma: Science, Strategy, and a Shifting Global Landscape
- [The Little Base That Could](https://www.synthesisspotlight.com/p/the-little-base-that-could): 💡 Solar Storm Pushes Northern Lights Down South