Cover Picture: Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 5/2011

Perflurooctanesulfonates (fluorous sulfonates) have been developed as triflates and nonaflates alternatives for Pd‐catalyzed coupling reactions to form C‐C, C‐N, C‐S, C‐H, and C‐CN bonds. They also serve as a phase‐tag for fluorous solid‐phase extraction (F‐SPE) to facilitate the product purification. The utility of fluorous sulfonate linkers in the synthesis of biologically interested library scaffolds is summarized in this short review article. This article entitled “Convertible Fluorous Sulfonate Linker for the Synthesis of Diverse Library Scaffolds“ was contributed by Prof. Wei Zhang who was invited as a Visiting Lecturer of the Chemistry Research Promotion Center, Taiwan, R.O.C. (November 23 ～ November 29, 2010). For full text, please see pp. 575～582 in this issue.