Front Cover: Introduction of Difluoromethyl Through Radical Pathways (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 31/2024)

The Front Cover shows a popular Chinese poker game, Dou Di Zhu “fight the landlord”, in which a combination of four similar cards, referred to as a “bomb”, can beat other combinations, so “bombs” are like trumps in this game. During the past decades, a diverse range of difluoromethyl radical precursor compounds with high efficiency, good selectivities, and broad substrate scopes have been developed for radical difluoromethylation reactions. Here, these reagents are visualized as cards to “explosively” generate the difluoromethyl radical; they can be regarded as the “trumps” in the radical difluoromethylation. One card has still not been turned over; this indicates that it is an undiscovered reagent. What is its structure? Will it become a powerful radical difluoromethylation reagent to form an “ace bomb”? Let's wait and see. More information can be found in the Review by X. Li and Q. Song (DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202400423).