In this issue's Perspective, Ian Fairlamb (University of York, UK) highlights the impressive results that can be obtained using p-acidic alkene ligands in palladium-catalysed cross-coupling processes. 

Cover image for issue 20 produced by Adam Steinberg

The work featured on the front cover, supplied by Fachuang Lu and John Ralph at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, illustrates novel tetrahydrofuran structures that arise from sinapyl acetate and sinapyl alcohol during the initial radical coupling steps of lignification in Kenaf bast fibers.