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It’s a real pleasure to write this brief editorial while quietly travelling on a train in the beautiful Italian country - side between Pesaro and Bologna. I had a delightful breakfast this morning with a cappuccino and a hot croissant, and I feel really peaceful now. To be honest, there is railway strike today and I am not quite sure how I will be able to continue my travel after Milan, but that’s part of the pleasures and pains of being in Italy. In the worst case I will just wait for the next train in a restaurant, enjoying a good pizza. Or even two, if the next train will be really late... Once again, I realize I am writing about food, so let’s switch to the real topic: good chemistry, as usual. The first SYNSTORY of this issue is about a novel multicomponent reaction leading to phosphonyl pyrazoles, developed by M. Smietana and J.-J. Vasseur (France). The second covers a novel amination reaction of heteroaromatic C–H bonds, as reported by M. Miura (Japan). The issue is closed by a short report on the last Thieme Chemistry Journals Editorial Board Meeting 2010 in Florence (Italy). Meanwhile I am just arrived at the Central Railway Station of Milan. The departures’ big screen is desolately empty. I am afraid I will have to make plans for dinner too...
