Cover Picture: Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 10/2013

The cover picture shows that a sulfur-substituted 4-quinolizidinone, previously prepared by an aza-Diels-Alder reaction and ring-closing metathesis, has now been used to complete the formal synthesis of cermizine C and 5-epi-cermizine C, and for other useful synthetic transformations. More discussions are presented in the article by Prof. Shang-Shing P. Chouet al. on page 1260–1266.