Cover Picture: Highly Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation of Cyanoacetamides with Controllable and Chemoselective Mono- and Double Substitutions (ChemCatChem 22/2016).

The Front Cover shows the powerful potential of palladium catalysis in organic synthesis. A new triazine‐modified phosphine ligand for palladium catalyzed allylic alkylation of cyanoacetamides with simple allylic acetate was developed by Z. W. Gao, L. W. Xu and coworkers.In their Full Paper, P.‐S. Gao et al. demonstrate that the highly efficient and controllable mono‐allylation and double‐allylation of cyanoacetamides can be achieved in environmentally benign and recyclable PEG‐400. More information can be found in the Full Paper by P.‐S. Gao et al. on page 3466 in Issue 22, 2016 (DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201601021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]