Recent Advances in Rare Earth Metal Asymmetric Catalysis Toward Practical Synthesis of Therapeutics.- Metal Catalyzed Synthetic Reactions via Aerobic Oxidation as a Key Step.- Heterogeneous Platinum Metal Catalyzed Deuterium Generation and Labeling Methods Using Hydrogen Gas and Deuterium Oxide as Key Reagents.- Pd on Spherical Carbon (Pd/SC)-Catalyzed Chemoselective Hydrogenation.- Environment-Friendly Iron-Catalyzed Reactions.- Tetranuclear Zinc Cluster-Catalyzed Transesterification.- Vinyl Ruthenium Carbenes: Valuable Intermediates in Catalysis.- Radical-based Late Stage C-H Functionalization of Heteroaromatics in Drug Discovery.- Magnetic Nanoparticle-Supported Iodoarene Oxidative Catalyst and its Application to Phenol Oxidation.- Recent Development of Diphenyl Phosphorazidate (DPPA) as a Synthetic Reagent.- Methylenation Reaction of Carbonyl Compounds Using Julia-Kocienski Reagents.- Development of Shelf-stable Reagents for Electrophilic Trifluoromethylthiolation Reaction.- Practical and Environmentally Friendly Transformation of Tetrahydrofuran-2-methanols to ¿-Lactones via Oxidative Cleavage.-¿Five Step Asymmetric Total Synthesis of ß-Lycorane Employing Chiral Diether Ligand-controlled Conjugate Addition-Michael Reaction Cascade.-¿Concise Synthesis of Peptide Analogs Using a Fluorous-Fmoc Protection Strategy.- A Challenging Synthesis of the Highly Functionalized Echinocandin ASP9726: A Successor of Micafungin - How Can We Achieve the Large-Scale Synthesis?- The Role of Silyl Protecting Group for the Synthesis of Procyanidins and Their Derivatives.- Chemical Modification of the 3'-Dangling End of Small Interfering RNAs such as siRNAs and miRNAs: the Development of miRNA Replacement Therapy.- Antiviral Agents towards Chikungunya Virus: Structures, Syntheses, and Isolation from Natural Sources.- Analytical Standards Purity Determination Using Quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.