Craig M. Williams of the University of Queensland and John Tsanaktsidis of CSIRO Victoria decarboxylated (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1944) the acid 1 to the hydrocarbon 2 by coupling the crude acid chloride, formed in CHCl3, with 3 while irradiating with a tungsten bulb. In a related development, David C. Harrowven of the University of Southampton showed (Chem. Commun. 2011, 46, 6335, not illustrated) that tin residues can be removed from a reaction mixture by passage through silica gel containing 10% K2CO3. Sangho Koo of Myong Ji University selectively removed (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2682) the allylic oxygen of 5, leaving the other protected alcohol. Donald Poirier of Laval University reduced (Synlett 2011, 2025) the nitrile of 7 to a methyl group. Kiyotomi Kaneda of Osaka University prepared (Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 11818; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 2986) supported Au nanoparticles that deoxygenated an epoxide 9 to the alkene 10. Epoxides of cyclic alkenes also worked well. Shahrokh Saba of Fordham University aminated (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 129) the ketone 11 by heating it with an amine 12 in the presence of ammonium formate. Shuangfeng Yin and Li-Biao Han of Hunan University devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 17037) catalyst systems that reduced the alkyne 14 selectively to either the Z or the E product. Professor Kaneda uncovered (Chem. Lett. 2011, 40, 405) a reliable Pd catalyst for the hydrogenation (not illustrated) of an alkyne to the Z alkene. David R. Spring of the University of Cambridge established (Synlett 2011, 1917) biphasic reaction conditions for the conversion of 16 to the azide 18 that were compatible with the base-sensitive Fmoc protecting group. Noritaka Mizuno of the University of Tokyo developed (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 4606) a Ru catalyst for the transformation of an alkyl azide 19 to the nitrile 20. Chi-Ming Che of the University of Hong Kong (Synlett 2011, 1174) and Philip Wai Hong Chan of Nanyang Technological University (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 4894) independently oxidized an aldehyde 21 to the amide 22.