Inside Cover: Synthesis of Renewable <i>meta</i>‐Xylylenediamine from Biomass‐Derived Furfural (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2018)

Functionalized aromatic chemicals have been produced from furfural, a building block available on a large scale from low-cost biomass. In their Communication on page 10510 ff., R. Wischert, F. Jérôme et al. report their strategy that relies on a Diels–Alder/aromatization sequence. By controlling the rate of each step, it was possible to produce exclusively the meta aromatic isomer. meta-Xylylenediamine was synthesized.