UCLA researchers led by Professor Ohyun Kwon have developed a toolkit for organic synthesis, providing chemists with a robust, selective, and practical solution for the construction of amine and azide functionalities via innovative dealkenylative strategies, opening new avenues in drug discovery and complex molecule assembly. The dealkenylative amination and azidation platform is a synthetic protocol for creating and modifying molecules used in cancer, infectious, inflammatory, metabolic, and skeletal diseases, and can be broadly applied to drug discovery, diagnostics, and biomaterials.