This feature focuses on a reagent chosen by a postgraduate, highlighting the uses and preparation of the reagent in current research N-Hydroxyphthalimide: What Else Can You Ask For?Compiled by Leonardo X. Alvarez Leonardo X. Alvarez got his first chemistry degree (Licenciatura en Química) in 1997 from the University of Costa Rica. He passed the following years working in the Costa Rican chemical industry where he got trained on large-scale synthesis and in chemical formulation. In 2005, he moved to Lyon (France), to get a M.Sc. in Organic Synthesis from the Université Claude Bernard and finally, in 2006, he joined Dr. Andrew E. Greene's group at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble where he is currently doing research on the synthesis of new aerobic oxidation catalysts under the supervision of Dr.