In this month’s Editor’s Collection, Associate Editor Santanu Mukherjee highlighted ‘Beyond osmium: progress in 1,2-aminooxygenation of alkenes, 1,3-dienes, alkynes,and allenes’ by Brett N. Hemric as one of his personal favourite recent Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry articles. Here, we catch up with Brett to find out a little bit more about his research.