Characteristics N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) and related compounds have been revealed to be efficient organocatalysts for free-radical processes and have found ample application in promoting the ...
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement
Characteristics Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement is the Lewis acid-mediated reactions of simple ketones with alkyl azides. It has been shown that the Schmidt reaction of alkyl azides, a reaction ...
#5: Professor Itaru Hamachi Controlling biological systems with the power of chemistry
This series has already reached its fifth interview of research scientists. This time, we are glad to have Professor Itaru Hamachi from the Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, ...
Chemoselective Catalytic Conjugate Addition of Alcohols over Amines
Uesugi, S.; Li, Z.; Yazaki, R.; Ohshima, T. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014. Early View. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201309755 A highly chemoselective conjugate addition of alcohols in the presence of amines is ...
Template Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles with an Organic Molecular Cage
McCaffrey, R.; Long, H.; Jin, Y.; Sanders, A.; Park, W.; Zhang, W. J Am Chem Soc 2014, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/ja412606t We report a novel strategy for the controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles ...
Simple, Chemoselective Hydrogenation with Thermodynamic Stereocontrol
Iwasaki, K.; Wan, K. K.; Oppedisano, A.; Crossley, S. W. M.; Shenvi, R. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/ja412342g Few methods permit the hydrogenation of alkenes to a thermodynamically ...
Barluenga’s Reagent
Characteristics Bis(pyridine)iodonium tetrafluoroborate (IPy2BF4; CAS 15656-28-7) is an iodinating and oxidizing reagent[b], which was developed by José Barluenga.[a] Examples as an iodinating ...
Tungsten-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation of Allylic and Homoallylic Alcohols with Hydrogen Peroxide
Wang, C.; Yamamoto, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/ja411379e A simple, efficient, and environmentally friendly asymmetric epoxidation of primary, secondary, tertiary allylic, and ...
Bingel Reaction
Characteristics The Bingel reaction in fullerene chemistry is a fullerene cyclopropanation reaction to a methanofullerene first discovered by C. Bingel in 1993[a] with the bromo derivative of ...