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Chemistry World
November 27, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
A simple way to join an olefin to an arene Chemists in the US have developed a simple and effective way to carry out a key class of reaction in organic synthesis - the bolting an olefin to an aromatic ring.   |
Chemistry World
March 14, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
Chemists make headway on C--H activation challenges Jin-Quan Yu's group at the Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California, have synthesized a library of synthetic chiral amino acids which could have applications in the pharmaceutical industry. |
Chemistry World
March 19, 2009
Manisha Lalloo |
Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings |
Chemistry World
February 20, 2012
James Urquhart |
Unusual kinetics of catalyst revealed US researchers have elucidated the unusual reaction kinetics of C-H activation by the palladium(II) catalyst (Pd(OAc) 2). |
Chemistry World
September 28, 2015
Karl Collins |
A witches' brew for trifluoromethylation Trifluoromethylating phenols is one example of a reaction that would be incredibly useful when attempting to tune the chemical and biological properties of molecules for pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. |
Chemistry World
August 30, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
C-H oxidation proves its worth US researchers are going against the grain of total synthesis and developing new approaches to complex molecules. |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
One pot synthesis for nylon precursor A highly efficient route to cyclohexanone - a key chemical in the production of nylon - has been developed by researchers in China. |
Chemistry World
June 2011 |
Column: Totally Synthetic I've never heard of the Polonovski-Potier reaction, the keystone of a remarkable synthesis by a team led by Tohru Fukuyama at the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
Chemistry World
April 2010
Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic When one attempts the first synthesis of a natural product, the set of challenges are often unknown; which intermediates are either inaccessible or unstable, for instance. |
Chemistry World
January 6, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Greener route to carboxylic acids Chemists in Israel have developed a new way to oxidize primary alcohols to carboxylic acids, using water as both the reaction solvent and the source of oxygen. |
Chemistry World
August 2010
Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic The total synthesis of macrolide targets is now a relatively mature field. Any synthesis that bucks these trends grabs attention, with a recent publication of dictyosphaeric acid A by Richard Taylor's team at the University of York, UK, a case in point. |
