Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia.
This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience …

As two coexisting and fast-growing research fields in modern synthetic chemistry, the
merging of organocatalysis and C–H bond functionalization is well foreseeable, and the joint …

The different types of acceptorless alcohol dehydrogenation (AAD) reactions are discussed,
followed by the catalysts and mechanisms involved. Special emphasis is put on the common …

Imines as valuable intermediates are widely applied in pharmaceutical syntheses and
organic transformation. However, the traditional imine synthesis involves unstable …

Carbon dioxide is a renewable, inexhaustible, and cheap alternative to fossil resources for
the production of fine chemicals and plastics. It can notably be converted into exovinylene …

Pincer complexes are useful tools for organic synthesis. Their high stability and easy
functionalization have allowed the development of novel catalytic systems that have had a …

The synthesis of aldehyde compounds under mild conditions enabled by visible light-
induced organic reactions is highly attractive in modern chemistry. The reagents including …

Contamination of soil and natural water bodies driven by increased organic pollutants
remains a universal concern. Naturally, organic pollutants contain carcinogenic and toxic …

Microwave-assisted organic synthesis has been widely studied and deliberated, opening up
some controversial issues as well. Nowadays, microwave chemistry is a mature technology …

Background The high coordination ability of dihydrazone derivatives with metals of different
valents, new homo dinuclear complexes of low and high valent ions of Cu 2+ and ZrO …