Abstract 140 Years ago Adolf von Baeyer proposed the structure of a heteroaromatic
compound which revolutionized organic and medical chemistry: indole. After more than a …

Catalysis by gold has rapidly become a hot topic in chemistry, with a new discovery being
made almost every week. Gold is equally effective as a heterogeneous or a homogeneous …

Gold has accompanied mankind from the very early days; no name of a chemist is
associated with the discovery of the element gold. It is probably the only chemical element …

Synthetic chemists are constantly challenged to consider more environmentally benign
methods for generation of the desired target molecules. 1 Recently, there has been an …

The indole ring system is present in many natural products, pharmaceuticals,
agrochemicals, and other compounds of importance. 1–8 The indole unit forms the basis for …

Chiral phosphoric acids derived from axially chiral biaryls and related chiral Brønsted acids
have emerged as an attractive and widely applicable class of enantioselective …

Abstract Die Katalyse durch Gold ist schnell ein “heißes Thema” der Chemie geworden–fast
wöchentlich werden neue Entdeckungen gemacht. Gold ist gleichermaßen als heterogener …

In this paper we report a novel four-step process for the production of jet and diesel fuel
range alkanes from hemicellulose extracts derived from northeastern hardwood trees. The …

We disclose herein a highly enantioselective protocol for the Brønsted acid-catalyzed
addition of indoles and phenols to in situ-generated ortho-quinone methides which deliver …

Unsymmetrical di-and triarylmethanes are generally synthesized through metal-catalyzed
cross-coupling or Friedel–Crafts arylation using multistep harsh reaction conditions with pre …