The principles of green chemistry (GC) can be comprehensively implemented in green
synthesis of pharmaceuticals by choosing no solvents or green solvents (preferably water) …

Ring-opening transformations of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes (DAC) with carbon-
centered nucleophiles is a simple, straight-forward approach to 1, 3-bifunctional compounds …

Asymmetric organocatalysis is becoming one of the main tools for the synthesis of chiral
compounds that are needed as medicines, crop protection agents, and other bioactive …

Plastics are excellent materials: they are light weight, long-lasting, easy to manufacture, and
relatively cheap. The ongoing development of new polymers and their production …

Dibenziodolium and diphenyliodonium triflates display high catalytic activity for the
multicomponent reaction that leads to a series of imidazopyridines. Density functional theory …

Sulfonium and selenonium salts, represented by S-aryl dibenzothiophenium and Se-aryl
dibenzoselenophenium triflates, were found to exhibit remarkable catalytic activity in the …

Chemistry in continuous-flow continues to attract attention from the community of synthetic
organic chemists due to its now well-recognized benefits including, inter alia, quick reaction …

Hypervalent iodine (III)-derivatives display higher catalytic activity than other aliphatic and
aromatic iodine (I)–or bromine (I)-containing substrates for a Knorr-type reaction of N-acetyl …

Based upon the experimentally obtained kinetic data on iodonium salt catalyzed
nucleophilic addition of isocyanide to imine leading to imidazopyridine species, a reliable …

Despite their significant potential, catalytic asymmetric reactions of olefins with formaldehyde
are rare and metal-free approaches have not been previously disclosed. Here we describe …