C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

The ability to differentiate between highly similar C–H bonds in a given molecule remains a
fundamental challenge in organic chemistry. In particular, the lack of sufficient steric and …

Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds The first fully referenced, comprehensive book on
this subject in more than thirty years, Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds contains up-to …

Homogeneous transition-metal-catalyzed reactions are indispensable to all facets of modern
chemical synthesis. It is thus difficult to imagine that for much of the early 20th century, the …

Fatty epoxides are produced from the corresponding alkenes by oxidation in the presence of
peracids or other oxidants. The classic method is the Prilezhaev epoxidation in which …

Figure 1. Structure of catalysts 1 and 2. ortep view of the cation of (S, S)-l-[acetone] 2. but the
substratesmust bear specific functional groups to achieve the precoordination required for …

Hydrogenation is a core technology in chemical synthesis. High rates and selectivities are
attainable only by the coordination of structurally well‐designed catalysts and suitable …

Carbazole 1 was isolated first from coal tar in 1872 by Graebe and Glazer (Figure 1). 1 In
1965, Chakraborty et al. described the isolation and antibiotic properties of murrayanine …

Enantiomerically pure amino acids, amino alcohols, amines, alcohols, and epoxides play an
increasingly important role as intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry and …

Surface organometallic chemistry is an area of heterogeneous catalysis which has recently
emerged as a result of a comparative analysis of homogeneous and heterogeneous …