Homogeneous and heterogeneous gold catalysis for materials science

CM Hendrich, K Sekine, T Koshikawa… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Often stoichiometric amounts of gold find use in materials science; occasionally gold is even
used as a support. This review discusses the contributions of gold catalysis, both …

Gold-catalyzed synthesis of small rings

M Mato, A Franchino, C Garcı́a-Morales… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Three-and four-membered rings, widespread motifs in nature and medicinal chemistry, have
fascinated chemists ever since their discovery. However, due to energetic considerations …

Small size, big impact: recent progress in bottom‐up synthesized nanographenes for optoelectronic and energy applications

Z Liu, S Fu, X Liu, A Narita, P Samorì, M Bonn… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bottom‐up synthesized graphene nanostructures, including 0D graphene quantum dots and
1D graphene nanoribbons, have recently emerged as promising candidates for efficient …

Understanding the reactivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related compounds

I Fernández - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective article summarizes recent applications of the combination of the activation
strain model of reactivity and the energy decomposition analysis methods to the study of the …

Syntheses and characterizations of functional polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and graphene nanoribbons

X Xu, K Müllen, A Narita - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In contrast to zero-bandgap graphene, nanostructures of graphene, such as graphene
quantum dots (GQDs) and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have open bandgaps due to the …

Recent advances in gold-complex and chiral organocatalyst cooperative catalysis for asymmetric alkyne functionalization

M Bao, S Zhou, W Hu, X Xu - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Homogeneous gold catalysis has demonstrated the preponderant capability of realizing a
broad range of synthetically versatile alkyne functionalization over the last two decades …

Distal iodine migration of arylalkynes via cyclic monoaryliodonium salts

K Huang, X You, B Luo, S Wen, D Zhu - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Disclosed herein is a novel protocol for the synthesis of cyclic monoaryliodonium salts
(CMAIs) from readily available iodoethynylarenes. The tandem one-pot iodine migration of …

Enantioselective Pd0‐Catalyzed C(sp2)–H Arylation for the Synthesis of Chiral Warped Molecules

D Savary, O Baudoin - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
C− H activation‐based ring‐forming methods are a powerful approach for the construction of
complex molecular architectures, especially those containing a congested stereocenter …

Insights into the mechanism of gold (I) oxidation with aryldiazonium salts

I Medina‐Mercado, S Porcel - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, aryldiazonium salts have attracted interest as coupling partners in cross‐
coupling reactions mediated by gold. Initially, the presence of a photocatalyst and a light …

From truxenes to heterotruxenes: playing with heteroatoms and the symmetry of molecules

K Górski, J Mech-Piskorz… - New Journal of Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The truxene molecule is more versatile and widespread than ever imagined. At the end of
the last century, this star-shaped structure was recognized mostly in liquid crystals. However …