Water as the reaction medium in organic chemistry: from our worst enemy to our best friend -
Chemical Science (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D0SC06000C Royal Society of Chemistry …

The past decade has seen a substantial increase in successful examples of the combination
of chemo-and biocatalysis for multistep syntheses. This is driven by obvious advantages …

Recent years have seen a marked increase in the occurrence of sulfoximines in the
chemical sciences, often presented as valuable motifs for medicinal chemistry. This has …

Recent developments over the past few years in aqueous micellar catalysis are discussed.
Applications to problems in synthesis are highlighted, enabled by the use of surfactants that …

Previous studies have shown that aqueous solutions of designer surfactants enable a wide
variety of valuable transformations in synthetic organic chemistry. Since reactions take place …

Powdery, spherical nanoparticles (NPs) containing ppm levels of palladium ligated by t-
Bu3P, derived from FeCl3, upon simple exposure to water undergo a remarkable alteration …

Although aqueous solutions are considered to be sustainable, environmentally friendly
reaction media, their use is often limited by poor reactant solubility. This limitation can be …

In the last decades, cross-coupling approaches have been widely used to generate
structural diversity efficiently. Among various transition-metals, palladium has remained the …

Amide bond construction has garnered significant interest in recent decades due to amides
being one of the most prevalent functional groups among bioactive molecules. Out of the …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) reveals vesicle sizes, structures,
microenvironments, reagent partitioning, and system evolution with two chemical reactions …