Although known for millennia, it is only recently that mechanochemistry has received serious
attention by chemists. Indeed, during the past 15 years an extraordinary number of reports …

Spiers Memorial Lecture: Mechanochemistry, tribochemistry, mechanical alloying –
retrospect, achievements and challenges - Faraday Discussions (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D2FD00149G …

Dithiomalonates proved to be active nucleophiles in the stereoselective additions to
chalcones, dienones, and en‐ynones affording the desired Michael adducts with moderate …

Asymmetric organocatalysis is a robust methodology providing access to numerous
valuable compounds while having green chemistry principles in mind. The realization of …

Mechanochemistry refers to the initiation of chemical reactions via mechanical forces such
as milling, grinding, or shearing to achieve the chemical transformations. As a manifestation …

Organocatalytic cascade reactions represent a powerful strategy for the rapid construction of
complex chiral molecules with multiple stereocenters from simple substrates under mild …

Allylation of β, γ-unsaturated ketones with Morita–Baylis–Hillman carbonates in the
presence of 5 mol% DABCO in dioxane at room temperature gave 2-alkoxycarbonylallyl β, γ …

The first accounts on the solid-state synthesis of biologically or pharmaceutically active
heterocycles came from manual mortar and pestle reactions, which were recently reviewed …

Fluorine‐containing compounds are important in medicine or crop‐protection. Herein, we
show asymmetric organocatalytic Michael/oxa‐Michael cascade leading to chiral fluorinated …

The crystal structure of NH4 [Zn (cma)(H2O) 2]· H2O (cma 3–= N-carboxymethylaspartate (3–
)) is determined by single crystal X-ray structure analysis. The orthorombic crystals (P …