Amongst the many ways of constructing the amide bond, there has been a growing interest
in the use of metal-catalysed methods for preparing this important functional group. In this …

Methanol is used as a common solvent, cost‐effective reagent, and sustainable feedstock for
value‐added chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and materials. Among the various applications …

The formation and use of iminyl radicals in novel and divergent hydroimination and
iminohydroxylation cyclization reactions has been accomplished through the design of a …

Regulating the complex environment accounting for the stability, selectivity, and activity of
catalytic metal nanoparticle interfaces represents a challenge to heterogeneous catalyst …

Amides are unquestionably one of the most important functional groups in organic chemistry
because of their presence in numerous interesting molecules such as peptides …

Biaryls (two directly connected aromatic rings, Ar1-Ar2) are common motifs in
pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and organic materials. Current methods for establishing …

A new technique for the ex situ generation of carbon monoxide (CO) and its efficient
incorporation in palladium catalyzed carbonylation reactions was achieved using a simple …

The mechanism of gold-catalyzed coupling of arenes with aryltrimethylsilanes has been
investigated, employing an improved precatalyst (thtAuBr3) to facilitate kinetic analysis. In …

Aromatic aldehydes are valuable synthetic intermediates in CÀC bond-forming reactions.
The reduction of carboxylic acids or esters to aldehydes [1] is a commonly used synthetic …

The stereocontrolled total synthesis of (+)-pleiocarpamine and the total syntheses of (+)-
voacalgine A and (+)-bipleiophylline have been achieved. The scalable and concise 10-step …