Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is a solvent with unique properties that has recently gained
attention for promoting a wide range of challenging chemical reactions. It was initially …

The current practices in the generation and disposal of synthetic polymers are largely
unsustainable. As part of the solution, the development of biodegradable polymers, which …

Although Michael acceptors display a potent and broad spectrum of bioactivity, they have
largely been ignored in drug discovery because of their presumed indiscriminate reactivity …

Plastics, used in countless consumer products that our daily lives depend on, have become
indispensable materials essential for modern life and the global economy. At the same time …

The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

γ-Butenolides, γ-butyrolactones, and derivatives, especially in enantiomerically pure form,
constitute the structural core of numerous natural products which display an impressive …

The use of alcohols and unsaturated reactants for the redox‐triggered generation of
nucleophile–electrophile pairs represents a broad, new approach to carbonyl addition …

The ability of hydrogen‐transfer transition‐metal catalysts, which enable increasingly rapid
access to important structural scaffolds from simple starting materials, has led to a plethora …