The field of ionic liquds is growing significantly, with an increased focus on developing ionic
liquds for specific applications, along with fundamental research. By definition, ionic liquids …

This critical review examines transition metal-catalyzed decarboxylative couplings that have
emerged within recent years as a powerful strategy to form carbon–carbon or carbon …

A simple and highly efficient protodecarboxylation procedure for a variety of heteroaromatic
carboxylic acids catalyzed by Ag2CO3 and AcOH in DMSO is described. This methodology …

The palladium-catalyzed oxidative coupling of indole-3-carboxylic acids with alkynes
effectively proceeds in a 1: 2 manner accompanied by decarboxylation to produce the …

Valuable substituted phenols are accessible via the selective decarboxylation of
hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives using multifunctional catalysts composed of bimetallic iron …

As society faces a future of dwindling petrochemical supplies at increasing cost, much
attention has been focused on methods to degrade biomass into renewable commodity …

We have examined the antimalarial structure–activity relationship of a series of
methoxylated chalcones (A–CHCH–CO–B) against Plasmodium falciparum (3D7 strain) …

Mechanism studies of a mild palladium-catalyzed decarboxylation of aromatic carboxylic
acids are described. In particular, reaction orders and activation parameters for the two …

A method for the hydroxylation of aryl and heteroaryl halides, promoted by a catalyst based
on a biarylphosphine ligand t BuBrettPhos (L5) and its corresponding palladium precatalyst …

Bifunctionalized indoles are an important class of biologically active heterocyclic
compounds and potential drug candidates. Because of the lack of efficient synthetic …