Our goal was to develop a general platform for the construction of chiral olefinic building blocks from inexpensive commodity internal alkenes. To this end, we developed a catalytic enantioselective ...

In recent years, electrocatalysis has swiftly established its dominance in organic synthesis owing to its high efficiency and low contamination. However, without developed methods for controlling ...

A dilute solution of bromine is added to samples of heptane and cyclohexene. The bromination reactions and mechanisms are compared. UV light splits the bromine molecule into two reactive radicals, ...

A 3D plastic model of a carbon dioxide molecule. Strategies for using carbon dioxide in synthesis usually focus on the carbon atom. Now researchers are thinking about how to put its two oxygens to use ...

Oxidizing the end carbon atom of a terminal alkene to form an aldehyde, a process called anti-Markovnikov alkene oxidation, is difficult because the reaction is energetically unfavorable. The ...

(a) Recycling performance of the catalyst. (b) High-resolution V 2p XPS spectra of VO(acac) 2 and Re-V. A new study published in Engineering demonstrates a mild catalytic oxidation approach that ...