Total Synthesis of (+)-Mannolide B
Path to a natural product with a complex, fused hexacyclic scaffold
How Chiral Tellurium Nanowires Grow
Growth mechanism of chiral nanocrystals studied using high-resolution electron microscopy
Monodisperse Gold Nanospheres as Hot Spots
Highly spherical, single crystalline nanospheres used to create reproducible hot spots with a nanosphere-on-mirror configuration
A Stable, Crystalline Hexavalent Nickel Complex
New transition metal beryllyl complexes synthesized
Arylation of Benzoxazoles with Bulky Aryl Chlorides
Palladium-catalyzed reaction with sterically hindered aryl chlorides using an indolylphosphine ligand
Sieving Out Benzene Impurities from Cyclohexane
Metal–organic framework (MOF) selectively traps benzene in usually challenging separation process
Zinc Enables Base-Free Borylation of Aryl Halides
Palladium-catalyzed borylation of aryl iodides and bromides mediated by zinc triflate has a broad substrate scope
Biobased Polymer Is Suitable for Closed-Loop Chemical Recycling
Tricyclic lactone made from renewable building blocks turned into a recyclable polyester
Using Single-Atom Sulfur to Grow High-Quality Monolayer MoS2
Highly reactive sulfur species derived from battery waste provides products with low defect densities
Photoswitches that Are Compatible with Water
Stenhouse salts can serve as visible-light photoswitches in protic environments
Making Cyclobutenes from Cyclopropyl Carbenes
Transition-metal-free, fluoro-promoted thermal rearrangement
Carboranyl Diphosphine Activates Ammonia
Metal-free, room-temperature N–H bond activation
Template Controls Carbon Nanotube Diameter
Hydrocarbon belts used as organic templates for the synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Asymmetric Three-Component Acylarylation of Vinylarenes
Aldehydes used as acyl radical precursors in copper-catalyzed radical reaction
Simple Path to Fused Arenes from 1,6-Diynes and Alkynes
Ligand-free dirhodium-catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition
Improved Dehalogenative Deuteration and Tritiation of Aryl Halides
New palladium-based catalytic system with a zinc acetate additive shows high activity
Practical Path to Dihydrobenzisoxazoles
Partial nitro reduction of methyl 2-nitrobenzoates followed by base-mediated cyclization, alkylation, and reduction gives useful bicyclic compounds
Dinitrogen Turned into a Photoswitch
First lanthanide N2 photoswitch shows isomerization between side-on and end-on coordination
Twisting Alkyne Cycloparaphenylenes into a Molecular Pinwheel
Strain-promoted alkyne cyclotrimerization gives curved carbon nanostructures