Stenhouse salts can serve as visible-light photoswitches in protic environments

Photoswitches that Are Compatible with Water

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