Intramolecular cylization of ketones catalyzed by scandium triflate provides a new route to 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles

2-Acyloxazoles can be formed from a variety of different starting materials just by tweaking the iodine oxidant

The orientation of the tert-butyl group determines the toxicity of the potent antillatoxin

Chiral supramolecular fluorophores can be made by simple crystallisation

Graphene-like ultrathin sheets of MoO₃ are highly efficient photocatalysts

Synthesis of expanded porphyrins lacking cyclic conjugation reported

Total synthesis of both spiroketal diastereomers of the reported structure of Cephalosporolide H

Enatiomers (−)-hyperione A and (−)-hyperione B can be synthesised from a common precursor in ten steps

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for May 2013

Bottom-up, stepwise synthesis allows construction of peripherally functionalized hexaphyrins with unsubstituted meso carbon atoms