The selective halogenation of ligands of a trinuclear copper complex has been obtained under extremely mild conditions
Aromatic Halogenation Under Mild Conditions
New Family of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes for Organocatalysis
New family of NHCs suitable for benzoin-type coupling reactions and might enable new or improved organocatalytic processes
New Catalyst for Hydrogenation
Catalyst with MgF2 support is four times more active than catalysts supported on commercial Al2O3
Catalyst for Methane Activation
Facile and rapid preparation method for a wide variety of medium surface area perovskite-type catalysts on the laboratory scale
New Probes for DNA Replication
Two new chemical probes could help shed light on DNA replication pathways and their role in human diseases
Cheap and Simple Olefin Isomerization
Practical, cheap, and general protocol that uses iron for olefin isomerization could be used in fine chemical or pharmaceutical synthesis
Active Nanotube Adsorption Sites Uncovered
New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons
Pietro Biginelli: The Man Behind the Reaction
The Biginelli dihydropyrimidine synthesis is a very important and old multicomponent reaction—so why has its creator been forgotten?
New Method for Antibody Synthesis
Synthetic antibodies can be built from readily available peptides thanks to new technique
Synthesis of Cyclic Peptides by Amide Bond Rearrangement
Intramolecular amide-bond rearrangement gives a simple new route to cyclic peptides from unactivated linear precursors