Don’t Forget Thermodynamics

Don’t Forget Thermodynamics

Klaus Kümmerer on green and sustainable chemistry, the importance of kinetics, and why it is important to do something outside your area of interest once in a while

First Total Synthesis of Pepluacetal

First Total Synthesis of Pepluacetal

Route relying on a Wolff rearrangement/lactonization cascade, a ring-closing metathesis/cyclopropanation sequence, and a late-stage transannular carbenoid insertion