A copper conundrum has researchers reevaluating how some counterintuitive chemistry really works. Last year, Robert J. Phipps and Matthew J. Gaunt of the University of Cambridge generated excitement ...
A vast number of synthetic and natural organic compounds found in the biosphere are poisonous to living organisms 1,2. Nitroaromatic compounds, which are widely synthesized and used industrially as ...
The electron is an efficient catalyst for conducting various types of radical cascade reaction that proceed by way of radical and radical ion intermediates. But because electrons are omnipresent, ...
Most medicines and functional materials are synthesized by introducing functional groups into an aromatic ring of substrates. Many kinds of reactions and catalysts have been developed, but it is still ...
Chemists have yet another use for fluorine, as a through-space activator for electrophilic aromatic substitutions. Thomas Lectka and coworkers at Johns Hopkins University used a Diels-Alder reaction ...