Small molecule natural products have been the mainstay of research in organic chemistry
since its early development. 1a The established classes of natural products, like alkaloids …

According to the CRC dictionary of natural products, 1 90% of chemically individual
molecules discovered in nature contain either a carbocyclic or a heterocyclic subunit. 2 Not …

Synthetic chemists are constantly challenged to consider more environmentally benign
methods for generation of the desired target molecules. 1 Recently, there has been an …

Cu (II)-promoted ortho alkynylation of arenes and heteroarenes with terminal alkynes has
been developed to prepare aryl alkynes. A variety of arenes and terminal alkynes bearing …

A regiodivergent oxidative cyclization of ynamide-tethered benzaldehydes has been
achieved using an organocatalytic approach based on NHC/base. The method enables the …

A continuing goal in catalysis is to unite the advantages of homogeneous and
heterogeneous catalytic processes. To this end, nanoparticles represent a new frontier in …

An NHC-catalyzed, regio-and stereoselective oxidative cyclization of o-
alkynylbenzaldehydes bearing an unactivated alkyne moiety as an internal electrophile has …

The combined use of BnS (O) CF3/BnSe (O) CF3 with Tf2O as SCF3/SeCF3 reagents was
implemented to realize an efficient synthesis of biologically interesting 4-(trifluoromethylthio …

Being an important constituent of naturally occurring lactones with diverse biological
activities and as a pivotal intermediate in heterocycle synthesis, the isocoumarin motif has …

A copper‐catalyzed multicomponent coupling reaction between in situ generated ortho‐
arynes, terminal alkynes, and carbon dioxide was developed to access isocoumarins in …