C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

Polymer-supported Schiff base complexes of metal ions show high catalytic activity in
comparison to their unsupported analogues. The catalytic activity of metal complexes of …

While tremendous advances have been made in asymmetric synthesis, the resolution of
racemates is still the most important industrial approach to the synthesis of chiral …

Dioxiranes can be generated in situ10, 13 from ketones and Oxone (2KHSO5· KHSO4·
K2SO4)(Scheme 1). 14 In principle, only a catalytic amount of ketone should be needed …

This contribution is an overview on recent advances (since 2000) on the application of
oxovanadium complexes as catalysts or mediators for oxidations by molecular oxygen …

The catalytic resolution of racemic cyclic amines has been achieved by an enantioselective
amidation reaction featuring an achiral N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst and a new chiral …

A general epoxidation of aromatic and aliphatic olefins has been developed under mild
conditions using heterogeneous CoxOy–N/C (x= 1, 3; y= 1, 4) catalysts and tert‐butyl …

The development of environmentally benign reactions is an important goal in synthetic
organic chemistry and chemical engineering. However, catalytic enantioselective oxidations …

Historically, reagent controlled reactions (mechanism controlled reactions) have played a
significant role in the asymmetric synthesis of complex structures. In contrast, today's …

Vanadium complexes have proven to be effective catalysts for the activation of peroxides
and the selective oxidation of substrates like bromides, sulfides and alkenes. Besides their …