A brief introduction to chemical reaction optimization

CJ Taylor, A Pomberger, KC Felton, R Grainger… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
From the start of a synthetic chemist's training, experiments are conducted based on recipes
from textbooks and manuscripts that achieve clean reaction outcomes, allowing the scientist …

A field guide to flow chemistry for synthetic organic chemists

L Capaldo, Z Wen, T Noël - Chemical science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Flow chemistry has unlocked a world of possibilities for the synthetic community, but the idea
that it is a mysterious “black box” needs to go. In this review, we show that several of the …

Technological innovations in photochemistry for organic synthesis: flow chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, scale-up, and photoelectrochemistry

L Buglioni, F Raymenants, A Slattery… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced chemical transformations have received in recent years a tremendous amount
of attention, providing a plethora of opportunities to synthetic organic chemists. However …

Photons or electrons? A critical comparison of electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis

NES Tay, D Lehnherr, T Rovis - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

Ultrasonic tweezer for multifunctional droplet manipulation

Z Yuan, C Lu, C Liu, X Bai, L Zhao, S Feng, Y Liu - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Spatiotemporally controllable droplet manipulation is essential in diverse applications,
ranging from thermal management to microfluidics and water harvesting. Despite …

DNA walkers for biosensing development

L Song, Y Zhuge, X Zuo, M Li, F Wang - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to design nanostructures with arbitrary shapes and controllable motions has
made DNA nanomaterials used widely to construct diverse nanomachines with various …

Recent Advances in Photoredox‐Mediated Radical Conjugate Addition Reactions: An Expanding Toolkit for the Giese Reaction

AL Gant Kanegusuku, JL Roizen - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photomediated Giese reactions are at the forefront of radical chemistry, much like the
classical tin‐mediated Giese reactions were nearly forty years ago. With the global …

Quid pro flow

A Laybourn, K Robertson, AG Slater - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
How do you get into flow? We trained in flow chemistry during postdoctoral research and are
now applying it in new areas: materials chemistry, crystallization, and supramolecular …

Electrostatic tweezer for droplet manipulation

Y Jin, W Xu, H Zhang, R Li, J Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Various physical tweezers for manipulating liquid droplets based on optical, electrical,
magnetic, acoustic, or other external fields have emerged and revolutionized research and …

Development and future of droplet microfluidics

L Nan, H Zhang, DA Weitz, HC Shum - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past two decades, advances in droplet-based microfluidics have facilitated new
approaches to process and analyze samples with unprecedented levels of precision and …