We review the most important achievements of the last decade in the field of steroid
synthesis in the presence of palladium catalysts. Various palladium-catalyzed cross …

The Sonogashira alkynylation of acid chlorides can be efficiently conducted in less than an
hour by performing the reaction in tetrahydrofuran as a solvent and in the presence of one …

Multidrug‐resistant (MDR) bacteria is a severe threat to public health. Therefore, it is urgent
to establish effective screening systems for identifying novel antibacterial compounds. In this …

The efficient synthesis of natural products, drugs, and materials with economical and
ecological advantages is a very important goal in modern synthetic chemistry. In such an …

Stereoselective hydrogenation of tetrasubstituted olefins is an attractive method to access
compounds with two contiguous stereocenters. However, homogeneous catalysts for …

Bolaamphiphilic zinc porphyrins bearing a 2-pyridylethynyl or 4-methoxyphenylethynyl
group, Zn (PyPor) or Zn (ArPor), respectively, were newly synthesized in order to explore the …

Abstract Highly enantioselective [3+ 2] cycloaddition of ynones and nitrones has been
developed. Very bulky ligand, DTBM‐SEGPHOS, was used for an effective asymmetric …

As a metallic element of high natural abundance, magnesium finds a wide range of uses in
both stoichiometric and more recently catalytic applications. This often takes advantage of …

Practical, environment-benign and atom economic KOAc-catalysed deprotection of aryl
TIPS ethers under mild fluoride-free conditions - Green Chemistry (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B905443J …

Cyclopropanation reactions using zinc carbenoids are a powerful means to access
cyclopropanes. Described herein is an enantioselective version of the reaction using zinc …