The use of photochemical transformations is a powerful strategy that allows for the formation
of a high degree of molecular complexity from relatively simple building blocks in a single …

Covering: 1928–2021 Ginkgo biloba L. is one of the most distinctive plants to have emerged
on earth and has no close living relatives. Owing to its phylogenetic divergence from other …

Catalyst-controlled site-selective activation of β-and γ-methylene carbon-hydrogen (C–H)
bonds of free carboxylic acids is a long-standing challenge. Here we show that, with a pair of …

In studying the evolution of organic chemistry and grasping its essence, one comes quickly
to the conclusion that no other type of reaction plays as large a role in shaping this domain …

Strategies for the total synthesis of complex natural products that contain two or more
contiguous stereogenic quaternary carbon atoms in their intricate structures are reviewed …

Wenn man die Entwicklung der organischen Chemie betrachtet, kommt man schnell zu dem
Schluss, dass kein Reaktionstyp dieses Gebiet in vergleichbarer Weise geprägt hat wie die …

The inherent weakness of the thiocarbonyl bond with its low coefficient of C2p'r-S3pT orbital
overlap leads to a rich and varied chemistry, photochemical1 and nonradical2 aspects of …

The oxidative conversion of alicyclic ketones into lactones with permonosulfuric acid was
discovered by Baeyer and Villiger in 1899, and in their honor the general process by which …

Well over a decade ago, two reviews were contributed to the Organic Reactions series
covering substitution and conjugate addition reactions in organocopper chemistry. Their …

Oxaziridines 1, heterocyclic compounds containing oxygen, nitrogen and carbon atoms in a
threemembered ring, were first reported in the mid-fifties by Krimm,* Emmons' and Homer …