While primary aliphatic amines are ubiquitous in natural products, they are traditionally
considered inert to substitution chemistry. This review highlights historical and recent …

In recent years, the development of environmentally benign molecular construction methods
has been of great importance, and especially, resource recycling, high atomic efficiency, and …

Presented here is a class of novel axially chiral aryl‐p‐quinones as platform molecules for
the preparation of non‐C2 symmetric biaryldiols. Two sets of aryl‐p‐quinone frameworks …

The bioinspired ortho-quinone catalysts have been applied to heterocycles synthesis.
Without any metal cocatalysts, a sole ortho-quinone catalyst enables the oxidative synthesis …

Most of the products on which our welfare state is based are composed of chemicals. The
growth of the world's population, its ageing and the continuous improvement of welfare state …

A quinone-mediated general synthetic platform for the construction of primary α-tertiary
amines from abundant primary α-branched amine starting materials is described. This …

Oxidation reactions are fundamental transformations in organic synthesis and chemical
industry. With oxygen or air as terminal oxidant, aerobic oxidation catalysis provides the …

Herein, we describe a cofactor-inspired oxidation methodology where an aromatic dione
molecule is used under aerobic conditions. Under photocatalytic conditions, pyrenedione …

The catalytic activity of polydopamine (PDA) as an amine oxidase mimic is demonstrated
under aqueous conditions for the synthesis of benzimidazoles, quinoxalines …

A biomimetic alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)-like oxidation protocol was developed using an
ortho-naphthoquinone catalyst in the presence of a catalytic amount of base. The developed …