The borrowing hydrogen (BH) principle, also called hydrogen auto-transfer, is a powerful
approach which combines transfer hydrogenation (avoiding the direct use of molecular …

Quinones are common stoichiometric reagents in organic chemistry. Para‐quinones with
high reduction potentials, such as DDQ and chloranil, are widely used and typically promote …

Lignin is an aromatic polymer that constitutes up to 30 wt% of woody biomass and is
considered the largest source of renewable aromatics. Valorization of the lignin stream is …

Imines as valuable intermediates are widely applied in pharmaceutical syntheses and
organic transformation. However, the traditional imine synthesis involves unstable …

Carbon dioxide is a nontoxic and abundant chemical and has been widely used as a C1
building block for the synthesis of highly important chemicals. This greenhouse gas also has …

Abstract NH 2-MIL-125 (Ti), an amine-functionalized metal-organic-framework (MOF), was
found for the first time to exhibit photocatalytic activity for the aerobic selective oxidation of …

Ein echter Sonnenschein: Eine einfache und effiziente Synthese von Benzoxazolen,
Benzimidazolen und Benzothiazolen gelingt mithilfe eines Eintopfverfahrens, das durch …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials that have promising
applications as heterogeneous catalysts. After describing the composition, textural …

In this tutorial review recent mechanistic studies on transition metal-catalyzed hydrogen
transfer reactions are discussed. A common feature of these reactions is that they involve …

Oxidation reactions are of fundamental importance in nature, and are key transformations in
organic synthesis. The development of new processes that employ transition metals as …