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The state of organic synthesis
March 4, 2020Gaich et al. have recently reported the total synthesis of an extremely complicated molecule, canataxpropellane. We thus wonder, have we reached the limits of synthetic complexity?
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Re-energizing the Birch reduction
May 9, 2019Phil S. Baran and his co-workers had made a reality above chemical dreams by the application of Li-ion battery chemistry in synthetic organic electroreduction.
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Activated
May 25, 2016A general alkyl-alkyl cross-coupling enabled by redox-active esters and alkylzinc reagents Activated esters of alkylic acids as building blocks for the…
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Impressive, Most Impressive
May 27, 2015Practical olefin hydroamination with nitroarenes A new, powerful method to generate quaternary amines without using expensive catalysts. Baran has done it…
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A New Age for Chlorination
February 20, 2015A Practical Lewis Base Catalyzed Electrophilic Chlorination of Arenes and Heterocycles Mild chlorination method of arenes and heteroarenes. Here you have…
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Drunken Reactions
January 28, 2015Functionalized olefin cross-coupling to construct carbon-carbon bonds A new method for the generation of quaternary centers using Fe catalysis. Some years…
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Methylation Made Simpler
December 9, 2014C–H Methylation of Heteroarenes Inspired by Radical SAM Methyl Transferase A commercial reagent that you can use to introduce methyl groups…
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Radical Indeed
October 1, 2011Practical Radical Cyclizations with Arylboronic Acids and Trifluoroborates A practical radical cyclization using boronic acids and trifluoroborates. Hmmm, this came like…
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Heterocyclic CF3
October 1, 2011Innate C-H trifluoromethylation of heterocycles Introduction of the trifluoromethyl moiety into heterocycles. I admit that I almost missed this paper. Honestly,…
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